TEXASPAUL

I believe that God created the everything and is allways present in our lifes.

I found if interesting when Jack the Ripper posted this:
"i think humans are no more than a byproduct of a greater design. not the purpose of it, but a resulting product that may or may not have been the point of creation in the first place.

However im sure most creationists think of it much along the lines that you do(talking to me).

either way, as line bigfoot, there is really no substancial proof that aliens exist or have been to earth. However, mathematically it should be a garaunteed thing that life (intelligent or not) does exist on other planets. I remember some show on the discovery channel where they figured if 1 in a million stars has planets, and one in a million of those stars with planets have a planet like earth with a buttload of water, and one in a million of those actually spawned life, and one in a million of those planets acually has intelligent life, that there would be millions of other intelligent species throughout the galaxy.

they say that there are more stars in the milkyway than there are grains of sand in all of the beaches in the whole world combined."

and later stated:

"Uh yeah, dont want to start any religious debate or anything, what im basically saying is i believe in some sort of intelligent design for the whole creation of everything. i dont belive it just so conveniently happened to happen, rather than there was something guiding the occurance of it and having a purpose for creation in the first place. I dont really believe in the perverbial god in the heavens with a white robe and white hair, but i dont think that the universe would have just happened to exist. I think there was some sort of intelligent force driving the creation.

However, i dont really believe that human beings are the point of everything. And i wouldnt put it past the "intelligent designer" to even have the foggiest clue that we are here. We just happened to be more of a byproduct as is everything else. I think "Existance" in general was probable the main goal and driving force whatever the hell it was that created everything. You could almost attribute a "god" title to whatever the force of creation was. But i dont really believe it has to be "Sentient" with the ability to make decisions and such of irrelevant matters rather than requiring an intelligence of a sort in order to get the job that it is trying to accomplish done.

kind of a wierd way of looking at things. Its not the standard idea behind "Intelligent design" that most people attribute, which is very much one of a sentient "hands on" god that created everything.

I guess one good way to describe it, **** happens, and we in this case are the ****. Lol.

i just dont really think we were the point of it all, rather than something that just happened through opportune moments and events.

EDIT:: So in this view, humans are really nothing too special. neither would aliens, so i dont see why if we managed to get a life and evolve to where we are, why couldnt other races on other planets?

but we still rock none the less. lol..."

so lets discuss this controversial issue!

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