God, heaven, and hell only exist metaphysically, not physically. Therefore, are only ideas.

Rebuttals."Rational" metaphysics, I'll get to that."Physical" is something that can bee seen and touched. Certainly neither God nor heaven are "physical", at least in any sense we know. But first off how do you know that the physical actually exists at all? Edgar Allan Poe wrote: "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." While I certainly do not consider him an expert in the field I do not rule out that what he said is true. Science tells us that there is nothing "physical" about the atoms which make up everything. When magnified to its maximum the only thing that makes up a nucleus of an atom is a tiny ribbon of energy.This is a good point. You seem to be asking,"How can we even perceive reality?" To answer this question, I feel that it is fundamental to understand how we perceive existence. Descartes famously said "Cogito ergo sum", or "I think, therefore I am."(http://en.wikipedia.org...) He proved this with an example. Let's imagine that there is an invisible evil genius is filling our minds with incorrect idea's to keep us for understanding the truth. It's childish, but can you prove it's not true? Descartes figured out that If the evil genius was fooling him, he'd have to exist in order for him to do just that. If we doubt our own existence, we must exist in order to doubt it.So now that we know about existence, lets talk about reality. Or more importantly, rationality. The reason I try to stay away from rational metaphysics is because it is simply flawed at times. If I think rationally about Descartes' s findings I would ask myself, "Could his findings just be another incorrect idea of the evil genius?" We can answer this, not with rationality, but with subjectivity. This is the point where faith and emotion must come into play, because there is no factual evidence or something that is observed to support the existence of god. Therefore, you cannot prove it rationally. I'm pretty sure there was even experiments done that proved quantum mechanics. But not god. It's nearly instinctive for humans to decide subjectively when they don't know. This is the case of reality. I am here. I am typing. I am looking at the computer screen. These are all subjective statements. By acting on these subjective thoughts, I give them validity, therefore meaning to me and my life. One could even argue that the past doesn't exist.Likewise your argument ignores the fact that certain things certainly DO exist that are far more than "ideas". I would place God in that category. But in it also are love, hate and a host of other things that transcend mere "emotional" response and can exist in reality. True love, not just the hormonal sense of attraction, undoubtedly does exist but is neither "physical" nor merely an "idea". If that is true of love why can it not be true also of God?These could all be considered ideas."I love you." "I hate you." Theoretically, you're proposing an subjective idea about how you feel about somebody. I understand what you're saying, but you're still proposing ideas. Even with love, there is something being observed, so it can be ruled out rationally. Plus I found this article about how true love was observed as a chemical reaction (http://jezebel.com...) God is essentially just an idea that more than 1 person believes in. This makes it a subjectively stronger idea, yet an idea nonetheless. Many scientists, even agnostics and atheists, have acknowledged the possibility of the "supernatural" and that an "intelligence" was behind the existence of our universe and ourselves. Atheist Stephen Hawking said: "The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron ". The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life." Agnostic astrophysicist and NASA scientist Robert Jastrow said: "Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proved, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact."More recently, two papers published last year also seem to indicate that. The first was in March in the premier scientific journal "Icarus" which essentially said that an intelligence WAS responsible for the programming of our DNA.http://www.evolutionnews.org...... (note: while the link is to a source that certainly could be called "biased", the journal where it appeared certainly is not. Here is an abstract: http://www.sciencedirect.com...... ). What that says about evolution I will leave, but it is obviously profound. But the fact is that it leaves us with only two logical choices: either the programming was done by an alien life form from within our universe or that it was a supernatural intelligence.The second paper was published in May as a result of a three year study in 20 countries done by Oxford University. It found that human beings are PREdisposed to believe in God and in an afterlife. http://www.ox.ac.uk...... History and Archeology have proved that every culture everywhere no matter how primitive or isolated have sought God in their own way. This has been shown to be true even of proto-humans. The fact that this was true from the beginning of mankind indicates that it is not a "learned behavior" for survival, but rather programmed into our DNA. As a result when you link this with the previous study of the two possible choices, an alien or supernatural intelligence, the one that seems most likely is the supernatural, for why would an alien culture program us to believe in God?All of these articles provide solid findings. But I can choose to disbelieve in them subjectively. I haven't seen the real proof with my own eyes, therefore it may not exist. Overall, I do not believe that this is a debate about evolution or science. The debate is rooted in religion and philosophy. Plus I could think of a BILLION ways for aliens to program us to believe in god.Finally, absolutely everything can be considered an idea.I apologize if my grammar or spelling is rough, it's 3 am here.