Scientists find Missing Link

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#151
ridethelightening said:
By fallible man, kinda like the Bible.

Why are people so against believing in God, Heaven and the after life? Its been said that for a nonbeliever, life on earth is the closest thing to Heaven, but for a believer it is the closest thing to hell.

God offers us a paradise, but people are so out to prove it wrong. Why?
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because some of it just plain impossible to believe and people genuinely want to know our origins.
 
#153
#153
I've been having trouble with the concepts of free will and a known fate.

if our life is written, and the time and date of our death is known, how can we possibly exercise free will if everything we do leads us to a predetermined destiny?
 
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#154
MG1968 said:
I've been having trouble with the concepts of free will and a known fate.

if our life is written, and the time and date of our death is known, how can we possibly exercise free will if everything we do leads us to a predetermined destiny?
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Watch out, someone will break out the Matrix trilogy school of philosophy on you.
 
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MG1968 said:
I've been having trouble with the concepts of free will and a known fate.

if our life is written, and the time and date of our death is known, how can we possibly exercise free will if everything we do leads us to a predetermined destiny?
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Good luck getting a straight answer to that. Not only a "known fate" but a fate that is "God's plan".
 
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IPorange said:
Watch out, someone will break out the Matrix trilogy school of philosophy on you.
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but Neo proved the Oracle wrong, then she said she only told him what he wanted to hear.

So, was there a predestination, or not? Damn that's tough.

The speech from the gray beard about "the fundamental flaw....inevitable......" is one of the best speeches in moviedom.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
but Neo proved the Oracle wrong, then she said she only told him what he wanted to hear.

So, was there a predestination, or not? Damn that's tough.

The speech from the gray beard about "the fundamental flaw....inevitable......" is one of the best speeches in moviedom.
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Hello!

Matrix = Epic Bible Movie!
 
#161
#161
The Missing Link? He should have never left World Class Wrestling and gone to work for Vince. That ruined his career.
 
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As far as the original topic at hand: I really don't see how that is a missing link at all personally. I mean, there are primates that exist today that are far more similar to us than that sample.

And therein lies my problem with this whole debate. At the end of the day, what difference does it make? I mean really... science should be working on discovering ways to produce energy with renewable resources, interstellar flight so we can colonize other planets, how to extract materials from space, curing cancer/AIDS/diabetes, and a plethora of other things. And Christianity should be trying to be a positive social influence out in a world that is full of violence, angst, and general hopelessness. Moving forward, I just don't see how proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that your side is right does anything other than "ha ha I was right and you were wrong!"

I am personally a Christian, and believe in Intelligent Design, but I don't believe that design happened in a literal 144 hour period. In fact, if I am not mistaken there is a verse in the bible that references the fact that a day to God could be years to man. And if you study how the creation was recorded in the Bible, you see that everything was created in a very specific order: one that very much coincides to the order that evolution prescribes to for organisms and the "big bang theory" as well for the stuff outside of organisms. And, if I what I believe is actually reality.... how does that help with finding the cure to cancer? I think both sides need to not get their panties in a wad because their world view isn't shared by everyone.
 
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