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PeterSmith: In response to your first response - your error in responding is that I was addressing scientific proof of physics versus God and how they can both be proven using emperical evidence. Your communications with God cannot be considered emperical evidence unless you can show me and others what these communications are like, and also prove to me that it is God you are speaking to. For example, if you are speaking to God, then tell me what I am doing right now as I type this. You cannot tell me. Hence, you have no real emperical evidence that you are speaking to God.
This does not mean that you are not speaking to God. This means your communications cannot be used as a basis for probability for you or anyone else.
Zato - Very correct. If you are a Christian knowing God is not enough. You must know that all other Gods are false. However, you must also remember that although it seems like all religions believe their God is the one and only God, the only real religions that believe that are Islam and Christianity. The reason it seems like a lot of them believe that is that these two religions have monopolized the religious wars of the globe in our history. But widespread religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism (which have been around about double as long as either Islam or Christianity) do not believe in one irrefutable entity. Hence, there is a such thing as open minded religion.
Petersmith: Evolution is a scientific theory. It certainly seems true given what we know thus far. However, I understand that there are genetic properties of certain bacteria (including the information passed in DNA) that does not hold true of evolution. In this regard, intelligent design is also a possible theory that can co-exist with evolution.
But evolution is an extremely well proven theory and I readily accept it as the truth since the emperical evidence is overwhelmind.
"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."
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