Oh, my mind is totally open to change! As soon as God appears in front of me and performs a miracle, I'd become the diehardest follower of God forever! -NP
I think all the people in the Debate & Discussion room should go tell him that they know that God exists. Oh no. I meant to put this in the Dalia Lama topic.
Evolution isn't in conflict with believing in God. Evolution says nothing about the existence or non-existence of a higher power.
Sorry for the rapid fire responses here but a lot to respond to in this thread. God is rational in that it is a construct of our minds since we can't physically prove it but it is irrational that to maintain belief in it that requires us to make a leap of faith. If we are limited to basing everything on only our sensory perceptions and on probability you can't factor God into it because there is no way to physically prove it. God isn't an improbability but its not more of a probability since proof isn't there. A leap of faith though is made to accept to discount the probability that there are empiracal explanations to that God must have done this. In other words you jump past the physical world to the metaphysical.
bruce willis = my favorite action movie star die hard = my favorite action series (1) Because it's fun. (just joking) (2) Because I like to help people save money, heartache, time, etc. (3) I have lots of wacky ideas that I'm bursting to share with other people (atheism is neither wacky nor mine, by the way).
I'm a believer, I once had a pretty bad life but found myself a Christian family who so far are all good and geniuine people. I don't know how I'd be without them and having learned about God the way I do now. Life is great when you surround yourself with honest people.
Hell and death! Now I'll have to look it up. I know he was a believer when he wrote The Origin of the Species. Didn't he change much later, because of a family tragedy? Gods in Space!
Yes, he was basically an Anglican theologian at one point. But yeah, I think he was affected by death and a colleague who influenced him ( I can't remember his name right now).
If I recall Darwin gave up on Christianity and the idea of a personal deity but he didn't give up on the idea that there might be some sort of supernatural deity.
