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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
August 5, 2014 at 8:49 pm
God is the missing link between our reality and his.
Just like M theory.
Totally unfalsifiable either way.
But you don't see physicists praying to strings and branes.
Physicists might be cooky, buy they're not stupid!
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
August 9, 2014 at 4:32 pm
What were the options again?
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
August 10, 2014 at 3:50 am
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2014 at 3:54 am by robvalue.)
No. Being a logical person, I can only believe in things that I have good evidence for. Belief is not a choice, it's a state of mind, so I cannot choose to believe otherwise, even if I wanted to.
I've yet to see a single piece of evidence for any kind of god.
I've not even heard a definition of a god (in the popular religions) that isn't in some way contradictory, either within itself, to the sacred book in question or to reality. I'm not an expert on every religion, so perhaps some of them have a not-all-powerful god involved. Even so, again, no evidence.
A lot of people seem to use the argument, "You can't know for sure there isn't a god." This comes from the premise that no one can know anything for sure, which is true. But if you are using that to try to make a positive point about something else, you fail, because you are already assuming you can't know anything is true.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
August 10, 2014 at 4:38 am
I can only believe in things that I have good evidence for. Belief is not a choice, it's a state of mind, so I cannot choose to believe otherwise, even if I wanted to.
True dat
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
August 12, 2014 at 12:17 pm
No god. I might be more inclined to think so if the message wasn't so convoluted and the messengers actually practiced what they preached.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
August 12, 2014 at 7:46 pm
"Jesus Christ, I'm doing the best I can!"
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
August 19, 2014 at 5:32 am
I had to vote yes because god is an imaginary concept, just like money. I work for both money and god. But I accept them for what they are. Make believe.
god is supposed to be imaginary