denying and mocking just confirms the desperate need of a Saviour we all have. The irrational no chance big bang theory shows how desperate the deniers are. No wonder the idiotic man made gw theory is so popular with the deniers. Thankfully biblical prophecy is accurate unlike that of the scientific soothsayers. I wonder what the next dreamt up theory there will be? Please don't answer that.

And here's runner right on que:)

If only lotto was as easily predicted as our be-loved brethren.

TBC....it must be hard for them to think that small...lol...and loved the link:)

You might remember me from this quote....."God is not what you think it is"

After all, we humans are the only ones that don't fit the bill:)

Good luck
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BLUE

SoG,

Your claimed search for answers would look a lot more genuine and sincere if you didn’t so readily plonk god into unknowns.

<<Why are we the only creature on Earth with a consciousness that is the core question to my mind?>>

Most creatures have a consciousness to some degree - even if they’re not as “aware” as we are. If they had no consciousness at all, then they would be indistinguishable from robots - which don’t even know they exist. And to suggest that this may point to the existence of a god is just silly. It’s like Blue Whales sitting back and thinking: “Wow! We’re the biggest creatures that have ever lived. There must be a god!”

<<What does a consciousness give us in the survival stakes, nothing?>>

Nothing?

For starters, it improves an animal’s sensory and motor co-ordination if they're aware of what they're actually doing at the time.

But a characteristic of a living organism doesn’t have to be an advantage to evolve, and even if it presents a potential disadvantage, that potential disadvantage has to be put into action before natural selection takes its course...

<<...if we willed it we could become extinct by our own volition within a generation.>>

Yes, if we did. But we haven’t. We have other evolved urges and instincts that override any possibility of doing such a thing.

Evolution isn’t a conscious force that has foresight in what might or might not prove to be a hindrance. Hence our backwards retinas and the fact that we eat an breath through the same hole.

<<God or no God we are so vastly different from the life forms that we share this earth and most of our DNA with. Why?>>

I don’t actually think we’re all that different, but if you do, then I guess you’re faced with two options:

-Acknowledge that you don’t know and look for some answers, or;
-Be lazy and plonk god in there as an explanation.

It's up to you.

Deep Blue

Yes, dear runner, right on time to save us all.

He is called 'runner' because he runs from the truth, not towards it.

But, he runs for the King, no less.

Could that really be Elvis?

The concept of God is a manifestation of all that we don't understand and all that we fear - particularly the fear of death.

It's a handy one-size-fits-all package that becomes the answer to every question, whether it be "His Will" or Him "working in mysterious ways" - a way to understand the unknowable.

The old man with the telescope watching everything makes it seem more likely that He will alter his Grand Plan for the entire universe to meet your demands if you pray to Him hard enough.

Some insist they not only know what He wants but what He looks like but I find the idea that He 's so lonely and insecure that He has to create His own friends to worship Him a bit too unsettling.

As for us being somehow special and different from everything else, sentience is perhaps a way for the universe to know itself and life takes whatever form it needs to to reproduce and maintain itself.
Perhaps we just were in the right place at the right time.

What religion is this bloke you talk about. Is he on u tube. What breed was he. There's a lot you people don't mention.