Is There A Creator?

[goodlife]

If convincing evidence of a creator exists, why do many people believe that God had nothing to do with origin of life.

[Khandro]

naomi; You are the exception that proves the rule, as always :0)

[naomi24]

Rather it proves there is no rule.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - // AH : All this bluster doesn't really amount to much ... //

I know, but as a fervent, it's your cross to bear (!) to have to keep putting it out there to an uninterested world.

// ...I feel, a deep-down feeling of bewilderment (now there's a good 17th century word meaning 'adrift in pathless places') //

There's something wrong with your feeler then, I am not remotely 'bewildered', I think you are doing the usual fervent trick of imagining that everyone who doesn't think as you do must have their faculties scrambled.

//Why don't you just say; 'There probably is no God', & leave it at that? //

Why don't you?

[Khandro]

AH: //Why don't you?//

Directed at me, that is, even from you, a rather silly question.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - // AH: //Why don't you?//

Directed at me, that is, even from you, a rather silly question. //

Therein lies the difference between us - you are arrogant enough to talk down to me and suggest how I should think and advise my views on your God, and expect to be taken seriously.

I simply put the same exact question to you, and mine is a 'silly question'.

As far as I am concerned, if my question to you is 'silly', that pins down the level of your question to me.

You can't have it both ways, although as a fervent, you always think you can.

[Khandro]

AH ; //I simply put the same exact question to you, and mine is a 'silly question'.//

It is a silly question when directed at ME ! - wake up!

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - // AH ; //I simply put the same exact question to you, and mine is a 'silly question'.//

It is a silly question when directed at ME ! - wake up! //

Your arrogance is boundless.

Goodnight.

[archibaldy]

Some people don't believe there is a Creator because they are more stringent about what passes for 'evidence'.

[Spungle]

What evidence are you citing, Goodlife? What convinces one person will not convince another. For example- My wife is convinced that, despite evidence to the contrary, that homeopathy works. Some would equally argue, despite all the convincing evidence, that man never landed on the Moon. Or that Elvis lives. There is often a lot of disparity between what we see as evidence, as humans, and what one person sees as "proof", can very often be seen as the exact opposite by others. Some will claim to go by the "scientific consensus" to back up their beliefs, which as we know, means nothing, except that a lot of people believe the same way as you do. Others will see proof where none exists; others will argue, when presented with, say, a rock, that it isn't a rock, it's a boulder. Or a pebble. If this was not the case, and there was only one "right" answer to a question, Answerbank would be full of one-line answers, there would be no debate, and the world would become a more boring place.