Bob, tell us, what does it feel like to have no future?There is but one God...not everyone knows him. THAT is the pity...and as a nation, we are suffering because we have allowed ourselves to be stripped of the ability to come to know and understand who this God is.
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Which one? The one that performs miracles willy nilly but AFAIK never has answered the prayer of someone who lost an arm or leg, in the entire history of man. That one discriminates. How about the one that is all powerful, omnipresent, always was and always will be. That one not only created all things but the act of creation included maintaining all things all the time. A perpetual act of creation. Everything that we know could have been created as it is with all its historical records and memories, all the carbon dating data, everything created since I began this post. That God can change everything on the fly before I end this sentence. That God makes everything we do irrelevant. All you have to do is believe in it. It requires belief for some reason. Everyone that believes, believes in a different God. Just ask anyone in the same denomination 10 questions about the God they believe in and they will contradict each other 7 out of 10 times. So we have to pick a green God who would deign to intercede in its own creation and fix things that we may have messed up. We might have to come to some kind of agreement on our culpability before we make that petition though. We could call that God the fixer. He might even help us with our side in the Superbowl next year. Bob Miller On 2/12/07, Mark Aitken <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I recall mentioning GOD... does that count? Manfredi, Albert E wrote: Dale Kelly wrote: The mantra of the "intelligent designer" is: "don't confuse the issue with facts, I've already made up my mind! The problem with that comment, Dale, is that no one in this thread ever mentioned any "intelligent design." Even an atheist can see that living forms are self-regulating mechanisms. That's not in doubt. Since the ecosystem is a system of systems, there's no reason to doubt that it too is a self-regulating mechanism, especially because we can see this in action (e.g. rain clouds forming when too many particulates are in the air, CO2 fostering plant growth, water vapor's cooling effect, etc.). By the way, if people have a need to wring hands, think about this one. As the sun ages, it becomes hotter. In geological time, this happens unnervingly soon. I've seen suggestions that as this happens, we'll have to do something drastic to buy us some time. Including moving the planet to a different orbit, further from the sun, to allow life forms we know today to continue to survive. 1B years or so. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. -- ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> Regards, Mark A. Aitken Director, Advanced Technology <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< =================================== Sinclair Broadcast Group 10706 Beaver Dam Road Hunt Valley, MD 21030 =================================== Business TEL: (410) 568-1535 Business MOBILE: (443) 677-4425 Business FAX: (410) 568-1580 E-mail: maitken@xxxxxxxxxx Text PAGE: page.maitken@xxxxxxxxxx HTML PAGE: 4436774425@xxxxxxxxxx www.newscentral.tv www.sbgi.net =================================== "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." ------- Albert Einstein------- =================================== "I like nonsense—it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities." ~ ~ Theodor S. Geisel, a.k.a. "Dr. Seuss" ~ ~ ===================================---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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