For me, ONE of the main reasons i believe in God is the sheer impossibility of the alternative.
We are living on a 6,371 km diameter rock, hurtling through space at a speed of 66,000 mph, a million miles away from a 27 million degrees Fahrenheit inferno and no-one in charge.
The Bible is not a book but a collection of 66 books, written over a span of 1600 years across 3 continents, by over 40 writers inspired by God in 3 languages yet it has ONE primary theme ( The Glory of God and salvation of mankind ) and zero errors or contradictions. It is scientifically, prophetically, archaeologically, historically and linguistically accurate.
Ignore the word "trinity". its not important.
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We are living on a 6,371 km diameter rock, hurtling through space at a speed of 66,000 mph, a million miles away from a 27 million degrees Fahrenheit inferno and no-one in charge.
And your point is…? Seriously, I just don’t see how any of that proves god exists. Certainly not any more than it proves Grand Zeno or Arceus exist…
Also, so much for the Bible being 100% scientifically accurate…
For me, ONE of the main reasons i believe in God is the sheer impossibility of the alternative.
We are living on a 6,371 km diameter rock, hurtling through space at a speed of 66,000 mph, a million miles away from a 27 million degrees Fahrenheit inferno and no-one in charge.
I just don’t get existential despair over the universe not being anthropocentric. What is supposed to be scary about the univere being unguided? What is supposed to be so scary about Nature existing by itself, dynamic and everchanging, driven by chance and necessity and causality and rules that simply Are, rather than being instituted by some higher instance? What is supposed to be scary about us being part of a world that is far grander than our petty lives and struggles, a tale vaster than any imagination, that began in times far beyond our reckoning and will go on long after our deaths for ages upon ages?
Dr. Buzz Aldrin. He's been out there. He's a Conservative Christian, yet he reconciles his faith with proven scientific fact: precisely because he's been out there, and especially when he followed Neil Armstrong out of that LEM on another world.
He has done what was considered impossible up to what was done first with Sputnik-1, Laika, then Yuri Gagarin.
Since that 'One Small Step' several years after what that Cosmonaut did, so much for your 'Alternative', Deaniepoos.
You can't ignore the word 'Reality': it is that important.
@Bastethotep #59495
Well, in a way I kinda get it. I suppose it is comforting for the average person to think that there is a force/intelligence guiding us. To know that our lives are meaningful and purpose-driven from the beginning and we can pass any responsibility for our mistakes upon that intelligent force.
That being said, as an existentialist I disagree. Yes, there is no guiding intelligent force (that any one knows of). Yes, there is no grand purpose to anything. But that is exactly what makes life so precious and worth living. We don’t have to be defined, we can just define ourselves! We can give ourselves our own purposes, and choose to do meaningful things ourselves and take responsibility for our own lives! Don’t be a pawn of some capricious dice playing deity, make your own fate.
To partially paraphrase a Paragon Shepard in ME3: Without a future of our own creation, we have no hope. And without hope, might just well be machines who do what we are told.
Besides, if you really think about it an all powerful intelligent force is more scary than hopeful. Either it has human morality like us, in which case it can be just as fallible as us. Or it doesn’t have human morality, in which case it might very well (even if benevolent) ignore us microbes in favor of the bigger picture.
"We are living on a 6,371 km diameter rock, hurtling through space at a speed of 66,000 mph, a million miles away from a 27 million degrees Fahrenheit inferno and no-one in charge."
This offends your statistical sensibilities?
You don't find an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent being of indeterminate physical make-up and infinite age just appearing out of nowhere, by no one's actions, to be just a teensy bit more improbable than that set-up?
I'm guessing you didn't actually do the math, here. This is someone else's conclusion.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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