Reply #193: I have never seen so many absurd generalizations [View All]

[Ms_Mary]

Good grief. Are any of you aware that there are people out there who do not feel Creation and Evoluation are mutually exclusive? That you can believe in God without being a crazed fundamentalist? That you can *gasp* be capable of rational thought and critical analysis?

But OP, faith is faith. It doesn't require proof. To try to discuss faith scientifically is not an easy thing. I don't need to nitpick apart my faith, becuase it is faith. That doesn't mean I never question things or look further into it, but because I do not approach my faith from the angle you and many others on this thread do, it's not possible for me to discuss it from your perspective.

It's not a question that's even remotely important to me to determine God's origin. That said, an interesting factoid is that the idea of a God outside the earth in the heaven while people toiled on the earth below came into play about the same time that we began to measure time and try to fit the universe into a clockwork perspective. Don't ask me for a source on that. It comes from some college professor's lecture out of the dusty recesses of my mind. Many of the aspects we attribute to God and religion are made by man. I realize that, but I still believe in God and debating hte existence or origin of God isn't up there on my priority list.