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way it did here. carbon is a building block for life on earth. it could be silicon or a completely different element somewhere else.
we don't know the mechanism that 'started' what we think we know as evolution. it could have been random, or it could have been directed by forces which we cannot comprehend, or at least have not been able to detect.
evolution could very well be the mechanism for 'creation'. it almost assuredly did NOT go down literally the way it says in the bible... unless we serve a Loki trickster god who goes burying dinosaur bones all over the place just to mess with our heads.
7 days to God could be billions of years to us. but even if evolution is the mechanism of creation, that still doesn't say WHOSE God. and, as mentioned above, its all circular, and limited by our ability to perceive physical reality and imagine metaphysical reality. if some beings infinitely more complex than us created our whole universe as an experiment, are they 'God'. or is what created them 'God'?
peace & blessings,
x.
"I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all." - Iron Mike
========================================= I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and not having much to show for it. (c) mad
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