So invent your own. You don’t need God to give you a meaning. As a wise man once said, “If nothing we do matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do.” Find your own purpose in life. The rest of the universe will sort itself out without you.
I can without reservation agree with that statement.
To the OP; With the information currently available to humankind, there is no proof for or against the existence of any gods. If you want to debate theology or philosophy on an intellectual level this is a great place to do it. This message board has a lot of highly intelligent people who can and do debate virtually everything.
However, if you’re trying to give your life meaning (whatever that means to you) by arguing over if there is a god or not, I suggest you get yourself some therapy. That therapy can come from a shrink, a clergy member of your prefered religion or as John says above get laid. Your life has whatever meaning, purpose and point that you assign to it.
I didn’t realize John Mace swung that way.
I’m sure there is a lot about him that you don’t know.
(Brat, you know exactly what I was saying) 
Procreation. We’re all here just so our chromosome can keep dividing. That’s it. Enjoy it while you can!
Uh, that would be chromosomeS, I used to work in a genetics lab for goodness sake!
OMG! Did I just catch the gay??? I knew I shouldn’t have been hanging around such a liberal MB.
IANA doctor, but I think the correct medical terminology is teh gay.
Yea, sorry about that. But I really needed another convert to keep up my subscription. They don’t send copies of The Gay Agenda™ to just anyone you know.
Good catch. I’ll be more careful next time.
No. It isn’t. :rolleyes:
Try this one:
- Life begins at 40.
- Therefore we are all unborn children until we reach 40.
- Since children are not mature enough to vote, nobody under the age of 40 should be allowed to vote.
- Or drive a car.
- Or have sex.
Therefore why did God make puberty happen before 40? Can God count?
Here is the real truth about God:
- The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
- Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
- The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’ "‘But,’ says Man, ‘The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’ ‘Oh dear,’ says God, 'I hadn’t thought of that, and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
That I can tell, the OP argument is just a overly worded version of, “If God created the Universe, who created God?” It just hopes that somehow by adding in enough words, it will make that come out as a proof that there isn’t a God nor some Pantheon.
The only flaw in that is that I’ve been told by good sources that 50 is the new 40. So it would seem that you need to add 10 years to your calculations.
Please be careful in zebra crossings.
But newborns can’t vote, or drive, or have sex. Under this scheme, I’ve got only one more year left before I’m old enough to be propositioned by Republican Congressmen. Cool!
You are here through no choosing of your own. You have an innate will to survive and you can’t do anything about that, at least as long as you are rational. Try to make a career in something you like to do. Be as happy as you can be without messing things up for others.
I think depending upon any outside agency to give a point to your life is a mistake. If you make your own point you stand a much smaller chance of being let down.
Logically in an infinite universe anything that can exist does exist including an omniscient God whos knowledge of all good and evil would mean that God is not wholly good,is not the most powerful but THE power that keeps the universe existing day by day via the physical laws, but no creation date as it has existed for ever . As God knows everything in the universe and i`m part of the universe but dont know all that God knows then Pantheism cant be correct ,God must be apart from the universe.I dont know if I really believe this ,its just an excercise in logic.
The 2 problems with that argument are that there is no evidence that God can exist, and he was supposed to come before the universe anyway.
You must be referring to more than the finite, observable universe. How do you know it’s infinite? And even if it was, why is it logical to assume anything that can exist does exist? Couldn’t an infinite universe just as easily be infinitely repetitious?
Assuming an infinite universe where everything that can exist does, you seem to be saying that god is therefor possible. So…
…how does and infinite universe prove the existence of a god that is apart from the universe?
I took a class in college called Philosophy of Religion and the entire semester was built around arguments like this. Most of them argued for the existence of god, but defined god as the sum of one’s experience (which to me is a meaningless definition.) Every assignment in the class was essay-form (2 per week + midterm + final) and therefore graded subjectively. The instructor held these beliefs so strongly that she verbally bullied anyone who disagreed with her in class, and punished anyone who disagreed with her on paper with bad grades.
It was bar none the most frustrating and annoying class I’ve ever taken in my life.