Do with that what you will, but before you stroke your tiny little teen ego and tell yourself how advanced you are for mocking God, remember the host of great minds who stand in the camp of theism.  You set yourself against them (not to mention God).

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"It is the wrong question to ask, and therefore, as one  might expect, has
no right answer." - Hans von Campenhausen

This is the philosophy of my life.

This is not an argumentum ad populum because my point is not say there is a God on the basis of a majority vote.  My point is that to suggest that insufficient thought has been dedicated to the existence of God or that we are somehow more advanced in our thought than greater men of the past who believed in God is hubris.

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"It is the wrong question to ask, and therefore, as one  might expect, has
no right answer." - Hans von Campenhausen

This is the philosophy of my life.

Though that is pretty obvious an answer.

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You think differently.  We, if we think differently at all, as a species have not changed so much as to prevent most of the world from still being theistic.  The scientific revolutions have not prevented the geographic increase of Christianity and the marked numeric increase of Islam.  Most people even in our own highly civilized nation are still theistic.  Whatever you perceive as having changed in our thought has not eliminated God by any stretch of the imagination, only proved that Almighty Science has not so dramatically changed man as we had hoped.

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"It is the wrong question to ask, and therefore, as one  might expect, has
no right answer." - Hans von Campenhausen

This is the philosophy of my life.

Post edited at 4:09 pm on Oct. 9, 2008 by Major

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I thought I bored me
but I learned to think like you

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Quote: from Major at 5:45 pm on Oct. 9, 2008

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because before now we hadn't gone under the scientific revolutions that have made it okay to doubt god or to supplant an alternative to the hole where faith would have been  
 we're in a completely different paradigm than when it was, for example, Thomas Jefferson's time (who was a deist)  
 It's not that we're smarter, but yes, we do think differently.

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You think differently. We, if we think differently at all, as a species have not changed so much as to prevent most of the world from still being theistic. The scientific revolutions have not prevented the geographic increase of Christianity and the marked numeric increase of Islam. Most people even in our own highly civilized nation are still theistic. Whatever you perceive as having changed in our thought has not eliminated God by any stretch of the imagination, only proved that Almighty Science has not so dramatically changed man as we had hoped.

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Theism has increased, yes. But so has atheism. I'm not sure if it has increased more than certain larger religions, but it has increased. And that is what I got from Major's post.

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