The world

[girlygirl2]

In your opinion.....

How was the world made?

Religious, scientific or other answers are welcome!

:O)

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, it wasnt made by a girl, i know that much...
:)

[girlygirl2]

oi! :op

[missrandom]

scientific, i dont believe it was made by someone up in the sky (although technicaly the sky wasnt even their until "he" created it). I do believe in something else out there other than science but i dont really know what it is.

[whiffey]

It was created, by God, as was man. Check out your Scofield Reference Bible if you don't believe me, he's got a footnote about it. And it was all done in 4004 BC.

[Octavius]

It wasn�t made. It just began to exist.

[girlygirl2]

I love these sort of debates! :O)

Ok now further questions....

Whiffey - Who created God for him to create the world?
Octavius - How can something just begin to exist?

At some point, something must have come from nothing but how and what????????

[carrust]

There's 1 question i'd like to ask; most of the living creatures on this earth have taken millions of years to evolve. Why has it only taken 200,000 years for modern human beings to evolve? BTW i'm not religious in any way or form!

[whiffey]

"Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could" (Julie Andrews)

You might as well ask when time began, or will it ever end. Nobody knows. I think the explanation "In the beginning God" is as good as any.

[Joe_the_Lion]

I certainly believe but am not really "deeply religious".

My reasons for believing is that no matter how much science is thrown at me, I can not and will not accept that everything, and I mean everything, was created by a huge gas explosion billions of years ago.

Yes, I accept the "Big Bang Theory" and evolution etc and the fact EVERY living thing has a carbon structure. This has been proven by science which I totally agree with.

However, and this is a big however. I can not accept that things living within me and every other human being in the world are the result of a gas explosion. How can grief, happiness, jeaslousy, sexual arousal, anger, love and any other emotion be the result of a gas explosion? These "things" are alive, yet have no carbon structure.

Pyschologists and neurologists tell me different. Brain waves (a carbon structured by-product) are "scientifically " measured. They are part of evolution, both phyisical and evolutionary. The very fact us humans feel these emotions are what separates us from other living things.

And yes, I accept this as true, but I can not believe our existence still comes from a ball of firey gas!!!!!

There has to be a "magical" force in the process. A magic that caused the big bang. And a Christian God seems the most plausable.

Further, if the scientists tell us everything is evolutionary explainable, then why did this very own evolution create beliefe sysytems (well before Christianity) to contradict itself? That is not right. Why would something quantifiably explanable, create or "evolve" our carbon-structured by-products in to challenging the "scientific" truth.

Hope that makes sense.

(This is a cut and paste from an answer a few weeks ago written by me!!)

[girlygirl2]

Oh and I thought you had gone to all that trouble writing that answer just for me!!!!

[Joe_the_Lion]

Good answer though, nonetheless. Deserved of stars to highlight my theological prowess.

[girlygirl2]

Check it again Joe.... :O)

[Octavius]

Ah, but who made those stars?

[whiffey]

God created the stars as well, even the little orange ones on here.

[girlygirl2]

Mrs Ed! :Op I know that one!!! lol

[Joe_the_Lion]

The stars were made by a human being (carbon structure) via a computer (metallic ore structure) but the free will and thought process that actually gave them AND your interpretation of their symbology was God given!!!!!

[Octavius]

The AB Ed hasn�t been round long enough to make the stars. Were they made, or did they just begin to be there? If they were always there, then how did they get to be there in the first place? And who or what was responsible?

[Joe_the_Lion]

A great quote for you girlygirl, explaining the difference between religion and spirituality.

"A religious person believes in Hell

A Spiritual person has been there"

[whiffey]

Hell is not a place of fire, an eternal Gehenna, but rather better visualised as a state where there is no goodness nor grace of any kind. Like Bognor.