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<blockquote data-quote="newusername" data-source="post: 6449722" data-attributes="member: 562064">We don&#039;t know everything.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t mean we can make up for the gaps in our knowledge with god.As for your question of what I personally believe, I believe that quantum fluctuations in our universe produced something from nothing about 13.7 billion years ago.&nbsp; The earth formed from the condensing of dust and matter about 4.5 billion years ago&nbsp;&nbsp; Once that happens, the initial life produced by some method of abiogenesis is a matter of chance (as far as we know), but in a universe as diverse and incredible as this one, even extraordinarily improbable events are almost guaranteed to happen at some point, and it seems to have occurred about 3.5 billion years ago.&nbsp; Through evolution, we have the diversity of species you see on the planet now (including us humans!).That&#039;s a rough sketch of what I believe is best supported by the evidence.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t exclude the existence of god in a deistic sense, but it does contradict many specific claims the bible seems to make about the natural world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="newusername, post: 6449722, member: 562064"] We don't know everything. That doesn't mean we can make up for the gaps in our knowledge with god. As for your question of what I personally believe, I believe that quantum fluctuations in our universe produced something from nothing about 13.7 billion years ago. The earth formed from the condensing of dust and matter about 4.5 billion years ago Once that happens, the initial life produced by some method of abiogenesis is a matter of chance (as far as we know), but in a universe as diverse and incredible as this one, even extraordinarily improbable events are almost guaranteed to happen at some point, and it seems to have occurred about 3.5 billion years ago. Through evolution, we have the diversity of species you see on the planet now (including us humans!). That's a rough sketch of what I believe is best supported by the evidence. That doesn't exclude the existence of god in a deistic sense, but it does contradict many specific claims the bible seems to make about the natural world. [/QUOTE]

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