Do you believe in God?
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Including not belieiving in Evolution?
Im mostly Atheistic (i had to look that word up) But i do think There is something greater! Although i think the concept of a god is pretty unbelievable to me!
I don't believe we came from apes but I do believe in adaptation evolution. This deals with life sources changing to adapt over many years to the environment. This is why we have different races as humans and why animals and insects are so vast and different depending on where they are located.
I mean as long as you dont protest over schools teaching Evolution im fine with that just takes some getting used to i hope you can forgive me!
Forgive you for what? You believe whatever you want. Evolution is a theory and most schools teach it as a theory which I have no issue with.
I am the type of person that believes in freedom for everyone and that people should be left alone to decide things for themselves.
Christian most of my life. I'm a pastor's kid, so I came out that side of things rather than full rebel.
I default to Young Earth Creationism because I have no real reason not to, and changes nothing about how I live life. But if someone wants to argue whether Genesis is an allegorical text or God-guided evolution/BBT, I'm not going to die on that hill.
How unlikely is Big Bang and evolution without God?
I default to Young Earth Creationism because I have no real reason not to, and changes nothing about how I live life. But if someone wants to argue whether Genesis is an allegorical text or God-guided evolution/BBT, I'm not going to die on that hill.
For me, the more I think about the concept and some of the arbitrary conditions of the BBT, and then the exact conditions that had to occur to make our planet the only one with sentient life in our immediate solar system to bring us to exactly where we are today, combined with the lack of a creator, I find it extremely unlikely.
Well I can see where you're coming from... but to me existing a superior being in charge of all of this is even more unlikely. It'll unavoidably raise questions like "where did this being come from?"... "why does HE exist?". It is strange and a little random either way.
Evolution without a higher force seems strange. But many things are arbitrary. I don't know why some things seem so "perfect" and work out so "well" either.
And that's an understandable position. Like "who created God" or "How did God always exist" are definitely valid questions to struggle with. And, assuming I'm right, they're definitely answers I'm not going to get this side of life.
The other part for me is just my lived experience - there's just absolutely no denying (for me) that God works in my life every single day and has since before I was born.
When my mother was pregnant, the doctor determined I was meant to have spina bifida and a whole mess of other issues - to the point where he actually suggested an abortion because that wasn't going to be any quality of life for me. Despite this, and through regular prayer, when I was actually born there wasn't anything wrong (save for complications with the cord wrapped around me neck). I'm (mostly) normal and (mostly) healthy.
I won't bore you with my life story, and I'm not expecting to change your mind, I just thought I'd give a bit more of my position since I was very brief earlier.
