I am divinely inspired to say that I don't "know" what to "believe."
My view is that I believe in God but I don't believe that God believes in religion.
I also suspect that God detests Islam. He's probably fine with most Muslims. But the "faith" taught by the insane violent bigoted pedophile, Mohammud (piss on him), is simply an affront to and an insult to God.
Why do you believe in god? Because you can't imagine any other way
? Because you want to believe you are special? Do you believe god ever visited and talked to anyone on earth?
If you don't believe in any of the organized religions, why do you believe there is a god? And do you believe good people go to heaven and bad people burn in hell?
And even if something did created earth, our solar system, our galaxy and the universe, why would you think it cares about humans? This is nothing more than wishful thinking. Does it care about ants and birds too?
Want humans to live forever? Lets build a space ship so humans can get out of this galaxy before it explodes. We have about 1 million years. We'd probably already be half way to Alpha Centauri or Proxima Centauri if it weren't for religions.
What starts off as a reasonable question quickly derails into a litany of dopey questions premised on your own shallow thinking.
I believe in God because it seems to me (notice, I am not talking about proof) that there is a whole lot of order in the universe beyond what I would expect if there had not been some incredible intelligence going into its creation. I am very well aware of the fact that the entire universe could have winked into existence without a creator -- just as a God could have come to exist without a higher order of creator.
So, it boils down to an "either / or." I default to the belief in a Creator because of my perception that there seems to be an amazing amount of "law" inherent in the universe that suggests that it all stems from a creative conscious thinking plan.
The other oddity of your series of questions is that you seem to presume that I ever said, suggested or implied that God shows any degree of "caring" for us. He might. OR He might not. I again don't know. Never said I did know.
Science completely understands all the reasons why people choose to believe in god.
On the contrary, science cannot POSSIBLY understand why God draws people to Himself.
The universe is extremely
hostile to life. Extinction level events have nearly eliminated complex life on Earth on
five separate occasions. Of all the species that have ever lived 99.9% are
now extinct. Furthermore, normal matter like stars and planets occupy less than
0.0000000000000000000042 percent of the observable universe. Life constitutes an
even smaller fraction of that matter again. If the universe is fine-tuned for anything it is for the
creation of black holes and empty space.
There is nothing to suggest that human life, our planet or our universe are
uniquely privileged nor intended. On the contrary, the sheer
scale of the universe in both
space and
time and our understanding of
its development indicate we are
non-central to the scheme of things; mere products of chance, physical laws and evolution. To believe otherwise amounts to an
argument from incredulity and a hubris mix of
anthropocentrism and
god of the gaps thinking.
The conditions that we observe, namely, those around our Sun and on Earth, simply
seem fine-tuned to us because we evolved to suit them. We cannot prove that all other
possible forms of life would be infeasible with a different set of conditions or constants because the only universe that
we can observe is the one we occupy. Indeed,
modelling suggests star formation (a necessary precursor to our form of biology) may be viable under a number of different universal conditions.
Without actual proof of creation,
naturalistic explanations for the properties of this universe cannot be wholly ruled out. It is possible an
infinity of universes exist, all with different conditions and forms of life. The fact that our particular universe has the
physical constants we observe may be no more to the point than the fact a hand of cards, dealt from a shuffled deck, is the one a hypothetical player holds. Though the chances of any one universe being hospitable to life might be low, the
conditional probability of a form of life
observing a set of constants
suitable to it is exactly unity. That is to say, every possible universe would ‘appear’ fine-tuned to the form of life it harbors, while all those inhospitable universes would never be observed by life at all.
If your deities are so petty and petulant something I say offends them, they're not deserving of being called a god in the first place.
