Split from Welcome FAQ thread - Is there a God? Discuss

[doodab]

The only explanations of things like MS, Alzhiemers, Cerebal Palsy, Typhoid, HIV etc etc is that God is a nasty piece of work if he purposely designed them, crap at his job if he didn't test properly, or he doesn't exist.

For any of the above three he's not worth bothering with.

You have neglected a fourth option. Being constrained by various rules and regulations, he has done what all engineers do and made what he believes to be the best possible compromise.

[shaunbhoy]

You have neglected a fourth option. Being constrained by various rules and regulations, he has done what all engineers do and made what he believes to be the best possible compromise.

If he is truly omnipotent then he cannot BE constrained. Shirley?
Or have we just got a Friday afternoon God?

[Gibbon]

If he is truly omnipotent then he cannot BE constrained. Shirley?
Or have we just got a Friday afternoon God?

WHS

[doodab]

Perhaps he isn't omnipotent.

[shaunbhoy]

Perhaps he isn't omnipotent.

That's not the spin most of the literature puts on it IIRC

[doodab]

That's not the spin most of the literature puts on it IIRC

Well, marketing departments do tend to over promise.

[minestrone]

As the topic winds down I do want add that my faith has never been about believing in an singular force that created or owns the universe, rather reading about the life of Christ and trying to live my life using his teachings. It's not about enternal life to me or who created what, I just believe that Christ gave us a moral code to which I want to adhere to.

[shoes]

Interview with Douglas Adams regarding his beliefs.

Douglas Adams' Interview with American Atheists

[Mich the Tester]

As the topic winds down I do want add that my faith has never been about believing in an singular force that created or owns the universe, rather reading about the life of Christ and trying to live my life using his teachings. It's not about enternal life to me or who created what, I just believe that Christ gave us a moral code to which I want to adhere to.

It´s quite possible to agree with a lot of what Mr J Christ is reputed to have said and believe that he existed without believing in a god. I'd be rather skeptical about the virgin birth story and I think the miracles were basically allegorical tales. In fact, what really turns me off Christianity is the 'god' hypothesis. There's a lot of good stuff in there otherwise.

[sasguru]

Interview with Douglas Adams regarding his beliefs.

Douglas Adams' Interview with American Atheists

From that link, Douglas Adams says:

"There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all."


That in a more eloquent way is what I have been arguing all along in this thread.