The point is your double standard. You base your belief on something that you have seen no direct evidence for, and have seen described in a speculative fashion. I also read the book, and many others, including books on evolution. There is no proof for the spontaneous eruption of life, it is all wishful thinking from atheists.mark2123 wrote:I'm assuming you meant these questions?August wrote:So you have faith in something that "just happened"? It is "just history"?mark2123 wrote:Hi,
Not so much a scientific reason, but scientific explanation as to how we came to being - my the combination of chemicals billions of years ago that learned to reproduce and then evolve into what we all are today. He just happened - much as the big bang did and everything else is just history
But why did it just happen? Why is there something instead of nothing? Where did it all come from? How can chemicals "learn to reproduce?"
Ok, so what would you regard as evidence for the existence of God?It still stands though that there are a lot more reasons not to believe in God than there are to believe - as far as I can see it. And, it is not logical for him to hide, expect us to just believe and punish us for not doing so - like I chose to be here in the first place, NOT!
The chemicals and reproduction thing is explained in Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time - it's a good read. Chemicals, combined in a pre-biotic soup to eventually make up enough cells to form a type of pre-DNA. Evolution and the rest is history. Now, you are going to come back and say why do I believe that any more than in God, well, it is logical in that if you go backwards in evolution, you find less and less complicated being and cells, hence evolution. So it makes sense to me that the beginning started with single celled creatures. That to me makes more sense that some God looking over us all forcing nasty choices and condemning us for not believing - I made my choice so please accept that - I accept you made yours too.
Evidence as the exstence of God would be useful in that I would believe - is it so much to ask when it would mean me changing how I live in order to include God in my life?
In so few situations in life do we accept the word of people without proof, especially the more and more it has greater consequences. If I told you to jump off a cliff and that you would be caught half way down, handed £1m and then put carefully on the floor, you would'nt believe me or risk doing it. You would need some proof. Why not I also then?
You hold a double standard because you simply don't want to believe, and then seek to rationalize it from speculative resources that require much faith to hold. We have already seen the moral consequences of your beliefs, you have no rational objections to babies being raped or innocent people being stoned.
I see that you are moving on, and that is fine, but we have not even started to discuss how rationality and logic can come from your belief system.
Good luck to you, and may the truth find you one day.