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Originally Posted by infinitethoughts

Well that's what we're brainwashed to believe our entire lives.

Personally I don't put much stock in it.

A perfect point, I'm not sure what you intended to convey in it, but it makes sense, we were born to believe that we are humans because that is the word that defines what we mortally are, and yet the fact remains that we are much ore than a simple sound.

what is reality?
a maze

what is life
trying to get through the maze

what is science
measuring the maze

what is religion
guessing at why the maze is here

what are video games?
playing a simulation of the maze within the maze

what is free will
choosing which path you take within the maze

what is determinism
only having one path in the maze

who am i?
the software guidance system that directs my biological hardware unit through the maze

what is happiness?
finding some cheese in the maze

Oh you're so clever

its a good thing we have science which gives us objective knowledge of the one objective reality. so we can put down guesses and subjective points of view and all agree on something. that we are not rats in a maze, that we are humans, and that the universe is not intelligent or god, thats its matter and natural laws

You obviously think that those who believe in GOD are just a bunch of skeptical people who only believe what they're taught and go on believing it until the day they die. Well let me ask you something, were you taught to believe in GOD when you were young? If so, when did you stop and why? Did you find that the entire concept was illogical? Then let me say something to you, the atheist theory of "The Big Bang" is completely illogical. You say that the world is nothing more than matter and natural laws, yet in what way is it possible for life itself to be able to support eachother in every way of the earth? the sun that helps the trees grow that we have oxygen? The plants that keep us healthy and grow of the water of the rain? I need to ask you, how can you belive that science and evolution was able to do this. Science does not have a mind of its own, nor is it able to support the earth and it inhabitants, people, to have any type of mindset, love, or any feeling at all for that matter? Science is nothing more than people who look for a higher purpose in things and want to break off from tha fact that it is GOD to create their own explanation of things. In religion, the rain is water, what cleanses us, what makes the plants grow so that life may prosper. In science, it's the same thing, and yet it is precipitation. It is man deriving from religious beliefs, whether they believe in GOD or not to create their own explanation.
Sure, men's science has boosted life, helped us live longer, help the world become a better place, and yet that is them striving for goodness, and is that not what GOD is? Anything that man can conjure up to make their own explanation of things religion already supports, goodness, helping the sick, stopping disease and hunger, all these good things does GOD not speak of? Of course he does! Therefore in who's image are we in, it makes perfect sense, evolution is merely what men who find GOD illogical believe in and yet there is nothing to support its truth. In what way does a "big bang" substitute an actual GOD? It doesn't and yet religion does, that, is the universe.