Why is it so hard to comprehend?

by Devon Bate

Mr. Delucci:

I feel the need to respond to some of the things said in the previous discussion article, although I can tell your mind will remain quite unchanged. I will be brief with my ideas. For one, you seem to have a hard time dealing with concepts you can’t directly experience (strange, coming from a believer in God). “Time… lots and lots of time” Why is it so hard to comprehend? It seems that it is hard for many. This is probably because we as humans are born within our own realities. We have finite ‘time’. ‘Time’, for us, is minutes, hours, days, years. It has beginnings and ends; hours start and finish, we live and die. But we have to remember that WE did not create science! Just because WE have finite lives does not mean that everything else is finite. No ends or beginnings of the universe is just as plausible as an idea of God. They are both concepts, as they are both beyond our direct comprehension. Hours and days are not ‘time’, they are measurements man have created so our lives can be more organized. So, the idea of time not having a beginning and end can be completely probable.

Your arguments, Mr. Delucci, are showing signs of serious lack of scientific knowledge. “When does it decide that a horse of 20 cm. high cannot survive then proceeds to evolve an animal a 100 times the size?” When the 20 cm. die out because of their physical attributes, and the larger born horses live more often then the smaller ones, thus larger horses are slowly created. These are very simple concepts, simple enough to be thought of through logic and reason, never mind scientific evidence.

The way you are coming to your arguments and conclusions is very similar to that of conspiracy theories. The lack of information. A couple thousand years ago you can ask a majority of the population how man was created, and they’ll say simply the story of Genesis. It was probably a reality. Now that we have a greater knowledge of how species are created, Christians have had to assume much of the bible is simply metaphorical. Mr. Delucci, you are using the unexplained parts of science and filling in the gaps with God. Be careful, those gaps are getting smaller and smaller all the time. Many of your arguments today will be irrelevant a hundred years from now. God fills in the missing puzzle pieces of our knowledge of the world. Surely you must realize that this is not too far from the truth.

Please reply. I want to learn, not win an argument.