[Turambar]

the point remains that the invisible pink unicorn in my garage, the flying spaghetti monster, an unspecified teapot in orbit, and god all have the same amount of evidence.

[High Max]

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[karajorma]

Karajorma  leading Diaspora, which refers to a deeply religious tv show. God works in mysterious ways. 

Is that really the best you can do? That's pretty pathetic. If I was making a mod about Father Christmas that wouldn't mean he was real either.

[karajorma]

Yep. There are a lot of different ways to distinguish it. But bear in mind that strong atheists when saying "There is no God" are mostly saying "On the balance of all evidence and probability, there is no God"

You'll be very hard pressed to find an Atheist who says that "There is no God and there is absolutely no chance I'm wrong on this."

Dawkins 

Wrong. Dawkins has frequently said that he could be wrong about religion. Simply that the chances of it are pretty small.

[Bobboau]

difference between string theory and god is with one of them if I have a big enough particle accelerator I can check to see if I'm right.

[Liberator]

An unnamed god. God could take many names. I would think he would be called an "it" and not a "he" or "she" since male and female is only necessary for biology. Maybe an extremely powerful all knowing conscious energy and maybe the source of space/time foam in which universes and subatomic particles at the quantum level seem to come into and out of existence from nothing. Maybe the universe is its mind. Who knows? It is said the millennium simulation (largest size scale in the universe) looks like a collection of braincells.

I would only disagree with this because of Genesis 1:26:

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

According to this, written by someone who, if we take it literally, knew God directly.  Or at least the Command he gave to bring us into being.

[Blue Lion]

Why would God have a penis like me?  Or lungs and a stomach? Or nipples. Does God have nipples?

[Kosh]

But not all of us look alike.

[General Battuta]

Or maybe the Bible has nothing to do with God, and was fabricated by man.

Always a possibility.

[BlueFlames]

Why would God have a penis like me?

Just in case a cute Lady-God comes by?

Or nipples. Does God have nipples?

To kill some time, just in case a cute Lady-God doesn't come by?

Blaspheming is fun.

[Kosh]

Or maybe the Bible has nothing to do with God, and was fabricated by man.

Always a possibility.

It was a perfect example of design by committee.

[peterv]

You know he doesn't like to be called like that.

He obviously doesn't. 

Is that really the best you can do? That's pretty pathetic. If I was making a mod about Father Christmas that wouldn't mean he was real either.

I swear to God, i'll never ever ever make jokes again (in english). 

[karajorma]

Nah, it's just that you didn't pick anything particularly amazing. I might be willing to concede that Derek Smart making money on all his games had miraculous connotations.

[Blue Lion]

Or he sold his sou... No no!
*runs*

[High Max]

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[Liberator]

I thought about that but for one, the bible was written by man, and for two, "created in his own image" can be interpreted in different ways and might mean "what God's imagination came up with" like if I made a computer in my own image, it could mean how I wanted to create it, and not "modeled after how God looks", and even if man is supposed to be modeled after how God looks, it doesn't mean God is a "he" since likeness doesn't mean created exactly how God looks. Likeness means similar, not exact.

Copy pasted from:
http://www.dreadgazebo.com/gunporn/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/svdb_smaller.jpg

Which says that's NIV translation so it should be fairly acurate to the original greek/hebrew/source.

If you are the proponent of the theory that God is actually an XT race who came here and engineered us from existing life than that could mean they made us look like them.  Remember, 2012 is when They(the race that built/showed how to build megalithic architecture) come back.

[Blue Lion]

How did we get that date again?

[TrashMan]

Yep. There are a lot of different ways to distinguish it. But bear in mind that strong atheists when saying "There is no God" are mostly saying "On the balance of all evidence and probability, there is no God"

And it's still very wrong.

If it's so easy to see  and so more probable that God doesn't exist, then there wouldn't be nearly enough believers...especially among men of science.

[Blue Lion]

Yep. There are a lot of different ways to distinguish it. But bear in mind that strong atheists when saying "There is no God" are mostly saying "On the balance of all evidence and probability, there is no God"

And it's still very wrong.

If it's so easy to see  and so more probable that God doesn't exist, then there wouldn't be nearly enough believers...especially among men of science.

I must have missed the massive amounts of proof lying around. Also the number of non believers is growing, not shrinking.

[Liberator]

How did we get that date again?

It's the calculated end of the current age of the Mayan calender.  Only it's not like a regular calender, it just stops and there's not another one to replace it.  Most people of this persuasion take that to mean that they saw something happening on that day/month/year that would make calculating another calender irrelevant, so end of the world or a change in the way the world deals with linear time.  Hell I don't know, maybe that's the day that the LHC explodes and splits the world into two completely separate copies of each other on opposite sides of the sun in perfect tidal balance.