Resolution : God does exist

Being a proud member of scientific and sceptical communities I think that a god’s existence is possible but unnecessary and unlikely, which also includes me as a member of the ever growing atheist community. By the way, I have broken my text into numbered sections for an easy way to communicate your refutes and my defences. 1. What does it do? The world that we know has been observed by us for a long time, yet one thing has never changed, the physical laws that everything within our universe abides by. This leaves only the possibility of god creating the universe, and/or changing things that we haven’t, won’t or can’t observe. Besides the creation of the universe, which I will address later, there is no evidence that can suggest the “changing things that we haven’t, won’t or can’t observe.” as we cannot, will not or have not observed them. Why create a universe and not interact with it? Why create a universe at all? 2. Why does it exist? Our universe is predicted to be 13 820 000 000 years old (http://www.slate.com...), the earth is meant to be 4 543 000 000 years old (https://en.wikipedia.org...) and life on earth is meant to be 3 800 000 000 years old (http://www.bbc.co.uk...). Humans have been on Earth for about 200 000 years (http://www.universetoday.com...). Since us humans have been on earth we have interacted with nature and built communities, cultures and civilizations. We dominate and dominated every other living creature; not because we are the strongest creature, not because we are the largest creature, but because we are the smartest creatures. Although our intelligence brought us triumph it came with a catch, we wanted to gain knowledge, ask questions, answer questions, record our victories, record our short comings, but most important of all, find ‘why and how we are here?’. Excluding the Christian Dark Age years our understanding and development has grown at an exponential rate. Each generation has more tools, more resources and more knowledge than the last, yet the question ‘why and how are we here?’ still goes unanswered. It goes unanswered mainly because of the low intelligence, low funding and unobtainable evidence for a conclusive answer. But since the earliest civilizations humans were not satisfied with having inconclusive answers, if we did not do it then someone else must have, and religion was born. This entailed the birth of ‘god of the gaps’. When it did not rain it was because god was punishing us, when a volcano erupted god was angry etc. Madness. But I digress. The point I am making here is that religion was created by us to full fill our needs and give us meaning and purpose. Each culture formed its own religion to suit its own needs. I think I know the refute you will make to this but I will have to wait and see. To conclude this argument, it does not disprove god but indicates the origins of god’s ‘interaction’ with humans; when this is examined it could be deduced that a god has not proven its existence or had its existence proven, but rather, was created by humans for humans; satisfying the scared and weak peoples of the past and giving rise to the powerful kings, queens and other leaders in the name of god (not all of the deductions arguments were included in the text, I can include more if you would like, just let me know in your refute.). PS – I forgot to include the fact that death is a large factor to this. ‘What happens once we die?’ – Well (as you most likely know) many religions say that depending on if you are a good person or not and believe in the right god, you have earned a ticket to heaven, even though no evidence is provided. 3. How was the universe created? Since we agreed on my terms and definitions (from my other debates) we can easily agree that the definition of god is “the all-powerful creator and ruler of the universe”. As it is claimed he is the creator of the universe and since people agree with it it is their hypothesis. However there are many other hypothecs, I am currently writing a thesis to answer this question, and many others. My hypothesis contains evidence, predictive equations and explanations as to how it fits within other observed phenomena, something any good hypothesis should include. However the god hypothesis, from what I have seen, has never given any: evidence, predictive equations and/or explanations as to how it fits within other observed phenomena. In many religious evidence etc. is substituted with fear; heavens, hells, raptures etc., all works of religion. Also, I want to ask you the question, ‘what created god?’, I usually get a steady state answer. 4. Even more about god of the gaps. This plays along with arguments 2 and 3. My point is that less and less gets attributed to a gods doing as our knowledge grows. Praying for rain was replaced with meteorology etc. If you want to graph some functions I will give you some. (Scientific development = 2^x)(Events attributed to god = 2^-x)(x axis = time)(y axis = magnitude) ***only for an indication***. A new happening is that some religious folk have started to realise that science is proving things that they thought was only possible by god and have refused to take god out of the gap (evolution). It is only a matter of time before we fill in the last few gaps of what or how the universe was created. That is allJ, as an atheist I do not have the burden of proof, however I still like to share why I don’t accept the god hypothesis. As an agnostic atheist I am more than happy to change my beliefs as long as I have evidence for god, though I doubt there will be any as I have searched and come up with nothing. Perhaps you will provide me with such evidence!