Comments on: God is Only a Theory

By: Stephen Hawkins Hero

Stephen Hawkins Hero — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:46:57 +0000

There is no god , It makes no logical sense that an omnipotant Figure would just appear out of no where to creat a heaven and an earth.Religion was created to serve as a nightlight to humans who are affraid to die , so people follow religion so they have a sense of comfert.It was also created as an institution to controle how people act , if people are afriad to go to “hell” then they will act like good little children waiting for santa

By: Broughton

Broughton — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:49:31 +0000

Education is about brainwashing the most impressionable segment of our society in accordance with the wishes of those with the political power to influence the educational bureacracy. I’m an atheist and a biologist, but I’m more concerned with the arbitrary liberal secular theology being inflicted on children than I am about religious influences. I attended a College of Education at a university, and it was more anti-science than any church I’ve encountered.

By: agnostic

agnostic — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:41:31 +0000

While I’m on a roll:

Putting God, Christianity etc. into a more modern perspective, if you went to see a movie at the cinema that had so many holes in the plot that the bible has, would you pay to go see it again? Or better yet, by the DVD?

By: agnostic

agnostic — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:27:16 +0000

I could write a whole load of points I have thought about inspired by this article and all your comments, so here are just a few:

God said, “Let there be light!”, and there was. God is supposed to be all knowing and all powerful, omnipotent, yada yada. By this statement we can assume that God has been walking around in the dark all these millennia until he created the Earth. What kind of intelligent being does that when they can create light to see with?

Babylonian mythology has a tale of Gilgamesh, he wanted immortality. One of his uncles had it so he asked him how he got it. He said “the gods gave me it for saving the world’s population.” Know how he did that?

With a big boat, much like Noah did, but a great deal earlier, years in the order of hundreds I think (can’t remember exactly). So, we can see that those believing in God were “inspired” by all sorts of stories to make another book up.

A line in the article did stick in my mind, “..not only was no one present to witness this act…”. How can he be so sure as there is no proof either way? Shermer should have more correctly said something like “..not only was there no one, who is currently alive, present to witness this act…”

As far as creationism goes. Knowing what little I know about genetics. Mixing the gene pool so close to home does not normally result in such a large number of healthy individuals, quite the opposite, it leads to a poorly developed human race with less diversity for survival. That is why it is frowned upon and not generally encouraged. So, with that in mind how did the human race grow so large, diverse and so, generally, well developed?

By: Jay M

Jay M — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:14:24 +0000

I loved the article, and many of the comments. But I have to disagree with those who claim there is no place for God in science.

Science can explain every step of the evolution of the universe, but it’s my understanding that the first instance of the Big Bang cannot be explained (yet). There is nothing in science, that I’m aware of, the precludes the possibility of a supernatural origin.

Can you say, “Let there be light”?

By: Duke

Duke — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:30:15 +0000

Thanks for this piece. I am a Christian Theist, but I have started reading some of your work. I’ve always tried to think outside the box, but even more so as I’ve gotten older. Thanks for the intellectual meal. Peace.

By: John Crider

John Crider — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:18:48 +0000

“God is only a theory!” But wait, it’s not even a scientific theory!

By: Duke

Duke — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:13:23 +0000

Thanks for the article. I’ve heard of your work but only began reading it. I’ve been a Christian since baptism (going through Catholicism and through Protestantism). I was a creationist and am now an evolutionists. Thanks for your healthy dose of skepticism.

Peace.

By: Jor-L5150

Jor-L5150 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:20:03 +0000

its understandable that religious people think evolution is ridiculous- when you realise they have never read darwin and never actually studied what evolution IS , only what the church tells them it is. when it is so mischaracterised and loaded with innane analogies then evolution sounds absurd.

personally , i couldn’t believe how skillful my church had been at LYING about darwin and evolution ! it was staggering, but then the jehovah’s witnesses are enough to even embarass creationist so……

my faveorit line is ” evolution is the belief that life ‘just happened’” . ” just happened ” ???!!! JUST happened ?? . lets see, BILLIONS of years of physical law, incomrehensible spans of time , testable chemical reactions , replications …eons and eons of replications with variations ….aaaaand it ” just happened “. ok.
actually , the only people who belive life ” just happened ” are CREATIONISTS! they believe there WAS NO LIFE- THEN – God said ” let it be ” and then it just happened.
its absurd to beleive that life ” just happened ” if it took billions of years complying with physical law, but if it took a few days and a magical creature then it makes perfect sense and should be taught in science class….

By: Jor-L5150

Jor-L5150 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:11:00 +0000

actually , there is a third creation story , i beleive in psalms or song of solomon( i will check ) that is ” borrowed ” from babylon , in which yahweh/jehovah builds heaven and earth out of two halves of a monster he destroys called tiamat.

- the genesis account DOES mention ” other sons and daughters” of adam and eve, but , even then incest was necessary. there are several stories of incest among the ” good guys ” of the bible. in fact , an entire race is said to be from Lot impregnating his daughters when they date-raped him .

some apologists want to claim that gen 1 and gen 2 are the ” SAME story, but with clarification”. that is hilarious and WEAK. if either story were true, and God wrote it – or inspired it in the first place , then why not get the story right in the first place ? why so many stories being repeated with contradictions?
why have the book of chronicles if you already have the book of samuel/kings? why bother with genesis 1 if genesis 2 gets it right ? why four gospels? why not ONE ..or ten?

in reality , these were COMPETING traditions from worhippers of EL ( of the elohim ) and Yahweh/jehovah who lived in defferent regions in canaan/israel and were redacted together.