Take note, Atheists: If you claim to know that God does not exist then you need to be able to prove it.

If you assert that you know that the god of the Bible doesn't exist then the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate your claim.
So before you shoot your mouth off with bold assertions in that area...make sure you can back it up.

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Glassysky · 26-30, M

I think athiesm is flawed a bit itself

It's not important if *god* exists, the function of religion in society serves the purpose of community & spirituality. People will find something else.. and maybe worse.

Does God exist? The one made up by countless humans.. probably not.

Is there a higher entity beyond human understand? Most likely, I mean do you really believe the earth compared to many planets just happened to randomly get an atmosphere to block all out all the harmful radition and so in space?

Pikachu

@Glassysky

I mean do you really believe the earth compared to many planets just happened to randomly get an atmosphere to block all out all the harmful radition and so in space?

Why not?
Are you familiar with the douglas adams puddle analogy?

Glassysky · 26-30, M

@Pikachu I think Evolution & the conditions on earth to sustain life, had a helping hand for sure by something.

Im not, familar with it

Pikachu

@Glassysky

I understand that impulse. But it's a matter of deciding that the outcome (life evolution etc.) was somehow the goal to begin with.
The logical flaw in this reasoning is well exemplified by the puddle analogy which goes thusly:

“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'

Of course the hole wasn't made to house the puddle, the puddle occupied an available space.
Similarly, what reason is there to think that Earth was made specifically for us to live rather than that the conditions were such that life was able to occupy the available space?

In the same way that a puddle can't exist on a slope and life can't exist where there is nothing to support it.

DocSavage · M

@Glassysky
Actually, yeah. Remember, you have countless galaxies, with infinite stars, with limitless planets orbiting them. Given those odds, you’re bound to hit the bullseye once in a while. If off center.

DocSavage · M

@Glassysky
I questioned as to whether or not god has to be a higher form of intelligence. We have evidence that supports the Big Bang, but all it tells us is there was a massive release of energy. It in no way suggest that energy was in any way “designed” or intentional. So god may be nothing more than that one shot burst of energy that set the universe into motion.
Something to consider.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@Glassysky

Do you have any idea how many stars are estimated to exist in the observable universe? The number is 200 billion trillion stars. And the universal could be a trillion times the size of what we can see. So, assign a number for how many planets each star might have and multiply that number by 200 billion trillion. How many planets do you think will be like ours, one or a billion or even more? And remember, our planet is constantly changing. It was much different in the past. And it will be different in the future.

According to the biblical fairy tale, God is only concerned with a speck of dirt on this planet and a couple of his favorite people. Everything and everyone else is just garbage. Jesus thought that stars were just tiny bits of light that would fall to the Earth, like meteors. He was clueless. Aren't you smarter than he was?