Why you think God doesn't exist?

[kurto]

If the answer is that open... ie, where a higher power can simply mean a being more advanced or intelligent then what we know, it certainly is a possibility.

[FortunaMaximus]

42.

Or that there exists a perpetual state where there is always more or less than one God.

As for a scalar definition of intelligence, there exists a hierarchy on Earth. Why not the Universe?

[_TKO_]

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Couldn't a higher power be simply a race of aliens who are greatly more intelligent and developed as a civilization then us?

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There isn't much that differs this civilization from God, if said civilization created our planet and all the species living on it.

[kurto]

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As for a scalar definition of intelligence, there exists a hierarchy on Earth. Why not the Universe?

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That is nice and succinct.

The first part you posted, "42.

Or that there exists a perpetual state where there is always more or less than one God."

I don't understand what you're saying. I also don't see anything in this thread or the original question that implies there is a God (in the religious sense: all powerful creator of everything except itself).

[Shooby]

Ok. I'll bite. Is it "possible" that there's a higher power. Sure. But it's possible in the same way that it's possible that there are leprechans.
Using the scientific method, you can only state a hypothesis if there's some evidence. There isn't any evidence for God.
There's no rational basis for belief in a supernatural being.
These beliefs are part of society, and unfortunately, it doesn't look like they are going anywhere soon.
Steve

[madnak]

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There's no rational basis for belief in a supernatural being.

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No empirical basis. There may very well be a rational basis. Personally I agree there's no rational basis to assume a higher power, but nor is there any rational basis to assume the absence of a higher power. The arguments to parsimony are pretty irrelevant. Rationally speaking, the basis of existence is impossible to evaluate in any kind of meaningful sense.

[Shooby]

Shoot. I knew the word "rational" was going to bite me in the butt. It was a sloppy response. Empirical is the right word.Thanks, Steve [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

[Shooby]

Why do you think "it's very possible"?
There isn't any good reason to even ask the question "Is there a God?" IMO. You need evidence first. Anything else, I think, is mental masturbation.
Steve

[bunny]

The fact of a majority (? certainly a large proportion) of humans believing it is a reason to ask the question (although not a reason to believe).

[Jordan Olsommer]

2003 BBC Reith Lectures

Q:"Is [your atheism] because of your science, is that because of what you have learned, or...?"

A:"Well, it's partly common sense."
- V.S. Ramachandran