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Unfortunately yes, I would give him his fair share of 50/50 chance if I cannot provide evidence that superman indeed did not fly past his window. Being a biased person however, I wouldn’t believe in that story. But the beauty is that I realize I am biased towards not believing such a story...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... rth-2.html Let's say the above incident of 'virgin shark birth' that I linked to happened in the year 1200AD. Someone records the events. However there isn't any DNA fingerprinting done. What would you guys make of that tale with limited evidence...

It would be simple if you can - not go to the bible for your science and not go to science for your spirituality. You can use one to understand the other better. Like Drew pointed out earlier with the BigBang. A steady state theory of universe was very popular i.e., our universe always existed...

When it comes to expressing the characteristics of God, I tend to run them through the ‘necessary’ filter. We are not capable of time travel. So it makes more sense now to say that God is bound by the same restriction as we are. But who is to say that some genius in the future...

Hello Orion, Long time. As for the verses, I am sure we could use ‘for God a 1000 years is a day and a day a 1000 years’ as conceptual hinting that He is not bound by time. Some might even be able to point to prophecy and say He can see the future ‘as is’ from present...

I am not quite sure about this question. Include God where? I know of no science that requires "God exists" as a premise/axiom/corollary. If your question is on a personal level about why a person should believe "God exists" to investigate, the question then can also be asked "why exclude God?"...

Can we prove it? I am not sure we can, not with our current technology. But can we interpret the data as such? Yes, since the model can make predictions and explain the current evidence sufficiently. Based on the topic of this thread, I thought this would peek your interest...

Hello Drew - I do see your point how 'sin' was condemned and not Jesus, yet the same process of condemning sin in us without condemning us is not somehow possible because we are not in the same sinless state as Jesus was. This goes well with how you actually view 'death'. If no sin was ever...

The experiments and the recording instruments give us data. We by induction assume the data to be true. Then we take that "truth" in the data and are applying it to the "concepts" that explain them successfully. GR is true, QM is true. QM contradicts GR. So we now need a theory that will explain...

Jayls5 - You seem to have married empirical evidence with truth-value where you cannot have/know one without the other. Let's take General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Do they both have empirical evidence? If no, should we chunk the concepts? If yes, QM quite comfortably contradicts GR...

I heartily agree with the above view. But may be I can elaborate on Drew's point so you can see where the disagreement actually lies. I do not think that Drew would especially disagree that evil is a by-product of our "current" creation. His assertion is that a creation is possible where the...

Orion asks a simple question. If wages of sin is death, then we all die and pay the wages of sin. How is Jesus' death different from ours? If burning in hell for all eternity is the wages of sin then why did Jesus not pay this since He paid for our sins? The sacrifice has to be pure to cleanse...

As I understand this concept, the answer is 'no'. Space "actually/really" isn't expanding in the same sense that you use the term "expand" in every day usage. It is an unfortunate verbalization of the mathematical geometry describing the behavior of unbound objects in space. There is no...

This would be my answer Orion and I apologize that it isn't the Christian answer. Speaking to a samaritan woman Jesus supposedly said: John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. Yet Jesus used a samaritan to show "who our neighbor was" in a...

We have no clear idea of what this "best possible world" is. If we take the kingdom of God for example, it is where the tears are wiped away and there is no more suffering and we have eternal life and healing from the tree of life and the law of God is written in our hearts and kept without...

Hi paulo75 - Creationism as presented today for an alternative to evolution has been falsified. Science cannot build on falsified theories. It becomes counter productive. I agree with you that science and religion do not have to be at odds unless you tend to interpret religion in a literal way...

Great, not a lot I can disagree with. We can shake hands on that.

I should have highlighted the attention to point (2) in the quote. It was to show that while a theist can pull his personal experience as evidence, its scientific status would be invalid and not necessary false. Ah yes, Bohr's complementarity. The shortcoming is in our experimental setups which...

Wasn't my intention. Given, and the choices being My vote would go to choice 1. I guess we can consider case closed on that one then. I want to hit on some other points in your post. I did not say logic is only as good as the data you apply it to, but using logic is. If you use logic with...

I do agree with this and will add that the exceptions do call for revising of the data we are using to make the initial scientific statement. We can make auxiliary hypotheses based on these exceptions and still let the core statement stand on its own merit. Actually there is option B and that...