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If you carefully observe the dialogue between Lucy (Australopithecus) and God in the Garden, you will understand that dominion of the earth was given to her and her posterity - us - to use wisely and effectively, or not. 

Remember that every taxpayer owes $217,612 on the US Debt.

Actually, the death rate of children under 15 was 50 percent until intelligent man got the death rate down to 5 percent in the 1900's.

It was parents that saw 1/2 of their children die that created religion. Search for Mortality rates of  children over the last two millennia.

Remember Sheldon Cooper's  Prehistoric Ape to Monkey to Man to Robot Evolution T-Shirt on the Big Bang Theory?

I am not religious, but I give The God Delusion 5.0 out of 5 stars. This book is for objective minds! Dawkins has written one of the best books I have ever read. I say this because he presents dense, but more importantly, unbiased objective arguments throughout the entire book.

I believed in Santa who was my standard of gift giving. He first chose me to  wrap Christmas gifts. Then, in watching the Miracle on 34th Street's  message, I came to believe. My standard does not originate from or in myself. It is the revelation of Someone else who is logically necessary for receiving Xmas gifts . Then I turned 7.

You are correct. From Wikipedia, The term "son of God" is used in the Hebrew Bible as another way of referring to humans with special relationships with God. In Exodus, the nation of Israel is called God's "Firstborn son". In Psalms, David is called "son of God", even commanded to proclaim that he is God's "begotten son" on the day he was made king. Solomon is also called "son of God". Angels, just and pious men, and the kings of Israel are all called "sons of God."

 All studies to date of global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions indicate that present-day sub aerial and submarine volcanoes release less than a percent of the carbon dioxide released currently by human activities. It has been proposed that intense volcanic release of carbon dioxide in the deep geologic past did cause global warming, and possibly some mass extinctions.

Nice poem you did in the Poetry Forum. There are a lot of people thinking like you.

See, There’s No Such Thing As Free Will by Stephen Cave of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science.

Doesn't a stupid person think that a loving God created pediatric cancer?  Atheists and agnostics do not behave less morally than religious believers, even if their virtuous acts are mediated by different principles. They often have as strong and sound a sense of right and wrong as anyone, including involvement in movements to abolish slavery and contribute to relief efforts associated with human suffering. The converse is also true: religion has led people to commit a long litany of horrendous crimes, from God’s command to Moses to slaughter the Midianites, men, women, boys and non-virginal girls, through the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Thirty Years War, innumerable conflicts between Sunni and Shiite Moslems, and terrorists who blow themselves up in the confident belief that they are going straight to paradise.

 People that believe in a loving God are stupid. it is intelligent man that has made life livable.

Einstein is smart.

'The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."

My cats and dogs are atheists and they seem pretty happy. They seem pretty moral to each other also.

Between 1990 and 2016, the world lost 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) of forest, according to the World Bank.

Suppose you build a plastic sphere and in that sphere you put a CO2 generator and a CO2 absorber. You initially set them so that the generator and absorber flows are of equal value. Now you turn up the generator and slow down the absorber. What is going to happen to the CO2 concentration?

The Kantian concept to treat someone "as an end" is quite complex.  Check out Robert Audi's book  Means, Ends, and Persons: The Meaning and Psychological Dimensions of Kant's Humanity Formula. The book has eight chapters divided into two parts. The first part is given over to an analysis of treating persons merely as a means, the second to treating them as ends.

The word "end" in this phrase has the same meaning as in the phrase "means to an end". The philosopher Immanuel Kant said that rational human beings should be treated as an end in themselves and not as a means to something else. The fact that we are human has value in itself.

Kant does offer alternative formulations of the categorical imperative, one of which appears to provide more substantial guidance than the formulation considered thus far. This formulation is: “So act that you treat humanity in your own person and in the person of everyone else always at the same time as an end and never merely as means.” The connection between this formulation and the first one is not entirely clear, but the idea seems to be that, in choosing for oneself, one treats oneself as an end; if, therefore, in accordance with the principle of universal law, one must choose so that all could choose similarly, one must treat everyone else as an end as well. Even if this is valid, however, the application of the principle raises further questions. What is it to treat someone merely as a means? Using a person as a slave is an obvious example; Kant, like Bentham, was making a stand against this kind of inequality while it still flourished as an institution in some parts of the world. But to condemn slavery one needs only to give equal weight to the interests of slaves, as utilitarians such as Bentham explicitly did. One may wonder, then, whether Kant’s principle offers any advantage over utilitarianism. Modern Kantians hold that it does, because they interpret it as denying the legitimacy of sacrificing the rights of one human being in order to benefit others.

If you believe in a kind loving God and your child dies of pediatric cancer, what are you left with?

Albert Einstein:  “The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”

Stephen Hawking:  “Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation,” he said. “What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God, which there isn’t. I’m an atheist.”

Remember that the reason the USA has Trump is that it ranks 32nd in IQ in the world.

Schopenhauer declared that the true basis of morality is compassion or sympathy. The morality of an action can be judged in accordance with Kant's distinction of treating a person as an end not as a mere means. By drawing the distinction between egoism and unselfishness, Kant correctly described the criterion of morality. For Schopenhauer, this was the only merit of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals.

Remember that there were 19 million miscarriages last year also. Doesn't god know anything about quality control? Why did god use atoms and 10 sextillion suns to create one planet that life would finally form on?

An example of  God's moral purity and holiness, 5.4 million children under the age of 5 died in 2019.

In string theory, each quantum particle is replaced by a 1D string of vibrating energy whose length is the Planck length. As the string moves, it traces width, and thus becomes 2D, a worldsheet. As a string vibrates and moves within the 6D Calabi-Yau space, the string becomes a quantum particle.

Look up Two-dimensional String Theory.  String theory in two-dimensional spacetime illuminates two main threads of recent development in string theory:

All subatomic particles are composed of 2 dimensional strings. Isn't that proof that the universe is a simulation?

I am new here, but wouldn't a better title be, The universe is a simulation, therefore Creators exist...?