Re: God's insane love of insects.


"MrDarkness" <darkhorse1957@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Not only the mechanism of flight itself, but the complete
construction of all those specific insects as well is a task that no
designer, even a superhuman one, could have mastered. What laboratory
resources and research grants do you think would be required[?}

Interesting that you--presumably an atheist--would appear in court
offering the same evidence as theists do as support for their take on
the matter. Theists have long argued that the runaway complexity of
life on this Earth is beyond the reach of natural processes, even
given geological time to achieve the result. It's a reverse image of
your contention that God--by whatever conception--because he's only a
single, albeit supreme entity. How could he find the time?

I'm an agnostic. I may find "creation" and "science" to be
contradictory, but I also find your argument to be hilarious.

"What laboratory resources and research grants do you think would be
required - in addition to the time, more like thousands or millions of
years than just the one hour or two that Genesis allows?"

You really, really need to get OUT of the laboratory now and again.
See a movie. Go to a baseball game. Talk to a few "little" people that
don't wear plastic pocket protectors. Get a perspective. Understand
the essential notion of God. He's not a graduate theoretical physics
student creating all that is as a means of pushing his PHD thesis
home. He's OMNIMPOTENT, if he exists at all. As such, he's in no need
of laboratory resources or research grants.


How to define omnipotence? The essential notion of God in my view is of
Spirit. A spirit dwelling in the universe, everywhere. Nowhere does not God
dwell.

An omnipotent being like a super superman is a childish way of thinking. It
is absurd to think of God as a super sorcerer creating a universe, to
continue his 'creation' with breaking, overruling every law of his own
creation in order to continue the job. To be a designer, it takes the job of
a designer. Omnipotence, what is that? The God of the Bible is not
omnipotent. The concept of an omnipotent, personal God sitting somewhere
outside the universe beaming his will or thoughts into nature to make it
perform specifc acts, ovveruling the forces ruling in the universe, without
ebven leaving a trace?

Or being isneide of the universe, empowering the universe to behave as a
universe should, and as all evidence shows that it does?

"...in addition to the time, more like thousands or millions of years
than just the one hour or two that Genesis allows?"

First of all, seven days exceeds an hour or two noticeably.
He had other chores to do as well besides creating insects, so I found it
reasonable to alloce just a couple of hours to that.

Einstein
long ago put forth the notion of relative time, and certain rational
theists accept his idea, and of interpretational wiggle-room on the
seven days--and the precice meaning of the term "day."

The 'seven days' make perfect sense when seen for what they are - mythology.

""I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God
is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share
the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is
mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of
religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of
humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual
understanding of nature and of our own being." (Albert Einstein,
September 28, 1949)









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