GOD

Posted by Andrew on August 02, 1998 at 04:03:45:

In Reply to: Are you an alchemist too? posted by rpcman on July 12, 1998 at 02:36:11:

: : Third, if you were to stack all the true atheists that those lists mention (and even the non-atheists mentioned in them) and put them on a scale, and I were to put Isaac Newton by himself on the other end (i.e., the theist side), the scale would clearly tip in his favor. If I were to add everyone else (i.e., all the other great theists) at that point, then your side would fly off the scale.

: Who cares? If a trillion people believe a falsehood and one person believes in a truth, I'll go with the latter. Truth isn't a democracy. Isaac Newton believed in many false things. Do you agree with him on every point? I'd also be willing to bet that his ideas would be a bit more correct had he been born after Darwin and Hubble. He predicted that the world would end 50 years ago. Did it?

::: In my mind I wonder why we humans cannot just acknowledge that however far back in time we go, even to a split second before the big bang happened, surely we have to realise that it is not possible to have such a random beginning to our existence and then to be sitting here some 15 billion years later talking about it on a computer. The enormity of it and the odds of all that being random are beyond all comprehension, that to me my friends, is what I call god . My god just is, you can't pray to him because he is me and I am him .God is the impossibility of it all. We are all here for such a short time in universal history as not to even be worth a mention, so why don't we all accept that we are all extremely lucky to have made it this far in history and acknowledge that there is something so immensely greater than we will ever understand as we are not capable of such deep thought. Maybe if we used our minds and reached higher the human race we may have some good years before it extinguishes itself.

ps I don't mean to lecture, its just how I feel!

: : I hope you weren't expecting to convert me to your way of thinking. I know you probably get your share of theists that don't know science worth a hill of beans, but I'm not one of them. I will forever believe in God, and you can take that to the bank.

: Conversion? Absolutely not. I could care less what you believe. People who have their minds made up don't make for very interesting discussions though. They also don't make very good scientists.