Is Faith Reasonable?

[OdinHades]

Frank_kc said:
I am really shocked that no faith has the highest percentage. To answer the question about faith, we need to ask our-self one question: What is the purpose of life? are we created only to eat, sleep, work and then die? Is this really what life is about?

With no offence to the majority of who voted NO, knowing that most of them are Atheist and the Agnostic, if you found a watch in the middle of a desert. What would you conclude? Would you think that someone dropped this watch? Or would you suppose that the watch came by itself? Of course no sane person would say that the watch just happened to emerge from the sand. All the intricate working parts could not simply develop from the metals that lay buried in the earth. The watch must have a manufacturer. If a watch tells accurate time we expect the manufacturer must be intelligent. Blind chance cannot produce a working watch.

Why does life even need a higher purpose? It doesn't have a purpose in itself. You are the one who gives the purpose to your life.

That said, God as a reason just leads to more questions until infinity. If everything was made by god, who made god? Why was he there? For what purpose? Sure, you can just say "God has always been there and will always be there" - but you can say the same about the universe. Can't prove it, can't counter-prove it.

Everything we know points to Superman not existing. With that knowledge, it's not that smart to believe that Superman actually exists, is it? Guess what, everything we know also points to that no god whatsoever exists. So I don't know why the hell I should believe in something like that. Just because of an old book? I've read better books and still didn't believe the shit in there was real.

The more you know about physiscs, the less you'll want to believe in some kind of god. If you just get a glimpse of just how friggin' big the universe is, it blows my mind how anyone can think that we are even to slightest degree in any way important to it. More than 100 billion stars with likely the same amount of planets just in our galaxy. More than 100 billion galaxies just in the observable universe. Even if just 0.00000000000000001 % of planets are habitable, you're looking at millions of civilizations. We just happen to be here right now. But it doesn't mean too much. It will mean something, if we decide to take down the final frontier and start exploring and settling the universe. That way our species can spread and sometime truly understand what the universe is all about. But guess what, at the moment we're busy killing ourselves and one very important reason for that bullshit is religion. That dude believes something different than me, let's kill him! I'm so sick of it. We have the chance to achieve something big, but we just don't care enough.

Imagine an asteroid hitting the earth in 100 years or so. It could very well end all life as we know it on the planet. If we invest NOW in measures to protect ourselves from such threats, we wouldn't have to fear such scenarios. But nobody cares, let's make war. Maybe it's for the best that humanity will go extinct. There are bound to be better species for the job of conquering the endless universe.

Yeah, sorry, I'm somewhat pissed. =P