@ANONYMOUS, Christians have for centuries forced other’s to believe what they believe, the Crusades, Inquisition, St Patrick even. “I think ALL of us BELIEVE in ONE God, right?”. No. Not everyone believes in a God, or a higher power, or even wish to. I am one of those people. I respect people with faith, in a way they’re stronger than me, to be able to entrust themselves to something they cannot be sure of. Some would argue that that takes stupidity, but I believe that often it takes courage.

I don’t believe in a God, a higher power, a deity, and I don’t want to. I don’t feel the need to. We’re told that the end will come, that we can pray, and that if we devote ourselves, that our prayers will be answered and our problems solved. But why do we need anyone else’s help?

Within three hours, just three hours, we could kill more than 3/4 of the world’s population. Massacre them. Destroy our civilisation and world as we know it. We have unprecedented powers of destruction. We’re fully aware of it. What we fail to realise, is that our power’s of creation are just as strong.

We don’t need anyone else to come solve our problems. Our problems are of our own creation, utterly and totally. To pray to a higher power for help is an excuse for lack of action. We act like children, wishing to stay in the arms of a parent, and that’s all God is. But in my opinion, it is our creation. A comfort. We are too afraid to face the truth that this is it, we get one shot, one shot only at this life. And yet like sheep staying in a herd, we cling to these comforting thoughts. Its nice to believe that everything will just work out, that everything is planned. Its the exact same feeling a child gets when being looked after by a loving parent. We crave it so much that we create it.

Science is not attempting to disprove religion, nor is religion attempting to disprove science. They are two different methods to the same answer. One will prove the other. There is a God.

Its us. We hold the world in our hands, and we have the power to create and destroy in equal measure. We have the power to solve all the world’s problems, because we created them.

Think about it this way, a common belief amongst people with faith is that of a life after death, eternal life. Most religions have it in some form or other. Well, it already exists. We are all, already immortal. You die. Your body decomposes and breaks down. The energy in your remains feed tiny organisms in the soil. These feed bigger organisms, plants, animals, working up the food chain to a baby in the womb. This child grows up, lives it life using some tiny part of your body, your energy, you, then it dies. The cycle begins again.

I respect people’s faith, but please respect that you are already immortal. You just just have to change what you believe YOU are.

There is a God. We are it.

But I do believe in God. The theory of evolution and the concept of Higher Intelligence are not necessarily conflicting ideas.

furthermore the disgussion ignores the fact in which if you were to believe in an omnipotent/omniscient God. (first of all an omnipotent being cannot exist due to the obvious omnipotence paradox). The prof. was merely trying to prove the fact that God did indeed create evil, if you take his literal biblical interp into effect, he is the alpha and omega, the all knowing. Meaning God would have full knowledge of Lucifer’s downfall and the spawn of evil before it even happened. Let me ask this, if I were to create a robot knowing full well it would wreak havoc upon humanity, whose more at fault. Me or the robot? The studet avoided to answer all those questions.
The second arguement is flawed in the fact that the human brain has in history been observed in sight, feel, and smell. Now, due to scientific studies on how a human body works, we could indeed, without much faith at all make a scientific/mathematic inference that the brain does exist within the prof. Unless anyone wants to argue the possibility of a human being operating full scale without a brain. Anyone can easily in the room theoretically prove the existence of his brain (though it would be illegal to kill), while no one could have any ability record of calling god to feel, see, touch, smell, or hear god. Personal miracles / experiences doesn’t stand in the tables of science either.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.”
-Einstein

I dont believe that this conversation ever has happened.

btw: Evoution has recently been observed in a laboratory.