I share a similar belief. However, the way I feel is that it all comes down to odds.
If the odds of something occurring are within reasonable limits - say - will I make it through this traffic light - than people just accept it and move on. But, if the odds of something are so astronomical that a person cannot fathom that they were lucky (or unlucky enough) to have it happen to them, then it has to be God's intervention. Someone wins the MegaMillions jackpot (approximate odds of 1 in 175,711,536) and it was because God had blessed them. Expand that out to how our world was formed. The odds that everything came together correctly to spark 'life' on our planet and have it progress through billions of years are astounding to think about. A lot of people cannot wrap their brains around odds that big so they make it easy to believe...God did it. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > That is what man has done throughout history...if they can't explain it, > they blame it on the divine in whatever form they worshipped it in. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Sisk [mailto:ks...@gckschools.com] > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:15 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report > > >> Ok, so once you start with "he created us"....what more is there to >> ask. You've already answered every question. "He created us, >> therefore, it's his will, it's the way he acts, etc." It's an >> intellectual dead end. Everytime you can't figure something out, the >> default answer becomes, "because of god". >> >> It'd be similar to saying that you believe magic is real and therefore, >> everything is done by magic until disproven. >> >> When you write code, do you start with the answer and work backwards.... >> or do you start from scratch, build, test and refactor. > > Good analogy, but not quite how the thought process works for at least some > of us. Granted there are some people out there that think like that, but > they're very tiresome to be around even if you happen to share a foundation > with them. For me it's more like "God created us, but how? And why?" > > Besides the other approach suggests that if something can't be explained > then it can't be true. That's no better than saying everything's magic > because there are things, even without taking any potential supernatural > influence out of the equation, that mankind will never understand. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316121 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
