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Old 11-29-2008, 04:44 AM   #13 (permalink)
Coolyo
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Originally Posted by luciferase75 View Post
I never discuss God with atheists, personally. Most atheists will find God to be a moot point, and I find atheism to be the same.

And now I do exactly what I said I never do...
As for God and science, I used to think that they might be intertwined, but nothing like above.

OP has already made the mistake of assuming that the bible is some factual reference. Things like the embellished story of the "flood" on a sumerian tablet, only it was a merchant who was washed downstream in a nile river flood, have in my mind dropped any literal factoid from the bible as pure fiction or at best thousands of years of building hyperbole. Take the morals and leave the details, as it were.

I believe in God, but IMO I do not think anyone has an inkling of God's nature. Calling "God" a "him" is similarly ignorant. Assuming God thinks as we do with anger and joy, may be as ignorant. I also am a firm believer in "anti-God" topics such as evolution, which again IMO is not anti-God at all, just anti-creation myth. Only rednecks and ignerts really think of evolution as against God. Even the pope recognizes evolution as a possible force of nature - and God.

My beliefs are based on one part faith and one part science. I would not believe in God as much had I not experienced some things that probably could be explained away by some creative atheist, but I chose not to think that way. I tried to explain many things away, but the irrational sometimes makes more sense than the rational.

That leads to my final analysis of this thought process: It doesn't matter. Trying to guess the nature of an infinite being that may be in infinite parallel universes, with infinite universes within each of those infinite universes, and for each of those an infinite number of outcomes, boggles the mind and leads me to believe that I should just live my life, and if there is indeed an afterlife, then perhaps I will know the truth then. If not, then at least I'll hopefully have a satisfactory understanding. The rest is just details, and in the end we will probably all be right and wrong at the same time, so forget it.
I agree, especially the last paragraph. All of the stuff that I mentioned is definitely going to happen ages after I die, anyways...
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