Before starting, I would like to say that I pretty much do believe that God or something exists, but I still don't have a religion. Besides, I actually don't like thinking that God exists and it's watching me all the time and yaddi yadda, but >embarrased< I do pray when I (or someone I love) am in real trouble. I promessed that I would believe in God and admit it and sometimes thank him, if... uh, let's say if he saved my butt :) (seriously, someone was about to die and didn't. Well not really ABOUT to die, but there were a possibility). OK, ok: I know that I can't believe that God hears me and not the people starving, OK, I also know that it's not real faith believing in God because of proofs. But I made a promess, OK?
------- This is my message, from the start:
Oh, COME ON... You are just messing up things. Hinopio, don't try so hard. You don't have to find a religion-compatible explanation for all those facts; after all, according to the Bible, Religion and so on, God is omnipotent: he can make EVERYTHING in ANY way in an infinitely short period of time. Of course, that doesn't have sense if you say that it took him SIX DAYS to make the Universe and even more, that he needed ANOTHER WHOLE NEW DAY to rest because he was TIRED. Not even saying that God CAN be tired has sense; of course, unless you say he WANTED to be tired. That way it would be possible. Of course, even saying that God is omnipotent is a paradox ("could he make an ice-cream mountain so big that even him can't eat it?"), but that's not my point. You are free to believe whatever you want to believe. Again, my point is: God can do everything. He can make light faster than three millions of kilometers in half a second. He can make an arm pop up in your head. And of course he can make those stars visible, without that meaning a change in the date of the Creation. I mean, we also have evidences of, I don't know, dinosaurs and even humans living millions of years ago. So what, he's God, he can make chimical processes go faster, wait what am I saying? He CREATED the chimichal processes. He can make the chimichal processes appear in any way. Fellas, grow up: this is God who are we dealing with. The guy created all. He is concient of every particle of every atom, and of the final object (for example, a chair or a cube). He created life. [expletive deleted], he created Time. He could make the whole Universe and destroy it, and make it and destroy and make it and destroy it infinite times, instanteanally. He also could do that with time. So stop saying 'oh, God doesn't exists, there are stars older than the Univers', because that's pure s**t. If God exists, then of course there is an explanation of that. If God doesn't, then everything is a lie and that's not the age of the Universe, but still you can't be sure about anything. Who cares. I'll find it out when I die. But there will be 70 years between the moment I'm writing this and the moment I die (let's hope so), and I want to spend them on living, not on caring about if God exists or doesn't, because any of those options can be proved. So, bring the chicks, the music and the beers, because it's PARTY TIME!
P.S.: Two things. Relativity is pretty much proved, either way the atomic bombs wouldn't explode (that would be nice), or at least that's what scientists say. Evolution is also pretty proved; it's a tendeance on living. Scientists have found little "evolutions" on a specie in a relative short period of time (some years, or maybe just a century). Of course, God can still exist. But I still don't believe in Bible, it doesn't have sense in many parts. Of course, if God really exists and 'told' (I can't find the real word on my dictionary, is it 'prescribe'?) the Bible for prople to copy it, one can assume that through the centuries the copyists may changed some things for their own benefit. For example, that part when Noé (I think you spell it Noeh) gets drunk and his black sons laughs of him, and his white sons help him, and then Noé says that black people will allways be cursed and be slaves because of that; don't you think that maybe Jews made that up as a justification for black slaves (Jews of that time had black people as slaves working for them)? I think it's possible, Hinopio please don't kill me. I think it's very possible for a guy to copy the Bible adding things of his own. Of course, If so, the guy is probably burning in hell now, but the damage is done :/ .
I really hope not to offend anyone with all the things above, it's not like I'm swearing it, they are just theories. As I said, I really would like to think on more important things for now on.
I mean it's normal to worry about these things, humans have been doing this for a long, long time, but there is a moment when you need to put your feet on the ground and say: 'I need some rest. It's 3:31 a.m. and I am awake and writing in a computer in a language wich isn't mine to some people I don't really know. I'm thirsty also'.
Edited by - DavidDayton on 7/19/2001 12:20:46 PM