Dungeon demographics: the God poll

Casby said he was ALWAYS right.

 

I see your point; and that is why I have trouble with people saying they "know" that God doesn't exist --how??? Science doesn't explain away God, it just explains how God may operate. I can't prove the existence of God to anyone, so how can someone prove the non-existence?

 

I can't grasp the concepts of omnipotence or infinity. But that doesn't mean I think that it's likely God exists.

Why would an all-powerful being:

- sit around doing nothing for an eternity
- then suddenly create the earth (a few thousand years ago?)
- and create man “in his own image” (we're way to messed up for that to be plausible)
- and, after some smiting, parting the seas, burning a few bushes and letting his son be crucified and resurrected, promptly desert the place
- without leaving a single shred of physical evidence?

Can anyone who's read the bible and, say, Stephen Hawking, explain some of that?

 

Did I say there was a Big Bang? Not just in this thread, I mean did I ever say that on the BBS?

 

what if you look at Einstein's relativity with an eye toward the premise that one could never outrun or catch that wave of light, that it would always appear to run away from you, and then apply this to the appearance that the universe is expanding. Could that expansion then not be a mere "trick of the light" so to speak?

 

Do you believe in unicorns and the tooth fairy? (Why do I think I am going to regret asking this? ) Can you prove they don't exist?

Most times, you can prove that something exists if it does. You can never prove that something doesn't exist. Even if it doesn't.

 

There could be a tooth fairy and unicorns.

 

I know.

 

Uh huh. You can measure if matter is moving together or apart,
and by how much.

Nope. It's expanding, and, apparently, Americans-not wanting to
be left behind- are expanding also.

Now then, not to put fear into everyone, but my theory is that
everything in our universe is moving apart, and this will suddenly
accelerate into warp speed, just before the same everything comes
back together in the opposite direction at warp speed in one gigantic
Big Bang...once again.

ShaZamm! The history of everything we know about!
And that's all there is to it. C'est finis. Lights Out!

 

Where's "Hater"?

 

I cannot recall you subscribing to the big bang theory.

 

Where's "Hater"?

 

Probably because I don't.

I am not intelligent enough to understand the science behind it, and I'm not going to take it just on faith. As far as I can tell, it's just as unlikely as anything written by man. But if I really have to choose, I'm going that way.

 

I told you I was going to regret jumping into this thread.

 

nttawwt

 

Where's "Hater"?

 

The poll reveals this trend:
God is just an idea that has gone terribly wrong for some, and yet gone terribly right for other, and yet again gone terribly confused for some other, and yet yet again gone terribly clueless for some. Just go with what ever you're comfortable with. Personally i would be just fine wth being able to walk into a store to do upgrade to my body parts. Are we there yet?

 

I have always suspected that the egotism and self-righteousness that would lead anyone to answer 1 or 5 in this poll is the root of all evil in the world.
How anyone that can be so definite about a subject that cannot be proven scientifically I will never understand. And don't answer with "Faith" Faith is number 2.

 

**You know me too well. . .
The tooth fairy DOES exist. In my house, it will be me.
As far as unicorns, there is actually a lot of literature and folk lore from societies around the globe that describe a creature much like that of a unicorn, so I do believe that unicorns COULD have existed. It is the same with dinosaurs (or dragons as much folk lore would have it.) Science tells us that dinosaurs died out long before man walked the earth, but too many stories exist from ancient societies describing creatures that resemble dinosaurs or dragons to make me believe that dinosaurs and man could not have co-existed. Obviously I don't know whether unicorns existed or whether dinosaurs and man lived at the same time, but I'm not ruling out the possibility.

 

Where did the "designer" come from?