Religion is a bad thing

1. As you keep saying, I see you had another debate going about taking the bible literally. If your saying most Christians do not then why do you? Your telling me God created the world in 7 days and all the rest of it, but genuinely where is your proof? No, it isn't a few, a lot of people blame God for their actions. Would you like a few examples? This was posted in the Washington Times, - "CHICAGO, July 24, 2012 " George Zimmerman does not regret anything he did the night he ended Trayvon Martin"s life. He believes it was God"s plan and that it is not his place to question it. Martin"s parents believe God"s plan in no way meant for their son to die a young, violent death." Can you really justify people blaming God for their criminal activities? And don't try to tell me this is a small minority or that it barley ever happens because it happens all the time. 2. Yes, people do have plenty of other things in their life too keep them happy. As i said before I do not deny the fact it causes some morality. 3. Several faulty arguments? I think you will find all of the arguments I am putting forward are very realistic. Just to put a little knowledge into your mind... The Big Bang Most astronomers believe the Universe began in a Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. At that time, the entire Universe was inside a bubble that was thousands of times smaller than a pinhead. It was hotter and denser than anything we can imagine. Then it suddenly exploded. The Universe that we know was born. Time, space and matter all began with the Big Bang. In a fraction of a second, the Universe grew from smaller than a single atom to bigger than a galaxy. And it kept on growing at a fantastic rate. It is still expanding today. As the Universe expanded and cooled, energy changed into particles of matter and antimatter. These two opposite types of particles largely destroyed each other. But some matter survived. More stable particles called protons and neutrons started to form when the Universe was one second old. Over the next three minutes, the temperature dropped below 1 billion degrees Celsius. It was now cool enough for the protons and neutrons to come together, forming hydrogen and helium nuclei. After 300 000 years, the Universe had cooled to about 3000 degrees. Atomic nuclei could finally capture electrons to form atoms. The Universe filled with clouds of hydrogen and helium gas. Is it widely accepted among theists, Where are your statistics? How does the presence of God explain mutations? A mutation is a permanent change in the DNA sequence of a gene. Mutations in a gene's DNA sequence can alter the amino acid sequence of the protein encoded by the gene. How does this happen? Like words in a sentence, the DNA sequence of each gene determines the amino acid sequence for the protein it encodes. The DNA sequence is interpreted in groups of three nucleotide bases, called codons. Each codon specifies a single amino acid in a protein. That has nothing at all to do with God. Your going on about divine force and divine consciences but where is all this in everyday life? The criminal statistics are immense, where is the divine conscience in that?? The universe is the universe for obvious reasons, it never ends. It is eternal space. I don't think God created an eternal space with billions of stars and plants, materials, temperatures, and a multitude of gases, to create humans on earth and let us live there on one planet? Forces are part of nature, and they can be explained. Newtons law's, Kepler's law's, the Doppler effect and Sersic's law are all good things for you to have a read of. It was not purely by chance it was purely by science and astrophysics. Then go on feel free too tell me what they do base their faith on? because nobody on this planet was there too see actually see anything that was wrote down in any bible. So you tell me where the reliance is in that? Your saying they don't get taken literally but you are taking them literally! Your the one spouting off about a divine presence that can't be proven. Did you not see the explanations I gave you at the bottom of round 2? That's something for the voters to vote on, I think the variety and range of religious causes serious conflicts. As it did and has done for hundreds of years. Politics is what you want these wars to be about, they are not. You said yourself about fighting westernization, and why is that? because it is against their religion! If you go to Ireland this very day you automatically see the divide between protestants and catholic's. You think this is just in Afghanistan??? This is all over the world our woman are degraded! I don't suppose you need me to provide examples of woman being degraded or you can you do the research on that yourself? As i said before, I do not deny the fact people should be allowed to believe in whatever they choose to. But I am fighting my corner and proving my point which is - "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence W. K. Clifford (1879)" You have insuffienct evidence for your theories but I could sit here all day and provide you endless examples of why religion is a bad thing and why god does not exist. But that it what a debate is. Putting everything down to God is basically closing your mind. There's no imagination, explanation or wisdom in that. Everything happens for a reason. We create the situation we live in and it's like everybody believes what they are told to! You sound like the type of person that has had this drummed into you. Broaden your mind. Your turn, Con.