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• Your failure to comprehend how something as awesome as the human body could arise naturally doesn't mean it couldn't have. Also, how do you know that a creator chose for us to evolve?
• Nobody is saying there was nothing and then, suddenly, a sophisticated system popped into existence. Life has evolved from the incredibly simple to the awesomely complex. This gradual process is quite probable, as the evidence (like the fossil and genetic record) suggests. And believing in the God answer, without evidence, I think is unreasonable.
• How would we know if he/she was maintaining us or not? Would it ever be possible for us to know?
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  What makes you think that what is described in Genesis is factual? Is there any specific evidence you have that makes this particular narrative accurate? What makes it more accurate than other religions' ideas on the origin of the universe? You must realize that other religions have their own evidence in favour of their creation accounts; what is it that makes your belief true and their's false? Do you have something more substantive in arguing the truth of your position, rather than your own personal faith?
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  Yes, but, just as clarification, the Big Bang is part of cosmology, not the theory of evolution. I hate it when creationists conflate the Big Bang with biological evolution, so I just had to clear this up. :)
• The Bible is just as much a history as Hesiod's Theogony.
• How so?
• Please look up the definition of a scientific theory. I mean, seriously. Not only has it been posted on this thread a number of times, but scientists clarify it time and time again.
• Maybe the Universe always was, in some form or another. The Big Bang was just the origin of the universe we find ourselves in today.
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  I see you've read some of Michael Cremo's works, the Hindu creationist. Remember that he does cherry-pick data in his books, and often uses outdated source material.
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  The problem with the original question is that the Big Bang theory does not describe the origin of the universe. It describes the early development of the universe after an initial origin or what have you. Also, the Big Bang probably didn't begin from nothing. Anyone who tells you that the Big Bang arose from nothing is lying to you.
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  This is the trouble with trying to explain your position to these close-minded religious people; in one ear, out the other.