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Take it by Faith or Take Aspirin
It can be shown through reason, logic, philosophy and science that the Design theory is the most plausible theory and almost 100% accurate. It can also be shown through reason, logic, and science that Jesus was born, had an earthly ministry, died on a roman cross, and even was resurrected on the third day. Any thing that is actually true can be shown. In theory.
In practice, it doesn't happen, because, even with all of these theories and even with all of our evidences, it still takes faith to believe or disbelieve what others tell us and we ourselves have not experienced first-hand with our own senses. It takes faith to believe ANYTHING anyone else tells you without demonstrating for you in your presence how this is true
I know that fire exists, that airplanes fly, that the law of gravity is real, and that the laws of thermodynamics are fairly accurate for my teachers were all able to demonstrate these for me, on the most part. My parents taught me how to build a fire, I flew in an airplane, my science teachers dropped balls off the top of the bleachers and proved firmly that the laws of gravity are always obeyed, and if you rub a balloon against your shirt, it sticks to the wall. They can't prove that evolution exists, or creationism, that the world is older than the oldest person I have ever met, or really any older than I am (I wasn't there, so how do I know the world didn't pooth into existence the moment I was born? I don't even remember being born, so how do I know I was?) and they haven't empirically proved genetics to me, either, for I have never seen any of the experiments done. How do I know the history books and the science books are telling the truth, if I have never seen those things first-hand? How do I know things were ever any other way than they are now? How do I know there is really a place called "Vietnam" or "Italy” or "Panama" or "Australia" or "Taiwan" or Europe" or "Asia" or "Africa" or "Antarctica", I have never been to any of these places. For that matter, how do I know there is such a place as "California" or "Florida" or "Georgia" or "Kansas” or "Arizona" or even "Pennsylvania" or "Illinois"?
There was a philosopher who came to a famous conclusion at the end of all this headache thoughts. He decided there was only one thing he could be sure of that was actually true: that these thoughts were being thought, and that means someone is thinking them, so he concluded, "I think, therefore, I am." He eventually took that conclusion's implications to the point where he was able to conclude through sheer reason that God exists :-)
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Have I given anyone a headache yet? A little nervous? Scared, even? You should be.
It is no wonder, then, that Paul wrote in 2 Cor. 5:7 (KJV), "For we walk by faith and not by sight."