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Old 10-06-2008, 04:16 AM   #5 (permalink)
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What does God mean to you?
God is a way to explain things that the human mind does not comprehend. It is a way to explain why things with such low probability occur. It is a way to explain where we came from and why. The infinite recession of the question "Why" often leads to God.

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Is it something conscious?
Well it would have to be conscious if any of the popular world religions are correct, unless its some sort of life essence.

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Do you believe in the literal existence of something you identify as God? Why or why not?
I don't because I don't see any evidence. Seeing 'evidence' is completely dependent on perspective.

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Does this God exist in the same space and time as us?
If it did it could not be God.

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What do you believe God's meaning is in relation to humanity was a whole?
God is something we have invented to try to cope with our lack of understanding of the world, it was a necessity without Science.

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Why is God important or not important at all?
The way I understand it, the most plausible way in which God could exist would be in a fashion where it did not interact with our Universe, where it just set the laws, but really had no freedom other than that, because once the laws are set they are in stone.
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