I’m actually kind of boring myself with this, so I’ll just get to the point. I believe in God. I don’t believe in any certain religion’s God, I’m not even fully sure that there aren’t multiple Gods, but, for me, the world “God” stands for whatever being created the plants and the stars. And though I believe in God, I also am a firm believer in free-will over destiny and easily side with evolution over creationism. I hate to be one of “those people,” but, honestly, you can’t disprove God and, when you get to the end of the spectrum of what/whom created what/whom, there is an emptiness that needs to be filled by something and, for me, God is it.
If I may offer my perspective… You can’t disprove my claims that I had sex with Jessica Alba last night on the roof of The White House. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The burden of proof is on the believer, not the skeptic.
If you’re going to reverse-engineer the universe to come to the conclusion that god created everything, then what created god? If you need to come to a point where something must have always existed, why not save yourself a step and just decide that the universe must have always existed? The scientific position on the origin of the universe is “We don’t exactly know yet.” The religious position is “God did it.” That also used to be the religious position on things like the origin of man, the rising and the setting of the sun, sneezing, and a whole plethora of other things we now understand through science. How right did they turn out to be on those things? Why would they be right about the origin of the universe?
wait, Baxter had sex with Jessica Alba?
