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Athiesm doesn't work

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-08 21:58

Intelligent people, including scientists and philosophers, have reasoned for the existence of God.  While it's easy to see their self-justification and rationalization (Aquinas, Chesterton, Sartre, Kant, Pascal), they really are basing their views on belief and faith.  The same with all followers of theistic religions.  Even if one can affirm that no God or afterlife or supernatural exists, there is the sense of emptiness and lacking in a life with no written purpose or directed goal from some superior all-knowing being.  Thus people feel that "it can't hurt" to believe in something anyway, in hopes that that belief will lead to a better afterlife (Pascal's wager).  Many people feel an intrinsic need to be looked after by something greater or have some absolute laws that are unquestionable, putting faith in this authority like a dog would to his owner.  Without a master, humans are lost, empty, and find no purpose.  So religion just "feels good" even if it becomes  proven as illogical.  Besides, what else can prayer, hymns, cathedrals, and complicated ceremonies with special titles and clothing dedicated to a higher glory or state of being be used for, when nothing is there?  Humans hate to worship humanity for its own sake.  Even believing that we create our own laws and morals implies that nothing is absolutely right, as long as we are just simple biological creatures on a life supporting rock for a limited period of time.  Humans have a hard time accepting their uncontrolled, unmonitored position, and put faith in something even if there is proof it doesn't exist, in order to justify that their spiritual bases will be covered "just in case it exists."  It's easy to say God doesn't exist.  It's harder for most people to believe it.     

Name: Anonymous 2006-07-30 1:28

I love it when chatholix think evolution and creationism are equal because they are both theories. Except one has proof, and one has a book.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp

Really. One scientist skews his carbon dating experiment to match the bible and chatholics go "ZOMG!-that lines up with our idealogy, all other experiments must be LIEZ"
Same thing with prayer. Pray 1000 times, and then the one time a prayer is "answered" - "PROOF GOD"

Exiastance of the soul is the biggest load of crap in Chatolic Dogma. The soul is somthing that is not energy, is not matter, but controlls who you are and what your personality is. To do this, a soul would have to contain data. However, data cannot exist without a catalyst/container/medium. Therefore the soul is not contained within our quark/sub-quark defined exiatance.
Your personality is a product of social evolution.
Scene(environment) --> Gene(Body language race etc.)-->Meme(self-replicating thought/information contained within the brain(a medium)

*camps for "no conclusive proof quarks exist"*
Re: "no conclusive proof god exists"

Without information supporting the FACT - not "the possibility" - that God exists, I will not beleive it/he/she exists.

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