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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
It just strikes me as odd that the same people who scoff at the notion of a creator wholeheartedly accept the notion that the entire universe came into being from nothingness with no help whatsoever. That seems contradictory to the very heart of the theory of evolution.
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First, evolution says absolutely nothing about where the universe came from.
But anyway, there are four possibilities:
1) An entity came into being from nothingness with no help whatsoever, then created the universe.
2) An entity always existed, and created the universe.
3) The universe came into being from nothingness with no help whatsoever.
4) The universe always existed.
If it is possible for something to always exist or to appear from nothingness, then the simpler explanation is that the universe did it. Adding an extra entity just adds the additional question of where
that came from.
So, if the universe just popped into existence, how did that happen? The official scientific answer?
Unknown. Science says nothing about it. Could it be God? Sure, maybe. It could be all sorts of things.
But that's not science. And it doesn't belong in a science class. Which brings us to:
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If there ever was a zealous extremist movement, it's that of secular humanism. It's not a matter of protecting people from government-organized religion; for them, it's about shoving it all under the rug so that their voice is the only one heard.
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That's only true if you consider the government to be the only part of life that
isn't under the rug. Because that is the common thread to all of the secular movements.