I have no idea. But then again you have no idea either. Rene DeCartes thought of God as the ultimate hedge. He believed but only because if he believed, he benefitted most. He figured if he didn't believe and God turned out to be real, he'd get screwed in the end, so he believed because basically it was in his best interest. Now i'm sure that is the SOLE reason many people still believe in God. They don't want to be punished in the end. I personally find it interesting that people place their beliefs in books written well over 2 thousand years ago. The world was a very different place then, and there was little in the way of actual knowledge. When someone didn't know something back then, they asked their religious leader (some still do today), and when HE didn't know, what do you think happened, God told him if little Susie should be traded to the Joneses in the next town for 3 calf? You guessed it, he made it up. Now, when they asked him why we are all here, do you think he said we are here to reproduce and follow our primal instincts in a socially responsible way in a complex societal system? Or was his answer, the mysterious GOD that no one has ever seen or heard loves us and wants us to enjoy our everlasting soul? Thats right, when the priest of an ancient tribe/city didn't know something, his answer was GOD. I know that God was a substitute for knowledge in the ancient world. I also know that the only reason Cristians did not lose their religion sooner was for the imperialistic practices of the Roman Catholic Religion from the twelfth to sixteenth century. After the Church stopped killing everyone that didn't believe, some people started not believing. I also know Darwinism indirectly fueled atheism. I also know Darwin was a devout Cristian. I thing I do know though, is the more answers I get to the questions I used to have, the more questions I seem to have, because we currently can not explain EVERYTHING, and that little grain of sand I don't know weighs a ton in my mind. Ignorance is bliss sometimes! MUChris
I don't know the law of thermodynamics. However, evolution makes total sense. Its based on survival of the fittest (system, organism, whatever). What's so hard to understand about that?
Aphexcoil uses a common theist attack on evolution. However, its been shredded in the past. If you really want to know why the law of thermodynamics does not interfere with evolution, read this: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/thermo/probability.html peace axeman
an "experience?" Are you writing us from death row now (or are you referring to some of your pals on death row)?
That site is a load of shit. I know about local entropy systems and how the sun adds energy to the earth, thus creating a system which is partially closed. However, lets take a look at the big picture and examine how the universe started out with a huge explosion and now we have nice neat little structures consisting of cars, airplanes, people, twinkies, Intel Inside, etc .... So, when was the last time you saw a tornado rip through a junk-yard and create a perfectly flyable 747? You atheists are all shot up and filled with holes, and your poor arguements are leaking out and going down into the sewers. Nice try, but come again.
First, it's not about PC. It's about whether you will "excuse" someone to believe in God or not. Secondly, there is no straw man here, because I am not using this argument to suggest that God can, cannot, must or must not exist. So where the hell do you keep pulling these claims of non-existent fallacies from (nevermind, I probably don't want to know).
Lucy is old stuff. There have been so many bigger discoveries in the last several (last few for that matter) years.