: Hey Sergio, I think she was being sarcastic. Try reading that again....

: I agree with you 100% susan. We cannot be completely sure of God's existance (or non-existance) without evidence. But it also is important to remember the many, many times we have thought a phenomenon was due to God but was later disproven. It leaves me skeptical.

: (2) But the question remains "can we go on believing God exists while we really don't have the evidence?" Sure, the theory can remain while we search for the answers, but is it "right" to worship or pray like the theory of God is correct and understood? Personally, I would rather be a little more cautious than to believe such a large claim with very little evidence.

: In the mean time, I have to walk to class and listen to "a follower of Christ" shout his "beliefs" at other students on campus (beliefs like "Ghandi was a pervert"). It seems to me that a lot of religious people have a lot more "answers" about life than questions...

I think it is true to say that people often look for a "lazy" answer to physical phenomia that is difficult to understand. But I think there is more to this question than that which science deals with. It is interesting. Black Holes (from which this discussion group sprang) is the combination of qantium mechnaics (the extremely small) and general relativity (the extremely large), 2 areas which untill reciently were not thought of together.

You will never get the quantum theory of gravity untill you consider these two very different areas together. I kinda feel that this is the same for the whole question of "God". If we simply look at the question of "God" from a scientific point of view, than I suspect you are quite right in what you say in your second paragraph (I have taken the liberty of putting a (2) beside it).

It is very unfortunate that the question of "God" is given such bad press by people who you refer to in your third paragraph (and similar people who frequent these discussion pages). But I feel that I need to try to cut through the predijuce that these "ranting and raving" people foster in me to objectively draw conclusions about "God" rather than "religious people". (interestingly, a Christian once said something to me that thought was quite a good point. He said that IF there was a God and a devil, then it would be in the devil's interest to

a) promote the belieif that anyone who believes in "God" is destine to be like the "ranters and a ravers"

and

b) focus people on science (ie the study of physical things) to seek evidence of something that, by defination, is outside time and space.

I subsequently read some of the bible, (in particular the bit at the beginning of the new testament) and dont think that Christ was "religious" at all. Sure he had some beliefs (as we all do) but the picture that is painted there is certianly not that of the sterio type "religious" person today.

Anyway, I think that science has made it a bit easier for me to give some creedence to the exsistance of "God". It has shown, I believe, that time and space is finite. And IF "God" is outside time and space, at least we know that there is an "outside", even though we don't know how it is possible for anything to be out there.

• Re: Questions... - Nick_Mostek/">Nick Mostek - April 26, 1998 - 17:33 UTC