i recently have come to the conclusion that there is NO god. mainly because of the whole evolution, recent happenings in the news, some of the things i've recently learned in school, the most recent episode of the sopranos and just straight up common sense. yes i said i am denying religion with common sense. but anyway i've been thinking about isn't the most likely way we were brought to exist is that certain molecles came together and under the right curcumstances they created life and then from whatever animal it started with it spread and evolved into more and more and the point we are at is just were no more can happen or something i can not explain. i mean really your telling me that one person saw nothing and brought it all together and then just said let there be life. no i don't believe so we can grow an organ out of a single cell why isn't it possible that mollecules didn't form things as ourselves then that bring me to say why can't thier be other peoples \ni'm not done---
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I agree with you.  When you REALLY look at the horrors of tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, epidemics, etc... I don't see how to reconcile it with a "loving" god. As for evolution, 300 years ago, people atributed lightning, earthquakes, infection, miscarriages, adn other stuff to god's will.  Now we know there are physical processes going on that can basically explain these things.  So why hold out for creation of life? We'll probably have even better answers in 50 years and then what?  Wel... god must be still be in the big bang! yeah that's it!  Silly.\n\nAnd why did humans only live on average into their 30's for the past 2,000 years? Now we live to mid-70's (in US).  Because of god?  Or science?  God was pretty important for westerners, the chuch ran just about everything.  But health didn't improve until medicine did.\n\n100 years ago, literally 50% of children died within 1 year.  This is god's perfect creation?  Humans are god's perfect design?  That's funny.
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>>>>No one denies that there is intelligent life outside of\n>>>> earth, so I want to hear about undeniable evidence of\n>>>> contact w/ this planet.\n\nYou do realise this is what is called the fallacy of the undistributed middle? It doens't work that way. \n\nI don't that life exists elsewhere in the universe, nor do I deny that God exists, nor do I deny that reincarnation occurs, nor do I deny the existence of fairies.\n\nThat doesn't mean that I claim to have evidence for any of those things. On the contrary I am firmly convinced that evidence for those things does not exist.\n\nBut absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. So I won't deny those things exist until such time as I have eviddnce that they don't exist. I will instead keep an open mind while operating on the assumption that they dont; exist.\n\nThat's how science works. It doesn't just accept without evidence, nor does it deny without evidence.
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God answers prayers of those people that have gotten right with God and have God first in their heart, Its a relationship. Signs of existance hmmmm how about us and the earth. Or do you think this was an accident, the human body is so complex it cant be just by chance!Have lots of doubts about God, Jesus, or the Bible? Most people who think about this do wonder "How do I know that what the Bible says is true?" At ---, we think that this is an excellent question deserving an excellent answer, and that's what we provide in our "Facts Behind the Faith" seminar. Contrary to what you may have heard, God doesn't ever expect us to have "blind faith." He has always proven what He has said, and He's done that conclusively. The only thing that separates Christianity from every other religion is that it can PROVE what it says to be true. No other religion can. We can prove logically, scientifically, and archaeologically that God must exist, that the Bible is directly from God, that Jesus was God's Son, and even that He rose from the dead. Sound impossible? Then you owe it to yourself to force us to prove it. We guarantee that you'll be amazed at what you learn, and you deserve PROOF. Let us give you some  Go to this site and check out the simnars
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Ok, your question is very interesting and i think many people are thinking that you are jocking or crazy. Ok I will explain you some points:\n\n1.Fracis Crick, co-descovered ot the DNA structure says" The ADN structure could not have evolutioned in the earth in only 300 million of years, is very structured and developed to have been evolutioned in the eart in so short time."\n\n2.Probably the most certain theory about the origin of the life and the species in the earth is the Creation theory. This theory dont have contradictions and is very complete and let us explain everything about the origin of the life in the earth.\n\n3.There are a lot of evidence that the brain from the monk until the brain of the sinhantropus neede 15 million of years, but the brain with the homo sapiens appeared only 1 million of years after. This so Big Jump is impossible and the expert are not agree about what happened.\n\n4. The conlcutio is: We are aliens, because our DNA and our life is not from here, a Super Natural being created us, and this Being is our God. Now from the scriptures we can find many references about this Super Natural Being in the Bible and to him we should to feel respect because he has been with us from the fundation of the world.\n\n5.For this reason I think we are aleins and many reincarnation theories think that we have been in other lives in other planes and here is only one more that the planets where we can learn. For example, The asteroid belt, is considered by some clandestinity groups like a planet that was destroyed between the war between two races that are living in this planet today and they are having the same problems like there. Hopefully the eart will not finish like Traya de Maldek.\n\n6.Many conspiration theories says that the earth have a alien reaces from Z-Reticuli, and they are sharing technology with the American Goverment and it´s probably is a fact, but may be are rummors, the time will show us the true.\n\n7.And Like a Christian I think our Lord Jesus Christ is the most super natural being, our Master and opur Love, our example to Live and may be we will understand everything anbout this world because may be, like a old friend said me one day "The true is a Mirror Broken in thousand Pieces"
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Well, it's actually a lot more "great's" than that.  The first single-celled organism has had a *lot* of time to evolve into us.  And that doesn't rule out the existence of God any more than gravity does.\n\nHere's my counter-question:  what sort of evidence would you accept as proof that we evolved from a single-celled organism?\n\nThere's a lot of evidence -- but what would it take to convince you?
