Quote Originally Posted by Ozme52 View Post
I just read A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card.

It's an 'Ender' story and quite nice. Embedded in the midst of the story is a very very cogent perspective of faith with regard to the Bible.

Basically... the central character believes that God had the writers of the bible, men, explain things in a manner mankind could understand within the scope of knowledge at the time.

Now we know more about how the world really works... our understanding of God's works should change accordingly. Imagine... all you really have to believe is that God wrote the code and kick-started our universe. Big Bang. Believe in that and you can probably have faith and science too.
Yeah, I've heard similar concepts. And to be honest I have no quarrel with the idea. My belief, though, is that the universe is cyclical, exploding into being, expanding for billions of years, then slowly contracting back into the cosmic egg before exploding once again. If you can live with the concept that God is eternal, why can't the universe be eternal?

Either way, unless you intend to ride out the end of the universe and step into the next one (see "Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson) I don't think there's any way to prove either point of view. Certainly not with our present scientific knowledge.