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<blockquote data-quote="Commercialfarmer" data-source="post: 931356" data-attributes="member: 14544"><p>I was always under the impression he was 1/2 Jewish and a carpenter during his early life. </p><p></p><p>My thoughts on intelligence: If it were not for supernatural guidance, I think we would have been extinct a long time ago. Do you not ever wonder how we can be so dumb and still survived as a species? Think of all the toxins, bugs, snakes, viruses, bacteria, weather events, food poisoning, etc... Take a look at your occupation and think about when you have had to help someone understand what it is that you do and how difficult that can be. How many don't have a clue? You have to assume that they are just as ignorant about everything else in this world, except for their own occupation or close personal surroundings. I know that there are so many things that I am just clueless about. </p><p></p><p>When "collective we" discover something that has existed since the dawn of the Earth we think we are intelligent. Example, it wasn't until the time of Columbus (how many generations did that take?), that we discovered that the Earth was round. The world hadn't suddenly changed, but our understanding of the world did. In 50 years, our current knowledge base will be considered archaic. But, we still won't be intelligent enough to create a universe or start life from scratch. The ability to design the natural law we currently live in- that is intelligence. Our understanding of it- is just playing a really slow game of catch up. </p><p></p><p>I enjoy the philosophical pondering. Without it, how will you discover your true beliefs? Dawkins doesn't think God exists. But I recently heard this question posed.... Do you believe in Evil? Is someone that takes a 5 year old girl and sexually molests her and kills her an Evil act? </p><p></p><p>If you believe it is and I think most of us would, then you set yourself up to believing that their is an inherent moral code. If there is no code, there is no Evil and that act is not Evil? If you believe it to be Evil, then you believe in the moral code. If you believe that their is an inherent moral code, then this code has to be derived from somewhere. And therefor you have to explain where this moral code originates and that is going to be very difficult/impossible to do if you remove God from the equation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Commercialfarmer, post: 931356, member: 14544"] I was always under the impression he was 1/2 Jewish and a carpenter during his early life. My thoughts on intelligence: If it were not for supernatural guidance, I think we would have been extinct a long time ago. Do you not ever wonder how we can be so dumb and still survived as a species? Think of all the toxins, bugs, snakes, viruses, bacteria, weather events, food poisoning, etc... Take a look at your occupation and think about when you have had to help someone understand what it is that you do and how difficult that can be. How many don't have a clue? You have to assume that they are just as ignorant about everything else in this world, except for their own occupation or close personal surroundings. I know that there are so many things that I am just clueless about. When "collective we" discover something that has existed since the dawn of the Earth we think we are intelligent. Example, it wasn't until the time of Columbus (how many generations did that take?), that we discovered that the Earth was round. The world hadn't suddenly changed, but our understanding of the world did. In 50 years, our current knowledge base will be considered archaic. But, we still won't be intelligent enough to create a universe or start life from scratch. The ability to design the natural law we currently live in- that is intelligence. Our understanding of it- is just playing a really slow game of catch up. I enjoy the philosophical pondering. Without it, how will you discover your true beliefs? Dawkins doesn't think God exists. But I recently heard this question posed.... Do you believe in Evil? Is someone that takes a 5 year old girl and sexually molests her and kills her an Evil act? If you believe it is and I think most of us would, then you set yourself up to believing that their is an inherent moral code. If there is no code, there is no Evil and that act is not Evil? If you believe it to be Evil, then you believe in the moral code. If you believe that their is an inherent moral code, then this code has to be derived from somewhere. And therefor you have to explain where this moral code originates and that is going to be very difficult/impossible to do if you remove God from the equation. [/QUOTE]
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