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ima try to keep it simple.. more of a opinion than answer because of the topic which we won't really know.  \n\nIf you study science hard as hell, you will see how a single cell organism lived in the water, long ago.  When they adapted... to survive for food they grew to 'cilia' (hair) on sides to move thu water after only having on hair(flagella).  To get to the point... cells evolved into tadpoles. then to fish and snakes. then to amphibians like frogs or platypus which is land and water.  Then reptiles and mammals that live on land.  Most say the monkey group grew to human when more complex learning/thinking came...but this could be the beginning of man.  Then religion to explain it all.  THe big bang theory states dinosaurs could of died when a meteor hit earth and clogged the atmosphere with dust so bad that no light was here for years.  No grass, no oxygen.  If the bible says... let there be light... could that of been when it cleared up.  The whole point is there is no way to prove anything that will satisfy us wholely.  If i do not have the cross of jesus... they do not believe... if you tell them anything out of the norm... they doubt it. It will all be confusion until enough knowledge satisfies their interest whether they choose science or religion.  THis is all because we are becoming in need of security thru reality and facts relating to our own patterns.  Most people believe the bible for only its relating content to everyday life rather than the miracles, holy spirit, and other great feats not known or seen to man today.  A scientist will help fulfill these questions as well as an interpretor of faith.  It depends if your a theorist. So its a bad thing for a scientist to fail in his field. The unexplained is sorta why we even have religion.  You must stop collecting facts and give faith to the supreme being....because even the single cell organism came from somewhere and the power to adapt/evolve is unexplained. unexplained gives a sense of unsecurity where we "fear what we cant control" (heights, ghost, and other scary sh/it.  we feel we cant control our lives without that being explained, so we fear and act off of that. Hope i covered alot in a lil.  Good luck on the answer! peace out!
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Dear episodes1979,\n\nI am neither fanatical nor ignorant, and, in fact, have done quite a bit of research on what we humans like to call "supernatural" or "miraculous".\nBased on what I know, I can make the certain conclusion that the universe is not merely limited to the existence of human beings.  We are important, but we are such a minute part of the creative force or energy that seems to surround us at all times.  The greatest of scientists and philosophers will tell you that there are far greater things, worlds, ideas, and concepts at work in our world than we can ever imagine.  Certainly, if there was such enormous energy that this whole galaxy evolved, why should it be limited just to animals, plants, and humans?  The main conclusion one can come to is that, yes, there are those beings, spiritual or physical or both, that are among us in different ways and realities.  And yet there are some completely natural phenomena that early uneducated man propagated as something supernatural and now we wonder what it may be.  Ultimately, everything can be explained scientifically or mathematically, even "ghosts" or "aliens". (As a matter of fact, we have come to call them "aliens", but all that it is is just other diverse life forms, some look like us, who have evolved in other galaxies, universes, etc.)  \nIt is not a fact of whether we believe or don't believe, but rather a fact of how open minded and adventurous we remain.  When we are born, nature provides us with a great openness of heart and mind and a great adventurousness for us to develop even more of it.  How sad it is that some would rather stick to the boring, simple concepts of Life as illustrated by the fact that we reason away our natural desire to be open and inquisitive.  I hope that people who read this will get encouraged on their search for truth.  Or for those who prefer otherwise, it is your choice after all and nobody should judge you for it, I hope you will one day truly investigate at least one of those things that seem to be "taboo" in our society to support (other life forms, us as spiritual beings existing in physical bodies, other mystical creatures).  After all, no matter what the truth is, the ultimate truth about our universe will always be there, and you will only get smarter and wiser if you dare to ask the hard questions and heartfully search for answers.
