JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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Theophilus
"Or rather, what important questions are you not asking. If 'The problem with evolution is in essence you believe that something comes from nothing' and that therefore there must be a 'grand Creator or "Master Designer"', - where did the grand Creator come from? Nothing? How can belief that some omnipotent, omniscient master being was 'always there' or just popped out of nothing, be a 'more reasonable response' than surmising that the original bunch of chaotic molecules was 'always there' or just popped out of nothing and over an unimaginable period of time organised themselves merely by obeying the observable laws of science?"
Because the order, majesty, beauty and design of our universe makes a statement of order, such as that it is the design of someone not just random occurences. Just look at where our Earth is located in relation to the sun, if it's orbit were closer or more far off it would not be in a position to support life.
Surmising that the original bunch of chaotic molecules was 'always there' goes well for someone who does not want there to be a God who orchestrated creation. Or for someone who's idea of God does not fit into a man-made set of scientific evaluation data. But the molecules had to come from somewhere, the fact that we have a universe beckons us to ask the question where did it come from. It is a bit of a stretch to try and grasp the infinite with a finite mind don't you think?
Interesting responses...but I am saddened that some of you are looking to science to explain all of life. Can one scientifically explain the depths of the heart? Can science explain the problem of pain and suffering, wars and genocide, hate and love?
Atheism provides no hope, no chance for fulfilling happiness. Just the world as it is now...pain and sorrow and then in the end, nothing. The bible offers hope and promises fulfilled, it offers eternal life in Christ Jesus. It offeres freedom from the power of Sin (Sin if you look into can explain the problems and stuggles of life). Most importantly it offers you ultimate satisfaction in the search for lasting joy, all other happiness fades, but the God of the Bible offers everlasting peace and increasing joy in God's presence.
I know that some of you may just disregard this or call it out as a "fallacy," but for others I ask that you at least look into what the Bible has to say as well as research both sides of the creation/evolution debate.
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Theophilus
Just the Facts:
"Incorrect. Complex life forms develope from simple molecules over a very long period of time." Can you tell me where the molecules came from then?
"Incorrect. Time and matter are inextricably linked. Neither existed before the other." Did Time and matter have a beginning?
YangYong: "You are responding to an 'end product' you see what you see now and stand in wonder, you're asking the wrong questions, concluding without process as to what brought us here." Please expand, what wrong questions am I asking?
"There is no designer." Really!? I guess you are the first person I've met to have absolute knowledge about all of existence. That is a self-refuting statement my friend. I'm sorry but you don't have the knowledge of tomorrow or every instance of the past. You cannot know with absolute certainty whether you will still be alive tomorrow night or live for the next five decades.
"There is no life after death, no god and the onus, now believe this, is on you to prove otherwise." So would you say you are 100% confident in the fact that you believe there is no God? There is not a single doubt buried within your conscience (if you claim to have one)?
"Can omniscient god, who knows the future, find the omnipotence to change their future mind?" Why would he have to? A Sovereign being who can forsee the future can tailor every single nano second as we experience it in time to occur just as it will be.
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Theophilus
The problem with evolution is in essence you believe that something comes from nothing. Something comes from nothing. The question is, can we really conceive an idea of nothing? We may think of the darkness of space, or the inside of a pressuriezed vacumme, but still matter is present when we think of that. The human mind is only capable of envisioning creating something from something, not nothing. No mere person has ever created something from nothing. It becomes a statistical fallacy to try and prove matter just appeared in time and then evolved into the existence we know of as today. Evolution allows for more wishful thinking than most people would like to admit. The belief in a grand Creator or "Master Designer" of our universe offers a more reasonable response to this world than one might initially think.
It also stands that to make an absolute statement such as "There is no life after death, or there is no God" means that the person making it would have to have absolute knowledge. And I don't know of anyone who claims to know everything about every square inch of our cosmos. It is a self-defeating statement.
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