Ceridwen018 said:
So is that why you believe in god? Because he is unchanging and ungrowing? He just stays the same all the time...good ol' predictable god? Well, just because it's easier to believe in something simple, doesn't mean it's correct.
Amazing design? Hardly. We are here by complete chance, and observation of our environment is riddled with 'proof' of that. When you say 'amazing design' you are referring to butterflys, rainbows, flowers, and everything else which is harmless and pretty. However, you are overlooking cancer and cannibalism within animal species and horrible maladies which can spontaneously affect unborn babies. Does all that sound like 'amazing design' to you?
I can show you a couple of farmers who claim to have had 'intimate contact' with aliens. Their evidence has bought them a ticket on the crazy train, nothing more. Why should your claim be treated any differently?
That would be your sense of logic trying to kick in. I would recommend listening to it instead of oppressing it because you want to believe in magical people who live in the sky.
Science is finding things out that already exist all that is being done is to put a name to it and then see how it can be exploited. Now they can change something they tell us has taken millions of years to evolve and make our environment.
The only reason humans exist on this planet at all is because there is very little change.
The Bible gives a name to the animal kingdoms deviance and predatory acts and all the sickness etc you describe, as a power on the earth that is controlled and continued by Satan.
God wants control back and has tried to turn humans harshly, softly, by sending prophets with insight but it has been immpossible to force, reason, or coax humans. God is not what you think. Satan is all the human Knows and they enjoy being ruled in the mind by impulses, cravings, agendas, and exerting power over others.
If you were on some high ground and some chidren were playing on the railway tracks and you could see a train coming but they wouldn't get off no matter what you said, then what next? A young lad tried to outrun a railway engine recently, evidently he had been told repeatedly not to go on the tracks.
You know as well as I do how some people go to great effort to discredit others, whats the point, what is the problem, we need to increase knowledge not squash it.
It is amusing to hear someone from the "scientific" community explaining away something they haven't seen or experienced. They would be better to
say they did not see or experience the situation and it would be awkward to comment further.
It is not worthwhile being responsible for the deluded.
I have seen ufo's, three sightings but that is exactly what they are. Life hasn't been changed. And there is no eager expectant waiting for the next one.
Ther should be more curiosity about men and women going into space in rockets.
People driving cars while the internal combustion engine is said to be only 20% effecient, but then it breaks pressure, volume and leverage rules which are common sense even without well known scientific laws.
And power was equated in reference to how much work a horse could do in a certain time but the effeciency of the horse was not determined. Apart from the horse supporting its self more than a hp of energy is in the manure and then it can be used on the garden.
And an electric motor uses 5kw (6.5 horses) to drive a small car along a flat road and 20kw (26 horses) up a hill. Thats a lot of manure.
The only energy required to go on a journey and back is that required to overcome friction. We must be using the wrong technology, or the existing technology is less than half built, if we cannot recover the energy from deceleration and descent.
Science or more precisely technology is not getting things right. There are many examples and thankfully many workers for change.
All that can be said is be careful what you believe and who you rebuke, be an observer. Do not close off your mind and any discussion by jumping to conclusions.
It is better to keep an open mind, although more so when younger because It is good to be hungry for answers. Then it becomes a quest to find people with the same values and goals.