Quote Originally Posted by wmrs2 View Post
Well said Euryeia. To a cave man fire is a miracle. A greater miracle is that the cave man understands by rubbing sticks together fire is made. Knowing what to do with the fire is even a greater miracle. Understanding the scientific method is also a miracle. Finding faith is God is a miracle. Knowing how to make man's situation better by using God is a greater miracle. The amount of evil in the world does not mean we should not believe in God. It does mean we need to use God better just like the cave man learned to cook food with fire and warm himself. Let's do that with God. Let's use him better, as He is a process and the way. To not believe in God because everything does not go our way may not be real smart.
Actually, evil in the world is proof that God doesn't exist according to Christian doctrine. The Theodicy Paradox, is in a mathematical sense a real paradox, ie the basic theory is flawed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy

There are many many more Christian paradoxes. All pose real problems. What the Catholic church has traditionally done is ignore them. Thomas Aquinas penned them all down and hoped future Christian researchers would solve them. This has yet to happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas

To be Christian today you have to either reject the accuracy of the Bible or reject logic as a valid system to solve problems. I'm not trying to be cheeky or nasty to Christians now. These are real problems for Christianity which they've been struggling with since Constantin decided that Christian faith was a matter for the state and not a question of personal conviction. This is when he ordered the compilation of the Vulgate Bible. Which is the most popular Christian Bible today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate_Bible

Another solution is to read the Bible liberally. But then you'll have the next problem. What is your opinion, and what is the message from God? But the original New Testament was just a bunch of lose pages and articles, so that is going back to the roots. But it'll be very hard to track all of them down. It also makes it very hard to tell what God wants.

These are all extremely hard problems to solve. And need to be solved for the Christian scientific theories to work even hypothetically.