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Lucifer was an angel that felt that angels were superior to humans, and God didn't like this.
Actually Lucifer rebelled against God because he didn't like something God did. Before you know it God destroys the entire population of Earth again so we never get a chance to hear what he was doing that pissed Lucifer off.
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A mod or sum1 needs to split this topic in half. 1 for philosophical debate and the other for science.
The whole purpose of this topic is to debate deism vs athiesm.
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An overwhelming majority of the scientific community views intelligent design as pseudoscience or junk science. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has stated that intelligent design "and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life" are not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do not generate any predictions, and propose no new hypotheses of their own.
This is true. Intelligent Design is, by definition, not science. Where science ends, religion begins. When I was very young I asked a respected adult if all scientists didn't believe in God. They said that many scientists believed in a God. It is because science at this point in time does not have all the answers. It may never have all the answers. God is a convenient explanation for everything that we don't have an answer to. In the past, God explained the motion of the planets, the shape of the Earth, the origin of life. We now have better answers to those questions because of Science, but this does not preclude the possibility that scientists will still be Deists because Science still does not have an answer for everything.
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Hell, i found out all I needed to know about the BB at a Hubble site. you know, where accepted science and knowledge is, no mention of god making it all, wonder why, i mean it would be so much easier...they must be dummies.
The Big Bang theory is based on the observed Hubble's law redshift of distant galaxies that when taken together with the cosmological principle indicate that space is expanding according to the Friedmann-LemaƮtre model of general relativity. Extrapolated into the past, these observations show that the universe has expanded from a state in which all the matter and energy in the universe was at an immense temperature and density. Physicists do not widely agree on what happened before this, although general relativity predicts a gravitational singularity (for reporting on some of the more notable speculation on this issue, see cosmogony). -- Taken from wikipedia.org
The Big Bang does not necessary preclude the possibility of a divine creator. If we are to believe our senses than at some point in the very distant past the entire Universe was a gravitational singularity. Perhaps God created this, perhaps it appeared from nothing. Vacuum Energy does appear to be a topic of hot study these days, perhaps there we will find the answer as to "where exactly did anything come from?"
Let's look at some patterns.
People without a convential belief in God:
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I understand you've been through some bad times, and you need spiritual guidance to help you cope with it.
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First off, I looked at the poll results before I posted and can honestly say that I was suprised to see that it was split almost 50-50 between the two choices.
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We now have better answers to those questions because of Science, but this does not preclude the possibility that scientists will still be Deists because Science still does not have an answer for everything.
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Until there is any physical proof that God exist, which there won't be, I'm not going to believe in him/her. I don't like all of that faith mumbo jumbo.
People who do believe in God:
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The Thing is Wether u Belive or Not A person named Jesus Christ was born He was a person Like u and I. Belive it or Not God has A pourpose for all of us in this great world. altho u may not think there is a god.
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i believe in God and evolution,even though this is unusual,but im like a religous and scientific kind of guy
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omg did u even try googling it? Hell, i found out all I needed to know about the BB at a Hubble site. you know, where accepted science and knowledge is, no mention of god making it all, wonder why, i mean it would be so much easier...they must be dummies.
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i believe in the real god not those statues one..
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lolz... u dont need proof to believe in something..