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Sadly, what you think represents nothing in terms of a "scientific standpoint". There simply isn't an approach to proving or disproving a god. The problem is simply too big to operationalize. However, this doesn't mean that it will never be possible to prove the existence of a god. Which is why it is arrogant to assume full-on existence or complete non-existence. You can believe and have faith, but this doesn't make it so.
This thread is informational, yet very creepy.
True, but there's a difference between bruising and inescapable tragedy. A mother would do her best to stop the child from wandering into oncoming traffic. Free will only goes so far as to provide the vices that we choose. No one asks for cancer or poverty. And if such things are a means of God teaching us something about life, it's simply that he has very little stake in it as a whole. I would even go so far as to argue that he has a very limited concept of it.
And I interject that free will, the object that led to the "fall of man" and all his vices, was created by God. Really, now it's an issue of whether or not God is as capable as we give him credit for, whether he even cares about us, let alone if he's even aware of our existence. Of course this all operates under the assumption that we were created with intention, and furthermore assumption that it was God that created us to begin with.
You'd only be fooling yourself if both didn't matter in some (equal) respect. You can't seriously feel that having an interesting conversation is enough to fuel a relationship where you're not at least partially physically attracted to the person.
Every religion claims that they can spit farther than all the others. When everyone's saying the same thing it's almost impossible for all of them to actually be right.
Please see my previous post.
You're on the slow end of the irony curve, aren't you?
Nothing is ever fully explained by modern science. If it was, there'd be no need to continue research. Furthermore, what I was getting at was that you're operating under the assumptions that (a) that the Big Bang and God are associated, and (b) that both God and the Big Bang were purposeful in their actions. It's perfectly possible that the Big Bang was simply the Big Bang and that there was no God to begin with. The Big Bang alone can be considered a high enough power to be the sole creator of all existence in the universe. Additionally, there's nothing to say that either the Big Bang or God were purposeful in the act of creating life. Who's to say that either "knew" what they were doing, or cared about the aftermath.
The existence of a god is only supported by faith, and you can't quantify, measure, or examine it. Faith proves nothing; what you believe is what you believe. Citing all your happy, lovey-dovey ideas about how miracles continue to exist is just a foolish way of trying to make sense of the probability and chance of the universe. It's okay to have faith and believe, but don't assume something has intervened on part of your puny, insignificant life. Furthermore, what, if any, real difference is there between a god and the Big Bang?
The beauty about having language is being able to express how we feel in more than one way. Swearing is simply one of those ways. But there's a time and place. Stop crying because you had potty mouth in front of a teacher.
And only the fool thinks wearing wise men's clothing makes him so...
Time fixes and re-envisions all. The older you get the more you'll laugh at this and many more things like it to come.
Belief in God and trust in science does not equal intelligence.
That's all after the fact. God did nothing about Satan so he could send his only son to try and do it for him, only to be killed to save humanity? I'm sure God, being all powerful would've been able to do something about this to begin with. You're trying to rationalize why a seemingly all-powerful being couldn't eliminate something that could be easily removed because he's imperfect. either that or you're calling God lazy. Either way that implies that God is capable of flaw and thus his power over Satan can easily be debated.
Sin is simply an evaluation of our ability to choose what we want in this life; it is a product and interpretation of free will, and by extension created by God who gave us free will As to Pika's earlier, and very long post God is simply a figurative representation or essence of what humans would like to consider as being ethical and good. You could easily have ethics without a god, it's simply that throwing in a deity makes it all the more meaningful to people that want to believe that their actions are doing more than just benefiting their fellow humans. People are selfish that way.
Oh wow. Pity for free will...
It's best that you're emotionaly stable and mature enough tonot **** it up. Don't date children.
I spit on perfection. You can be the best at things though.
