Do you believe in God? Why/Why not?

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dark_gh0st_b0y said:

Peh said:

I wouldn't call it a miracle or luck. It's rather unavoidable. We are certainly not the only planet who managed to grow life on it  Even it if were one planet per galaxy whereas a galaxy has billions of solar systems. And our universe has how many millions or billions of galaxies? Not to mention that we found dozens of planets in our own galaxy which are fit for life.

this is an interesting topic! miracle or luck is always up to one's perception, I don't see how life on other planets can dismiss the existence of an upper intelligence deity in another dimension that caused the big bang and administrated the events that led to life on multiple planets

our knowledge is very limited on the matter, there is definitely life on other planets but does it even go beyond cells? many, many conditional circumstances must be met in order for life to exist, develop organs and evolve, even more when it comes to developing an organism that goes beyond the ''unavoidable'' in a sense that it possess a spirit and free will, one whose actions are not pre-set

Christian scripts support that both animals and human possess a spirit, but free will has only been given to the human by god, the only thing (along with the spirit) that does not recycle, but goes on to exist forever in another dimension, along with its memories

but like I said before, people give to much focus on connecting religion and science, religion is about having a healthy spirit and therefore a better life, if those teachings really make one feel healthy, then there's nothing else to prove

As most things supernatural they come from a place of missing knowledge and understanding.

Yes, the probabilities of life existing are astronomically low, but do you know what's literally astronomically large? The universe. That puts the likelihood of these events massively into perspective. I mean it's not like the earth is in a very specific spot in the universe. It's just one of the quadrillions of planets where it could've happened. But those are all very gigantic or tiny numbers, so it's hard for people to grasp and they start trying to fill their gaps in understanding. It's exactly the same as flat earthers. They cannot grasp the actual size of the earth, so they don't understand that the surface of a sphere can appear flat if sufficiently sized.

Of course we cannot say that there is no god, but looking at the wealth of evidence we find in the universe and recognizing that all is based on simple causality and logic we can at least conclude that even if there is some kind of god, he'll most likely not be how the major religions depict him. It's obvious, if he exists, that he doesn't give a shit about earth or its people. For that earth is just too random. And if there is also life on other planets, which is statistically very likely, it just underlines that the loving, caring god who views humans as the pinnacle of his creation just doesn't make any sense.

With this conclusion in mind there is no point in worshipping, no matter if he exists or not. He clearly just wants us to live our lives and doesn't really care what happens with us.