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From: tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr)
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Subject: Re: evidence for the non-existence of God
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Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 16:49:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 16 16:49:20 1984
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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.