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Brilliant. Why assume an unnecessary variable in any situation?

The Universe, life, ect can be explained without the need for a God, so why therefore should it be altered to include a God.

Good thinking.

Well, after you've come to (feel that you) know God, applying Occam's Razor would be like putting your spouse to scientific tests to see if s/he is really loving, faithful, etc. "Keeping a scientific mind in -all- we do," is not a good way to live.

Either there is a god or there isn't

either way it is a worry (appol to A C Clark)

Pascal 's theory was that in believing or not believing that there was less risk in believing (for the eternal soul that is) as if there is a god and you didn't believe, eternity was going to be a long time,and if there isn't a god and you did believe, you only wasted your sundays.

and he was a bishop !

Dawkins thinks religion is a mind virus and that we can remove it and reprogram the mind without it.

Dawkins makes good reading but I still like Pascals theory

I think the God option should be in the back of the mind at least in case it turns out to be true... why throw out an option that has yet to be disproven?

The TOTALLY AWESOME Supreme Creator Who Created the universe, naturally. Psalm 147:4 (Amplified Bible)

4He determines and counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names.

Amos 5:8 (Amplified Bible)

8Seek Him Who made the [cluster of stars called] Pleiades and [the constellation] Orion, Who turns the shadow of death or deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, Who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth--the Lord is His name--

My favorite approach is simply to just watch what's happening rather than trying to explain it all away. It doesn't matter really, I'll be dead soon enough anyway, I might as well just watch the stars shine for a while.

You have countries like Russia and North Korea, is that how you want to live? They have removed God from their countries and lowered the standard of living and the government gets to decide who lives and who dies, what you can buy and sell , who gets food and who starves, who gets medical care and who dies, no education because they don't want people to be able to question their policies. This is what happens when God is removed. I encourage you to move to one of these so you can be happy, since you have the right to be able to do that and the residents of these countries don't

Just throwing a wild hunch out there, but I think the Atheists will agree and the Believers won't.