Why you think God doesn't exist?

[ZenMasterFlex]

Forget God of Christianity, forget Gods of Hinduism, forget all structured religion that has been force fed to generation after generation.

The question is simply this: Do you think it is possible that there is a higher power?

I don't want this to turn into name calling. Just post your reasoning and be done with it. No debating, no arguing, no preaching, nothing. No questioning me or why I'm asking, just post it. If 50 people post in this format, I'll post mine, and Why I started this thread.

[hmkpoker]

Defining what exactly a "higher power" is is tricky. Gravity? The entirety of the universe itself? Perhaps some consciousness that exists as a result of the universe?

Is it possible? Sure, why not.

Is it true/what is it? I don't know.

[Sephus]

of course it's possible. anyone who says it's impossible is a [censored] idiot. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[McBusto]

Yes. It is possible.

[madnak]

Yes, I think it's very possible.

[MidGe]

If it is conscious, then I am against it as a matter of morality.

[Jinx]

I've talked to God. He's a french ironist with a twisted sense of humor.

[yukoncpa]

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If it is conscious, then I am against it as a matter of morality.




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A most extraordinary response. If a higher power exists, it may not be sentient. And if it is sentient, it may not be conscious of our existence.
But if it is sentient and conscious of our existence, then it is arguably immoral from our standpoint. Is it immoral for us to kill an ant? Maybe not. Is a God that knows us and lets us suffer, being immoral from his standpoint? Maybe not. But this is the reason that morality is a part of us, rather than outside of us. No God can dictate morality to another sentient being.

[KeysrSoze]

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of course it's possible. anyone who says it's impossible is a [censored] idiot. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Who says? It may NOT be possible if the laws of physics are such that make it not possible (not that we know if they are or aren't). It's possible that every atom on the earth could simultaniously tunnel into the middle of a star or cease to exist. Not probable but possible. The existence of a pure "spirit" being with no form yet can still manipulate the universe, is sentient and can think and reason without any sort of physical brain, may not be possible.

[MidGe]

yukoncpa,

Well elaborated and more accurate from my viewpoint. I didn't want to harp too much about it as I mase this point already on another thread. Thanks for you taking the time, though. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

To me the concept of a "responsible" god is too awful to contemplate even.