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Urbane Guerrilla · 12-13-2008, 08:17 PM

My God is a Celestial Mechanic.

And if you're eternal, having literally all the time there is, there's not a lot of reason not to take your time, and dare I say, do it right. Thirteen billion Earthly years is a mighty span of time. A lot can happen. A Creation that goes of itself, from the Big Bang onwards, seems to me to have a lot of divine wisdom to it. Saves a lot of labor on the part of the Almighty, for one thing -- no call to bust a separate miracle for each species -- and a whole lot of those, 99% of which that ever lived are presently extinct, and to what end if any? -- nor to determine the relative proportions of the elements of the periodic table and their properties.

Young-Earthing it, and Creationism, strike me as attempts to nail the Eternal into a crate built to human specifications. That very well-loved Bible counsels against this very thing -- and there are a good many believers wise enough to keep this in mind.

I'm a believer -- for I have no idea why the Big Bang banged. I could say "God did it," and speak no worse nonsense than anyone else.

12-13-2008, 08:17 PM	#15
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	My God is a Celestial Mechanic. And if you're eternal, having literally all the time there is, there's not a lot of reason not to take your time, and dare I say, do it right. Thirteen billion Earthly years is a mighty span of time. A lot can happen. A Creation that goes of itself, from the Big Bang onwards, seems to me to have a lot of divine wisdom to it. Saves a lot of labor on the part of the Almighty, for one thing -- no call to bust a separate miracle for each species -- and a whole lot of those, 99% of which that ever lived are presently extinct, and to what end if any? -- nor to determine the relative proportions of the elements of the periodic table and their properties. Young-Earthing it, and Creationism, strike me as attempts to nail the Eternal into a crate built to human specifications. That very well-loved Bible counsels against this very thing -- and there are a good many believers wise enough to keep this in mind. I'm a believer -- for I have no idea why the Big Bang banged. I could say "God did it," and speak no worse nonsense than anyone else. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.