And I should have added, given energy can be neither created or destroyed, merely modified;it follows that energy is eternal? Moreover when you or I think a thought, there is a measurable transfer of energy between one cerebral synapse and another!

@Dan this article has been met with laughter is as it has been written by a fool. He is clearly not very familiar with the science and like most young Earth creationist he has merely regurgitated the same old sad God of the gaps argument's.

Nothing of scientific value has ever come out of the creationist camp.

From a philosophical point of view it is also a dead end, very few major Christian religions have a young Earth creationist POV just a few USA style happy clappers.

All what Don has said boils down to scientist haven't worked out yet how exactly these events happened therefore God.

500 years ago scientist didn't know how lightening was created, many people believed it was created by God(s). Just because there wasn't a conclusive scientific model on how lightening was created didn't mean the religious arguement was therefore a valid one.

Yuyutsu:

What is ontological anxiety? Why should the prospect of non-existence cause any anxiety in anyone? What is wrong with non-existence? If you do not exist then you have no consciousness or feeling so how can it be either good or bad?

If there is no such experience as non-existence then what is there to be anxious about?

Please don’t use words like God, divinity and eternal bliss. Use words that everyone can understand and which can be defined. If you have a reasonable argument then use reasonable words. A reasonable argument can only be built when everyone agrees about the meaning of the words used to build the argument. If you do not agree with these principles then you are not presenting an argument but trying to do something else like convince yourself of what you believe. These principles hold true even when you are trying to convince yourself so why would you try and delude yourself?

The God deniers can froth at the mouth, spit out their hatred, misrepresent however it does not change reason for one moment. Creation demands a Creator, design demands a Designer, laws require a Lawmaker. The pseudo faith of evolution is what really should be mocked however once one is handed over to their stupidity they can't even tell the difference between a boy and girl. The Scriptures prove so true again. Nothing new about mockers who have no answers of any substance.

And given we are just as ignorant 500 years later? It also follows we just don't know or understand how the universe and everything in it was created or why and for what possible purpose?

It's claimed there are more stars in the milky way, (our galaxy) than grains of sand on all the combined beaches of planet earth?

And yet in the face of so much incomprehensible (purposeless?) creation, we are able to just rule out and rule in various and frequently changed explanations?

The most plausible of which is the projection of dark matter into the universe to modify itself and become the knowable universe?

And who can say exactly what ark energy and dark matter is or isn't? In fact some older wiser cultures believe the dark spaces between he stars have power to alter outcomes.

Similarly Quantum mechanics seems to postulate, if we can get enough people to believe something to be true, it becomes fact? And seemingly borne out by phenomena like fire walking that appears to leave the feet entirely unharmed after walking on red hot embers.

We have (massive untapped) power as groups of folks who can share a belief, and not as wish fulfillment but rather with the sun will rise tomorrow conviction. (If two or more gather in my name)

Imagine what kind of world we could share, if every one on it woke up tomorrow believing in love, fair and equal treatment, truly shared wealth. Or put another way, treating all others as we would be treated; in the knowledge and the wisdom, together we can conquer any perceived problem or apparent shortage.

And or there is no barrier to a better life for absolutely everyone that can't be made manifest as the literal reality if we just project enough combined and totally unselfish and unconditional love at it.

Even so, we share our world and finite resources with folks, whose only ambition and determination is to become the richest folks in the graveyard? Or shovel all else into it! Go figure?
Alan B.

My dear runner,

“froth at the mouth”, “spit out their hatred”, “misrepresent”, “ pseudo faith”, “stupidity”?

The big question is how has evolution managed to strip any sense of hypocrisy from your soul?

Or to quote Matthew; “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?