13 Questions

[Rev. Rye]

1. What evidence would convince you of God’s existence?
Here's a website that explains it in better detail than I can. Of course, what would make me want to worship him and not become a part of the resistance against him would be an entirely different matter.

2. You see the words, “I love you” written in the sand at the beach. Is this man-made? If so, how do you know?
Odds are, it would be. I can surmise this because it seems like humans are the only creatures who would know to understand language to such a degree as to write entire phrases in the sand.

3. If the God of the Bible were real, would He set the rules or would man set the rules?
Both would set rules. As it is in the real world, just whose rules would be followed would be determined by each individual. Notice that this is not a statement of what I think should be, but what I see in the world all the time.

4. Do moral laws exist? If so, do they exist independent of humans? How do you know what they are?
They certainly do exist. We create them all the time. Whether or not they exist outside of humans, I doubt it. We can get a clue as to what they are because they lead to the species surviving.

5. If everyone on earth believed that rape were morally right, would it still be morally wrong?
If everybody but you believed it, you wouldn't have a leg to stand on to defend yourself.

6. What is the most dangerous religion on Earth?
I would say that it's a tie between Islam and Christianity.

7. Where did the laws of logic come from?
People who actually bothered to listen to what people say and realise how full of shit they are.

8. How did non-rational events and processes lead to a rational human mind?
You'd be very surprised.

9. Why do some atheists such as Carl Wieland and Alister McGrath become Christians?
Why do some Christians such as George Carlin and Julia Sweeney become Atheists?

10. How do beliefs and thoughts differ?
Thoughts are smaller ephemeral experiences that can accumulate into beliefs, among other possible gatherings of thoughts.

11. Do you believe that God does not exist?
The correct way to phrase it would be "Do you not believe that God exists?" And in that case, no.

12. Do you think that God does not exist?
Ibid.

13. How do you think life began on Earth?
I'll leave that question to scientists who are actually trying to answer that question instead of saying "Magic Man Done It."