“Have any of you ever been on an Easter egg hunt when you were small? I have and I truly believed in the Easter bunny by virtue of all the eggs that I discovered.”
Yes, but right now, you know that’s stupid.
It’s a lie that didn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Certainly not once it was your duty to hide eggs for others.
“Could it be that all that science has put together is like the Easter eggs that have been put there for us to discover and we are attributing that to evolution and not God the same way children attribute Easter eggs to the Easter bunny and not the parents who really put them there.”
Holy crap that sentence needs to be wrestled to the ground and kicked in the fork.
And if they are Easter Eggs, God made sure to match up all the details. Every dating system shows consistent results. Every strata can be explained by current geology theory. Every single detail tells the story.
This would be an analogy if the parents actually bred giant mutant rabbits to spread the eggs on Sunday, and Rabbit DNA was found on the eggs, and no one, not a single parent, was ever responsible for hiding the eggs.
So, this is either history, or it’s a fake story that god has gone to GREAT LENGTHS to have us believe.
“In order for us to prove our faithfulness to God we have to be given the opportunity to choose and for that to happen there has to be something else to choose from say... evolutionary theory.”
Then god is an outstanding liar. I mean, it would fit, he’s omniscient, so he knows already every single place people will look for clues. And every single fact that’ll make it to the textbooks. So it’s conceivable that it’s all a big, huge deception to test us.
But that seems counter-intuitive. ALL the evidence agrees, but he wants us to put our faith in a largely-anonymous book of fantastic stories about a world that does not work the way we observe ours to work.
“There is plenty of evidence to support the existence of God and yes, although there can be arguments for the evolutionist to cling to, there are just too many assumptions made to avoid the evolutionist theory being degraded at every level.
I believe that we are discovering new things every day and I also believe that these things have a logical place in creation and that it is our own ignorance that prevents us from seeing the beginning from the end.”
There’s no evidence for god. There are plenty of things you can fit into your mythos, so the world is sort of consistent with God, but there’s plenty of stuff that doesn’t. And nothing that absolutely can NOT be explained except with a god.
“Using what we have been given to discover about our world to discredit the existence of a creator is like using Easter eggs to discredit the roll of our parents in the whole show.”
No, not even close.
Using what we see in the world to understand the world is exactly how we figured out that the Easter Bunny IS A FUCKING LIE.
And Santa. And the tooth fairy. And Snuffleopagus. And Walter Carlos.
We grew up.