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Because you can do nothing without God and you can not have evolution without God. If God is not a part of evoluion then it will be destoryed in the fire at the end of this age. Also you may want to look at the word Creation next to the word Evolution. God is the Creator, so you can not have a Creation without a Creator. So you can maybe exclude God from your life, but you can not exclude God from this forum. Of course there is no life without God. Isa 40:8 "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."
Sure you can. Take a look at the theory. Nothing in it involves God, thus, it can occur quite happily without him. It doesn't preclude God, but it doesn't require him either.
Actually it is against the rules to say your going to report a thread. But I will repeat the question. Can we have a personal relationship with God?
Nope. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive. Science tells us what happens, not what should happen. Just because we observe living creatures reproducing and surviving, doesn't mean that we believe that's all there is to life.
Ooh, you're doing it again! Tell us, Oh Sage, how you divined this information! I always thought I had hope for a world without disease or war, but clearly you know me better than I do - so tell me, what else do I hope for? What's my favourite colour? Favourite genre of music or film? What do the spirits tell you of my economic beliefs? Do the tarot cards unearth my innermost sexual fetishes?
That is the fundamental difference between Evolution and Creationism. Creationism requires a Creator. Evolution does not. Perhaps the question then is does Creationism require a relationship between Creator and Creation (us). Did God just wind us all up in the beginning or is the Creator still a active part of His Creation?
If you hope for a world without war, then I would imagine you hope for a world without conflict.
The Bible says everyone is fundamentally evil, starting at an attractive woman is as bad as rape, and any crime can be forgiven, consequence free. I'm disinclined to trust that kind of advice.
Pastors generally have a formal education and qualifications in counselling and the like - it comes under 'pastoral care'. I'd go to a pastor too, so long as he didn't drip his advice in religious hocum.
And what would constitute 'dripping advice in religious hocum?' saying Jesus walked on water?
Depends. If he were using it as an analogy to help me with a particular problem, that's fine.
Would you -- maybe -- answer my question, please?
By 'That's fine' I meant 'That isn't dripping with religious hocum'. If his advice requires religion to take, then it's dripping with religious hocum. Simple benchmark.
The fundamental difference between Evolution and Creationism is one is a fact and the other is a belief.
Oh, please ...
They profess to believe in a "Higher Power" or a "Power greater then ourselves".
