Sand wrote:
According to the latest cosmic observations the universe is still expanding at a huge rate so God is still creating it and it is obviously such a huge problem He has little attention left to bother with the Earth which is so insignificant in this huge enterprise that whatever has gone wrong is not worth bothering about. It is a mere minor glitch in all that goodness of exploding suns and black holes and blasting energies that so delights a deity.
Cosmic/Comic origins topic
I have never understood the reason why Creationists need to justify their faith in a god creating the universe. I accept those like Iamnotaparakeet have faith in their ideas about the First cause, and to me, and to me, at least, faith needs no justification. It cannot be proven nor can it be justified through physical evidence.
Like many others here, overwhelmingly atheist/nontheist, I prefer harder evidence of a cause. Humans need the reassurance of a rational cause (I did not say real), and what I mean by rational, logically presented and satisfies the need for understanding.
Causes for any event are not so straightforward. For going on forty three years I have been studying the concept of genocides (mostly the Holocaust) and there are many theories and ideas, some overlapping, some controversial, and all must demonstrate soundness/rationality for these to be acceptable to scholars. And remember, their are still many revisionaries who deny it ever occurred. (I am waiting for someone to state that there is no cause to the origin of the universe because it never happened. There IS NO universe. It is all an illusion.) The only time there are problems is when the situation becomes political, and the lack of cause/event is used against those who believe it.
All cultures have their universe creation stories. It is a group thing and gives them a common beginning. Same with the comic origins posts.
What makes western science's unique is that there must be some sort of rational evidence to back up the theories, and the group identity thing is not an issue.
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