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lucaspa: my whole point about the fact that one of the basic insistances of Christianity is that the universe is not-determanistic (ie. free choice), combined with the fact that God prophecied on the scale of millenia (of which he cannot afford to be wrong and loose credibility) suggests to me...

A lot of people attack Joe Smith for contradicting God... but didn't Jesus himself come along and start changing things? One prime example is the debunking of the 'Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth' principle that had existed since the time of Moses and was God's word. God's changed the rules...

The Mormon idea of the trinity is that they are three united in purpose, not existance. They believe that the trinity is made up of three seperate beings. The also believe that we are all sons and daughters of God (from a spitirual point of view), including Jesus, who happens to be the first...

Time is part of our universe... it has been proved to be integral to our existance and hence God obviously must work in our time to interact with us. that doesn't mean that he actually follows time, or at least time in our sense of the word.

There are so many sects these days... there's mainstream religions and theres the more unorthodox cults. Christianity is a very broad term, covering many different denominations... from Protestant to Catholic, Seveth Day Adventist to arguable the LDS (otherways known as mormons). However, there...

A minor note: your assuming that God is a spirit. That's a whole discussion in itself... Even Jesus who was a son of God, a direct decendant with half his DNA (thats if God has any :P) looked human enought to pass... not to mention that God is meant to look like a man. Maybe he does have a...

Well it certainly seems like things will be coming to an end soon... things are certainly heading that way. However, it could be any time this millenium. Its a wait and see thing. However, what I was trying to say concerning time is that perhaps there is something that trancends it. The...

Those who say that none of this has been proved to exist are partially correct. An electron is not an electron... it is simply the name we use to refer to one. And electrons don't necessarily exist... nor do particles or subatomic matter... you have to realise it is all theory. Particles are a...

There is simple way to look at this. Despite the complexity of life, its all based on the same stuff... mostly carbon, hydrogen, and a few others. So its pefectly possible, in an infinitely small way, that it could have 'evolved' through a stupidly large series of coincidences. However, life...

Entropy does not oppose order... it basically says that everything tends towards disorder, but does not prevent it. The natural collapse of nebulae into stars is chaotic but creates order. But eventually, in millions of years it will tend towards disorder. Another way to view it is a car. You...

Evolution is a theory, as is pretty much all of science. God is also another theory, although the lack of scientific proof stops it being a scientifc theory. However, both match known facts and hence both are possible... niether should be debunked due to lack of disproof, in the same way...

Well Chaos theory certainly is deterministic... all chaotic events do have underlying laws... they are simply too deep to be predicated by our approximations. Newtonian laws are deterministic. However, on the subatomic level, ie. quantum mechanics, the universe is not determanistic... events...