Quote from: BitChick on September 21, 2014, 09:49:49 PM

Quote from: Rassah on September 20, 2014, 09:43:37 PM

Quote from: BitChick on September 19, 2014, 02:31:55 PM

They have not observed the big bang have they? But they believe it as fact, when indeed it isn't a proven fact. It is even taught as a fact to students today in many schools and that, to me, is a travesty. It needs to be taught as it really is, a theory!

Didn't we already explain in another thread a long time ago that a scientific theory is tantamount to a fact, because it is based on observable evidence and fact? You are thinking of the word "hypothesis," which is where someone just says, "I think this is how it is." A scientific theory is "this is how I observed things to be, and this is the simplest explanation." Like the earth rotating around the sun is a scientific theory (heliocentric theory) based on our observations. We observed how things move around in the sky, and sent satellites to space to verify observations, and the theory of "earth is rotating around the sun" is the simplest explanation we have for what we have seen. Keep in mind that we have never actually went to the sun and watched the earth rotate around from there just to be sure. We never needed to. Likewise with big bang, we can observe the universe expanding from a point, and can see background radiation far away in space that fits the simplest explanation of "everything came from one point." If you want to add your own evidence of a creator, you have to actually present the visible (or at least testable) evidence, not just something you think is true.

Rassah, you know you have a soft spot in my heart for whatever reason. Wink

I don't really want to be too argumentative, but I did have a question to ask. You seem to think teaching the hypothesis of creation in schools would be a negative thing. It seems that you really would prefer that the world would think like you do, and not even believe in God. With that in mind, do you really think it is better if the world got to the point where it was completely "Godless?" A world that was free from any religion whatsoever? Where everyone had come to the agreement that there is no God so therefore He should not be talked about or discussed or taught to children? It seems to me that many atheists are convinced that this would become a utopia and a perfect world.

My fear is if this is indeed your hearts desire that at some point your wish will be granted. God does promise a day when that will happen and His Spirit will be removed from the earth. If evil is present now, with death, hate, abuse, sickness and so on, it will only be much much worse then. If God is love, and He is no longer present here, love will be gone. A world without love would not be the world I want to be in.

There's a little line in the revelation that says, "... and there was no longer any sea." The word "sea" there is not talking about some body of water. What it is talking about is the sea of people who don't believe the true God, many of whom are atheists. It won't be no religion. Rather, there will be only one religion, the true religion. God will see to it.