RE: How do I get over that "feeling" that god exists?
April 21, 2015 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2015 at 3:52 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 20, 2015 at 1:00 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: Belief in God (theism) isn't a religion. Its an opinion we owe our existence to a personal agent who purposely created the universe and caused humans to exist. There is no religious connotation but it does have philosophical ramifications. For instance it gives reason to believe humans are special and created equal as opposed to the idea humans are the untended by product of the laws of physics and thus our existence is an accident.
There are at least 200 billion galaxies, each with at least 100 billion stars. So far, astronomers have discovered almost 2000 planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy just in our 'neighborhood', about 22% of them are in the habitable zone.
The same molecules that are part of life on Earth, seem to be elsewhere in the universe. The same laws of physics and chemistry are the same elsewhere in the universe.
It is almost a certainty that other intelligent life exists in the universe. We are not special, we are not some pinnacle of 'creation', nor are we an 'accident' in the way you use the term.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.