Originally Posted by: magicninjaI won't say religion is bad because it's not. It was established when people became civilized to try to explain the things we didn't know and to accomadate for keeping people in line. Things that still hold true today. Can God save someone? Yes, he most certainly can. A heroin addict can turn to God and use him to get clean. It's happened before and will most certainly happen again. The thing is that it was the persons way of thinking and not God that got him out of the deep water. Can some credit go to "God" sure I guess. That's what I like about religion it helps people help themselves. Unfortunatly you have the people with "My God is better than yours" syndrome and it detracts from what religion is supposed to be about. Right now I don't need any God's help. I'm doing fine on my own. Furthermore I find it impossible to believe that A) All humanity sprung from two beings. B)People used to live for 900 years C) alot of other nonsense in the Bible. If they could have left out some of the impossible madness that was written in there I'd be more accepting but it was just stuff to scare or amaze the uneducated people of 2000 years ago. I don't believe there ever was a God. At least not one who cares how any of us live our life. I will always believe that when I die I'll wake up as another being oblivious to the fact that I was ever who I am now. That's all. Thank you. Have a nice day.

Ok, heres our 2 options. All humanity sprung from 2 human beings, reproduced, and their offspring reproduced or everything started from a primordial soup where single celled organisms formed and evolved, defied the laws of physics, and encoutered the most coincidal conditions ever to occur in nature. Now, you pick which one would actually make more sense. Theres a reason that they cant find a legitimate explaination for a scientific way life formed---because it didnt happen scientifically.

Theres good explaination in why humans could live for such long periods of time. The pre-flood atmosphere was different with higher levels of oxygen and more abundant nutrients and such, but I wont bore you with the description of the canopy theory that this is based on.

Youre right, God has given us the freedom of choice. He gives us the gift of life and the freedom to do things as we want. I dont believe my every action is controlled by God, and Im proud of myself when I work hard and do something on my own. I thank him for the ability to be able to do it, but its still result of my hard work and discipline.