Tony\'s God (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, November 21, 2011, 02:58 (4730 days ago) @ David Turell

I find it humorous, and rather ironic that you are ok with science studying, theorizing, and basing whole bodies of work based off of indirect observation. Yet, you balk when the same methods are applied in a religious context.

By observing the near endless variety, the beauty, the logic, the 'magic' of this creation, and all of the wonderful things that we experience on a daily basis, one can infer much. After all, the universe could probably have been created in black and white with everything uniform. I am fairly certain that it would have been much more efficient and easier and wouldn't have taken half of the effort. Humanity could have been simple automatons with little or no real intelligence or capacity for emotion. These are things that lead me to believe the way that I do.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.