Faith is a right brain function and Logic is a left brain function so the question do you want to be half brained or not. I chose both faith and logic full brain
Well, i suppose that most herbivores "purpose" is to supply food for carnivores. Hence, by dying. Also, all animals fertilize the earth by what they pass through their bodies. Logic is far more important to me than "faith". The way I see things, logic allows us to solve problems. I don't see "faith" providing anything.
Never had religious faith but in other applications I use it but logic rules my life. We exist for a reason but what that reason is will always be unknown..
I had a pretty religious childhood, private Mennonite school, Bible School, Sunday School. Then into Catholic instruction and babtized Catholic. However, now, I believe in nothing supernatural and have two answers to any question. 1. The answer provided by the best available experimental science and 2. I don’t know.
The definition of "I don't know" is the word "faith". If God created Earth he then created dinosaurs and then destroyed them. Why?
That’s a good but oft asked question @Steven Stanick and anything anyone has to offer in answer to it is merely speculating. For me, I opt for the most popular one which involves the Noahic era flood. Some of the animals that Noah had on board eventually died out once loosed upon the land again. Whole species are still becoming extinct or near extinction and we can also note that there are still fish and animals that have a distinct linage from the time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The evolutionist attitude has nothing to do with God and gives an offering of speculation involving a large meteorite smacking the earth causing a global ice age which the dinosaurs were ill prepared for.
Well, for me it literally means I don’t know, I have no plausible explanation. For me it involves the difference between belief and knowledge. I’ve found myself to be a sort of binary person though, so there is that.
I left that part alone because in a way, Hebrews 11:1 gives the definition of faith as a sort of “I don’t know”. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” For me, because I do have faith, I know just because I know. As the song says, “You ask me how I know He lives…..He lives within my heart”. Faith.
Back when we still believed that gasoline and oil came from the rotting corpses of long-dead dinosaurs, that made sense. God was giving us a fuel supply for the future. However, I don't believe that God controls everything that happens to us or to the dinosaurs. If I step out in front of a truck, I don't expect God to save me, and if people want to hunt animals to extinction, it doesn't seem that God is going to step in. Likewise, asteroids will eventually hit planets but I don't think God is hurling them at us. I think He leaves most things to chance or to human decisions. That doesn't have an adverse effect on my faith because, while I do believe that God is capable of doing whatever He wants to do, I don't expect Him to do so unless it fits some other purpose.
It’s hard to imagine when you see the videos, an entire planet, basically sterile. I remember someone saying this some time ago and it really stuck. “There is other life elsewhere in the universe, or there is not. Either way, it’s incredible.”