From the hitchhikers guide


"The Babel Fish is small, yellow, and simultaneously translates from one spoken language to another.

When inserted into the ear, its nutrition processes convert sound waves into brain waves, neatly crossing the language divide between any species you should happen to meet whilst travelling in space.

Some say that the evolution of the Babel fish could not have been accidental, and hence that it proves the non-existence of God. "

"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non -existence of God. The argument goes something like this:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up For God."

Well I'm a complete atheist and I do sort of believe in an afterlife or place we all go. Before you all think I'm soft here is my reason:- Quantum mechanics.
We were all born from matter expelled from suns, as a result every atom is almost certainly linked to millions of others through quantum entanglement. So this collection of atoms that make up our bodies also exists every where else, spread out throughout the cosmos. So when this biological machine dies, it's essence still exists elsewhere just not in a combined and coesleced form. So what makes us 'US' is still there, still concious, but dead if you get my drift.

Exactly and how can a sperm and an egg with no conciousness, no ability to actually do any wrong, be then once joined together, born into original sin. We are all born sinners. I mean WTF is that all about.

He probably got his ideas just from common sense and a good imagination. I't isn't too hard to make stories up, heck fiction writers do it all the time. Loony cult leaders make up religions all the time, even scientology is a made up religion. Jesus almost certainly did exist, That he was the son of god and speaking his words, that's what's no based on any evidence or facts. If I said to you lot now that I was the son of god you would think what? How do you know I'm not? Afterall are we not all the son's of god? (if one existed)

So that's my first miracle then, how many more do I need to do before you all believe I am indeed God?

There are the same number of atoms now as when the world began - a humbling thought.

and...? I'm not particularly humbled by that TBH. Seems pretty obvious to me.

Graham

All our atoms will just go to make something or someone else, so all our arguments and differences are ulimately meaningless

Well we can all go to bed happy and contented then.

Graham

I always do

Sally

I'll go along with the "Arkon as God" movement. To whom do I send the cheques? (All religions seem to involve sending money to their executive branch.)

You sure about that? Based on what science?

Matter and energy are two sides of the same coin and since nuclear fission has been around for a few billion years I'd be surprised!

I saw it on a BBC programme a while back, sorry I can't remember the name.