Does God exist

Hi lovespellssa, I want to start off by thanking you for taking the time to address what I initially wrote, I really appreciate that effort on your part. You said: "-the deeper question is where did the stars come from, everything in our universe has a begining" Well stars are formed in molecular clouds in space, like the one that eventually became out solar system. However, if we go back to the first stars that ever formed we need to start talking about the formation of the first Hydrogen atoms from sub atomic particles, the existence of sub atomic particles have continually been proven by the tests at the Large Hadron Collider. And these Hydrogen clouds in space began to fall in on themselves via gravity to such a density where they became incredibly hot and thus fusion happened and a star is born. This of course can be taken as far back as the Big Bang, but beyond that we can only suppose or make inferences. Though the honest answer is, "we don't know" and supposing god is the best explanation is a faith based argument and of course god of the gaps argument. You said: "-how come this process is not occurring now, we dont see species that are between phases of evolution" Who said it is not occurring right now? These things take place over millions of years, you won't be able to observe speciation in your life time. However, we can observe the evidence of speciation in all existing life and also via the fossil record. Why do you think there are over 400,000 species of beetles? Is there a god out there who is obsessed with a variety of beetles, or did these different species evolve over time due largely to environmental separation. "-the question is where did the diversity of animal come from with the inherent complexity." This diversity which arose over billions of years of evolution, it didn't just pop out of no where. "-to try and explain all this complexity as a random star explosion is at best a weak argument." The star explosion accounts for the diversity of elements that we find on the planet, ever seen a periodic table where you see there are varying numbers of protons neutrons and electrons? These different atoms are made in the center of stars with the fusion of atoms to create larger atoms with the massive gravity and extreme heat over billions of years. This of course is also adopted by the leading physicists in the world agree with me, which doesn't make me right... but rather gives you a non-expert more difficulty in saying it's a quote "weak argument." "-the existence of variation is does not negate creationism" Variation evidenced over billions of years of evolution does, and that is what I have been speaking to. "-how come humans still have the appendix, by your reasoning this organism would have been done away with through biological evolution" Actually, imperfections within organisms from their previous ancestors is what you would expect with evolution, rather than creationism for whom this is a bigger issue. "-what controls the random mutations, there is precision, order and functional complexity in creation which points to a designer and intelligent designer who made everything for a particular purpose." Mutations result from unrepaired damage to DNA, errors in the process of replication, from the insertion or deletion of segments of DNA by mobile genetic elements. These mutations can have no effect at all, or a negative or positive effect which will be determined via natural selection. "-if we are self sustaining how come we dont live forever." We age and die, especially because in a sense we are almost hosts for our DNA which once we have passed the age which we can transmit that, the body goes through a natural course where it begins to slowly die over time. Self sustaining does not mean immortal, we are dependent but not in the way you are supposing. And life is organic, that is demonstrably so to claim it is sustained by a deity is a faith based argument without evidence. "-The Bible account of creation is being proven true by history as the correct account of how we came into existence" What history? Human beings have existed for over 100,000 years, that goes back much further than the Genesis account and the first humans were from Africa not the fertile crescent. Not to mention all of the death that would have existed prior to the fall which would contradict your theology. The only place in which this history can be seen as true, is one where all evidence to the contrary is ignored for the sake of maintaining religious dogma. The arguments you have made in the affirmative for god's existence are thus far naked assertions (assertions without evidence) and your objections are easily answerable. Therefore I once again assert that we cannot confidently affirm whether or not we know the existence or nonexistence of a deity. Kindest Regards, TrueScotsman