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Panthegoat,
As I presumed, you'll not answer my questions to you. Instead, you attempt to deflect away from your intimate knowledge of closed-mindedness and, instead pose questions to me that are totally irrelevant, immaterial and beside the point. Then, like a foolish child, you gleefully prance around pretending that you're right and everyone else is wrong. I must say, the emptiness of your intellect is only surpassed by the expanse of the universe, but, not by much.
I knew you didn't have it in you to address my questions as you have no "rational" answer for them. You're so sure that there isn't a God, yet you can't explain how or why the universe exists, or even how it came into being before the "Big Bang." Your "science" can't go backwards in time any further than a "Big Bang," yet you can't explain the "Bang," itself. Now, what kind of rational is that? To me, it's irrational thinking at its best. There's something you have no explanation for, so you simply ignore a very plausible explanation because the explanation doesn't fit your desired and prejudiced answer. You've won the prize, Sir! Congrats to you! You're the epitome of science! You're your own demigod!
BTW- The "data" isn't complete on you, either. How shall science compare you with other men? How shall others compare you with themselves? Oh, never mind, it's all a "natural process" that's not been completed yet. If I may remind you, processes have an origination point. Processes also have a cause and effect characteristic to them. Perhaps you missed that in your schooling.
And, while you like to make fun of religious people, many on here believe, myself included, that the Earth is round and does revolve around the Sun; that the Universe is, in fact, "... billions and billions of years old," as Carl Sagan liked to say; that dinosaurs did not share the Earth with man; and any number of other propositions that you'd like to throw in there. I say that science is a good thing, because science is finding out God's secrets. Science is discovering the how's, what's and why's of how God created this universe and set it in motion.
And, finally, just because God hasn't appeared to you, or anyone you know, for the past 2 millennia, doesn't dis-prove His existence. There haven't been any dinosaurs walking around, either. But, we accept their fossils as proof they existed. I get up each morning and see the daylight, and the living proof of Gods creation in the forms of the trees, birds, grass, the hills and mountains, and the seasonal changes that come about regularly. I realize that science can explain away some of what I see, but, other than calling it a "natural process" they can't explain the original "Why?" Nor the original "Who" or "What." To stop at," It's a natural process," to me, is an insult to the capability of my intellect to reason beyond the realm of what's only detectable by my 5 senses. The human capacity for abstract thought is done a big dis-service by science when science only accepts concepts based in a pre-conceptualized order and refuses to admit to the possibility that the origin of occurrences may be supernatural, or of God.
And, just so you know, that voice in my head isn't imaginary, either. God and I do talk to each other. I've witnessed Him in my life, in my wife's life and in my children's lives. God is just as real to me as is your insulting and condescending attitude.
If God hasn't talked to you, I'd say its because He doesn't want to bother you and confuse you with the evidence of His existence, because the first step in seeing God is to recognize His existence on faith, alone. You have no faith in God, so why would you expect him to make Himself known to you? There again, "faith" is an abstract concept; but, so are "love" and "hope;" but, you're not the least bit interested in them, either, huh?
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