Do You Believe In God?

[Gunny]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

Oh trust me, I disagree strongly with most everyone here. I'm just keeping to myself.

Me too! hahaha! I have found it best to keep my mouth shut in these types of discussion. There is one guy for about for 4 days preaches out on campus for anyone to come here. Now my campus is VERY liberal and very un-religious (is that a word? LOL) and it is always interesting to sit for a while when the crowd is building to hear the arguments between the two.

[spicyapple]

I believe in a "God," but I don't believe in organized religion and their interpretations of God.

In that sense, the arguments from the Evolutionists and the Creationists about our origination are both valid and true. I suppose I am agnostic, but the more I learn about the world around me, the astronomical odds of proteins folding to create sentient life or the rhythm of the universe, I can't help think there is divinity to it all. That makes me somewhat religious.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by spicyapple

I believe in a "God," but I don't believe in organized religion and their interpretations of God.

In that sense, the arguments from the Evolutionists and the Creationists about our origination are both valid and true. I suppose I am agnostic, but the more I learn about the world around me, the astronomical odds of proteins folding to create sentient life or the rhythm of the universe, I can't help think there is divinity to it all. That makes me somewhat religious.

Interesting, and i see your point - however, its usually the other way around

[Drewan]

I vote for "no god"----To bring up another movie that shaped my life---"Star Wars"---The Force is as close as a "godlike" power that I can believe in.....Lucas had me at "It's a energy field that binds all living things together" semi-mystical, yet science-based (kind'a)

Evolution & natural-selection just feel right to me--they appeal to my sense of order---Eywa as a continental "life-form" (depends on if there is a way to bridge bodies of water with Ewya's neural net) also feels right to me...I can easily see a super-intellect evolve like that.......It's Jim's version of the force on a smaller scale

Originally Posted by Drewan

I vote for "no god"

Metaphysics isn't a democracy, the sum total of people's opinions has no impact on what is correct.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Shatnerpossum

Metaphysics isn't a democracy, the sum total of people's opinions has no impact on what is correct.

I don't mean to be an ass, but i think its fair to say that he most likely is aware of that already ?

[Drewan]

Originally Posted by Shatnerpossum

Metaphysics isn't a democracy, the sum total of people's opinions has no impact on what is correct.

Of course it is not--just my way of stating my belief system---do you have a problem with my post?

Originally Posted by Drewan

Of course it is not--just my way of stating my belief system---do you have a problem with my post?

No, I'm just poking fun at the terminology.

[Drewan]

Originally Posted by Shatnerpossum

No, I'm just poking fun at the terminology.

No harm then--

Perhaps I'm a bit off---but then the world would be a VERY dull place if everyone thought alike

[Unil_mi_tokx]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

Right-wing, conservative-libertarian, young-earth creationist, Protestant Christian, RIGHT HERE. <----

And yet, despite the large majority of people like me who hated Avatar, I loved it. HA!

I am the same. I'll stay objective here and not go into detail but evolution doesn't necessarily make sense to me personally, and sometimes events take place that are far to big to just be coincidences.

As social creatures, when you're having the time of your life, or when you're having your worst day ever, and you have to turn to someone, someone to fall on or someone to talk to, who do you go to? Even when you are quiet and by yourself, there's that happy place in your mind you can borough into. That voice, that stillness, that whisper, or that comforting embrace - that is "God". Whatever name you have for it, I believe we all have something that we have to turn to. Even if we don't have anyone around us to share an experience with, you still know that someone knows what you're going through.

Some people believe in THE God, some believe in a god, some believe in the forest, or in other places. I think that we can all agree that no matter who the deity or entity, we can relate to the fact that we experience that being - EVERYWHERE

[Gunny]

^Well said

[Human No More]

I really don't believe in anything supernatural. No god as described by any religion, and no vague version without any organised religion. Everything is understandable, we just haven't reached the point of understanding everything yet. Humans used to say 'god' when asked why the sun moved across the sky, or there is gravity. Now we understand the real reasons.

Originally Posted by Human No More

I really don't believe in anything supernatural. No god as described by any religion, and no vague version without any organised religion. Everything is understandable, we just haven't reached the point of understanding everything yet. Humans used to say 'god' when asked why the sun moved across the sky, or there is gravity. Now we understand the real reasons.

I'm chiming in briefly on that because it needs to rebutted.


You shouldn't scapegoat God/religion for human ignorance and arrogance. Its just as arrogant today to dictate that there is no God when no one has returned from the "undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns" as it was to manufacture grandiose and foolish explanations and then attribute them to God.

Its all humans there, our own ignorance shouldn't be used as a talking point against God.

[ZenitYerkes]

I have to throw a question out:

Shall we not believe in something because it's impossible to understand?

[Human No More]

As far as I can see, there's nothing to understand. Unless you meant that early humans didn't believe in a day/night cycle, or gravity, or life.