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What is the proper title of someone who believes in a God but doesn't know which one?

Is evolution a sound theory?


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    8

Anto

Member
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing), what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?
 

Buddha Dharma

Dharma Practitioner
Wait...

Big Bang Theory is basically 'impossible' because you can't get something from nothing? You ever encountered the concept of White Holes, or eternal universe?
 

idav

Being
Premium Member
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing), what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?
That’s basically a creationist but then no telling what type, god could be evil and laughing at everyone.
 

LionLooking

Member
Evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing),
Evolution does not 'create anything from nothing'. It uses what's there and alters it.
The Big Bang may 'create everything from nothing' or it may be an endless cycle of expansion, contraction, expansion, contraction. We don't fully understand the process yet - but we may one day.
Just because we don't understand, that doesn't mean the theory is invalid - it just needs tweaking (think of Newton's theories and how Einstein's 'tweaked' them - does that make Newton wrong?)
what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?
A theist. I myself am one.
I didn't respond to your poll because I do think evolution is real, but that doesn't mean there is no God.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing), what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?

First of all, the concept of god and the theory of evolution are not mutually exclusive. That said, someone who believes in a god or gods in general is a theist.
 

HonestJoe

Well-Known Member
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing), what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?
What do you call a person who needs a defined label for a specific aspect of their individual world view to give it some kind of false sense of formal legitimacy? :)
 

Epic Beard Man

Bearded Philosopher
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing), what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?

There is only one...whatever name you call him
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing), what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?
Are you well?
 

ImmortalFlame

Woke gremlin
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing),
False. You have no examples of "nothing" to test, so you cannot make any such assertions about it, and neither the big bang nor evolution make any claim or requirement for everything to come "from nothing".

what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?
A theist and/or deist depending on the definition of God provided.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing)
Evolution didn't start with "nothing." Life was began, and at that moment evolution began, and continues to this day. The Big Bang is how our universe got here, but we know not its origins either.
Many theists would do well to better understand those concepts before asserting such baseless statements that serve to do nothing more than demonstrate their own ignorance of the subjects.
 

Katzpur

Not your average Mormon
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing), what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?
Probably a theist.
 

Brickjectivity

wind and rain touch not this brain
Staff member
Premium Member
Because evolution and the Big Bang theory is basically impossible (you cannot create everything from nothing)
You have this all incorrect. The Big Bang does not say that everything comes from nothing. It says that all matter appears to have expanded from a point and provides a way to track astronomical time, all based upon the fact that the stars are spreading out from each other and other clues. Evolution is a separate theory that does not contradict the Big Bang, however people do sometimes misuse the word evolution when they say 'Evolution of the Cosmos'. The Cosmos does not evolve. It does a lot of things but does not evolve.
what do you call a person who believes in higher beings/ GOD but no specific one?
Socrates?
 
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