theARTIST0017 said:
Armads said:
theARTIST0017 said:
vlad321 said:
So I have yet to see a good answer as to why we should listen to God and belive in him and not fairies and unicorns and cyclops and other such creatures which have exactly as much evidence as any god in any religion.
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That's ok. Nobody's forcing you to believe in anything. You choose to believe in what you want that's sorta how free will works. If you don't believe in God now, most likely you're not going to believe in him later. Most people don't change.
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What makes you think you have free will?
God or not there is no such thing as free will, the timeline of the universe is determined at it's very beginning (though that's not the beginning of time, just the universe, the big bang is the beginning of our universe because any event before the big bang would not have any effect on what happened after that event so therefore it is irrelevant to our universe just as our universe will have no effect upon the next one after the big crunch and next big bang.)
Quantum theory seems to indicate that the universe is not deterministic. Particles move in a way determined by probability, so you can't tell where they are going to be based on their current position and momentum.
Oh and your bit about people not changing is totally wrong, people changes religions and belief systems all the time. I was raised Roman catholic, studied buddhism breifly, then settled on an atheistic worldview which accepts logical assertions such as panpsychism versus eliminative materialism; either one is logically sound so I accept them both as possibilities.
Studies show less than 1/2 of all Americans stay with the faith they were brought up in, most change once or twice in their lives.
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No such thing as free will? You seem delusional.
It's currently hard to debate on this as we don't understand human consciousness. However free will would require the brain to be non-deterministic, which doesn't seem likely to be honest.
BIG BANG THE BEGINNING? AND YOU CAN BRING ME PAPERS (FACTS) TO PROVE THIS "BIG BANG THEORY". Dude its called the Big Bang Theory for a reason.
Already been thoroughly debated =P
Yeah people change but most likely if you are raised a certain religion, that is what you will stick to because its 1. what you know and 2. what you've believed your whole life.
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Whee. Chance to debate two opposing posts at once =P written underlined in both posts.
