Don't believe in God? Why not?

[LeonMagnolis]

Pyramids, Easter Island, etc etc hasn't been proven by scientists (i don't think) but the pyramids and heads are there, and I don't think there is a believable explanation available.

I observe the pyramids with my eyes.
I hypothize the pyramid is there.
I predict that they are there.
I kick the pyramid to see if it's there.
I break my foot-- it's there.

I don't believe in god, and I hate religion in a way...but who cares. Really. Fuck this crap about God..have fun. it's what we were put here for eh.

Have you ever thought about what the world would be like without religion? Can you even comprehend that? From religions we aquired: our time scale-- 7 days in a week, 12 months in a year, AD and BC. We got explorers finding new worlds under the pretense of evangilism. The reading and writing system we have today was used by the clergy to teach Biblical scriptures. The enlightenment, the discovery of America in some ways, the Rennisiance [sp?] shall I go on? As stupid as you may think religion is, noone can deny that it has done huge things to shape the world as it is today, and no matter if you believe in God or Allah or Dvjzpurhanwhatever, you cannot overlook the fact that we would not be anywhere today without religion.

You can go have fun, but next time you read a book, or listen to music or even look at the time of day, remember, without religion, most of that stuff would be next to useless.

There's no logical reason for it. It just makes sense to me. That's what some people would call faith.

But there is some logic to what you said earlier-- we've been progressing in the ways of science, and logically, that progression will go on. And that progression may well include a logical explanation for the creation of the universe with or without God.

True faith is believing in something that you cannot prove.

1. IMO - he was invented (made up) by some guy, posobly named jesus, to keep his village or whatever civilized, peacful...so he said "god" doesnt allow to do this and that...

KTHX, TYVM. Now STFU or GTFO. That pretty much sums up what I have to say about that. If you want to have an opinion about something, at least have some basis. And the Bible isn't the only document that has mentioned Jesus. Jesus wasn't just "made up." I know that for a fact, and I doubt that anyone can disprove that. Understand I'm not saying that he was God, but I can garuentee that Jesus did exist at one time or another.

Now look throughout history at the various religions. Do you really believe that they were all just "made up" by one man who felt like keeping his "village" in order? As I said before-- think before you post.

No, I don't go out of my way trying to find out everything I can about Christianity because figuring out the existence of God is not important to me. I don't want to sound insulting, but to me, Christianity has as much validity as the cult of Heaven's Gate. I don't go out of my way to find stuff about the beliefs of minor cults, and I apply the same standard to Christianity. Just because it has several hundred million followers doesn't make it any more worthwhile for me to read up on.

Minor cult? See above about the things that Christianity and religion in general have brought into the world. I'm not going to put words in your mouth and say that you called Christianity a "minor cult" but with all due respect-- that's certainly what it sounded like you said.

Why did people's beliefs change? Was there any real proof to switch from praying to one god to many?

Let's play a game. It's called telephone. I'll wisper something in your ear, then you wisper the same thing in another person's ear, and so on. After we pass it through four thousand people, that last person will tell what they heard to me. Do you think it'll be the same?

WAIT!!!!! Let's not just wisper it to each other-- let's wait fifty years after the person told us to pass it on. And not only that, but let's also mix this in with nievity [sp?] and superstition that is virtually non-existant today.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

And if there are so many planets out there (many with life) do they get into heaven.

A monomer is formed by the right combonation of gasses combined with just the right electrical current. They can be formed that way-- it has been tested and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.

A polymer is a chain of over five hundred or so monomers. A polymer is one tiny part of a protein.

Monomers are constructed as both left and right handed-- in approxamately equil numbers. For a polymer to form, all the monomers must be right handed. If one left handed monomer gets in on the chain, then the whole chain is useless and dissolves. Using the knowledge, the odds of two right handed polymers joining are one in two. The odds of three joining and being right handed are one in four. The odds of four joining are on in eight.

Assuming that five hundred have to be joined, the odds of two hundred of the five hundred monomers joining together and all being right handed are about-- one in 6.427752177*10^60. The odds of three hundred are about one in 1.629628781*10^91. Keep in mind that in order to form a protein, there must be hundreds [I think] of polymers. But for a moment, assume that you needed-- five is a fair number. To find the odds of five polymers being formed, we multiply the odds of each polymer being formed together. It would seem that the power raises by about thirty for each hundred monomers that we add on, so assuming this is the case-- the odds of one full monomer forming are about one in 1*10^150. The odds of five forming would be about.

:: Does some sort of calculation. ::

One in 1*10^75937500000. And that, my friend, is a number so large that you cannot possibly comprehend it. In case you're wondering, mathmatical statistic impossibility occures at 1*10^600. Good luck with those odds.

And keep in mind that the very science you use to back your statements found those numbers.

And you think that other planets really defeated those odds?


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