walkingdork said:
Bingowings said:
The universe is big enough to account for the possibility of talking snakes and virgin births.
On a universal scale if you can imagine it, it possibly exists somewhere, it's just not necessarily probable you will experience it.
If you were all powerful then you could collapse those probabilities, however small, into certainties.
That doesn't prove God is there and did it but it doesn't provide absolute proof that he doesn't and didn't.
I hear what you are saying. I still think it's all made up bullshit, but I hear what you are saying. Like the universe is big enough to account for the possibility that there is a mountain in the sky where gods of many talents toy with the human race. And maybe one of those gods bangs a human chick and the son grows up to fight monsters like a slithery snake chick with snakes for hair.
I know I'm being shitty about it, (and I really do feel what you are saying), but I think there is a difference between infinite possibilities and moral fairy tales/parables told for generations. I do realize however that you were just pointing out the possibility of a talking snake and not advocating for them.
I know there is no absolute proof that a god/creator does or does not exist. We debate about how the universe started but the why is unclear. I could be agnostic but the idea that somehow someone has managed to map out the whole history of creation by a god in fine detail is such a turn off. I might believe in the possibility that some deity flipped the switched and started the universe but (like Hawking and other physicists) the idea that a god temporarily changes the law of physics to create miracles or bring upon his will is too much.
@darth_ender
I know, I know. More conversation that should be in the religion thread. Well it's too late! Click.
You do indeed have a somewhat...abrasive style. I think miracles are God's natural laws that are beyond our current understanding. This means that I'm not sure exactly how something like the parting of the Red Sea came to pass. How literal was it that the waters rose up on both sides? Was there wind? Was there a large sandbar that was briefly exposed? Was it some other principle that defies our current understanding of events? I don't know, but I agree, in most cases God does not adjust his own laws just for fun. That said, God is capable of doing so if he wishes. It doesn't seem to make sense to me, but it's possible.