Evidence for the existence of God

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appolose said:

Zucas said:
I'll some up a counter arguement easily:

The idea of a god is purely manmade. Why? There is absolutely nothing in nature available to ever insinuate a god or powerful intelligent creature. This proves that the idea of a god or something like it is purely manmade as nothing in nature even suggests it. FACT.

How did the idea of a god or intelligent being come to life? Ignorance and arrogance. Man was arrogant in thinking that they were the superior creature. And if they couldn't understand the world then they used that ignorance to derive something unreal to explain it. All gods are mythology, and all gods are created. All are derived out of fear, ignorance, arrogance, and hope. None are derived from facts, and most importantly nature. God is man's ultimate creation.

Could not have God, or any transendant being, revealed Him/itself to man? That would certainly account for it. As for man creating God to explain the unknown, I don't think it plausible for any person, who not having anything to suggest within nature such an answer, to come up with an incorporeal and divine being as an explanation. I mean, who would have thought to themselves as they watched a thunderstorm "I'll bet there's a giant, transcendental divinity up there doing that". No. He's first and only thoughts would have been "It's the clouds".

What? Human kind for millenia have been attributing things they couldn't do themselves to divine beings. Every culture ever has had their own god(s) that had their own job(s). Far be it from me to prevent you from speaking for the rest of human kind though...