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Author Topic:   No Abiogenesis, no Evolution, then what?
bkelly
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Message 42 of 173 (249900)
10-07-2005 7:29 PM
Reply to: Message 10 by jar
10-06-2005 10:43 PM


Re: Other options????
jar writes:
Life has always existed. In the beginning there was life.
I think that is a preposterous concept. Everything had a begining. If there is a god, he had to have to come from somewhere.
To be honest, when we think back far enough we must question as to how anything came to exist. This is indeed a paradox, but it does not mean life always existed.
So, why do you think that?

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bkelly
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Message 44 of 173 (249903)
10-07-2005 7:51 PM
Reply to: Message 37 by Faith
10-07-2005 1:54 PM


Where is god?
Faith writes:
God created everything at one point in time, or over a period of seven days.
Genisis,26 writes:
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likness, and let ....
1. We are made in god's image. We look like him, he looks like us. The words clear, the words are simple, the words leave no doubt. God has eyes, nose, mouth, penis, anus, etc, etc. He breathes air, speaks in air, hears in air, etc. So where is god? He has the same body as us. Why does he have all these attributes that we need but a god would not?
2. "... in OUR image..." There was more than one god. Again, plain, simple, undeniaible, inarguable. He said it. He meant it. So where are these other gods? What have they done? What happened to them? Did your god kill these other gods?

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bkelly
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Message 48 of 173 (249907)
10-07-2005 8:02 PM
Reply to: Message 45 by Heathen
10-07-2005 7:53 PM


Re: Other options????
Good point Creavolution.
Further, there is common agreement among scientists of the earth ( I cannot come up with the classification of those people right now) that the earth had a long phase of being molten and far too hot to have any life of any sort. Life could not have existed on the earth in perpetuity.
(added a moment later)
BTW: The earth did not exist for the first several billions of years of the universe.
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bkelly
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Message 52 of 173 (249918)
10-07-2005 9:07 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by jar
10-07-2005 8:15 PM


Re: Other options????
jar writes:
Really?
I need a clarification here. What do you mean by life existing in the vacuum of space?
If you mean a pure vacuum, then from what can the life exist. There is nothing in a vacuum so nothing can exist, much less life.
Do you mean on a small mote of dust wandering about in the vacuum of space? Or maybe one gram of rock. One Kilo gram. You get the picture?

Truth fears no question.
bkelly

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bkelly
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Message 77 of 173 (250160)
10-08-2005 8:52 PM
Reply to: Message 65 by Faith
10-08-2005 1:35 AM


Re: Some alternatives
Faith,
I respectfully request a reply to Message 44 of this thread.
BTW: How do I put in a link to another message?
Edited to use the link method that jar showed me.
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bkelly
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Message 79 of 173 (250162)
10-08-2005 8:58 PM
Reply to: Message 46 by Chiroptera
10-07-2005 7:55 PM


Re: Not preposterous at all.
Everything had a begining.
Chiroptera writes:
That is an unproven assertian.
I find it interesting that you do not apply this statement to those about god having no beginning and life existing in eternity. All statements about god and his deeds are assertions without proof.

Truth fears no question.
bkelly

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bkelly
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Message 80 of 173 (250164)
10-08-2005 9:01 PM
Reply to: Message 78 by jar
10-08-2005 8:55 PM


Re: Some alternatives
referencing msg Message 78
I was expecting more complicated.
Thank you.

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bkelly
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Message 84 of 173 (250175)
10-08-2005 9:45 PM
Reply to: Message 82 by Faith
10-08-2005 9:28 PM


Re: Some alternatives
I believe (carefully making this a statement of opinion rather than fact) that you ignored the message, not because it was disrespectful, but because you do not have a valid answer. The gross caricature is not from me, it is from the bible.
Jar's message 81 is quite debatable, but for now, given that request, if there is no response to this post I will back out of this thread.
My signature is my parting note.

Truth fears no question.
bkelly

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bkelly
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Message 85 of 173 (250177)
10-08-2005 9:53 PM
Reply to: Message 83 by Chiroptera
10-08-2005 9:42 PM


Re: Not preposterous at all.
As I saw the post I am responding to after I made my last post, this is a more friendly response, I hope you will allow an exception to that last post.
nor does it acknowledge that it is possible that some things might not have had a beginning.
I do have a real problem with that. The concept that everything had to have a beginning is self contained paradox. Where did everything come from in the very beginning. That is a problem that I really cannot see a way to even begin to approach, much less begin to wrap my brain around.

Truth fears no question.
bkelly

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