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Sometime back, I sat down and really looked at what my philosophy on life and religion consisted of. What I have heard from all sides was giving me second thoughts as to what our position in the universe was.

There were positions on creation that I really couldn’t accept and likewise, the atheistic position of the complete rejection of a creator. What follows is that meandering thought:

Recently, there was a Presidential debate on YouTube and the same question keeps coming up.

Of course the media would like a candidate who espouses a strong Christian belief to disavow their faith which would give the populace a reason to doubt their sincerity and question their vote, or it could be they want to portray the candidate as a superstitious person who is unwilling to capitulate. Whatever the motivation, they want to create controversy to stir interest to sell their own story. Somehow, this question is never put to the leftist/socialist. The question they keep asking to the person of faith is: Do you believe in evolution or the Bible?

If the question were asked of me, I would say “Yes, evolution occurred. There is the scientific proof of evolution. And Yes, God created everything. This has basis in my faith and cannot be “proven”.

My belief is that God used evolution to get to this point. To say that the Bible version is an irrefutable and literal version of creation is very simplistic. A person that insists that creation occurred in the literal “six days” is saying that God could have only done it that way because the Bible says so.

The purpose of religion’s job is to explain “why”. I think the fundamentalists (creationists and Intelligent Design proponents) are suffering from a disconnect from reality. They don’t understand the “I Am” part of the Bible. Do many Christians really comprehend the first verses of the Bible? “In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth”. This phrase, in essence, says that God existed before the universe was created. Who or what God is, is open to conjecture. The New Testament says that “God is Love”. That for me is a good enough description. The reason the Bible exists, is a rule and guide of faith to explain why we are here,.

To tie God to the literal “six day” creation story is to belittle God. To look up into the night sky and not be struck with awe, would be unthinkable. To think creation was an “accident” is also unthinkable.

Science can only show the “how”. The duty of science is to explain the physical universe. It only deals with facts or hypothesis that can be proven in a laboratory or by previous observation or calculation. Science never promises anything, but it also has the ability to correct itself if proven wrong.

I can’t understand how an astronomer, or any scientist could possibly be an atheist. To see the immensity of the universe, the smallest life form, the growth of a crystal, or the birth of a child, only would serve to reinforce faith in a Divine Creator.

To follow the creation of the universe and explore the “Big Bang” is another question I’ve often pondered. What was that “singularity” How did it originate? What was before? How will this physical universe end? Our most powerful telescopes can only be compared to the poorest microscopes when we look into the vastness of infinity.

Humanity still has very few of the answers. We can only have faith and hope that the promise given in the Bible is true.

Sunday is Easter. As Christians, the day is celebrated as the basis of our faith. Without the Resurrection, that one defining event, there would be no Christianity. I’m afraid many have forgotten that one fact and have let immaterial “details” cloud their faith.