Life

[Theland]

If you don't believe in God, then you don't believe God created life.
But the secular materialist scientists have found it impossible to create even the simplest life form in the laboratory.
So, do you have an explanation?

[EDDIE51]

If God created Life , then who or what created God ?

[goodlife]

Why all this lack of understanding of God,and the Bible? One of the chief reasons for it is the failure to appreciate the importance of God’s holy spirit. It is needed to understand the Bible, even as in the first place God used it to inspire men to write down His thoughts. Said that Bible writer David: “The spirit of Jehovah it was that spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.” Yes, “prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.” This holy spirit is no person, but may be likened to a powerful electric current that cannot be seen, or to the invisible television, radio or radar signals that send out information and which require a certain kind of receiver to be reproduced.—2 Sam. 23:2; 2 Pet. 1:20, 21.

[Hopkirk]

No, you've lost me.

[naomi24]

See, Goodlife knows too. Another smarty pants.

[nailit]

//So, do you have an explanation?//
No. And neither do you.
What you DO have is a faith in a creation myth (one of thousands) that was written by bronze age, desert dwelling, nomads.
Think Id rather just be comfortable in the knowledge that there are things that we just don't know about yet than believe in a creation myth written by people who had no idea of how the universe works.

BTW, your constant attack on ''secular materialist scientists'' doesn't seem to deter you from enjoying the fruits of their labours. IE, the internet and your recent use of medical science.

[nailit]

//See, Goodlife knows too. Another smarty pants.//
Theres a lot of them about you know ;-)
And they all seem to know much more than scientists that have spent their lives/careers studying their chosen profession!

[Atheist]

Goodlife, would you explain to me in simple terms what you mean? I suppose my first question would be why should I believe you rather than your favourite book. Don't worry if you don't want to reply; I suspect that you don't really understand what you are talking about and so can't put up any kind of rational argument. If I'm wrong in your view, then please explain why.

[mibn2cweus]

For that which remains to be explained I see no need to erect a monument to our ignorance.

[beso]

Life evolved very slowly over hundreds of millions of years starting from mineral crystals that catalysed their own formation and becoming increasingly complex as more elements were incorporated into the structure.

Man (made in God's image) has tried for centuries without succeeding in producing anything recognisable life. Seems to me that a God wouldn't have succeeded in a week either.

Life requires time, lots of it, and the right conditions which is exactly what the Universe provided. Gazillions of diverse planets where life might have been able to form and nearly fourteen billion years to do it.

Amazing what you could see if you watched enough places for long enough.

[Theland]

Not many open minds here.
God is at least a possibility, drowned out by bias.

[Theland]

Be so - your list of possibilities is limited only by your imagination. Not a very solid basis for any faith.

[vulcan42]

" God is at least a possibility"
" Not a very solid basis for any faith."

[Theland]

Your point being?

[vulcan42]

I thought you would be intelligent enough to understand. They are, after all, your own words.

[Theland]

Vulcan - are you totally stuck in the secular materialist view that prohibits even the possibility of something higher and beyond? Quantum Field Theory is a halfway house, totally inexplicable but real nevertheless.
But you reject anything that does not fall into your predictable limited worldview.

[Theland]

Vulcan - you insult my intelligence? Thank you.

[mibn2cweus]

What we invariably find when we discover how 'God did it' is . . .
'He' didn't.

[naomi24]

Theland, //Not many open minds here.//

I do hope you include your own mind in that assessment. Would you concede that there’s a distinct possibility that your particular God wasn’t responsible for creation and that something else, as yet unknown, may have been?

[vulcan42]

Theland, in one reply you state God is at least a possibility which suggests you're not quite sure of his existence, therefore that is not a solid basis for any faith including your own.

[Theland]

Vulcan - I asked you folk to consider the possibility.
I don't need to.
Also, whatever your viewpoint, surely it is based on some evidence?