World's most intelligent man believes in God

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  1. Prof_Sarcastic

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    OK now i'm confused. A person cannot believe god exists and also respect god? Are you sure that's what you meant to say? Or am I missing something here?
     
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    most scientists believe in a God, just not the Jewish, Christian or Muslims one, but more of a deistic one...


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    So who is saying that is the way God did it? Genesis does not say it took millions of years of evolution for man to be what we are today......it simply said that God made man in His image. If man had to evolve to what we are today, then it could not be said that man was made in God's image.

    Darwin was a fool and anyone who believes him is just as much a fool as he was. Many scientists are now coming to the conclusion that there must be a creator, because the conventional belief of a universe coming out of nothing does not make sense.

    The Bible is a book of faith and not a science book. There are things that is beyond man's ability to prove or know via the five senses so faith is needed, that is why the scripture says, without faith it is impossible to please God. Or as it says elsewhere, do not trust in your own understanding....
     
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    And what god is that....Zeus, Thor or Moloch what? If they believe in a deistic god, then how would they know that what they claim to know based on reason is really the truth? Does reason even suggest that if a creator or maker abandoning his creation that it would continue to exist and not decay and crumble instead? What would cause the universe to still be intact despite the fact that such a god has abandoned his creation?
     
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    You are missing an "a". Not so important.

    http://youtu.be/kYEaqQIvXMo?t=8s
     
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    Darwin was no fool and he will be remembered and honoured long after your silly superstition has passed into oblivion.

    Darwin didn't even address the origin of the universe. Who is the fool?
     
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    Intelligence does not automatically make one wise nor even interlectual and so on .....Knowledge is not Wisdom .

    And to label a person . the most Intelligent on Earth ? Must be a tiny Planet you live on is all I can say .......
     
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    God is a philosophical 'spiritual' concept of all being One. So all are a tiny peice of God and God is all of existance together. Spirituality is the meeting of that all and the Soul the connection between the all and One.

    The literalising of God as an outside being/Government in fact is delusional. We live in a World full of total nut cases. Delusioned nut cases .............
     
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    OK now i'm confused. A person cannot believe a god exists and also respect god? Are you sure that's what you meant to say? Or am I missing something here?
     
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    The book we wrote is your problem - not Zeus or Thor. "Moloch" means fo example "sacrifice" - specially even children were sometimes sacrificed. God hates this. We are using today similiar expressions if we say "the god money" for example or "the god drugs". We could say today we are sacrifying children to the god drugs. The expression "moloch" was a little misinterpreted from some of our own people who wrote some articles in the famous summary of books we are calling "holy book". The bible is important - but the bible is not god.

    The universe is intact? How do you know this?

    http://youtu.be/Orv_F2HV4gk
     
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    The book we wrote is your problem - not Zeus or Thor. "Moloch" means fo example "sacrifice" - specially even children were sometimes sacrificed. God hates this. We are using today similiar expressions if we say "the god money" for example or "the god drugs". We could say today we are sacrifying children to the god drugs. The expression "moloch" was a little misinterpreted from our ancestors and/or people who wrote some articles in the famous summary of books we are calling "holy book". The bible is important - but the bible is not god.

    The universe is intact?

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    1) A metaphor is a metaphor. It is only a stand-in for the truth, it is not the truth. So Langan is messed up already. 2) Good luck trying to decipher metaphors when 'believers' think that the Bible is the literal word of God. They will burn you before they allow you to decipher a metaphor. 3) You can call the grand organizer "God" if you want; I have no problem with it. 4) Someone who believes in a grand organizer but doesn't believe all the religious trappings that surround a grand organizer is NOT an atheist. 5) People who listen to priests, ministers, rabbis, mullahs, shamans, etc. are fools.
     
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    That's my take. The truth is the truth; metaphors are not the truth.
     
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    By claiming that all animals evolved over billions of years he is saying that the Bible's account is not true, and thereby saying there is no God. When one rejects the truth the only thing left is to believe the lie.
     
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    How would you have explained billions of years to someone sitting around a campfire in Palestine 2500 years ago?
     
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    That is not something I would worry about because I am alive now and I'm not living in the past 2500 years ago.
     
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    they feel mathematics is how you see into the mind of God, they do not feel god has petty human character flaws like "jealousy", ect...

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    Nope.

    Nope.

    ... and nope.

    1. In what ways does evolution contradict Creationism? Be explicit.
    2. There a thousands of religions, I can deem your religion false, and still believe in another god.
    3. What you believe is anything but truth.
     
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    "World's most intelligent man believes in God"

    Good for him, but what does he *know*?

    Knowledge from the dumbest man on earth outweighs the belief of the smartest.
     
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    I guess the knowledge of "the dumbest men" is wrong and the belief of an intelligent man is always interesting.

    http://youtu.be/zyvVDTFhns8
     

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