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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (849387)	4/12/2015 1:41:27 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574380

Why are you reading into my statement things I didn't say? Try reading what I said again and this time forget to create a cartoon to replace it: No, really, I couldn't believe we happened by accident .... it's just too absurd a thing to believe. Look at the computer in front of you ... could that have happened by accident? No, and we are much more complicated than that. Seriously, you should think silicon and plastic just happened to get arranged like that by accident before you think you just happened by accident. And your idea that belief in God is all about mortality is wrong too. In fact, I've observed that most non-believers LIKE the idea that death is sort of an eternal permanent sleep. Why would that be so terrible? Non-believers greatly prefer the idea of eternal dreamless sleep to facing God. IOW I think atheism is a response to the fear of death. I'll go a little further, I think the reason most people like this like the idea of euthanasia, death with dignity, medically assisted suicide ... is that they figure the worst thing about death will be the possible pain or discomfort involved. So they figure if they can just get doctors to give them a nice big dose of happy juice they'll pass out, miss the unpleasant stuff, and pass on to the eternal sleep they look forward to. When I drink a glass of water I always marvel at the thought that the hydrogen atoms I'm ingesting are probably BILLIONS of years old. And so are all the other atoms in the universe ... what's the big deal with that? Summing up, I think the case for design (universe from nothing, life from the very beginning based on sophisticated information encoding systems) is ironclad. Stronger than ever ... ironically BECAUSE of scientific advancements. So we should take a Creator as a basic fact. Now what you believe ABOUT the Creator ... there faith enters. Faith to me isn't about believing IN God, it's TRUSTING God. And is that unreasonable? To think the Creator, vastly smarter and more powerful than us, will have a plan to make sure things work out for the best? Otherwise, why would the Creator have bothered to bring us into being?