cgs1246
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When Jerry asked Dion whether he wanted a salary of 12 million a year, or 24 million, Dion answered "both". As to the question of creation versus evolution, my answer is "both".
We certainly don't know what started this universe. Since everything we know is cause and effect, we find it hard to think that it just started on its own. The same is true of life. Although we are told that the conditions on earth were at one time prime for the origin of simple self-replicating life, we still find it hard to understand how something could just start and then continue to propagate itself, in contrast to all other matter in the universe. There certainly were two creations, the cause of which is unknown to us. If you wish to say these were caused by a god, that's ok. What we don't know is what that god or force is and how it came to be.
To carry those mysteries as to how the universe started and how life started, to claim that this same god force is still now in control, answers to human requests, and manipulates events, if so chosen, outside the laws of physics, defies all our current knowledge of this universe. Everything we now know says that once life began, it has followed natural laws of evolution, choosing over time those life forms most adaptable to the environment at that time. If there was a creator, that creator has been hands off since the beginning of life.
Sure, there were creations. Yes, since those creations, there has been no interference from any creator or god force. We agree with Dion. The answer is "both".
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