Please Die Fighting for My Rights

[danax6]

The Bible was written more than "few" centuries ago. As was the Koran.

It was not meant to be taken that literally.

The argument for a God seems more evident in those books alone than just your personal opinion.

This is not just my personal opinion. And even it was, aren't I entitled to have it? What makes your opinion better than mine?

Well in a way, it is you against the rest of the world. To varying degrees. You're gonna leave this world alone after all.

The rest of the world has nothing to do with my dying or not. Just because I think people cease to exist after death, that means I am all alone in this world? I just don't get your reasoning. Just because there won't be people waiting for me on the other side doesn't make my life on this side lonely or any less meaningful. In contrary, I am with Sharon on this... it makes you want to live your life to the fullest, because hey, you only get one chance.

I guess you're misunderstanding me. I didnt say a belief in God is necessary to give meaning to your life. But what meaning is there otherwise?

Then isn't that exactly what you are saying? You are kind of contradicting yourself there.

Serving yourself? I couldnt have a clean conscience knowing that I lived my life merely for my own pleasure. Selfishness is unbecoming.

It has nothing to do with selfishness! You can only be selfless if you live your life the way somebody else dictates you to? How freakin' twisted is that? Compassion for other human beings doesn't lie in faith or the bible or in God, it lies within yourself.

Evolution is still, after all this time, a theory and it will remain so.

It is just as much a theory as the existence of God is. More or less people believing in something doesn't make it more or less true.

Doesnt mean I dont believe in adaptation and co-evolution...or extinction for that matter. But Man will always try to understand and put things in a box which he cannot ultimately understand so that he CAN understand it.

Isn't believing in God or any other high spirit essentially putting something in a box (or book) because he cannot understand it either? Religion, to me, is the easy way out. Nobody is even trying to find some basis for their beliefs, they all attribute it to 'just being the way it is'. I guess I am too curious by nature to settle for that.

If God who is above science and our own reasoning truly created the universe according the the Bible, then wouldnt our techniques of science being somewhat flawed? Wouldnt a search for God in science be skewed?

I can't answer that because I don't believe in a God above science.