What do those events have to prove it was from God or that God exists? They were all humans, and wrote their beliefs just as you do, and it proves nothing about a creator god.
You do know that Jesus is quoted as saying the world would end in that generation? If it had happened, there would be no world now.
We cannot state in truth that the writings of any Prophets were a fact, or that much is after the fact, the people who wrote the Bible seems to be using those things to keep a person in fear or guilt, which many religions still do. And I cannot find anything of what you call evidence as such, just your belief that it is so!
You surely have the right to your beliefs, just as years ago people believed the world was flat. But you prove nothing(as I stated before) just that you have your own religion and have the right to follow your beliefs as long as they bring no harm to others. You seem, at least to me, that you are the only one with the truth, but truth can be proven, and you do not prove anything. Because you believe it is true doesn’t make it so, anymore than people used to believe there was life on Mars. I feel if your beliefs make you a better person, that is your right but you have given no proof of any of your statements. Just your way of looking at things.
What majority are you referring to? You admit you walk alone…what does that say about you? You are the Majority of one!!!
I have proved it to myself, why then should I worry about what you seem to think I cannot prove? And I don’t have a religion, you keep saying I have a religion; what is my religion? Since your giving me religion, what is the religion?
It really amazes me that people can live on a planet specifically designed for humans to live on, with a whole planet designed to survive , with a Sun to keep us warm- which if our planet was any closer to it, we would burn up, any further away we would be frozen; A planet rotating on its axis, which will automatically burn up anything entering its atmosphere;it just becomes insulting when people try to teach in schools that all that just " Happened to bring about itself."
So, tell me. Do you enjoy the houses that are built into the ground out of solid rock that we live in? Do you enjoy the cows that run up to you with sizzling meats ready to be eaten right there?
Or…wait. We have to build ourselves a shelter or die from exposure in many areas. We have to cook meat because raw meat can give us horrible diseases that most carnivores don’t have our level of susceptibility to.
Since other animals have to do similar things to survive (polar bears build a “den” or what could be considered a house in the snow for the winter, as an example) is the earth specifically designed for them, too?
This doesn’t seem to be “designed” for us. it seems like we, as a species, have built atop what was provided.
And it was God who provided it, it did not provide itself, and that is what Theist are saying. You can’t rob credentials of creation. It would make absolutely no sense whatever if someone of reason looked at this earth right now, all the houses and buildings, all the cities and monuments , and try and claim all that built itself and take the credit away from man. Just because they did not believe in man; conversely, its no different than looking at all the great things that God has built, but just because you don’t believe in him, you claim that the universe built itself. That " It grew out from nothing."
I believe in God. However, I don’t credit everything I see to Him. The natural world is a beauteous wonder. But the plants grew that way. He isn’t a cosmic bonzai gardener, that I can tell, and doesn’t seem to be personally pruning each and every bush to look a certain way (which is different for every single bush).
Shakespeare was not a scientist - Did you read the ‘Modern Physics’ part of your link?
From a scientific/physicist standpoint - ‘nothing’ does not exist - hows that for a conundrum to think about?
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[QUOTE=Much Ado about Nothing | Scientific American]
Nothing is unstable. In his new book, A Universe from Nothing, cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss attempts to link quantum physics to Einstein’s general theory of relativity to explain the origin of a universe from nothing: **“In quantum gravity, universes can, and indeed always will, spontaneously appear from nothing. **Such universes need not be empty, but can have matter and radiation in them, as long as the total energy, including the negative energy associated with gravity [balancing the positive energy of matter], is zero.” Furthermore, “for the closed universes that might be created through such mechanisms to last for longer than infinitesimal times, something like inflation is necessary.” Observations show that the universe is in fact flat (there is just enough matter to slow its expansion but not to halt it), has zero total energy and underwent rapid inflation, or expansion, soon after the big bang, as described by inflationary cosmology. Krauss concludes: “Quantum gravity not only appears to allow universes to be created from nothing—meaning … absence of space and time—it may require them. ‘Nothing’—in this case no space, no time, no anything!—is unstable.”
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It terrifies me that you consider me a light of reason compared to other posters in this thread.
You can believe whatever you want, but this probably isn’t the best forum for proselytizing. If you can’t provide evidence of your God actually being the bonzai gardener, then you aren’t going to do anything but make yourself more frustrated.
I am not frustrated now; and I am not proselytizing, at least 93% of all my post in this thread have been responses to others or answers of questions; know the thread.
The road to atheism often starts with skepticism in hell. Once that piece of dogma chips off the ole block, it doesn’t take much for all the whole thing to erode away.
Nahhh; I view Atheist just like I view Christians; I respect the choices they have made, but its just not for me. I cannot see living life without a belief in God, and I cannot see living it with a distorted view of God.