What in the Casey Anthony?
Now you're speaking my language, I'd say that the proof is everywhere around you, but just for those who require solid proof or evidence. I wonder what said proof would even look like, and if they themselves even know.
Then how do we even determine what classifies as solid proof for gods existence, when everyone's concept of god is going to differ slightly.
Exactly... and it's not even slightly. Some being that can affirm they're capable of Old Testament destruction might make Christians rejoice... some might rightly see that as the greatest existential threat to all life that we could imagine. In any case, I believe affirmation of a God, or gods, would only bring war and destruction.
The most obvious measure is against religious texts... but that's never going to happen because they're works of fiction written by long dead humans attempting to garner influence. A more open minded, less indoctrinated view of religion, is more likely to just interpret god as a more powerful being, honestly - can you imagine what humanity would do if faced with an all powerful being?
The Christian God? Well, I'd want Jesus to come down and turn water into funk:
Now that is very hard for me to put into words, I guess I'm what you'd term a blind faith type of person. The more I try to understand what god or God is the more confused I get, I just try to have faith that there really is something greater than all of this physical stuff. That somehow there is a purpose to all of this and that physical existence isn't just purely materialistic and random and of coincidence, if that makes any sense?
Nothing wrong with that.
Why?
God or gods are not required for one to not be materialistic, nor is randomness inherently bad.
This god (omnipotent, omniscient) created this universe 13.8bn years ago in full knowledge of every murder, rape, torture and enslavement that would be carried out by the human apes who would evolve billions of years later on a blue dot, orbiting an unremarkable white star, sat out in the spiral arm of a particular galaxy. This god knew when, how, why and who would carry out such horrible acts and also knew every detail about every victim of such horrors.
In the OT God literally kills everyone on the planet bar one family!
Judges says your wrong
It certainly places a massive ? to the case of reality as we know it, that mainly being the question what on earth is reality or the universe?Images like this certainly make you wonder at the big questions, the context we find ourselves in certainly makes some older human centric religious notions seem a bit absurd. When seeing such grandeur of that scale does it need a god, or is it wonderous enough just of itself?
James Webb telescope takes super sharp view of early cosmos
The new $10bn space telescope delivers its first full-colour image of the distant Universe.www.bbc.co.uk
Why? Why can't it be pretty much exactly what it appears to be?
Yes there's an explanation how life start, there's no creator, it's just chemical reaction that produce something. It doesnt need anythign to happen, that's the beauty of it. Stars dies and from that, matter is create. Off course the big question is how did it start. Same things as the question with the chicken tho, who was first, the chicken or the egg ?
What kind of coffin are people being buried in that prevents a body being returned to the Earth? I know in the UK it is very easy to have a coffin that rapidly degrades and leaves nothing behind and embalming is entirely down to individual choice. Are such natural burials banned in some countries?
It looks to me that the criticism isn't that burial or cremation are harmful to the environment, rather that the deceased aren't likely to be of benefit to the environment in the case of cremation and that benefit is delayed by traditional burial practices like embalming and sturdy caskets. Also an embalmed body with all the chemicals employed in the process isn't great for the environment compared to unembalmed.
The concern about cremation is almost certainly about harm, but you're technically correct, that the stated concern was about not benefitting. Regardless, of all of the trash that doesn't benefit the environment that we leave behind, the body is a tiny fraction. Plant a tree if you want to benefit the environment, don't worry about your corpse.
