Why Humans Believe in God

[chad_tukes]

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As much as we want to uncover whether God exists or not; Sad to say, We can't.
Why? Because of our limitations; Limited knowledge, Limited Wisdom.
Although there are ideas that would baffle our existence. Still, how good that theory might be, We cannot prove or disprove the existence of God.

The important idea that we need to contemplate on is: What impact did God create upon us?

Has God change your life? Did God ruin your life?
Has God inspired you to become a better person?
Did God gave you a sense of purpose or meaning?

The choice is for you to choose. Just consider the pros and cons.
All we can do for now is WAIT -- When death comes knocking at our door.

i respect people's beliefs but it should be nothing more than respecting your next door neighbor about turning the volume down coz it's too noisy. my point is that people tend to put too much respect on religion that it's intriguing in some ways.

[Lovely Charm]

agreed 100%.

life is meaningless for we live in a physical universe. when we die, everything about us ends but memories. we live in this world to create blue prints of what kind of life we lived and that is all that's remembered of us when we die.

Life is meaningless sir Chad? is that a fact or a choice?
well that's quite a very religious interpretation sir chad

I thought "Life per se" has nothing to do w/ our meaning or meaninglessness,he,he,he

For me people believe in god because

1. they are brought up to such thinking
2. its temptimg because it points to the rationale that everything must have a "parent creator"

[chad_tukes]

no offense bro, but that's a very selfish way of looking at life..

do something worthwhile for the evolution of humanity as a whole.. that is one purpose in life worth living for. whether you believe in a God, or God or no such belief at all..

devoting your energy for the good of mankind in every action you make..

for some people who's not gonna help in the evolution of humanity, they might as well stop living to stop wasting resources.. they're the ones messing up the harmony in human society..

we are all but complex chemical reactions existing in a physical world. when our own physical world ends (die), we're nothing more than composites. perhaps finding the meaning of life goes beyond the physical world and transcends into a more deeper meaning such as spirituality (soul, afterlife, etc).

all the achievements in life i don't see as meaningful... maybe useful---but not meaningful.

[miyay]

we are all but complex chemical reactions existing in a physical world. when our own physical world ends (die), we're nothing more than composites. perhaps finding the meaning of life goes beyond the physical world and transcends into a more deeper meaning such as spirituality (soul, afterlife, etc).

all the achievements in life i don't see as meaningful... maybe useful---but not meaningful.

slow suicide in the making joke lang po

to each his/her own, i guess

[chad_tukes]

Life is meaningless sir Chad? is that a fact or a choice?
well that's quite a very religious interpretation sir chad

I thought "Life per se" has nothing to do w/ our meaning or meaninglessness,he,he,he

For me people believe in god because

1. they are brought up to such thinking
2. its temptimg because it points to the rationale that everything must have a "parent creator"

i can't say it's a fact; it's just my own understanding of life. miyay is right, to each his own.

"religious" is such a strong word, and it can be misleading.

[chad_tukes]

slow suicide in the making

if it's suicide it'd be a pleasure to kill myself emo style.

[Lovely Charm]

we are all but complex chemical reactions existing in a physical world. when our own physical world ends (die), we're nothing more than composites. perhaps finding the meaning of life goes beyond the physical world and transcends into a more deeper meaning such as spirituality (soul, afterlife, etc).

all the achievements in life i don't see as meaningful... maybe useful---but not meaningful.

Im at home with the answer "MAYBE" Sir Chad,,it places speculation to its proper pedestal

[Lovely Charm]

i can't say it's a fact; it's just my own understanding of life. miyay is right, to each his own.

"religious" is such a strong word, and it can be misleading.

You are "Religious" of not wanting to be religious

[munzter666]

we are all but complex chemical reactions existing in a physical world. when our own physical world ends (die), we're nothing more than composites. perhaps finding the meaning of life goes beyond the physical world and transcends into a more deeper meaning such as spirituality (soul, afterlife, etc).

all the achievements in life i don't see as meaningful... maybe useful---but not meaningful.

i dont think there is or was a DEFAULT meaning of life. instead, one creates his/her own meaning. "meaningful" can be relative, some people find the simplest things meaningful...and nobody or no one is in the position to say one is living a meaningful nor less meaningful life.

[jamesmusslewhite]

Care to elaborate how such is a bad science? If one may debate whether we cannot disprove the existence of GOD, so is the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster was created in 2005 by Bobby Henderson as a satirical protest so we are sure of it's origin of creation and the purpose of that creation. We see it at the point of existence and have verifiable history of things before the creation. There is verifiable scienticic factors in which to measure and study the validity of the actual existence of the (FSM).

The God Gene
Dean Hamer, author of The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into Our Genes. Hamer argues that our sense of spirituality is a biological trait hardwired into our genes by evolutionary accident, or possibly even evolutionary design. The implication of Hamer's research is that religious faith and experience are nothing more than a misinterpretation of a biological phenomenon.

Hamer used the data to conduct a spiritual experiment on the side. He theorized that if our sense of spirituality has biological connections (or causes), those who ranked higher in spirituality should share some genetic link in common that those who ranked lower did not. As a result he "went poking around in their genes to see if he could find the DNA responsible for the differences. With over 35,000 genes and 3.2 billion chemical bases in the human genome, he limited his search for the "spiritual gene" to nine genes known to produce monoamines (brain chemicals that regulate mood and motor control).
He found what he was looking for in the gene known as VMAT2. "Those with the nucleic acid cytosine in one particular spot on the gene ranked high [in spirituality]. Those with the nucleic acid adenine in the same spot

At best he demonstrated that it is not rational to conclude God exists simply because you have experienced self-transcendence, and nor is it rational to conclude that God does not exist because you have had no such experience. But to conclude that God is a figment of our genetic imagination because people have improperly confused biological functioning for a religious experience is a categorical error. Just as an acid trip cannot prove or disprove the existence of God, neither can a dose of cytosine speak to this issue. If the feeling of transcendence is a biological experience rather than a religious experience, then studies performed on that experience only tell us about biology, not religion. The question of God's existence remains a philosophical question, not a biological question. While the sciences can tell us a lot about the physical world, they are not equipped to evaluate the spiritual. Only philosophy is equipped to evaluate metaphysical issues such as the existence of God.

It is not The Flying Spaghetti Monster, but science is not progressed enough to relegate this as nothing more than a Hypothesis at this time. I do not believe the sciences is good or bad, rather only inconclusive. A good subject for conjecture and debate