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Originally Posted by Lychee  Our inability to physically see God does not exclude the presence of God. If you showed up in a library somewhere, it would only make sense to question what this library is, what books it carries, where it came from, and who built it. What were are seeing is the effect (the result of the action of the Big Bang). But doesn't the question "What caused the Big Bang?" linger in your mind? |
Yes it does. But I have no reason to believe the Big Bang was caused by an intelligence, especially since the only way I know for intelligence to come about is for it to evolve. I can't be certain that a God did *not* create the universe, but it's unlikely and incongruent with what I know.
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What in your opinion would be put under the category of "evidence"?
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Well, for example, if we found out that some holy document could not possibly have been written by a human, or that it made astoundingly accurate predictions of the future, that would be pretty strong evidence.
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What guarantee is there that we will even discover it?
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None. But why shouldn't we, unless these undiscovered somethings don't interact at all with the world we can observe?
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It's not about length but about the meaning we attach to it. This life would be essentially meaningless if nothing were to ultimately result from our actions. Why would there even be the duality which is present today if Law is discriminate to it now, but where Law (aka God) is indiscriminate after death? Why would the differentiation occur in our lives anyway? Just because "it is"?
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Every consequence of every action we take, and every moment we experience, is an "ultimate" result of our lives. I'm not sure what duality you're talking about...
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If an equation has an answer, the questions of life must have one too.
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Life isn't an equation. It's an inevitable result of the way the universe works. It's a fact, not a question.
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How can you say for sure?
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Because otherwise there is an infinite regress. Chicken and eggs all the way back to negative infinity... there can't be a meaning to explain every meaning, or there would be ultimately no meaning to anything at all. At the bottom of the pyramid things just... are.
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If rape, murder, theft, and all society-debilitating activity were to overpower the good, then the people as a whole would die. How does that run in tune with nature's preference for growth? Should these crimes really be overlooked and accepted, then?
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They should be accepted just as the reality of age and death should be accepted; not because they're good, but because they're there are somebody has to
something about them.
Things grow and flourish in nature, sure. They also get sick, kill each other, and die.