QUOTE (barend @ Jun 6 2005, 11:30 PM)
and don't give me that carbon dating crap... that practice once regisrered a pair of reboks as being a few thousand years old...
Erm... that was just my inventive title for a News Desk thread...
But as to the matter in hand, I'm with Slade on this one. The way I see it, the exact Biblical version of events is probably as accurate as me declaring "The world was created when I came in a sock once. Yeah. DON'T ARGUE!"
BUT despite evolution being the most probable cause of life as we know it, it still doesn't explain where those first amoebas came from. Its exactly the same with how the world was created:
The world is here.
How come?Its a big old rock of space dust.
Where did it come from?We think that way back in time, particles were drawn together at super-high temperatures, and became a big ol' fiery lump of rock.
Where did that dust come from?Well, it was a by-product of the Big Bang.
What's that?Erm, not sure, a huge explosion at the beginning of time.
What was there before that?Erm... JELLY!
See? Even good old science has a "Erm... JELLY!" point, where it can't answer its own questions.
What's to say that God (or a God-equivilant) didn't clap his hands one sunny July evening, and set off a humongus bang that created everything that exists?
Only problem is, of course "Where did God come from?"
See, the best questions in life are utterly unanswerable...