Is there any proof God exists?

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Yep; god gave us all free will. Free will to believe in him and follow his rules, without doubt or question or burn in hell for eternity.

...how convenient

Conveniently contrived and very effective at being used to control the tribe, of course. Hence the reason for religion in the first place, and hence the reason it's still stubbornly around today. Fear.

Your statement makes me understand that, for you, everyone that believes in God is because of fear of going to hell. I can't argue about the fact that a lot of churches teaches about God this way and that this may be the main motivation for a lot of people, but for me fear is definitely not the reason that i believe in God. Hell is actually something that I wasn't even thinking about when I started to believe in God, so no, your statement is not truth (but this is too subjective to discuss).
And... well, you just reaffirmed what you said a few posts ago with some ironic images without countering anything and I don't know how to move forward in a discussion this way, so I don't have nothing more to say.

LOGICAL PROOF A GOD EXISTS:

This proof is so simple that a 2-year-old can follow it.

Science is all about finding answers to questions. A few of the big questions are, "Why do we exist?", "Where did matter come from?", "Why does gravity work the way it does?", etc.

Now, imagine that there was a scientific breakthrough and we answered one of those important questions. We only find ourselves asking more questions about the new answer, "Why that answer?".

Every time you find an answer, you will follow it with more questions to be solved. It is a never ending cycle of questions and answers and questions.

Where does it end? The only logical answer is GOD. Sooner or later, even science will find GOD.

More evidence:
Steven Hawking and other physicists have theorized that the universe was spontaneously created by laws such as gravity. They then theorized that these laws were created by the universe.

This means the creation of the universe works in a cycle:
Laws -> Spontaneous Creation -> Universe -> Laws -> Spontaneous Creation -> etc.

Where did the cycle start? The most logical spot to start the cycle is to define the Laws. How did the Laws get defined without a current Universe? The only logical answer is GOD.

Now, I don't speak of a Christian GOD or Greek GODs, or any GOD that we know of. It is far more logical that the GOD that does exist has never had any influence on our creation at all except for the fact that this GOD created the Laws in which everything is governed.

Here is evidence that even a two year old can follow.

We don't know stuff but this does not mean god is real.


For the more thoughtful among the believers on this thread the trouble you seem to be having stems from the use of common experience when thinking about the universe and what may lie beyond. Here is one thing I do agree with adhogday about science is not necessarily a dry unimaginative paradigm, if it were we would discover very little. Some of the greatest minds in the history of science were incredibly imaginative and used thought experiments to tease out the ideas, among them Einstein, Newton, Copernicus, Hawking etc. Without their ability to imagine they would not have come up with the discoveries that they did. Others in history have been imaginative the greats among the great Plato and Aristotle. What separates the former from the latter is the scientific method, more specifically testing thought experiments with experiments in nature.

This is also the difference between the religious who think they know the answer and those of us who say "we don't know". So many times in human history we have make broad and extraordinary claims based upon religious ideology that have not only turned out to be utter nonsense but have also held up the progress of human knowledge.

This is not evidence for or against god, it is simply saying that the universe and what lies beyond is more than likely stranger and far less intuitive than any of us could possibly imagine, and for me stating that "god did it" is placing a major stricture on what can be discovered, as well as being incredibly unimaginative.

Since I am very late to this discussion party, i was wondering if there is a consensus around here on the existence of G-d.

Do most of us here believe G-d exists or do we mostly believe he does not exist or is there a roughly even split between those who think He is real and those who think He is not?

And of course, this is a fundamentally different question from asking who is religious. Who can very much believe in G-d's existence without being religious in any way, shape or form.