# Does God exist? I guess this answers the question **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 5, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510 "2006-06-05T18:33:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/61 "2006-06-06T14:15:05Z")
Man’s test fails to clarify existence of God- but makes another point for Darwin! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/62 "2006-06-06T14:29:02Z")
[lion]“Hey…! Where’s the Cream Filling…?”[/lion] ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/63 "2006-06-06T17:48:42Z")
The sad thing is that they’re likely going to kill the lion now because this guy was a total moron. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/64 "2006-06-06T18:04:26Z")
> [@bdgr](#): > > To paraphrase Hunter S Thomposn… > > Call upong God, but row away from the lions. I must have missed the memo. I thought Og was God, not Upong. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/65 "2006-06-06T20:17:59Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Warning sign found outside the enclosure: > > Lioness is hungry. > -Nietzsche Below it: Not anymore. –Lionness ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/66 "2006-06-07T00:34:01Z")
You know the old quote, “If horses had gods, their gods would look like horses”? Have you accepted [Sekhmet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekhmet) as your personal lord and savior? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/67 "2006-06-07T01:19:49Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%206:22&version=31](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%206:22&version=31) > > > [@Daniel 6:22](#): > > > > Holy shit! Lions! I take it you didn’t like the verse I quoted, or the way I quoted it, or… Okay, I don’t get it. What’s this about? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/68 "2006-06-07T13:16:05Z")
> [@Mark 16:17-19 (King James Version)](#): > > 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; > > 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Hmmmm… Nothing about lines. He should have tried the reptile house. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/69 "2006-06-07T13:17:11Z")
Or lions, rather. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/70 "2006-06-07T14:31:50Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > Perhaps he should have gone with the Tiger cage. Me, I’d head for the sloth exhibit. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/71 "2006-06-07T14:35:05Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Pittsburgh, one of the worst teams in the majors One of??? How dare you question Pittsburgh’s hold on the cellar!!! Kansas City is due for a hot streak. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/72 "2006-06-07T14:58:20Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Below it: > > Not anymore. > –Lionness I was beginning to wonder if anyone would pick that up and finish it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/73 "2006-06-07T15:23:46Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues OK, so he’s a Flyers Fan then… ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/74 "2006-06-07T22:15:12Z")
Someone on LiveJournal noted he might have reached the wrong [god](http://www.egyptianmyths.net/sekhmet.htm) (ess) :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/75 "2006-06-08T07:00:58Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > I also recently read stories about lighting striking kids [praying around a metal cross in Mexico](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12467604/), and a [woman struck by lightning while praying.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13051123/). God’s on a roll, apparently. Well, that second case sounds a bit like a [Quickening.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickening_%28Highlander%29) I mean, she survived! [http://loom.corante.com/archives/2005/06/05/an\_inordinate\_fondness\_for\_beetle\_horns.php](http://loom.corante.com/archives/2005/06/05/an_inordinate_fondness_for_beetle_horns.php) > [@](#): > > The biologist JBS Haldane was supposedly asked once if he could say anything about God from his study of nature. Haldane replied He must have an inordinate fondness for beetles. > [@](#): > > **Numbers 16** > 28 Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea: 29 If these men die a natural death and experience only what usually happens to men, then the LORD has not sent me. 30 But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, [c] then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.” > > 31 As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart 32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah’s men and all their possessions. 33 They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community. 34 At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!” Yet humans persist in believing that God has a fondness for them. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510/76 "2006-06-08T11:35:07Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Well, that second case sounds a bit like a [Quickening.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickening_%28Highlander%29) I mean, she survived! > Yet humans persist in believing that God has a fondness for them. :rolleyes: And now the untold story. Her prayer went something like this “Oh nonexistent heavenly nothing. I’m pretending to pray to create a false impression of faith because I’m pulling a little scam on these gullible fools who are stupid enough to believe in you and…hey, is that thunder?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-exist-i-guess-this-answers-the-question/359510.md?page=3)