Evidence for God from Science

'If you started with the Bible alone, without considering any outside influences whatsoever, could you ever come up with millions or billions of years of history for the Earth and universe?' The answer from this scholar? 'Absolutely not!' You can't study the Bible effectively with yourself alone. I...

I do both. I'm not saying that prayer doesn't counterract those things either. Buddhism is more of a philosophy than it is a religion. I don't think of it as mixing two faiths.

There's the mindfulness/awareness meditations, and there are meditations to counterract anger if thats what you mean.

"Does it glorify God?"

Yes, I think so. I get in touch with the natural world, which is obviously God's wonderful creation. It absolutely glorifies God.

The mindfulness meditations, and other peaceful aspects of it.

Can a Christian, like myself, practice certain aspects of Buddhism, which in opinion, would not go against anything the Bible teaches?

Thank you. God bless.

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"Sorry zstep, only saw this now. Before we carry on, I want to understand how you define theistic evolution, since there a few schools of thought on it. The primary ones are: 1. God created the basic building blocks at the very beginning, and everything, including the origin of life, followed f...

"You seem to hold to theistic evolution, which has some problems of it's own.."

In what ways does theistic evolution have problems?

"...but for now I would like to understand what you see as the difference between theistic evolution and intelligent design?"

Doesn't intelligent design involve God and nature on much broader scale?

Hello. I'm new here. I have browsed the boards a few times, but this is my first post. I don't understand (in a respectful manner) how some Christians believe that the Earth was created 6,000 or 8,000 years ago. It is in violation of so much science, which does not just include biology. I don't inte...