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Actually, all that stuff is too confusing for the average Joe to consider. I think it actually takes more faith to believe all that stuff than it does to believe in creation. Of course, that's just MY take on the whole matter. It's almost like believing a junk yard blew up one day, then came back together to form a cadillac. It's just too much to believe for me. <*)))><
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your right, i actually cant explain it very well. I'm not defensive, i just want you to read this \n\n\nhttp://everystudent.com/features/isthere.html?OVRAW=God%20existence&OVKEY=existence%20of%20god&OVMTC=standard\n\n\nit has overwhelming info that should help you see that there has to be a God, because this world is no accident
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In my evaluation I am of the view that it is extremely unlikely that life originated and evolved on its own through random chance (even if it did evolve, then it is very likely it was 'directed' to do so by a Creator).  Even so, there is very strong diverse evidence for life after death (NDE's, spirits, communications with the dead, etc.).  Though I encourage everyone to  make there own conclusions or leanings, whilst trying to be objective and unbiased as possible, the more I investigate this, the closer I come to the conclusion that we have a soul that survives physical death.\n\nFor us, life after death is the greatest mystery of all, and in the end, the only one that matters.
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Woo hoo, a comment clearly designed to start a big argument on here, which I don't agree with, everyone has their own opinions!\n\nHowever, I sense that the basis of your point is that there is no real hard evidence to sustain the existence of any god, which is not the same as saying he doesn't exist, but is a definite statement to say that wehave no way of knowing. \n\nSo why everyone doesn't just live their life based upon earthly things, eg looking after and revering the earth around us, rather than pinning our hopes on some concept of a higher being, I don't know. \n\n(by the way, there IS actually hard evidence to suggest that the whole idea of a god stems from a part of the human brain, which operates only to convince us of a higher power, so we feel more significant than we actually are..)
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I'm agnostic, myself. But if God does exist, it doesn't seem like there's much he won't allow to happen. Whether or not he favors the idea would probably be a better question. And to answer that one...I don't know. I can't know. And neither can anyone else here, regardless of what they may tell you.\n\nn4mwd: You seem pretty arrogant, for someone who has no idea what he's talking about. How does spelling God incorrectly...no, not even spelling it incorrectly, just not capitalizing it, equate to not believing in God? That is complete and utter nonsense. And I have no idea whether or not the soul exists, or what it is, but identical twins are not clones.
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It's an age-old question, and one that is the very basis of religion.  It's incredible that we can understand both the creation of the universe and the creation of life itself.  We're very lucky to live in this time!\n\nGood comment for "brainless".
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Tell you what.  Spend six weeks in a biology lab with some species with very short life/reproductive cycles--say, drosophila or flatworms--and they'll be your witnesses to evolution.  Is it easy to argue against the existence of something one can actually see happening in front of one?  For example, how do you explain the constant mutation of the flu virus.  It's not a point of theory--it's an observable fact.  So, how does that happen, if there's no evolution?  You see my point:  we don't need "witnesses," because we have real empirical evidence.\n\nBut in any case, it doesn't matter what I believe or what you believe.  There is room both for your cosmology and for mine in the world.\n\nWhat does matter is what is taught in school.  As of yet, right-wing Christian evangelicals have not succeeded in imposing their particular worldview on the entire country by changing our laws into Evangelical Christian shariah, and our schools into Evangelical Christian madrassas, despite their repeated efforts.  Until that time, it does matter that science, not religion, is what we study in science class.\n\nBy the way, try reading other eye-witness accounts to the creation of the world.  Upon what basis, other than your community's belief, is your religious creation myth more demonstrably true than that of Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis, Baha'is, Jains, etc.?  Show me the legitimate, objective, neutral, non-theological criteria that proves your book's eyewitness account more true than theirs, and you might have made a real point.  Until then, not really.\n\n(By the way, any answer that says the Bible has the true answer "because the Bible says so" would not count as a reason outside your faith system.  I'm not saying you're wrong--just that that's not science.)
