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Originally Posted by Bownesian
The OP's suggestion was that there is some chance that there is a God that Created the Universe (and the natural laws and whatnot) and started things off with a Big Bang and then everything from the formation of stars and planets to life and eventually humanity is a consequence of those natural laws and the process of Evolution.
Personally, I expect that is the same as saying God causes the Sun to rise or the seasons to change or the rains to come. The honest scientist's answer is we don't yet know how or why the universe is the way it is so we can't rule out that there is some entity controlling it or creating it.
My one question in these debates for the Religious side (especially those who argue that the burden of proof is on the Atheists to prove that there is no God) is this:
Applying your own logic, how do you know the other world religions are wrong? Rephrased my question is: how do you know that the Classic Greeks or the Ancient Egyptians or the Norse or the Hindus or the Buddhists or the Muslims are wrong and your brand of faith is right when they can all (selectively) claim allegory in their mythologies and can all be proven by the same methods you use to support your faith?
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I'm on the side that god exists but to say one religion is wrong and so another is right, doesn't sit well with me. I believe all religions sprung from a common experience and the resultant differences came about because of different societies trying to explain the unexplainable and as time goes on they became corrupted. As for the different gods that the Greeks and Norse had, these are just different aspects of the one god.
I don't particularly like religion, I was raised as an atheist but watching a program about the hopelessness of prostitutes in India and how they prayed to their god, I thought it is good that they retained some hope. We are lucky we have some control of our lives, so we can approach these matters with a more open mind.