ICant writes:
Yes that has to be the scientific answer.
But the Bible tells us God created the heavens and earth in the beginning.
Well therein lies the problem. One system is rational the other isn't.
I know the scientific community does not like to give any credence to the Bible
Quite
but at present it is the only book that tells us how it began to exist and why we are here.
There are stacks of books that tell us how the author(s) imagine all this came about. The obvious questions are why yours is any better than all the others and why anyone should take notice of what's written in a book anyway.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.