@indonesia-phil said
I may be the only one who is 'fixated' on taking snakes, but you're the only one here that believes in them. (Unless anyone else here wishes to come forward) Anyway it's not so much a fixation as a fascination that anyone actually believes that snakes can talk. It's a cornerstone of your religious beliefs; if snakes can't talk then your whole belief about the origin of ...[text shortened]... rying, by scientific method, to understand the great mysteries of life, the universe and everything.
The snake isn't the cornerstone of my belief system or worldview, God created the
universe out of nothing is, and with that comes all the other things like virgin birth,
people rising from the dead, fire being called down from heaven, the blind healed,
the lame walking, good, evil, the universe as it is. Everything follows from that what
does mean to be human, righteousness, justice, love, hate.
At the beginning of your worldview, its cornerstone is based on, "I don't know" or
do you have something you can point to? At the beginning of your worldview
does it have an explanation for carbon and everything else in the universe,
material and immaterial?
I don't know how old the universe is, I couldn't prove it one way or another with
scripture or scientific means, so it is unimportant to me, it doesn't matter. You find
the question a show stopper, I find the question completely irrelevant. If what is
proposed with or without a lot of time cannot happen why would we concern
ourselves with something that cannot be proven and only dismisses part of one
side of the questions.
You are deceiving yourself, you have not gone over scientific methods that explain
the beginning, neither have you proposed anything that can be proven with
respect to a mechanism that promotes evolutionary processes in life this is your
talking snake, we don't know how it happened it's a mystery we just believe it did.
The scientific method is a method testing repeatable results, always looking for
the best possible explanation against competing hypotheses, and you don't have
anything that can be proven through testing and repeatable results that show a
mindless process did anything, at best, you can show with even with the best
efforts with scientist intervention finding specific things added and timed in the
processes by design that the things that have life starting are still beyond us, so
you have faith, blind faith with nothing to support it on the universe and life's
beginning, how life could possibly do what you think with evolution without it
being properly designed to do it. So it is you not me that rejects anything that
doesn't fit your beliefs, not looking at reality as is, only viewing the way you
believe it to be, your illusion.
I was not born a Christian that didn't happen to me until I was 25, I'm 66 now so
it wasn't part of my upbringing. I'm not the one who is pushing things beyond the
reality of what is, that would be you.