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Old 05-04-2008, 06:12 PM
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What I said is: "Creationism and evolutionary theory are NOT NECESSARILY exclusive to one another". I personally believe in evolutionary creationism rather than say the tenets of the old testament. I believe that an unknown force (God) at the beginning of time and space created matter and anti-matter which was the catalyst for the big bang which proceeded to then bring the universe into being. From this, the evolutionary process began to take shape.

Although from the outset this explanation may seem to some to be far fetched, it nevertheless has more basis in reality than the alternative athiestic assertion which assumes that matter and anti-matter emerged from a clear blue sky so to speak. In other words, it seems more or less improbable to believe that the universe emerged from an empty void of nothingness. The reality is that distinct things emerge as a result of a process of quantiative changes to something else. These quantiative changes in other words, eventually result in qualiatitive changes which results in something becoming something else.

For example, when a liquid like water is frozen quantiative changes will occur to the molecular structure of it, then at a certain point, those quantiative changes will result in qualitiative changes whereupon the liquid water will change its form into a solid form - ice. In other words, quantiative changes will change the form of something into something completely different even though the internal structure of the thing is the same. Other examples are the acorn and the oak tree, and the tiny baby and the elderly person.

So in this way it sounds reasonable to me that in the absence of a more rational scientific explanation, a form of external intervention - a force of somekind - must of been responsible for creating the universe. This does not negate from the fact that the physical sciences ought not to continue in its quest to discover the meaning of our very existence. On the contrary, it is only quantum science which is capable of providing definitive answers to the mysteries of the universe. But probably not in our lifetimes, unfortunately.
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