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I contend that we are both....
skydreamers:
--- Quote ---people who believe in evolution can not explain why we stopped evolvng.
If we evolved from apes WHY Huh are there still apes !!
--- End quote ---
No kidding Rodger! That's funny ;D
Peace,
Diana
LittleBear:
I contend that we are both diests, I just believe in a different God than you do. You believe in a God of randomness and chance and self, and you don't completely understand my belief in a God of ultimate love and mercy. However, when your fortune fails, and your body deteriorates, and pain racks your body and death is staring you in the face, you will consider my God.....and if you still don't believe..... ONE DAY YOU WILL.
Ursula
DuluthGA:
AHHHH.... 10 points Ursula! I like it! :D
Good ones Rodger! :D
:D
dawnnnny:
Hi everyone,
So I kept reading these posts (good quote Alex!) and the word deist/deism got me curious (I'm kind of a "word" buff), so I looked it up in Webster's and found something I didn't know:
Deism is the belief that the universe was created by a God who then made no further intervention in its affairs, often expressed by the metaphor of the "Divine Watchmaker" who created a mechanism so perfect as to be self-regulating. Deists do not believe in miracles or revelations. Because of their rejection of revelation, they attempt to infer their theology entirely from philosophical arguments.
Deism was popular among thinkers of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire and the Founding Fathers of the United States, but serious advocacy of deism is unusual among more recent theologians.
Thomas Jefferson is perhaps the most well known and outspoken of the American founding deists. See Jefferson on Deism for some quotes. Thomas Paine was also a deist, The Age of Reason being one publication which particularly expressed this view. Benjamin Franklin seems also to have shared components of this view.
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So I'm thinking maybe the word deist needs to be changed if anything! Anyway, I thought this was interesting and wanted to pass it on!
Blessings to all :)
Falconn003:
thank you Janice
And very intresting Dawn. good points.........
Rodger
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