RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
October 18, 2013 at 9:00 am
(October 18, 2013 at 8:30 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: You could believe in God if you wanted but simply don't want to do it. Unless you're saying you don't have the option?I don't have the option. Most religious ideas are so patently ridiculous, not to mention repugnant, that I couldn't believe in them if you held a gun to my head. You probably simply could not believe that an angel buried golden tablets in New York and led Joseph Smith to them, no matter what I threatened you with. You could try, but you'd fail.
The weak notions of god are easier to swallow, but they're so weak that there's no reason to consider them (God is just the love between people!).
This doesn't mean that evidence could not one day be provided that would compel me to believe- but none has ever been provided. And if it were provided, it wouldn't change me much other than getting me to believe.