This story got me thinking about life after death

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by thorn69

I'm not sure I can agree with evolutionist/big bang types either. Kent Hovind has pretty much discredited them in my opinion. He brings up many good points - especially about how inaccurate carbon dating is.

I don't get involved with the arguments one way or the other. Any good scientist knows that today's pet theory may be tomorrow's joke. That said, I've never seen a conflict between the Bible and evolution, only with the people who insist that Bishop Ussher's timeline has to be taken literally. People who "prove" evolution wrong accept the 'Young Earth' idea without question, even though it has no scientific basis at all. Evolution scientists look a the facts and try to form a theory that best fits them. Intelligent Design believers start with an account they hold sacred and only accept facts that fit. Evolution may or may not be wrong, but I see no reason to put my faith in science that only looks at some of the evidence.

I'm sticking with God and my faith that men and women didn't evolve from monkeys! I have to believe in an afterlife because it's too depressing to not do so. I mean really, who wants to die and just see nothing, hear nothing, be nothing? I guess you really wouldn't be able to say it's bad or good to be like that since you'd really be nothing at all. You just wouldn't exist anymore.

I don't fault you for that a bit. It's good to believe in something, and sometimes I wish I still did. My problem is that no matter how much I may want to, I see no evidence that would lead an impartial observer to conclude that there's a god, much less an after life. I'm not an atheist, as that would require me to actively believe there was no God, and I don't know that either.

But while I'm here and able to think scary thoughts about things like this - it just depresses the hell out of me so I usually don't. Just have to have faith that there's going to be more after life ends. Plus, it's always nice to think about being reunited with lost family and friends.

I would love to have discussions with the great men of history, and see what they think now. Unfortunately I also believe that if the Christians are right, and putting your faith in Jesus is the only salvation, then two of the men I admire most - Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin - are quite likely burning in hell as we speak.

That's what depresses me.