Re: creation

"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <sxT1f.1208$%42.544@okepread06>, Tom <moondok@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> > My point is there are people participating in this newsgroup who
> > continue to blame religion for these events. Religion isn't to
> > blame. People are.
>
> What's the difference really? Religion was created by people. So if
> you blame some religion, you also blame the people who created and
> are sustaining that religion.

This is an argument that will never be resolved unless God is real and an
explanation is giving after we die. I don't think religion was created by
people. God created religion through personal revelation. Man may have
written about it, but man didn't come up with it, IMO.

>
> > People interpret scripture wrong.
>
> :-) .....the world is full of religious sects battling each other
> about the "right" and "wrong" interpretation of various holy
> scriptures....
>
> So how do you decide whether a particular interpretation of some
> holy scripture is "right" or "wrong"? Do you have access to some
> even holier scripture which settles the matter, or what?

Religious texts include the same basic principles. Don't kill, be good to
others, be good to yourself, and fill your life with love. From a biblical
standpoint, this is how you determine whether an interpretation is "right"
or "wrong." If the basic guidelines aren't adhered to, an interpretation
can't follow its religion.

>
> > This is where the problems begin. I have never seen or heard of a
> > test that proves the universe is older than a few thousand to a
> > few tens of thousands years old. That is utter crap.
>
> Then it's time you step out of your closet and open your eyes and
> ears! There are plenty of celestial objects much farther away than
> some tens or thousands of light years. If the universe was a mere
> tens of thousands of years old, the light from these objects wouldn't
> have had the time to reach us yet and we would not be able to see
> them.

Since we have never been to these other light sources, how do we measure the
time it takes for light to travel between them and Earth?

As far as using light years is concerned, this ISN'T SCIENCE. It's
Mathematics. That is if we could count from the source which I would
honestly really like to know how that can be done.

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