There could be a heaven or a hell for an afterlife. We are not made to know.
I understand "life" to be a process breathing, consuming, excreting, and being subject to entropy. What do you mean by "afterlife"?
Yes science points to the fossils it has found, DNA and the theory we all come from one common ancestor, but it is very much a hypothesis.
Do you need for virtually all of mainstream science to be wrong for your beliefs to be right?
Science will never have all the answers nor will it be able to tell us why there is a universe.
Or if that is even a valid question.
Nor can science put a number on the kind of odds that would have to play out for that one sperm of your father to go to that one egg of your mother starting all the way back from 14 billion years ago at the dawn of the universe.
If it happened, the odds are 1.
My problem with the theory of evolution is that it says "humans came from primitive animals having sex," which maybe,
I do vaguely recall my parents telling me of babies being delivered by storks. Here's more info:
- Scientific storkism, like its close relative, scientific creationism, may be verified by demonstrating that somehow, somewhere, there is something wrong with reproductive biology. If there is something wrong with reproductive biology, scientific storkism must be true.
[*]One argument for Intelligent Delivery is that there are Irreducibly complex features of living things, which therefore could not come about by gradual, random, reproductive processes, and therefore must have been intelligently delivered.
[*]Another argument is that, for reproduction to work, the male cannot have been reproduced before the female, nor the female before the male.
[*]Then there is the argument that Intelligent Delivery must be true because the alternative, Reproductive Biology is self-defeating. If we come about by a naturalistic process of reproduction, then how can we trust our knowledge? If we are the result of reproduction, then our knowledge of that fact is unreliable. Therefore, we must be designed. After all, if we are designed, then obviously our knowledge is reliable, because aren't all designed things reliable?
[*]Studies have shown a significant correlation between the number of storks and the number of child deliveries in a given area, offering strong empirical support for Intelligent Delivery.
[*]Further, it is argued that at least one counterexample exists, falsifying the other theory.
Innovation
A recent innovation in storkism is Intelligent Delivery, availing the Big Top strategy, which encompasses other beliefs about where babies come from, such as the Cabbage Patch Theory. Intelligent Delivery does not concern itself with controversies among the opponents of reproductive biology and does not decide for The Stork as being the Intelligent Deliverer.
At least, to be fair, the schools should give equal time to Intelligent Delivery, and let the kids decide which makes sense.
Scientific storkism - RationalWiki
but it can't even rule out we live in a matrix or the universe came into existence 5 minutes ago and the whole thing is the product of witchcraft or an illusion of some sorts.
Solipsism fails, as in it doesn't matter if what I am experiencing is virtual or imagined; if the the reality I perceive is persistent and consistent, and can be experimented on with predictable results, it is indistinguishable from reality.
So what are your thoughts on this?
Sam
What do you mean by "God"? Is that the "God" that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, populated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every objective measure to date indistinguishable from nothing?
