Whenever you need to use a conditional, you're talking about a belief, therefore not something objectively considered as truth :-P

(edit: Damn, someone beat me to it...)

Now that you happened around, I'm fairly sure god is a boolean.

So, first you say that God has "necessary attributes", and then you say that his attributes are open to interpretation. Which is it then?

Except that we don't have dominion over the Earth. There's animals larger than us, stronger than us, faster than us, more numerous than us and more prosperous than us, the only thing that we stand out on is our brains.

Rubbish, the lot of it. Apologies for my abruptness but you haven't studied a damn thing if you honestly think any of what you've just mentioned.

First of all, it's not like it's any amazing coincidence that we live on a planet that can support life. If the planet couldn't support life, we wouldn't be here. There are uncounted billions of stars out there in the universe, each of which might have multiple planets orbiting it. If you play those sort of odds you're bound to end up with planets here and there with the right conditions to support life. It sounds like you think people were also popping into existence on other planets, briefly clutching their throats and gasping before dropping dead from asphyxiation...

Although, having said that - that's exactly what would have happened to Adam and Eve if they had popped into existence on Earth more than about 2.5 billion years ago. Before then there was no oxygen in the atmosphere to support life - it was created by photosynthesizing organisms over the preceding billion years or so.

(Useful diagram: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geologic_Clock_with_events_and_periods.svg]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geologic_Clock_with_events_and_periods.svg[/url])

It only had to happen in a small time frame if you believe the literal word of the bible, that the earth was created about 6000 years ago. No-one with any credibility in this field of science thinks this.

As for the other bits...

Snake venom: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/2276/

The giraffe's neck actually contains one of the classic examples of evolution, i.e. the detour taken by the recurrent laryngeal nerve. Surely an 'intelligent' designer wouldn't have made a cock-up like that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evidence_of_evolution

If you (or anyone, for that matter) want a concise and readable explanation of evolution (I suspect you don't!), with many many specific examples, you could do a lot worse than read Richard Dawkins' book The Greatest Show On Earth - it is brilliant.

Your quote I'm afraid does nothing for me except highlight the insidious nature of religion - you're a fool if you don't believe in God. Afraid I believe the exact opposite.

You can always cast into an int. Any square peg can fit in a round hole if the hole is big enough.

i agree with you mostly. However, one of the bigger questions about God/religion to me is not only that whether there is one or not - but rather does he/it/whatever exist in form that i is within human comprehension.

Because if there would happen to be God of sorts, yet the God existed in say in totally different dimension than what we live in - then ofcourse it would be rather impossible(?) to reach God with our regular logical thinking.

Say if you were to see the world "through the eyes of normal earthworm" - the world would be very different to you simply because the senses you have are totally different than the human senses.

Now if there is God that created everything, then would that not imply God would have to be able to sense somehow everything? We humans certainly cannot do that. There are animals with better senses than we have - but even they are bound in the same three dimension + time as we are.

How about God if one exists? How God might sense the world if God existed?

As engineer, when i contemplate about philosophy and religions concerning God - i do often have to ask myself if we are looking for God from the right place to begin with? Could it be said that God might be found outside "the container" we ourselves are?

Well, suppose this is the very reason religions are matters of "faith".

What? I believe you misunderstood the concept of jamotide. It is a team of gods that created everything. It is not contigent on me, I simply named myself in their honor. Your god was created by them as well. But you say that makes your god not a god, I find that admission amazing.


Oh boy, so I assume you believe in all the Nostradamus end of the world BS,too because with lots of imagination some of his predictions can be interpreted as having come true. Is there anything you don't believe? What about team jamotide?

LOL......

It's official, Wadjet Eye Games, Daedalic, Big Finish Games, inXile, and Atlus co-created the universe. :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy

So it is not (only) about odds. It is a bit like if I say "Tomorrow I will eat fish!", it doesn't make me a great prophet if I indeed eat fish tomorrow, because it may be I'll simply strive to do that tomorrow because I said so the day before.

It makes sense that jews tried their best to get back to middle east, because the bible told them that is what they are going to (and should) do. So, a self-fulfillling prophecy. If it wasn't for bible, they might have gone to north pole instead, having regional disputes with eskimos.

Religion doesn't even have that going for it. It's an invisible product that you can't prove, or have evidence for until you die. Therefore for me it is illogical to believe it. And I won't believe after thousands of years, in the last 2 thousand that some god decided it's time to get involved.

Belief is having confidence in knowledge. For instance, if trustworthy friend tells you that they've done tests on an old bridge and that it is safe, then you have knowledge that it is safe. However, you don't actually believe it is safe unless you are willing to cross it, and you don't actually have faith that it is safe until you have crossed it.

Everyone considers everything that they subjectively believe to be true to correspond to objective truths of reality, because if they didn't then they would have never formed those believes in the first place. So a belief has absolutely nothing to do with something that is not objectively considered as true.
When it is said that man is made in the image of God, what is open to interpretation is not which attributes God has, but which attributes of God are reflected in that image.


(www.dictionary.com)
do·min·ion [duh-min-yuhn]
noun
1. the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority.
2. rule; control; domination.
3. a territory, usually of considerable size, in which a single rulership holds sway.
4. lands or domains subject to sovereignty or control.
5. Government . a territory constituting a self-governing commonwealth and being one of a number of such territories united in a community of nations, or empire: formerly applied to self-governing divisions of the British Empire, as Canada and New Zealand.

Dominion does not refer to being supreme beings or to being the largest, strongest, fastest, or more numerous. It refers to being given authority over the Earth.