Things were swirling and colliding and everything was expanding at a rapid pace, but it did so in complete and utter darkness.
This is untrue. The Big Bang was the starting point - there was no expansion followed by the Big Bang. It was the Big Bang
followed by expansion.
Everything that we know to exsist comes from cosmic dust.
Not quite. All matter originates from the nuclear processes occuring in stars.
Then one day, LIGHT! This is science. This also has a striking resemblence to the old testament's description of the creation.
So does the sunrise, but we seemed to have explained that quite well, have we not?
Then came us. According to science we decended from monkeys, but as of right now, there is no link.
I think it would be more accurate to say that, as of now, the link has remains undiscovered. It doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Science gets closer every day.
According to my belief, God wants you (and everyone) to know him.
So he has an acute case of Egotistical Deity Syndrome?
If he's an attention seeker, then by casually allowing atrocity after atrocity, then he's got my attention. If, for example, he starts striking down war criminals instead of letting them live comfortable lives in Argentina, I'll be in a church tomorrow. You might say they will be judged when they die, but what kind of deterrence of that? It would be much better to flay them alive in one quick flick of his mighty wrist as a warning to bastards every where, than let them defy him.
I bet the one moment you set aside what you're doing and make an effort to investigate further, you'll find something just under the surface.
I've read the Bible. I've read parts of the Qu'ran and Bhagavad Gita. The only things that strike me is how similar they are, and also how hypocritical the followers of those words truly are. Some are hypocritical in small ways. Others, like Bin Laden, the Crusaders, even Hitler are hypocritical to a point where they ruin the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
Anyway, this is really long winded. All I wanted to say was don't set aside God just because the scientific data doesn't appear to match up.
I set god (Christian, Islamic or whatever) aside on behalf of the poor bastards who's every waking moment is a hell on earth. I simply fail to understand how the crappy things that happen in the world are somehow neccessary.
But hey, I'm just a mortal - and a sheep in a flock, as it were.
