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[Hint: Science has completely rejected YECism both on counter evidence and a lack of evidence.]
He's talking that great part of the population believes/believed (until "recently" when most of the people started believing in evolution) in the creation and in that part of the bible. Christians and jews do, and i don't know about muslims but i do now that at least some of them see their religion as an advance of christianity, same way christians see themselfs as a better version of judaism. So you could say it is universaly accepted, the bible. Most of them who accept it are not scientists (or the scientists who believe it most of them don't try to mix it with science, and the ones who do aren't very successful). Most of them don't even interprete the bible literally. But yeah, universal. But it doesn't even matter, even if most of the people believed it, as i said, it isn't "universal" that long, it wasn't spread through philosophy or science but through violence and politics. So, not very good argument for several reasons.[Hint: Science has completely rejected YECism both on counter evidence and a lack of evidence.]
Christian creationism is also not even close to universally accepted. At best 33% of the world is christian, and a large percentage of them accept evolution. What are you talking about?
Ok, the Earth is not Young. Yet GAP has a very literal interpretation of Gen Ch 1 and they still accept whatever science has to say about the age of the earth.
That's one way to explain observed fact. It is also not the least likely explanation, and has almost no evidence behind it. Also, what makes a GAP theory interpretation the right one?
Science disagrees. The evolution of the eye is well understood, and from its original form in our distance ancestor, it has evolved multiple additions and variations throughout the various branches in the tree of life - squid have W-shaped irises to observe polarised light, for instance.
The First Law of Thermodynamics is an empirical law - it is open to violation as any of the other conservation laws humans have proposed (such as parity or charge conjugation). The Law of Cause and Effect is another type of law, and that has been disproven - quantum mechanics shows us that there are indeed events that occur without a cause. It is therefore fallacious to suppose that there must have been a cause.
Only the most intelligent and educated? Please, I'm not interested in a numbers game. For the purposes of this discussion, the onus is on you to demonstrate that the universe is fine-tuned.
So, if he died for everyone's sins, then everyone is saved, right? Or is there some other clause or caveat you're not telling us?
That was actually Francis Collins belief based on: "The fine tuning of the constants which govern nature; all of which are required to have a very specific value in order for us to be here to observe the universe." Although lots of scientists believe in a fine turned universe. Collins just uses the fine tuned universe as evidence for God.
The word is "Whosover" Whosoever is willing let them come.
Ah. So, even though God died for my sins, I'm still not saved, because I'm not a Christian? Why is belief a prerequisite for salvation? Did Jesus die for my sins or not?
It was Hawking that talks about the natural laws that created the universe. I assume what you mean is that you do not accept Collins belief that God created the Universe though Natural Laws. Or that the Natual Laws are evidence for God.
I do not know if your saved or not. That is between you and God.
On the contrary, you seem to have way more information that little old me. What does one need to do to be saved? Apparently, whosoever believes in Jesus will have everlasting life. What does that mean, exactly? Do I have to believe Jesus existed?
You have to talk to Science about the fine tuned univese. From what I understand they have everything balanced within a billioneth now a days. If it is more then a Billioneth off, it will not work.
You started and ended this post alright; but in the middle, you did some hefty advertising for evolution.
