++ [ originally posted by Sebi ] ++
no offense to anyone on here, but my history teacher literally spends his 50 minute period lecturing us on the ignorance of christians
Ignorance doesn't mean denying His existance. Also a teacher claiming such claims does not deny his existance. And besides your school has had its fair share of whackos
++ [ originally posted by Sebi ] ++
no offense to anyone on here, but my history teacher literally spends his 50 minute period lecturing us on the ignorance of christians
Thomas Aquinas gives a logical proof for the existance of God (among other things). It is brilliant. Please give it a read (again, the abridged version---the unabridged one goes to multiple volumes)
Im quite sure that question has been answered quite often by priests, anthropologists, historians, psychologists, and educators (at least in the dark ages).
For me it was a combination of personal experience and (disputably) common sense. Its hard to explain the perfection of nature otherwise, isnt it?
If things turned out randomly then there would be as many "perfections" as "imperfections".
But I seem to find a lot more useful features than flaws.
Even the most minute features seem to have a function, from fingernails to thumbs, to the presence of two eyes as opposed to just one, the skin on the palms of your hands.
Im no scientist, but nowhere else have I seen order form out of chaos without some kind of intelligence behind it.