Is it just me, or is Sells getting mellow, in his old age? This article doesn't seem quite as deliberately offensive as his previous offerings.
Is it possible the Christian has learnt the value of good manners from dealing with us barbarian heathens?
I welcome the views of some posters I personally haven't encountered before; lilsam, SilverinCanberra, Gravitationalist.
I doubt Sells will.

Shadow Minister wrote:

"God is not the cause of the world.

But will probably be the cause of the end of it."

Well said Shadow, LOL

How much unrest and ignorance is caused by religion ?
The world will one day come to the conclusion that religion is the cause of wars.
If religion was for real every one would be the same sect.
It's a power struggle between different beliefs.
Some people clean their souls on a sunday, and by monday they are as filthy again. I don't know how they can live with that.
I am glad i don't have to worry about that.
Religion is based on fairytale.
When ya dead ya dead, no one is going to save ya from turning to compost, like anything else that dies.

God is the cause of the world...the theory of the big bang...has two applications...one big bang...or many...clearly every action...has an equal/and oppisite reaction

so what are seen/has its opposing in the unseen...lok at your computer..on/or off...its a totally different beast/..yet seemingly..it looks identical...till you turn it on

see turning on the juice...animates...makes the computer work..take away the cause...it dont work...god/holy spirit...is that unseen cause[like e;ectricity...that makes dust live

we are undeniably dust and water..just as plants eat the dust..cows eat dust..in the form of grass...all the way up the food chain..dust[and life]

now see pre bigbang...if we could see..it would be the apparent dark deep of nothingness...then bang[releasing light]...as the matter expands outwards the back presure is like water[so the word reveals...till in time..matter emerged from the waters

in the next time period...plants/etc...then animals..see its a primitive yet logical record...of what science is saying[with big bang]

so multiple big bangs is self fullfilling...from the deep big bang..to the eventual pure light energy..as the universe expands into E=mc2...then there comes the big collapse...then when all the..'E'..into the space of a fullstop[.]...a change of state...reversing the big contraction...and bang...as god]s voice...sets up vibration in voice...and the light etc

see that the story..preceeded the science...science has never made any life/nor any living cell...let alone recorded a verifyable science fact as to the cause of the big bang...from nothing/by accident..or their other natural selectors

science can give life...isnt the aether..spirit..has no idea..has not ever evolved anything into a new taxonomic genus...the evolution faithfull..have faith..in the science...lol...its the same/same

but not science/nor believer in evolution..can repeat the science..of first life/living..

acience..needs t cells..to let god do..what god does..so seamlesly..

science calls it natural/nature...that unseen science simply hasnt and cant duplicate...

that living breath..
god breathed into goyam/adam..
and adam/man has put..living sperm..
into the deep..of the mothers egg..eve-r since

know god..is love/light/logic/life

'Belief does not rest on evidence; it is a different way of knowing than that of scientific knowledge.'

If you don't have good evidence for something then don't believe it!

Or, to put it another way - Why believe in something just in the off chance that it may be true? That's really dumb.

God was supposed to have created the world, as the bible and other religious texts would have us believe, and he was supposedly a wise Creator who cared about human life.

Was this the same God who supposedly sent plagues to Egypt, tormented Job, killed all the first sons of Egypt, and drowned all the world's people in a flood except Noah and his family. The rainy season must have come to both hemispheres at the same time that year!

It also follows that this Creator either created or allowed to evolve, the organisms responsible for causing leprosy, smallpox, TB, a choice set of sexually transmitted diseases and many other scourges on humanity.

How is it that this Creator gave us all the ability to reason and think for ourselves, allowing many to not believe in the Creator stories written by men in religious texts? It just doesn't make sense.

If there is a special God or Creator, then he/she/it didn't do a very good job!