Does God / a supreme being exist?

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Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There are plenty of extremely intelligent human beings (by scientific measure) that have concluded that there most be some supreme being/creator. To dismiss them is to conveniently ignore that that overwhelming majority of the human race also believes in some type of faith system.

You don't have to believe in anything. But, to dismiss the majority of the human race and some of its most intelligent and gifted members in a single sentence or two is the real act of ignorance.

I'd hazard that many of these "intelligent" and "gifted" members of the world were brainwashed with religion in the early stages of their lives. The fact that a majority of the world's peoples believe in one particular religion or another is proof of how firmly entrenched that brainwashing can be at an early age.

I have no problem with people that believe in religion - my wife is pretty religious, and I attend church with her occasionally. She's a very intelligent woman - but she went to church every Sunday growing up. There is no argument from a scientific perspective that will convince her that she's wasting her time. She has the trump card of "faith" on her side. And that's fine. Ultimately, her faith will benefit her, one way or the other.

If you die believing there's a heaven and you get in...fantastic. If not, and you're just worm food? You won't know any better, right?