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Religion is all about you, God and your relationship with God.
Why do people believe in God?
Most were trained from birth to believe, others begin to believe later.
Believers believe because they don't want to go to hell of course, that's one big thing.
They do want to go to heaven, that's another thing.
They want to be better more disciplined people, which is an advantage.
They want to feel better and many report feeling more content as a result.
They may want to quit drinking or have some other life crisis that can be eased by the adoption of religion.
There are probably a lot of reasons, but they are all about you and what is going on inside you.
Religion is an inwardly focused activity and that's what it's about.
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@ethang5
There are two kinds of conservatives, wealthy charlatans and thesuckers who believe them. The wealthy tell the people what to believeand the believers believe it. This way the wealthy harnesses a largenumber of voters and they make the money flow to the wealthy withtheir votes.
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@Vader
There is no defending Trump. If your family has someone with a disability you are going to be affected by higher prices and increasingly crappy insurance all of which are a direct result of Trumps policies. I don't know what kind of medical costs you have but I do know if you have substantial amounts you are definitely poorer then you were 4 years ago, I sure as hell am. You have to be willfully ignorant to support Trump, he's an awful president. You should start thinking for yourself instead of just believing the crap Fox News and republicans tell you to believe. They will screw you really bad eventually if he remains president. If you can't see that coming there is something wrong with your thinking.
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@Dr.Franklin
Because black people migrated north and started wearing clothsto stay warm.
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@PressF4Respect
What's he running from? Atheists with pitchforks?
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@EtrnlVw
Who else would the Creator be?
In other words you have never thought about any other possibilities except for god because you can’t think of any? Have you even tried?
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@crossed
I believe in intelligent design because of what the body does.When your dyeing of thirst your body turns urine into blood to keep you alive.A substitute teacher i had always say this.I don't see why it would be wrong.I can not find this weird info in the internet.She did science stuff for a living and was an atheist i think.So you should fine her reliable.Our body works like a factoryOne gram of DNA can hold up to 200 terabyte worth of information. To store the same information in mans technology.It would take 233 3tb drive weighing 151 kilo's
Is that intelligent design's use?
Something that helps you believe in god?
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@EtrnlVw
So, I can only assume from the silence that intelligent design doesn't tell us anything about the creator or even anything about anything. I'm beginning to think it's pretty much useless unless you can give me a use for it, can you?
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@EtrnlVw
I don't think you want that.you guys have to get more serious.
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@EtrnlVw
The Creator is not a product of environmental factors like skin, you guys have to get more serious.
Well, outer space is mostly black and god is everywhere so I think it's perfectly reasonable to say god is black.
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@EtrnlVw
Yes but it's not a scientific theory, it's only theory in the sense of conjecture.
What does intelligent design tell us about the creator?
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@EtrnlVw
You said, "The only purpose is creation, coming from the standpoint of a Creator." So my question is, is the creator god?
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Thou shalt not kill. Dt.5:6-21
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are
round about you ... Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare,neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die. Dt.13:6-10
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@PressF4Respect
That’s good, I’d rather god didn’t create me.
So you said he created my distant ancestor in his own self-image and I’m wondering, why does god need legs?
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@PressF4Respect
So god didn't create me, he created my distant ancestor?
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So, I’m white and my mom and dad who are also white made me. Did god make white people? Or did black people that traveled north make white people?
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@crossed
What is the purpose of intelligent design? What do we use it for? What does it prove?
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@Deb-8-a-bull
100,000 is a bit low, 175,000 would be a good compromise.
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@DynamicSquid
People can comprehend infinity we just have no way to observe or measure it so we will never know if it physically exists.
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@zedvictor4
It could also be finite now but expand infinitely.
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@ebuc
So your answer is a finite lumpy closed universe with holes? That sounds reasonable to me.
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@zedvictor4
What I’d doing is providing information so you can come up with ananswer. You can choose to use it, ignore it or make up your own.
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@ebuc
They have to do with the topology of the universe and the topology has something to do with the shape.
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@zedvictor4
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@zedvictor4
Flat is the universe that most cosmologists think is the right one and itcan be lumpy even if it’s flat.
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@ebuc
You want to argue against established cosmology?
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@secularmerlin
Your answer is nobody knows so I’m satisfied.
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@secularmerlin
Okay, you’ve convinced me that you don’t know.
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@secularmerlin
You might start by looking at the choices and asking yourself which of the three universes (closed, flat or saddle) is most likely. There is plenty of information available about that.
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@secularmerlin
You just don’t know where to go next, you're not as stumped as you think you are.
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@secularmerlin
You are very close to being able to make an educated guess, don’t give up now.
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@secularmerlin
Well, there are choices. You can propose a closed universe, a flat universe or a saddle universe all with four spacial dimensions with or without any number of holes.
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@secularmerlin
There is nothing wrong with saying you don’t know, but there are plenty of scientists that have well informed opinions to offer the difference is you don’t.
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@secularmerlin
So what you are saying is you have no opinion because you don’t understand the question?
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@ebuc
When I said center of the universe in the post you quoted what Ishould have said is the center of the VISIBLE universe which is notthe center of the universe in it’s entirety. The universe in it’sentirety has no center.
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@secularmerlin
I don’t know what the shape of the universe is, that’s why I’m asking.
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@secularmerlin
We know that no matter where you go in the universe you will see everything moving away from you.
If you went to another galaxy you would see everything moving away from you just like you see on earth.
So the center of the universe is where ever you happen to be in it.
For this to be the case the entire universe must be higher dimensional.
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@secularmerlin
It's not that we don't understand higher dimensions, we do:
The problem is that you can't picture more than three dimensions, the gravity well example illustrates that.
What Einstein did was use time as a dimension, space time has three spatial dimensions and one of time which is four dimensions.
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@zedvictor4
Watch the video right above your post. It’s only seven minutes.
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Here is more on the subject.
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@secularmerlin
If you add the dimension of time then you can talk about the shape being dynamic.
If you want to understand everything you will forever be disappointed.
Staying locked in a solipsistic box leads to everybody knowing nothing about everything (except what's going on inside there own heads).
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@zedvictor4
Remember, I'm the one asking the question here:
Do you ever think about the shape of the universe?How would you describe the shape of the whole thing?We can talk about the center of the universe as well if you like.
All I've done is get you started thinking about your answer.
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@secularmerlin
So you think you have a pretty good idea of how gravity works from looking at the picture. Maybe you even watched a video showing a large ball on a rubber sheet and smaller balls being rolled around it which seem to orbit the large ball.
The problem is this is not what gravity actually looks like. In gravity there is no vertical component like there is in a picture of a gravity well. Things don't orbit a planet above the equator when far away and below it when they are close. This however does not stop us from understanding how gravity works and making it part of our knowledge.
What we do know about the universe is that it is a higher dimensional shape.
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@secularmerlin
Google, "gravity well" once you see it you will figure it out pretty quickly.
It's a picture of gravity.
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@secularmerlin
Do you know what a gravity well looks like and do you understand the concept?
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