God Exists

I will answer everything in turn. The Earth and stars and galaxy were naturally formed. This is basic Cosmology. "Whispers of God"? I don't know what that means. The Bible was written by a bunch of primitive men who thought they could use "God" as evidence of their points. Examples: Killing Whom You Don't Like (Leviticus 20:7-13 NIV) 7 ""Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God. 8 Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the Lord, who makes you holy. 9 ""Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head. 10 ""If a man commits adultery with another man"s wife"with the wife of his neighbor"both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death. 11 ""If a man has sexual relations with his father"s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. 12 ""If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads. 13 ""If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. Slavery (Exodus 21:2-21 NIV) "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. 5 "But if the servant declares, "I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free," 6 then his master must take him before the judges.[a] He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life. 7 "If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. 8 If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,[b] he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. 9 If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. 10 If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. 11 If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money. Personal Injuries 12 "Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death. 13 However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. 14 But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death. 15 "Anyone who attacks[c] their father or mother is to be put to death. 16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper"s possession. 17 "Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. 18 "If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist[d] and the victim does not die but is confined to bed, 19 the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed. 20 "Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property. Oppression of Women (1 Timothy 2:8-15 NIV) 8 Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing. 9 I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10 but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God. 11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[b] she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women[c] will be saved through childbearing"if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety. Punishment? I was a creationist for the great majority of my life. Only about a year ago I lost my faith. I didn't notice any changes. "Why do we exist?" Evolution, but I'm guessing you don't understand what that means, so here goes: First, there was hydrogen and other gases. When struck by lightning, they sometimes were able to form chemicals that could produce copies. The ones that could got copied on. Finally, we arrived at life. In nature, we observe the following things: 1.) animals reproduce, but they do not reproduce exact copies. children look like their parents, but not exactly. (there is variation ) 2.) these differences between generations tend to be small, but also unpredictable in the near term. So a child is taller or has an extra finger, but they're not taller or extra-fingered because their parents needed to reach high things or play extra piano keys. (so the variation is random, rather than being a direct response to the environment) 3.) animals often have more kids than the environment can support and animals that are BEST SUITED to the environment tend to survive and reproduce. So if there is a drought, for instance, and there is not enough water, offspring that need less water---or that are slightly smaller and so can get in faster to get more water---will survive and reproduce. (there is a process of natural selection which preserves some changes between generations in a non-random way) As a result, over time, the proportion of traits (what we would now refer to as the frequency of genes in a population) will change, in keeping with natural selection. This is evolution. The "Proof that God Exists" is just a proof of certain qualities. You can have these things without God; that should be blindingly obvious. http://skeptico.blogs.com... The "ABC News' story is about the ontological argument. It has been refuted. http://skeptico.blogs.com... For the "Patheos" argument: Did you even take the time to Google this? She was taking the right medicine. I have to go now.