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Originally Posted by {Phoenix Rising}
To take the metaphor for life even a step further, despite all of our progress in the last century in science, we are still no closer to understanding what "life" truly encompasses or how it started. With all of our technology, we still cannot recreate life in all of it's order and time.
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But so what? What does that mean? There was a time, not very long ago, when man had no idea how many things happen. Before he understood the natural events that caused the winds to blow, he called upon gods to blow them. Before he understood how the seas moved, or the lightening bolts flew, he called upon gods to move the seas and fling the lightening bolts.
The point is, there is no reason, just because we may not understand something, to suppose that it will never be understood. And it is only that -- the idea that there is no more science available to assist our understanding, tomorrow, or next year, or in 10 thousand years, that should allow one to suppose that what one doesn't understand is the doing of god.
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Throughout all of history, there have been many babies that have been created and they almost always come out perfect, blessed with the spark of life without anything other than procreation with what we do. Therefore, it has an order and spark of something that is indeed a miracle.
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I pointed out in another thread how, in fact, they don't "almost always come out perfect." In fact, most conceptions self-terminate before getting too far along. There are many more congenital defects than are generally understood by most people, so while the majority of babies that are born are fine, that is by no means "almost all" of them. With any belief in outside mediation in human life, that needs explaining. If one accepts those things as natural, then the job is to find out what causes as many of them as possible, and prevent it in future, or to decide what other actions might be permissible.
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Also, one thing that truly inspires me, was that one of our most reknowned scientists, Albert Einstein, at the very end credited God with things he could never begin to understand.
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Don't ascribe too much "God" belief to Einstein. You'll find that, although he was quite spiritual, he was most assuredly not a religious man, and had no belief in a personal god, or a god in any way involved in the universe the way that most religious people suppose.
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Maybe, as people grow to understand the underlying concept of life and science, they will start to credit it to a Creative Intelligence underlying all of creation.
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In fact, it is quite the reverse. Although most people believe in god or gods, and many believe in some sort of creative act by said gods, the majority of the world's deepest scientists, the ones who are making the greatest effort to understand life, find that they have no need of a creative intelligence to explain it.
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Education and religion are two things not regulated by supply and demand. The less of either the people have, the less they want.
Charlotte Observer, 1897
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