I'm a see it, taste, touch it, feel it kind of guy ... I was raised in a very religious household, but I never really could shake the feeling that every time I closed my eyes to pray that it felt pretty one-sided. In short, I have a hard time believing in an all powerful anthropomorphic divine being that is intimately involved in the affairs of human beings and sits on a golden throne in the clouds ... then again physics hasn't been able to adequately explain "first cause" so I don't rule out a creative force altogether. I short, I think religion is a human construct mostly used to establish social order and give it authority over people, but that doesn't necessarily preclude (or affirm) some super-natural or extra-terrestrial intelligence that exists beyond human perception ... Was that wishy-washy enough for everybody?
Although I am an atheist, when my niece was dying, and when my best friends son was extremely ill, I did pray. And I've questioned myself, why did I pray? Because I had no ability to affect any change in the real world I just was grasping at any straws to try and feel that we could in some way influence the uninfluencable. I never truly believed that prayer would promote a positive outcome, but it was the closest thing to affecting change that I could think to do.
He's referring to my PMs. And it is true that I am chiseled like a Greek god, and am hung like a Titan, I'm not actually a real god. Or am I
That's pretty much how I look at things and why I consider myself agnostic and not atheist. I believe religion is a convent way to control the masses and makes people feel better about death. At the same time though there has to be something else out there, our universe and existence is to massive, beautiful and amazing to be all for nothing. So sometimes I pray but I'm not sure if I'm just talking to myself. In the end though I believe we are all energy and energy is never lost it is just moved around.
Physics states that for matter to be created out of nothing(photons), there must be an equal and opposite piece of matter. We see this occur with protons and anti-protons, or electrons and positrons. It has never been recorded that a molecule such as water and anti-water instantly being formed. The problem is that you must conserve momentum, and creating a bond and perfectly lining up all three atoms at once and all three anti-atoms at once would be extremely difficult and unlikely. Creating an entire planet of atoms and then making the anti-planet suddenly disappear, that is harder to believe than an airplane re-assembling in a tornado. ;]
Atheist. Religion is detrimental to mankind, it always has been and will until it dies. I don't worry about it too much, eventually there will be more atheists than theists, me arguing about it doesn't hasten things.
