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Skriven 2015-01-02 05:40:40 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 20334 av Daniel Torrey (1:132/505)
Ärende: Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God
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Hello Daniel,

 DT> Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God

Science can no more prove nothing when it comes
to the existence or non-existence of a god(s).
It is man's belief that counts, even if such
belief is total nonsense.

 DT> The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer.

There are no odds.  Life exists everywhere man
wants to believe life exists.  Even if there is
no life.

 DT> Intelligent design, anyone?

There is only one intelligence in the universe.
It is an intelligence that can only be known by
one (namely me), yet believed by all.  Even if
none believe, this intelligence will always be.

To believe is to doubt.
To doubt is to believe.

"Blessed is he who has never seen
yet truly believes." - Jesus rebuking
all of the apostles (except Judas)

 DT> By ERIC METAXAS - Wall Street Journal, Dec. 25, 2014

 DT> In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have
 DT> accepted the cultural narrative that he's obsolete - that as science
 DT> progresses, there is less need for a "God" to explain the universe.

Scientific truth and religious truth are two very different things.
Man's search for one kind of truth does not mean that he has found
the kind of truth for everything.  No man could possibly understand
every kind of truth there is, even in the area of one specific kind
of truth.  What we think we know about science (or medicine, or
history, or any other field) today is quickly outdated tomorrow.

 DT> Yet it turns out that the rumors of God's death were premature.

Jerry Garcia is dead.  So is Elvis (despite this being his 80th
birthday).  But rumors have it Michael Jackson is very much alive
and well in Canada ...

 DT> More amazing is that the relatively recent case for his existence comes
from
 DT> a surprising place - science itself.

Science could not save the King of Rock 'N' Roll.
Science could not save the King of Pop.
Science could not save other celebrities from dying young.

Death is its own god, the only god man knows to exist.
Of this man has absolutely no doubt.
Except for teenagers, who think they will live forever.

 DT> Here's the story: The same year Time featured the now-famous headline, the
 DT> astronomer Carl Sagan announced that there were two important criteria for
 DT> a planet to support life: The right kind of star, and a planet the right
 DT> distance from that star. Given the roughly octillion - 1 followed by 24
 DT> zeros - planets in the universe, there should have been about septillion -
 DT> 1 followed by 21 zeros - planets capable of supporting life.

Man does not get to choose what criteria is necessary for a planet
to support life.  Man knows much too little about his own planet,
much less other planets, in order to make that kind of assumption.
See there?  I'm smarter than Carl Sagan, a scientist who once upon
a time had wanted to nuke the Moon.

--Lee

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