Hi I am 20 year old student in college majoring in evolutionary biology. ( I also like physics) I used to believe almost everything and bible when I was very young and but when I was 14 and started reading alot I began not to believe in it. I don't believe in Adam and Eve, young earth creationism, Noah's Ark, bibical lifespans and jesus's ultimate divinity. I don't believe that humans are special and I believe that we will eventually die out and be replaced by some other form of the homo genus. I also don't believe that god can't be evil either.This as come from reading a wide variety of topics. I still do believe in a higher power or some infinite intellegence, because almost every scientific theory I have read about always leads back to the uncaused first cause. I have thought about this alot. I don't think that the bible is the word of god or that the bible defines what god really is because how can something that is finite describe an infinite? Man has only been here for a fraction of the universes 13.5 billion year existence, and we got all the answers 2,000 years ago? I don't think we have evolved enough yet to be able to understand these things.
Well I have been dating a lovely girl and I didn't know she was very religious, until she started speaking about it recently and I told her my veiws and she was a bit taken a back. I think she has a diferent opinion of me but I like her alot and don't want to lose her. What do you think about it?
This is always a tricky one. The Bible suggests that we not be unevenly yoked, ie torn between two opposing desires. This is especially true in respects to relationships, because so much hangs on something so seemingly small.
I was a non-theist when I met my girlfriend, who is now my wife. It was she who actually gave me a real reason to investigate, not just a cursory reading of the English Bible, but I really dug into it. Into ancient Hebrew, into science, psychology, biology, sociology, archaeology and more. It took me two of the most academic years of my life, but I've come to believe that not all was as presented to me. Here is a quick test for you, just something fun.
1) Where was Jesus when the wise-men found him?
2) In what numerical denominations were animals lead into the ark?
3) What animal swallowed Jonah?
If you said 1) A manger, 2) In pairs, and 3) A whale, you got all three wrong.
The thing is, we go through life, being exposed to a lot of noise. Christmas carols sing about 'away in a manger' people talking about Jonah and the whale and children's books show animals going into the ark two by two. We don't really think much of it, but we
doabsorb it. Before we know it, those things become 'fact' and depending on what they are, they can have huge ramifications. I agree with you, in that there is some sort of super-entity that created our Universe.
But I would ask you, to raise one thing that you makes you think it was God as described in the Bible?
