Belief in God is reasonable

1) "The first law of thermodynamics states that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed. There is matter that exists. Therefore it is reasonable to believe that it was created by a supreme being." - If god created the matter, the matter was created. The law you talk about states matter can't be created, so how exactly did god create matter, if it's impossible? How is it reasonable to believe god can break the laws of thermodynamics ? The 1st law of thermodynamics only proves that The Big Bang is more reasonable than a god, as in the Big Bang matter appeared and was not created. 2) The 2nd law of thermodynamics can only be applied in a closed system. The Earth is not a closed system[1] because it receives energy from the sun, so there is no reason why evolution couldn't have happened. 3) What chaotic mash? The Ancient Greeks were the only ones who claimed the universe started from Chaos. The Big Bang Theory says matter was compressed in a point. There is no way to explain why these laws exist, but I don't see how they could make the existence of god reasonable. The best answer theists can give to the question "Why does god exist?" is "He just does", so if you are willing to accept that as reasonable, why not accept that natural laws "just are" 4) What exactly is the existence of good and evil? Good and evil are simply concepts and nothing more. Good and evil only exist in our mind, they are not some sort of entities. Also, we don't KNOW good and evil, we are TAUGHT what is good and what is evil. Do you think suicide bombers know they are doing an evil thing and just do it anyway? They grow up learning it is good to blow yourself up. This is way they aren't scared, because for them blowing yourself up and killing hundreds of people is a great thing to do. Good and evil are not and have never been objective. They are subjective concepts that changed throughout history and differ from culture to culture. There are plenty of examples: - during the middle ages, european christians believed it was good to burn homosexuals at the stake; any christian living in the 21st century will say that doing something like that is evil; - once people believed cats were evil[2] - the Aztec and Maya civilizations believed human sacrifice was good So who is right? If good and evil exist as objective concepts, then someone is wrong. So are we evil now or have we been evil for thousands of years? 5) There are so many things wrong with this argument. First of all, your perspective is wrong : the Earth is not perfectly suited to sustain human life, human life is perfectly adapted to the Earth's conditions. Your argument could only stand if humans simply popped into existence. The distance from the sun and the mixture of gases are the first conditions for the simplest life to appear. Just think about the size of the universe. The universe contains billions of planets that can sustain life. Earth is not special at all, there can be an infinite number of habitable planets out there. We've only been searching for habitable planets for a little while and we already found 40 planets that could sustain life and this only near our solar system.[3] The point is Earth's distance from the sun and the atmosphere are the very reasons why life exists on Earth and not on Mars or another planet. And natural resources don't mean anything. They were in the ground long before humans appeared. We just figured out how to exploit themand simply managed to live with the resources we had. There are diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter, but that doesn't mean life can exist there. 6) I don't think you understand evolution very well, because you are talking about the goal of evolving. There is no goal here. Simpler life forms didn't decide to evolve. Evolution is not a process species are aware of. Apes didn't decide they want to evolve into humans. It would be illogical to think animals can simply decide they want to have longer necks, or they want to be smarter and then just go ahead and give birth to smarter offsprings, but unfortunately this is how a lot of people understand evolution. Evolution doesn't have a purpose at all. Evolution is the change of species over time. Organisms don't evolve in a certain pattern or with a certain purposes. Emotion is indeed not needed for our survival. But evolution is not just about survival, it's about change in general. Some changes are good, some are bad, some are needed, some are not needed. Emotion is part of our brain. Our brains got bigger and evolved in weird ways. There is a biological explanation for emotion, but there is no point in talking about that, as your argument is the reason why they exist. The answer is simple : there is no reason; Evolution doesn't have a reason, it only has an explanation. There is no real reason for humans to exist. We are nothing more than a mutation that adapted very well to Earth's conditions and continued to exist. There is no reason for our existence, just an explanation. 7) Beauty, just like good and evil is a subjective concept. Every parent thinks his children are beautiful. In the past, fat women were considered beautiful, now almost every man will say skinny women are more beautiful. Many cultures in West Asia believe beauty means symmetry. Every person sees beauty in a different way. "Anything that does not have a use-value does not have any reason for existing if evolution is true" - First, there is no "if" when it comes to evolution. Evolution is a proved theory. I can't understand how people keep denying the theory of evolution when there is more than enough evidence. We don't even need to go into complex anatomy issues, just look at the flu virus.[4] The reason there is a new vaccine every year is because the virus evolves every year. Again, evolution doesn't have a reason or a purpose. [1]http://dictionary.reference.com... system [2]http://www.omg-facts.com... [3]http://en.wikipedia.org... [4]http://evolution.berkeley.edu...