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originally posted by: Deluxe
a reply to: Pachomius
Sorry man there are some things you can't prove. One being a God.
That takes faith. If you have faith why are you here on Abovetopsecret.com
originally posted by: Pachomius
Okay, this is my challenge to you all, Oh ye thinkers here: non-thinkers need not take any time and trouble, though.
Let us do this exercise, think hard on your stock knowledge acquired from since you started to think for yourselves, and produce your concept of what is evidence.
You see, the only proof that is of any salt at all is from evidence, that God exists.
Here is my concept of what is evidence, in plain, simple, clear, concise, and precise words:
"Evidence is anything (thing1) at all existing which leads man to another thing (thing2) existing, because thing1 and thing2 are connected. (21 words)
If you cannot think and you thus do not have any stock knowledge from your very own self personal thinking on the empirical world of objective reality: you may go to dictionaries, and then put in not more than 50 words your summary of what is the concept of evidence you have come forth with, by reading dictionaries, okay?
originally posted by: Deluxe
a reply to: Pachomius
Sorry man there are some things you can't prove. One being a God.
That takes faith. If you have faith why are you here on Abovetopsecret.com
originally posted by: Pachomius
...and produce your concept of what is evidence.
How could accidental, random, purposeless events result in such intricately interrelated systems? Living things are full of characteristics that show evidence of foresight and planning—pointing to an intelligent Planner.
Many scholars have come to such a conclusion. For example, mathematician William A. Dembski wrote that the “intelligent design” evident in “observable features of the natural world . . . can be adequately explained only by recourse to intelligent causes.” Molecular biochemist Michael Behe sums up the evidence this way: “You can be a good Catholic and believe in Darwinism. Biochemistry has made it increasingly difficult, however, to be a thoughtful scientist and believe in it.”
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Aerospace engineer Luther D. Sutherland wrote in his book Darwin’s Enigma: “The scientific evidence shows that whenever any basically different type of life first appeared on Earth, all the way from single-celled protozoa to man, it was complete and its organs and structures were complete and fully functional. The inescapable deduction to be drawn from this fact is that there was some sort of pre-existing intelligence before life first appeared on Earth.”
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The question of God’s existence deserves better than smug, dogmatic assertions.
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A Common Problem With Scientists
As we have seen, there are more than a few reputable, educated scientists who say that the evidence points to the existence of a Designer or Creator. A few go still further. They question the scientific integrity of their colleagues who dogmatically dismiss the existence of God.
For example, geophysicist John R. Baumgardner notes: “In the face of such stunningly unfavorable odds, how could any scientist with any sense of honesty appeal to chance interactions as the explanation for the complexity we observe in living systems? To do so, with conscious awareness of these numbers, in my opinion represents a serious breach of scientific integrity.”
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originally posted by: micpsi
Here is mathematical evidence for God as Kabbalistically described by the Tree of Life:
smphillips.mysite.com...
The rank-8, exceptional Lie group E8 and all its exceptional subgroups are represented isomorphically in an amazing way in the geometry of the Tree of Life and its recently discovered inner form. Why is this significant? Because E8xE8 heterotic superstring theory predicts that this type of superstring makes up all matter in the universe. Because 496, the dimension of E8xE8, is the gematria number value of Malkuth, which, as the last Sephirah of the Tree of Life is, cosmically speaking, the whole physical universe.
You will find much other rigorous, mathematical evidence for the existence of God here:
smphillips.mysite.com...
originally posted by: whereislogic
How could accidental, random, purposeless events result in such intricately interrelated systems? Living things are full of characteristics that show evidence of foresight and planning—pointing to an intelligent Planner.
Many scholars have come to such a conclusion. For example, mathematician William A. Dembski wrote that the “intelligent design” evident in “observable features of the natural world . . . can be adequately explained only by recourse to intelligent causes.”
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Aerospace engineer Luther D. Sutherland wrote in his book Darwin’s Enigma: “The scientific evidence shows that whenever any basically different type of life first appeared on Earth, all the way from single-celled protozoa to man, it was complete and its organs and structures were complete and fully functional. The inescapable deduction to be drawn from this fact is that there was some sort of pre-existing intelligence before life first appeared on Earth.”
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Despite their amazing diversity in shape and function, your cells form an intricate, integrated network. The Internet, with its millions of computers and high-speed data cables, is clumsy in comparison. No human invention can compete with the technical brilliance evident in even the most basic of cells. How did the cells that make up the human body come into existence?
What do many scientists claim? All living cells fall into two major categories—those with a nucleus and those without. Human, animal, and plant cells have a nucleus. Bacterial cells do not. Cells with a nucleus are called eukaryotic. Those without a nucleus are known as prokaryotic. Since prokaryotic cells are relatively less complex than eukaryotic cells, many believe that animal and plant cells must have evolved from bacterial cells.
In fact, many teach that for millions of years, some “simple” prokaryotic cells swallowed other cells but did not digest them. Instead, the theory goes, unintelligent “nature” figured out a way not only to make radical changes in the function of the ingested cells but also to keep the adapted cells inside of the “host” cell when it replicated.9*
*: No experimental evidence exists to show that such an event is possible.
9. Encyclopædia Britannica, CD 2003, “Cell,” “The Mitochondrion and the Chloroplast,” subhead, “The Endosymbiont Hypothesis.”
Since prokaryotic cells are relatively less complex than eukaryotic cells, many believe that animal and plant cells must have evolved from bacterial cells.
A widespread current model of the evolution of the first living organisms is that these were some form of prokaryotes, which may have evolved out of protocells, while the eukaryotes evolved later in the history of life.[30] Some authors have questioned this conclusion, arguing that the current set of prokaryotic species may have evolved from more complex eukaryotic ancestors through a process of simplification.[31][32][33] Others have argued that the three domains of life arose simultaneously, from a set of varied cells that formed a single gene pool.[34]
originally posted by: Deluxe
a reply to: Pachomius
Sorry man there are some things you can't prove. One being a God.
That takes faith. If you have faith why are you here on Abovetopsecret.com
originally posted by: Pachomius, post #1
1. I define God as in concept first and foremost the creator cause of everything with a beginning.
2. So I search for everything with a beginning to its existence.
3. And I find everything I experience to be in existence having a beginning to its existence.
4. There, that is the evidence of God existing, in concept as first and foremost the creator cause of everything with a beginning.
5. Wherefore God exists, in concept as first and foremost the creator cause of everything with a beginning.
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: Pachomius
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You cannot cherry pick one VERY obvious concept (cause precedes effect) that religion got right, and ignore EVERYTHING They get wrong..
I assume you are really talking about the Christian god, but know you could never defend all the other ridiculous claims the Bible makes about reality...
Your statement that "there are some things you can't prove. One being a God," I see it to be grounded upon your self-complacency with knowing something like that "there are some things you can't prove. One being a God," but without ever doing some thinking about it.
Well, I am here to enjoy seeing a lot of folks can't think straight, unlike me.