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Originally Posted by ScottyS
Many of the greatest mathematical thinkers of all time are/were convinced that God exists and made the universe, it is not a contradiction in terms at all.
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"Real" science doesn't contradict the idea of God as Christians understand him at all. It certainly contradicts the presented events of the Bible, particularly Genesis. None of us on the side of 'science' dispute the existence of God or any description of His nature. We do argue that the facts presented in the Bible cannot be accepted as literally true. We also suggest that viewing the Bible as parable is perfectly congruent with accepting scientific explanations for the existence of ourselves and the universe.
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Originally Posted by ScottyS
The next step is to look at it this way: if there is a being that created everything that we can observe or detect, it pretty much stands to reason that the being is not governed by the very physical laws that were created. It also follows that the being would be completely perfect and capable beyond human imagination. Creating everything through some evolutionary process or creating everything in-situ inside exactly 6 24hr periods really doesn't matter, and both would be entirely plausible, since the being would be able to act at will.
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Sure, if one posits an omnipotent deity, anything becomes a possibility. But it's a lot simpler to attribute the universe as we observe it to big bang theory and a ~13 billion year old universe, with at least one planet teeming with life descending from, potentially, a single organism, which may or may not have been created by God vs. presenting that He did it however he did it but fudged the evidence to fool us.