Originally Posted by !LittleDragon (Post 6196645)

I believe in evolution but sometimes I wonder if there's a higher species out there. For all we know, we could be put here by aliens a long time ago... 16 million years the dinosaurs have been around and they couldn't evolve beyond their walnut sized brains... yet primates can go to the moon in like 10,000 years? Something's up..

Originally Posted by Eastwood (Post 6196692)

You're refering to modern man, who's been evolving for a lot longer than that. Also the Earth is not 16 billions years old, so dinosaurs haven't been here that long.

Originally Posted by _Hotsauce_ (Post 6196710)

If god exists, I believe we should all be immortal...Seeing as he has the power to come back from the dead. Why shouldn't be never die? Death is pretty pointless.

Originally Posted by Jason00S2000 (Post 6196544)

Religion is, without a doubt, a lie.


God is a subject that does fascinate me. "God" is such a misleading word. You cannot view "God" as a being, nor as anything with emotions. Too often in supposed holy books, people assign emotions to what is supposed to be an omnipotent being.

I view any "God" as simply the engine behind existance. In fact, "God" is probably all life in the universe, as without life to observe the universe, the universe would not have a point to exist.

Much like nature, where we find that certain life cannot live without other certain life, perhaps we can look at the universe and the hidden mechanics behind existance the same way. Nothing would exist without someone to observe it, and life is just one short series of brief blips of consciousness, meant to be enjoyed as much as possible before you fizzle out.

It's beyond our comprehension at this time, and instead we will in things we don't understand with "god" and blah blah blah, and it usually ends up with division between human beings, violence, and mass murder in the name of God, Allah, JibbaJabba, or whatever.


Brainwashed sheep.

Originally Posted by Corey Darling (Post 6195833)

I do not either.

I watched religoulous - though it was amazing lol.

Another very good movie is Zeitgeist. The first 15 minutes or so discuss the origins just about every religion on the face of the earth, and they are all plagerized from one another.

For example.... Pretty much all gods - including jesus, are human representations of the "Sun God".

The 3 kings, they are the 3 stars of orions belt.
The star in the east is Sirius
The 12 deciples are the 12 zodiacs which the sun passes through.
And on december 25th, the sun, sirius, and the 3 kings all line up at sun RISE
"
This is the day of the birth of The sun god. But this happens every year... so why on the year of "0 AD" ? Because it was the begining of the new "Age" of Pieces. Next is aquarius. The bible misinterpretes these transitions as not the end of Aeons or Ages, but as the end of the world.

Then he is cruicified... on the day that the sun is near the constellation Crux - which is a perfect resemblance to the christian cross.

At which point he remains dead until he is resurrected 3 days later.. These 3 days represent the shorted period of the year, when the days are no longer getting shorter. After the 3 days, the sun begins to rise again.

... i can go on, but im doing this from memory and it may start to get inaccurate .... just watch Zeitgeist...

Edit: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ Two parts, watch the first one on the right before the "Addendum"

Originally Posted by Physixx (Post 6196352)

At the time when religious texts were written millenniums back, most had thought the Earth was the center of the universe, and that it was flat and not spherical.


But you didn't even take evolution into account, did you?

Knowledge on these kinds of things don't come overnight, but to think that knowledge is unobtainable is just being thickheaded.

Originally Posted by AzNightmare (Post 6196850)

I did take account on evolution. We all did, since that's what we all learn in school. But I don't believe in humans evolving from apes.

Originally Posted by Noir (Post 6196866)

Why bother. It's not like heaven will have the most interesting people in it.

Originally Posted by The7even (Post 6196826)

We fail because we're human and we will always find a little difference and fight over it. It's who we are.

Originally Posted by +Kardboard+ (Post 6196877)

I'd rather be with "boring" people than a bunch of assholes. :p

Originally Posted by The7even (Post 6196826)

Why do you give humanity so much credit? As if we would all of sudden stop the division and violence that plagues us to this day if religion were to not exist.

If religion were not the problem, it would have been race. If we were all the same race it would have been war and turmoil between blond's and brunettes
and redheads.

We fail because we're human and we will always find a little difference and fight over it. It's who we are.
Remember how in preschool kids pick on that one kid because he's smarter than them and they call him a nerd? Religion isn't the cause of all our problems, it's us.

Originally Posted by Jason00S2000 (Post 6196544)

Nothing would exist without someone to observe it.