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The God Question.
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In our usual spirit of mutual respect and friendliness, would you like to address the whole, "God Question?"
Is there a God? Proof?
There is no God? "Proof?"
Any general comments?
Is there a God? Proof?
There is no God? "Proof?"
Any general comments?
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I can tell you now that any argument against Evolution is rubbish dreamed up people with no comprehension because Evolution has already been confirmed by millions of pieces of evidence.
Even the Vatican has accepted it. Took a long time but not quite as long as admitting they were wrong about the Sun going around the Earth.
I can tell you now that any argument against Evolution is rubbish dreamed up people with no comprehension because Evolution has already been confirmed by millions of pieces of evidence.
Even the Vatican has accepted it. Took a long time but not quite as long as admitting they were wrong about the Sun going around the Earth.
My "belief" is that the idea of a god (or God, if you prefer) is man-made to try to explain our existence and also to create groupings on that basis of; setting out rules on how to live together (a moral code) and the promise of living forever, but not in the physical sense that we understand life (Heaven, Nirvana, reincarnation).
Evidence? None, but the notion of a g/God is in Man's mind. We have existed for maybe 50,000 years and the idea of gods for 5,000. Prior to that (as far as we know), the idea of a god did not exist in any other beings' mind. Our planet is one of billions. It is not at the centre of the universe. What makes us, Man, so special that all of this was created for us?
The oldest evidence that humankind worshipped a supernatural deity & the oldest known sculptural depiction of a god is the Löwenmensch (lionman) figurine, a half-human, half-lion sculpture made approximately 40,000 years ago, excavated in 1939 from a cave in the German Alps (Alb), only 20 miles from where I am living.
It resides in the Tuebingen Museum, but was part of an exhibition in the British Museum about 10 years ago.
^ He's the second square in the top row on here;
https:/ /www.br itishmu seum.or g/whats _on/exh ibition s/ice_a ge_art. aspx
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This may answer your question:
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Thank you Zacs-Master, the programme was certainly interesting but there were far too many if's, possibly's, might be's and especially suppositions to make it believable. They placed great importance on a substance found in the mouth of the statue especially when they thought it was blood, neither put forward the simpler theory that the carver could have just as likely cut his hand whilst carving. Because the broken fragments were found in a small cave within a larger one they say this was a shrine, again, an imaginative and unproven theory. I see no evidence from the statue, the British Museum or this programme, that this item was ever worshipped as a God.
I do agree with one statement, they said imagination and story telling would have played their parts if the statue was worshipped; I would suggest they still play a very important part in all religions, especially imagination.
I do agree with one statement, they said imagination and story telling would have played their parts if the statue was worshipped; I would suggest they still play a very important part in all religions, especially imagination.