What Doyou Believe And Why?

[Theland]

In answer to the big questions, the origin of the universe, the origin of life, what is your opinion, and what evidence to you have to satisfy your opinions?

[Theland]

Beg to differ Rock rose.
Quite right Mozz.

[Rockrose]

What evidence do you have that God exist and created the world?

[emmie]

i don;t believe in any deity, as to why, there is enough substantial evidence out there to show that we have evolved over many millennia, and that one day we will be gone and the earth eventually will be gone too. Billions of years down the line perhaps but i can't see humans lasting too much longer if i am honest.

[drmorgans]

It seems to me to be a futile argument. If you believe in some sort of higher being (a god, or God) that created everything and determines our lives, then that's what you believe.

Scientists saying the Universe was created 14 billion years ago, the Earth 3.5 billion years ago and working to a set of rules, some of which are not fully understood, is another completely different set of beliefs.

I suppose the cop-out is to say the Universe was created by a god (or God) with a fairly consistent set of (physical) rules that are gradually being revealed.

[Spicerack]

♫It's better to burn out
Than to fade away♫

That Big Bang is rubbish.

[drmorgans]

So what is your rational explanation for the creation and existence of the Universe?

[Spicerack]

I don't know. But I know the BB is a load of cobblers.

[beso]

Spicerack //I don't know. But I know the BB is a load of cobblers.//

How can you "know" this?

[beso]

drmorgans //Scientists saying the Universe was created 14 billion years ago, the Earth 3.5 billion years ago and working to a set of rules, some of which are not fully understood, is another completely different set of beliefs.//

The rules governing the Universe are thoroughly understood from a minuscule fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Everything we can observe today can be traced as a result of those Laws. No observations have been proved to be inconsistent with those Laws.

[naomi24]

Beso, //The rules governing the Universe are thoroughly understood .... //

I think that's misleading. There's an awful lot we don't understand.

[Old_Geezer]

The laws we believe we have found have to be consistent with our observations, to the degree we can accurately measure, as otherwise we wouldn't have considered them as laws. But at each stage there is the chance that we have only an approximation and that reality is more complex/detailed than our present understanding. We are still progressing our knowledge.

Plus one should accept the possibility that there is more to reality than the physical we see around us, observation of which we use to formulate/discover those laws.

[mibn2cweus]

The pursuit of understanding the information provided to us by our senses and the means by which we perceive and process it has provided us with everything we know about anything with any degree of certainty.

[beso]

naomi //There's an awful lot we don't understand.//

Anything particular you have in mind?

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity have successfully explained everything that has been observed. In particular, QM pointed to opportunities for devices such as lasers, transistors and dozens of others that would otherwise never have been contemplated.

[retrocop]

Am I bothered?. Does it matter?. I was born and I'm going to die. Night Night. :-)

[Mozz71]

Spicy, do you mean the actual big bang is cobblers, or the terrible American sitcom Big Bang Theory is? I support you wholesale if you mean the latter.

[naomi24]

Beso, we’ve observed the effects of gravity but we don’t know what it is. The simple fact is we don’t understand everything. We still have a lot to learn. It would be ludicrous to claim otherwise.

[mibn2cweus]

//We still have a lot to learn.//

How not to annihilate ourselves with the technology we now have at our disposal being one. Religion has not simply predicted the mess we now find ourselves in denial of. It is one (if not the main) cause of our ongoing failure to learn to use the products of reason rationally. For humanity to survive we must be smarter than our guns and acknowledge the real cost of the consequences throughout history inherent in believing in mystical nonsense.

[tiggerblue10]

If anyone is interested, Dan Brown's 'Origin' is a recommended read on the subject of the relevance of religion in this day and age. That is how I perceived it to read anyway.

[Bobbisox1]

I believe in God but I don’t push my views on others, it’s my choice

[Theland]

Compare the prophecies in the bible with the history of Israel right up to the present day, and watch the news as to how events in the Middle East are developing right now, all,in accordance with the bible prophecies.