Posted 07 May 2006 - 05:51 PM
I'm pretty much neutral on this subject.
Firstly, I don't believe in God for many reasons
1) I'm a Psion (practice things such as telekinese, telepathy, etc) and I've learned that when you concentrate hard enough, you can make things happen. For example, Micro-Psytokinesis, (Micro-PK) which is the ability to control the outcome of things. Through enough practice, 7/10 times on a pair of dice, when I conentrate on rolling a combination, I get that combination. I don't think there is an all-powerful being that can make things happen.
2) If God existed, then why does he let so many natural diasasters happen. I've never read the Bible, but I do believe that in the Bible, it states something about Jesus returning to the Earth after a series of high-powered natural diasasters. Why wouldn't Jesus just come now and save us all from these diasasters instead of letting half the world get wiped out before coming?
3) Who wrote the Bible? For all we know, it could be some random person that was looking for attention at the time, and made a bunch of gibberish up to recieve it. For all I know, if I was the person who wrote the Bible, if I wrote 600 pages on how everyone but myself is a noob, people nowadays would probably be saying "We're all noobs combared to BarCode!"
I believe in evolution because:
1) Where did all these species of animals come from? Science shows that over time, things change. For example, psychics (not the fake ones) have the ability to get almost any information they want without looking for it, while non-psychics have to look for it. Could being psychic just be a part of the human evolution?
2) Cross-breeding. Scientists are able to breed 2 types of plant seeds to create a whole new food to the world, so why can't animals do this? They can for all I know. Who knows, maybe a gorilla and a monkey had sex and humans came from that. Nobody knows for sure.
3) Things are just suddenly created. Something had to occur to create atoms and molecules, which in turn evolved into objects. I think that atoms over time fused together (pretty much the Big Bang Theory) and thus the Earth, animals, life, everything was created. Space keeps expanded as far as science goes, so something is creating more space in space. Who knows, maybe this something is what caused our galaxy and species to be created.
And lastly, I'm neutral because
1) There are proven psychics, telepaths, precognists, telekinetics, etc. Theres the string theory; everything flows, and because something occurs, something else occurs because of it. What allows people to control things, or have the ability to get any information whenever they feel like? There must be some sort of special force out there that allows people to do this.
2) The supernatural. Some 8/10 (accurate?) people have experienced a supernatural event; it being precognition, or anything that may be too much of a coincidence to believe. Ever want to meet an old friend, or have a friend call you then it happens after you think about it? You just caused a supernatural event to occur. I forget what it's called, but if you try hard enough without realising it, you can make specific events happen.
Out of Body experiences are probably the most common. This is when you feel like you are weightless, and you feel like you're falling through your bed while you're trying to get to sleep. Your mind has temporarily left your body, and doesn't last for very long. Sometimes you can even see things in the psyical world while you are OOB.
3) And my last point of my rambling; you are your own person. Nobody controls you, you make your own decisions. Nobody can say "you're tired, go to bed or else" It's your body and subconcious that decides when you're tired enough to sleep. Nobody can make you sleep. For all those who say Hypnotists, I say no. Hypnotists put you into a trance, not a sleep.
So yea, I don't know if anybody read this, but I could list 100 more reasons for each subtopic that I listed.
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