Religion – your views

Does God exist?

  • Yeah

    Votes: 51 30.9%

  • Nope

    Votes: 70 42.4%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 44 26.7%
  • Total voters
    165
I'm also an atheist, mostly because first of all, I never saw god. And second: I believe in science.
 
But what's funny is that when someone is in a situation of dispair, he/she can grab on anything: even in religion.
 
Haruka said:
But what's funny is that when someone is in a situation of dispair, he/she can grab on anything: even in religion.
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This is true, even if they've been an Atheist all their life.
 
RayFan9876 said:
Haruka said:
But what's funny is that when someone is in a situation of dispair, he/she can grab on anything: even in religion.
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This is true, even if they've been an Atheist all their life.
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Yeah, I can witness this by myself in certain situations. :oops2:
 
DesLife said:
Haruka said:
I'm also an atheist, mostly because first of all, I never saw god. And second: I believe in science.
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There's no such thing as "believing in science".
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Firstly, and secondly science and religion are not incompatible.
 
Hunchman801 said:
DesLife said:
Haruka said:
I'm also an atheist, mostly because first of all, I never saw god. And second: I believe in science.
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There's no such thing as "believing in science".
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Firstly, and secondly science and religion are not incompatible.
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If going by the literal meaning of religion then yes, they are incompatible. Often though people use the term "religion" outside of worshiping a supernatural deity and just "believing in a supreme power," which has a shot at having a scientific answer, and it may be the same answer that we are striving for as well: How and why the universe is. However there's nothing to negate the possibility of if our universe was created by someone or something within another universe.

If that's the case then we have something even more interesting to strive for: the origin of every universe that ever was. Maybe we cannot possibly reach any information outside our own universe.

If I'm sounding ridiculous it's because I'm in one of those tired, dreamy night time highs.
 
I'm not sure what you mean by “literal meaning of religion”, but if you meant “literal interpretation of religious texts”, then yes science and religion are incompatible, but the former doesn't necessarily (and fortunately quite rarely) imply such a strict understanding of holy scriptures.
 
Hunchman801 said:
I'm not sure what you mean by “literal meaning of religion”, but if you meant “literal interpretation of religious texts”, then yes science and religion are incompatible, but the former doesn't necessarily (and fortunately quite rarely) imply such a strict understanding of holy scriptures.
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I meant the literal definition of religion:

Google said:
re·li·gion/riˈlijən/
Noun:
  • The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
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Whereas people I've noticed commonly misuse the work "religion" when referring to their beliefs of another creator - which at first sounds like religion, but isn't.
 
spiraldoor said:
I want to know what Kurui saw.
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RayFan9876 said:
I meant the literal definition of religion:

Google said:
re·li·gion/riˈlijən/
Noun:
  • The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
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Then you are wrong, such a belief is not necessarily incompatible with science.
 
Evil-Thingamajig said:
And i am pointing out that until science can't find a answer for how the universe is created then science is talking nonsense. (You get what i mean)
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What the hell are you saying?
 
Hunchman801 said:
RayFan9876 said:
I meant the literal definition of religion:

Google said:
re·li·gion/riˈlijən/
Noun:
  • The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
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Then you are wrong, such a belief is not necessarily incompatible with science.
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Yes. It doesn't you can't find scientists that believe in a superior identity.
 
Well, my views sure have evolved since last summer.
I came to the conclusion that the idea that God would care about us believing in him is just stupid.
He's like a father that abandoned his child at birth.
 
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