Ack, give me a second. Ok here goes...
Ok.. But in Nomadic times, do you think they still wept when loved ones died? Do you think ancient man had the same feelings we do?
Of course, why wouldn't they? Someone dies that you had a bond to and you get depressed once you realize they're gone. The bond is created by conditioning of being around them and you get the feel good part and then when they're gone, you get the other release that makes you feel bad. As to where the first human got the first release (which I think is what you're trying to ask) is from the monkeys, from where they got it, their descendants. That's evolution. It's not a spontaneous 'Here's everything at once!', it's a gradual introduction of some new part of the whole every generation.
All I have ever read in recorded history tells me man has always had a conscience, an idea of what is right and wrong... Good or evil. IMHO, all sane people just KNOW deep inside what is right and what is wrong. People tend to reason their way around their gut when what they want goes against what their conscience is telling them. I doubt science will ever be able to really explain that.
Yes but to each person that definition of good and evil differs. To the majority it's the Christian way, as that's what we've been taught then we expand upon that as we get older. It's just innate. You were raised that way and you only differ if you want to. That's why I will raise my kids Christian because I think it's a good set of values (that and the social aspect of it) but still present evolution as the way it really is, if that makes sense. I like Christianities morals but the God part? No.
Sure, somebody will write up some stuff and it will be accepted because people WANT to accept it, but it does not make it any less true.
Is that not what the bible is, though? Someone, somewhere sat over a desk, snickering to himself, going "man people are going to LOVE this!" A pre-decessor of J.K. Rowling, maybe.
I believe that "gut feeling" is proof of the immortal human soul. it will never be explained in a scientific way that will make most happy, but thats fine. Do not take this to mean that I do not understand science, I am college educated and all that, but my life experince has just allowed me to see things in a MUCH different way than you will ever find in a text book.
And my life experiences have shown me that a God cannot exist. And if he does, he has some explaining to do.
GO my friend... My faith does not ensalve me, it sets me FREE. MEN, PEOPLE, have distorted the Word and used it for THEIR purposes, not His. Stop looking at just the negative things MEN have done in the exploitation of Christianity. (BP... This means you too....) Look at all the great things that have come from it. You will not find these things in any type of main stream media or text book. Ever wonder why? Perhaps we are not the ones "under mind control", eh? LOL
Actually I don't look at just the negatives (though they are a huge part of it, how can you ignore them?) and I don't bother with main stream media either. It's just another way to control the masses. And I don't see how it can set you free when you have a very clear, strict set of guide lines that you MUST follow if you're ever to hope to get to Heaven. For most people they want to follow the guide lines and have no problems with it, but the fact that they're there is still a method of controlling people. Thus someone, somewhere went "man, how do we make the peasants content with their life? Ooh I got an idea..."
I've already touched on the good things Christianity has done. I'm not disputing that. I'm disputing that the
reason for Christianity exists.
But in the end, I simply refuse to believe that this amazingly awesome and complex world is just a one in a trillion lucky throw of the dice. To me, that is simply illogical.
True, but if that one in a trillion throw of the dice hadn't of happened, we wouldn't be here to contemplate it. And I'll agree that it's amazingly awesome and complex, but it's amazingly
structured and complex. The structure, like Rome, was not built in a day, more of over hundreds of millions of years.
That is BIG if man... It is going to be a whopper to explain how you get something from nothing. A like I said above... "Explaining" the big bang will only reveal something else we don't know.
Only as big an if as God is. And yes, it will indeed be a whopper, which makes it all the more interesting (and me all the more depressed that I won't be able to know how it works out. If there's any sole reason for me to believe in a god it would be just on the off chance that I would be able to see how things turn out after I'm gone). And once we do explain it, there will be more questions, of course. But I don't think the solution is to simply say "God did it!" I think there's a logical explanation for everything out there and we will find it eventually. It may very well be the end of us if Membrane Theory is correct (when we try to duplicate it), but we'll most likely find it.
