I Am An Atheist

@Dolimyte Nuclear fusion has a lot to do with it in my opinion, from out ability to split to the nuclear fusion that happens at the heart of a star. As to answer your question, if there was such thing as a God then there would really be no reason for us to invent the ability ourselves, not to mention that this "God" would likely prevent us in doing so in the first place considering its destructive capabilities.

@PikachuTrainer yes I gathered that. But what does that have to do with whether there is or isn't a god?

@PikachuTrainer splitting the atom is fission, not fusion. As for the argument you provide here, that only disproves a very specific imagining of 'God' as a fussy doorkeeper and superintendant of everyone individually.

@firefall It is actually both, since one requires Uranium, while the other can be done with just Hydrogen, currently we have the Latter but we require the former in order to create the reaction.

@PikachuTrainer I agree with your conclusion that there is no evidence for a god, but I think your reasoning is highly flawed.

@Dolimyte flawed it maybe, but it is still my personal belief.

@PikachuTrainer ok

@PikachuTrainer I think you need to read up on your physics. When small atoms, like hydrogen, are fused together to form bigger atoms, a small amount of mass is converted to energy according to E=mc^2. This remains true until we get to iron. Making atoms bigger than iron requires an input of energy. We can get that energy back by splitting big atoms (e.g. Uranium) into smaller ones.

Our Sun emits about 385 yottawatts ( that's 385 million million million million watts) by converting approximately 600 million tonnes of hydrogen to approximately 596 million tonnes of helium every second. The 4 million tonnes difference is what is emitted as energy.

The vast majority of that energy is radiated into space, only a tiny fraction reaches the Earth. This is what some people call "Intelligent Design". :)