Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!mako!tims From: tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.religion Subject: Re: evidence for the non-existence of God Message-ID: <23@mako.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 16:49:20 EST Article-I.D.: mako.23 Posted: Fri Mar 16 16:49:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Mar-84 08:14:18 EST References: <892@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 34 What about all the people who believed in God and don't now, such as myself, what convinced them? In the 25+ years that I have lived, I have witnessed absolutely nothing that pointed to the existence of God. That, in itself, is rather convincing to me. Granted I've never seen a black hole either, but there is evidence that they exist. Where is the evidence that God exists? Don't tell me that "2,000 years ago there was..." The details of what went on 2,000 years ago nobody knows, noone can say that if Jesus existed, that he lied, or not, about being the son of God. Let's examine something that we know more about, again, I point to the total lack of real, current evidence, of any kind. And I don't care if on sunday morning I can turn on the TV and listen to people say they've "talked to God", etc. Christianity has survived as a philosophy, it does not depend on the existence of God. How does one explain that a single Creator exists, while many other religions on this planet are inconsistent with this, many older than Christianity. The American Indians had many different beliefs in many different gods, before the good Christians decided to wipe out the filthy godless heathens. Many cultures have invented gods to explain the existence of the mountains and the animals etc. And God created the Earth and life on it?, how is this attitude different from the ancient false belief that the sun is a flaming chariot? Both are just simplistic explanations for what someone couldn't explain. What makes a belief in God different than someone believing the earth is giant turtle walking around the sun? Why did many Christians violently reject the theory of evolution, even when we know that evolution happens, if by no more that survival of the fittest? Man was created in God's image and God created the universe, right? What a conceited notion, that we are the favored species in the universe, or at least close to it. People are no more special than any other animal, except he has the ability to obliterate the rest, and himself as well.