Why do you believe in a god?

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Permalink Reply by Mark on July 30, 2012 at 12:35am

Ridiculous. The atoms in your body are like solar systems. You are a model, a microcosm of the great macrocosm. Isn't that just obvious? If you know yourself entirely, not only do you know the Universe, but you know God. It's plane; it's simple. We live in a very dark world.

Permalink Reply by The Humane Hominid on July 30, 2012 at 1:42am

The atoms in your body are like solar systems.

ROFLMAO

Permalink Reply by Mark on August 2, 2012 at 8:41am

You find it amusing?

Permalink Reply by The Humane Hominid on August 2, 2012 at 10:48am

You find it amusing?

Yeah, cuz it's not true. The Rutherford model failed to explain the data and was abandoned almost 100 years ago.

Atoms are not little solar systems and don't behave anything like little solar systems.

So, I find it amusing when "spiritual" people cite incorrect science to make a spiritual point.

Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on August 4, 2012 at 1:25am

Atoms are not little solar systems and don't behave anything like little solar systems.

Truly! The Bohr model of the atom may be pretty and simple, but it's complete BS.

So, I find it amusing when "spiritual" people cite incorrect science to make a spiritual point.

So do I. I wish people would start seeing science as what it really is. You can't prove God's existence by using logical or scientific arguments.

 

Permalink Reply by The Humane Hominid on August 4, 2012 at 4:23am

So do I. I wish people would start seeing science as what it really is. You can't prove God's existence by using logical or scientific arguments.

It's a curious phenomenon, to be  sure. I think it speaks to the power and credibility of the scientific method that everyone  wants to claim its mantle for their own ideas.  Unfortunately, most who do are either unwilling or unable to apply its tools to their ideas, for fear that it'll prove them wrong, as it does with most ideas.

 

I'm especially amused by people who are always ready with an analogy  to quantum mechanics and evolution, who demonstrate in using it that they understand neither.

Permalink Reply by Macuilxochitl on August 4, 2012 at 5:29am

You seem more outraged than amused

Permalink Reply by The Humane Hominid on August 4, 2012 at 7:29am

You seem more outraged than amused

Nope. Just amused, and having a laugh at the expense of mystics' presumptions of "wisdom." And giving them the mockery they deserve.

If I were outraged, I wouldn't be involved in the thread at all. What does outrage me, though, is seeing so many beautiful, intelligent, creative people around the world squandering their energy and their lives with devotion to fairy tales.

I wonder, does anyone still believe in Zeus?

Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on August 8, 2012 at 12:45am

yeah, quantum mechanics is surely a favorite in that! just mention the word quantum mechanics and you already get people's attention and respect!

Permalink Reply by futurmajic on August 2, 2012 at 10:23am

fractals 

Permalink Reply by Mark on August 2, 2012 at 8:42am

God is also hate. God is all things. What is so difficult to believe?

Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on August 4, 2012 at 1:30am

I don't see how that works... If the created beings create evil things, doesn't that mean evil must already be present in those beings themselves?

If God created everything, then everything has to be already present in God, isn't it? How can anything come into being indirectly? 

But wait: even then, you do acknowledge that God has created evil, even if only indirectly. But if he has created evil, doesn't that mean there is evil in him?


how do you differentiate between potential for evil and evil itself?

and: what is evil anyway, in the first place?

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