God

[PermanentLapseOfStupidity]

I am still uncertain of which way i should look at this. For example i can think of many possibilities for a god to exist, but none have been proven, or even seen yet, but why not believe it if you can, even if there is a small chance. On the other hand i think about evolution and how there is some proof that life was created from chemical reactions and matter, and may have started along that basic path of construction throughout the universe, but we don't know for sure. Therefore i believe in unlimited possibilities, but as for God i can't seem to believe anything else than the possibility of advanced life forms, which may be the pirates/administrators of the universe, or the first speck of dust, but information is obviously very unknown. What are your thoughts about this, Totse?

[among_the_living]

No God

Evolution

Such advanced organisms can not just "be created" (see rock face analogy)

Fin.

[boozehound420]

there are other poeple that believe there is something beyond the universe that created it, constructed the laws of matter and energy. But the creator doesnt interfere. And the creator should not be worshiped in any way.

I myself dont know. The universe is such a big place we are FARRRR from even having the need to think of that. Maybe if we can travel the universe at will, and have masterd everything there is to know about energy and shit like that. then and only then should we start thinking about whats next

[boozehound420]

"The trouble is that God in this sophisticated, physicist's sense bears no resemblance to the God of the Bible or any other religion."

Richard Dawkins

[B3A5T]

Idk... Im kinda a Deist in these matters, like their could be a god, but all religion is wrong... Religion is simply to explain the unexplainable...

[glutamate antagonist]

There is no God. Unless god is a metaphor for the singularity, or whatever's over the veil of an event horizon.

[ate]

God surely exists. Just not literally.

Life surely comes from nothing. But not literally nothing. Aint that right.

[AngryFemme]

quote:Originally posted by PermanentLapseOfStupidity:

but information is obviously very unknown

On matters that are unknown, keep your mind open to all possibilities. Don't feel ashamed to doubt something that you wrestle with in your head, and don't feel like just because others claim to be "enlightened" that somehow your thoughts or perceptions aren't just as valid as their own.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

[Viraljimmy]

quote:Originally posted by boozehound420:

"The trouble is that God in this sophisticated, physicist's sense bears no resemblance to the God of the Bible or any other religion."

Richard Dawkins

Exactly. Why do they keep calling reality "god"?

[Seriously]

Dawkins was wrong. It does resemble the God of the bible and many other religions.

Examples:

Reality is everywhere, hence omnipresent.

Reality contains all information ever discovered and all that will be discovered, hence it is Allknowing.

If Reality did not exist, we could not exist, hence it is the creator.

Reality presents itself to us in many different ways, hence different 'gods' could just be different aspects of reality. (which is found in Hinduism)

If everything that IS, is made of reality then there is no independantly existing self. (a concept found in Buddhism and Taoism)

If we look at the conflict in the Bible of good versus evil we can compare it to yin/yang (taoism) and to matter versus anti-matter or positive/negative. And so 'God' would be both. An idea found in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhist dieties.

Of course, I'm not trying to put together a serious arguement for my opnion. I'm just making some observations.