“God Does Not Exist”
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Guest Tickler | May 28, 2009
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What is God?
Sanjiv: God is a creation of early human beings from a time when there were no explanations for natural phenomena. Many millennia ago, cave dwellers would have seen natural phenomena occurring around them ranging from childbirth, the sun rising and setting, the moon in its various phases, floods, rain, the constant appearance of strange animals, edible fruit growing at certain places, snow, the oceans, seeds becoming trees and a whole host of similar ‘magical’ things. When they could not explain why such things happened, some probably started attributing these phenomena to a superior being somewhere high up in the skies. This was probably the origin of God. As humankind started to become more social in their tribal behavior, some smarter ones took to calling these superior beings “gods” of various natural phenomena. They also hit upon a terrific business idea to keep themselves in food, comfort and awe by creating practices they claimed to have learnt directly from these so-called gods, to appease them and to ensure peace and happiness within the community. These smart people probably became the first priests who claimed that they could direct the rest of the tribe in performing rituals and sacrifices to ensure that the gods remained happy.
God or the Big Bang (or both)?
Sanjiv: Based on current scientific knowledge, obviously the Big Bang. If there were nothing before God created the universe, who created God?
God or Darwin (or both)?
Sanjiv: Based on current scientific knowledge, Darwin was probably closer to the truth than some imaginary “Creator”.
God or Darfur ? (How can Darfur happen if there is God?)
Sanjiv: This is a pointless question as we have already accepted that God does not exist!
Who is God’s God?
Sanjiv: Already responded this question in answer “2” above. So this is also a pointless question as we have already accepted that God does not exist!
Will the real God please stand up? (Why do we have so many religions?)
Sanjiv: Where there are different groups of people, there will be different customs and each group will have its own power centres. If one group’s power centre feels that another group is not following the same customs that their group has adopted, then they feel their power is threatened and declare that all those who do not follow these customs are outcasts and therefore enemies. That is why we have the different religions.
Is this just a big lab and are we just guinea pigs and God just a researcher?
Sanjiv: This is an interesting question if we remove the term ‘God’ from it. Since we really know so little of what is out there in the vast universe, the probability that our planet is an experiment in the laboratory of some far superior race from somewhere in the universe is about as high or as low as the probability that God exists!
Unexplained phenomena = God?
Sanjiv: As far as prehistoric man was concerned, yes. That was the origin of the God delusion. But why human beings still cling to this delusion when almost all of mankind has now accepted scientifically predictable explanations for a whole load of previously unexplained phenomena is beyond me!
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Funny how it seems all we human beings talk about “god” — does she/he exist, what’s he/she like, what’s our relationship to her/him? Why is that?
There seems to be a whole inside us that longs for a god. So, how did it get there? … Reasonable to assume that god put it there. In fact, all creation, down to the inner-workings of a single cell, seem to cry out that someone/thing had to design it. Chance, statistically speaking, that is, sound mathematically speaking, could not have produced what we see. To believe in chance is to believe in a god that is experientially impossible to evidence.
So, let’s assume there is a god. Wouldn’t it be reasonable to think she’d/he’d want us, his/her creations, to look for him? Having left a universe of wonder to give rise to a question of design, wouldn’t it make sense that he/she left more?
Great religions of the world have common threads, but they also have glaring contrasts. So, the one god must have left truth somewhere, she’d/he’d be contradicting what the universe says about design if he/she left contradicting evidences of her/himself.
So, there has to be truth.
Who cares about Darfur? Seriously? The world is better off without it or it’s people.
If you believe in Darwin then you should also believe in selection, and selection in humans most of all as this affects everything else in the world now (I think all the animals would agree if they could speak english since they don’t want to suffer bad people and go extinct)
Time to go off and be burned at the stake for the free and accurate thought that goes against the current socio-political regime…
as an agnostic…I believe that we have created gods in our own image…i believe that organized religions are businesses for acquiring money and power. Individual Spirituality is a residual aching for the guidance of our parents and elders, a way to explain or narrate causes to effects, it is mainly unscientific or reflexive thinking.
A real piece of data: God has not, and apparently will never cure one particular disability: amputations. People claim that god cured their alcoholism, cancer, headaches, -etc – all things that can be reversed by medicine or happenstance. no one has ever had a miracle leg or arm regrow – no matter how many people pray – no matter how often people pray. God doesn’t do limbs. (or read that imaginary gods cannot regrow real limbs)
peace out!
If you do not believe the Bible is the word of God, then there is nothing to discuss. Believe however if you do believe it is the word of God, it clearly states that no man goes to the Father (God) but by Me (belief in Jesus Christ – John 14:6). It is amazing that with all the ‘gods’ out there, the one people reject the most (Jesus Christ) is the only one that died for them.
I would rather live in this world believing that there is a God whom I can serve, know, and love now and for eternity than living a life not knowing, serving, and loving God only to find out too late in the afterlife that there is indeed a God to judge us and find us unworthy to be with Him.
Man is a very dangerous animal. No external guard can ever prevent its venturous nature. Therefore primitive society developed a phenomenon to control man (and itself from destruction) from inside and the word God came into being. Conscience is the society’s cop that control dangerous thoughts from being manifested in actions.
Simultaneously, if we think in our capacity then there is more in a rose than its physical petals,there is more in us than our physical body and, there is more than language can express.I call this universal intelligence the God.God is our hope for perfection.