[Falcon]

meh, pm me. i'll give you my best shots at answers.

as far as i understand your questions, being a christian myself, i answer them with faith, which is a questionable answer in itself. before heaven and earth, God was. God was not created, he just is. your explanation that God is not confined to this universe or our laws and therefore could be eternal. as i've always had it explained to me, God was, is, and always will be, kindof like a seemless ring, no beginning and no end. in this sense, i truly dont believe that the human mind can comprehend infinity.

to be honest, unless you take alot on faith (which i see as the only answer, seeing that science has no explanation and considering that thats what i base many of my arguments on) you will think what i just said is complete crap. if you have a better explanation, throw it at me.

jewpin... edit this if you need to, and pm me if you want.

edit for 87x: i wish i had answers to all of your questions. as far as why humans are frail, i would blame (according to the bible) the fall of man in the garden of eden. all was perfect before then, and it just got worse afterwards. also... i wish i were taking hebrew so i could tell you exactly what the hebrew means by "image", because i suspect that it means in his appearance... because if we were just like him we would be gods ourselves (as the mormons believe we will become). as far as the animals, i dont know exactly. why have animals gone extinct? well, for a vast majority of the animals that have gone extinct you could blame humans. deforestation, overpredation, all that good stuff. the dinosaurs? i dont know. as far as the two stomachs thing, the appendix in humans and all of that jazz, all i can say is that microevolution obviously takes place. its obvious as you look at the minor changes that happen in different generations of certain species, darwins finches for example. perhaps those stomachs in the dolphins were initially used, and became unneeded. why didnt God make them that way to begin with? well, i would say because conditions have changed over the years and generations of dolphins. the amount of food has changed, the amount of food needed to sustain their metabolism has changed, i dont know. thats my best guess. like i said, to be a religious person you have to take a good deal on faith. however, to not be a religious person, you have to take a great deal more on faith. believing abstract ideas of science, or not believing anything at all. though 87x may take no comfort from it, i take a great deal of comfort knowing that if i die and i'm right, i'm goin to heaven, and if i'm wrong, then i'll die nonetheless and i will have lived a happier life because i had religion to bank on when nothing else was there for me. as far as the bible, its true. i'll tell you my justifications later, if anyone wants to know. i'm goin to bed now. i'm hopin for some good responses by sometime tomorrow... peace.