So believing that there is a God, a creator that created us in his image with the same sense of morals and feelings and goodness and love is farfetched
and this is the best argument you can come up to convince me is this....
think that there we are hard wired to empathise and care in certain situations, I think that this reflects an evolutionary product of our ancestors social groups. It is advantageous for a tribe or pack to look out for eachother, especially when the others share a good proportion of genetic material.
I am sorry but it just does not convince me.
Our morals, are feelings and need to be loved, to be needed and to be wanted, the feeling of uniqueness and individuality we all have set us far apart from animals and to claim it is some hardwired fluke of evolution seems more fantastic to me than the fact that perhaps we were made that way intentionly for a purpose so we could co exist together because thats what we were put on earth to do,
I do not believe you can brush a sense of justice and a sense of what is right or wrong and the very act of being able to love someone as something that evolution suddenly decided made us able to survive longer, because it involves more than that
Maybe you can see it from a clinical scientific view only, and I get it from a whole different perspective that I have lived my life and experienced a lot and seen a lot of things go on around me personally and from a worldwide viewpoint
but if evolution is responsible for the situation we are in now well it sure messed up because humans are the ones destroying the planet. Wonder why it give us higher thinking power and more abilities than our animal ancestors just so we can wipe them and ourselves out?
The majority of the times when animals kill its for food and there is a certain balance.
When men kill its for a whole different reason. usually power greed hatred, things animals are incapable of feeling which makes us different than them again.
and though animals kill each other why hasnt evolution give them this same sense of moral protectivness?
the funny thing is animals never wipe each other out to the point of extinction only humans have managing that job.
To try and tell me the abhorrence I feel for seeing my fellow man slaughter each other senselessly as well as destroying the animal life around them, is down to some trick of evolutionary survival doesn't work for me
It's something much more than that. And whether you are an atheist or a religous person doesnt really matter because even if you don't believe in God you are still endowed with his qualites because thats the way we were made
I believe Love and life are not an accident.. it is a gift, how we choose to use it is up to us
Maybe it is not very a very scientific or scholarly viewpoint, but perhaps I am just looking at it as a humble human being who has feelings, and I don't feel I need a scientific excuse to have them or explain them away
And I am not a person who accepts the first thing she is told easily, just because it makes me feel better, that is not the reason I believe in God,
he give us the ability to use our brains to think and to work things out and to question everything around us, to find satisfying answers that make sense,
but it all comes down to what you are looking for, some of us are satisfied with our lives and that this is all their is, because that is all they want so don't want to look any further
Others want to believe they are soley responsible for themselves and don't have to answer to a highter power so choose to go that path
There are hundreds of different religions and philosphical ideas to satisfy everyones needs and fancies so they choose the ones that suit them and their lifestyle
I discovered God chooses who he will reveal himself to, it will most likely not be the high minded or the brilliant brains in the world, because his motivation is not to prove his existence, but to draw us into a close lovng relationship with him, which is far more important to him.
Once more he give us the free will to accept or reject it, he has no desire to force his will upon us because he wants our motivation to be out of love
Oh thats how I turned from being an athiest myself and even though I didn't believe in God I didn't drink, smoke, or swear I hated cruelty to animals, and could never hurt anyone so I had high morals, and I was not a bad person who suddenly seen the error of my ways because I was scared of buringing in some hell forever. I despised religion because I seen the trouble it caused
I scorned people who believed in God as weakminded because they couldnt accept death was just the end and needed some crutch or some higher power to turn to so i wasn.t looking for God
And when I started studying the bible it was to prove it wrong, but suddenly it was the only thing that made sense .. so there is irony for you
and I discovered much to my surprise that even if religions were bad that did not mean that God was or that he approved of the way they behaved and in the end they also had to answer to him, so I could not judge him on the way they acted
So yeah I believe God exists and I don't care if science can prove it or not, I have seen enough evidence with my own eyes to prove it to the point I can't deny it and I don't care if people think I am foolish, in fact I don't expect anything else, when the bible itself says the world and the people in it would become more Godless.
So all you athiest out there wanting to do away with religion and God.. in a weird way you are proving the bible right and only convincing me more that God know what he is talking about
And for all you people who ask if God exists well why isnt God doing something about the awful things going on in the world, he is
but I got to go to bed now and I have rambled on enough
night all