Barry Lyons
1 min readJun 28, 2019

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I’ll be brief.

My only point about creation is that the Bible and its dedicated readers assert the claim that the Universe and everything in it was created by a Celestial Being. There is no evidence for this.

As for the Big Bang, nobody can explain what happened there, whether it was the beginning of something or, as I said, a change of state. Also, no evidence that any Unseen Being was behind this “event.”

Yes, our ability to understand things is indeed limited — or perhaps limited (for some subjects). Colin McGinn argues in his accessible book about consciousness, The Mysterious Flame (I reviewed it years ago for a now-defunct British publication), that we will never get to the bottom of this vexing mystery because humans are simply ill-equipped to do so. The book is good. Check it out.

Nobody has never turned water into wine. I don’t care if your name is Jesus, Joseph, Moe, Larry, or Shemp. It cannot be done and can never be done because the world does not work in any abracadabra way. The belief that a certain individual did turn water into wine is pure fiction, a story, and nothing more. “It was a miracle” is never an acceptable answer for this or any other alleged super-natural event (deliberate hyphen for emphasis).

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Barry Lyons
Barry Lyons

Written by Barry Lyons

Lives in New York City, owns too many books and CDs. But then again, there's no such thing as "too many" books and CDs.

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