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Have you thought of a wonderful god who doesn't have a creator?\nWhat about the beautiful creator who doesn't have his or her own creator as well.\nThe first cause argument is so old and lame.  If you need a creator to explain everything, explain where the creator came from, please.
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"Everything that has a beginning has to have a cause." \nWhy do you say this?  As you should know, absolute statements are frequently wrong.  Still, I can roll with this.  Okay, for the moment I'll play along and say that everything must have a beginning.\n\n"Only God is self-existing without beginning, without a cause outside Himself." \nWhat?!?!?!?  What about your statement above?  Can't you see that you totally contradict yourself?  You have just violated logic and trashed your own argument.  Sigh.  If everything needs a beginning, then so does a creator.  If you make an exception for a creator, then you could also make an exception for the universe.\n\nWhere is your evidence for either of these two statements?  Where is your evidence for a creator without beginning?  I think you are trying to avoid falling into the "Who created the creator" question, but skirting the question does not eliminate it.\n\nOccam's Razor:  which is the simpler theory?  A universe without beginning or a creator without beginning that created a universe?\n\nI hesitated answering this question because I felt that you merely asked it to find someone who agreed with you, and that you would choose that as the "best answer".  I didn't want to screw up my best answer ratio... but thought it more important to show you the flaws in your logic.\n\nGood luck in your Q&A's.
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Did God have a beginning?\n\nPs. 90:2: “Before the mountains themselves were born, or you proceeded to bring forth as with labor pains the earth and the productive land, even from time indefinite to time indefinite you are God.”\n\nIs that reasonable? Our minds cannot fully comprehend it. But that is not a sound reason for rejecting it. Consider examples: (1) Time. No one can point to a certain moment as the beginning of time. And it is a fact that, even though our lives end, time does not. We do not reject the idea of time because there are aspects of it that we do not fully comprehend. Rather, we regulate our lives by it. (2) Space. Astronomers find no beginning or end to space. The farther they probe into the universe, the more there is. They do not reject what the evidence shows; many refer to space as being infinite. The same principle applies to the existence of God.\n\nOther examples: (1) Astronomers tell us that the heat of the sun at its core is 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit (15,000,000° C.). Do we reject that idea because we cannot fully comprehend such intense heat? (2) They tell us that the size of our Milky Way is so great that a beam of light traveling at over 186,000 miles per second (300,000 km/sec) would require 100,000 years to cross it. Do our minds really comprehend such a distance? Yet we accept it because scientific evidence supports it.\n\nWhich is more reasonable—that the universe is the product of a living, intelligent Creator? or that it must have arisen simply by chance from a nonliving source without intelligent direction? Some persons adopt the latter viewpoint because to believe otherwise would mean that they would have to acknowledge the existence of a Creator whose qualities they cannot fully comprehend. But it is well known that scientists do not fully comprehend the functioning of the genes that are within living cells and that determine how these cells will grow. Nor do they fully understand the functioning of the human brain. Yet, who would deny that these exist? Should we really expect to understand everything about a Person who is so great that he could bring into existence the universe, with all its intricate design and stupendous size?\n\nInfinite, but approachable. The true God is infinite and beyond the mind of man fully to fathom. The creature could never hope to become equal to his Creator or understand all the workings of His mind. (Ro 11:33-36) But He can be found and approached, and He supplies his worshiper with all that is necessary for the worshiper’s welfare and happiness. (Ac 17:26, 27; Ps 145:16) He is ever at the zenith of his ability and willingness to give good gifts and presents to his creatures, as it is written: “Every good gift and every perfect present is from above, for it comes down from the Father of the celestial lights, and with him there is not a variation of the turning of the shadow.” (Jas 1:17) Jehovah always acts within his own righteous arrangements, doing all things on a legal basis. (Ro 3:4, 23-26) For this reason all of his creatures can have complete confidence in him, knowing that he always abides by the principles he establishes. He does not change (Mal 3:6), and there is no “variation” with him in the application of his principles. There is no partiality with him (De 10:17, 18; Ro 2:11), and it is impossible for him to lie.—Nu 23:16, 19; Tit 1:1, 2; Heb 6:17, 18.