Debate: Do You Believe in God ?
Side: Yes

Good this discussion! But do you need to make it belligerent?I don't see how I was hostile, but if I was then I am sorry.Well, the credit for the term "Big Bang" is credited to the Belgian guy.That may be but Einstein was the person who thought of the idea itself. Look it up if you don't believe me.Prior to that, there have been numerous theories, some resembling aspects of the modern thinking. Einstein's thinking is 100 years our of date and, with respect, you need to get up to speed with more modern thinking.I don't believe there is such thing as modern thinking.Einstein, like Newton before him, was not exactly wrong, but wasn't completely right either. And of course, modern thinking wont be exactly right any more than any other bit of science.That is indeed correct. I believe that most of our current discoveries will soon be updated as more modern science comes about."Dark Matter" is only where we're at for the moment. It is a name applied to "stuff" that we think is out there but beyond our senses detection ability. And cosmologists attribute it to an explanation for the expansion of the universe.Yes that I know, I also believe that it was one of the leading causes of the Big Bang (simply because we are still living the Big Bang).As for God being outside our current universe - of course I agree (if He exists). But my own take on this is that "God" is a name applied by humans to personify something we dont really understand.That... Seems pretty legitimate.And no, I'm not talking about Dark Matter - I'm talking about Karma, which is described as the spiritual law of Cause and Effect.I've never experienced Karma (and I don't exactly have the cleanest of hands) so I don't believe in Karma, but rather a coincidence.Or colloquially, what goes around, comes around. The monotheists figure that some external "judge" decides what is good and what is bad and based on that judgement, one's soul is directed to Heaven or Hell.Interesting...We Buddhist thinkers just accept it as a law of nature. And our soul well be reborn (in some form) to keep on trying, eventually, if successful, in escaping the repeated cycle of rebirth and reaching Enlightenment at last - maybe the monotheists will call that Enlightenment "Heaven".You are very interesting to read (I mean this in a good way).But this in not the place to explain the Buddhist take on Life, The Universe and Everything! You'll need to check that out yourself.Yes, I will attempt to do that.What is wrong with the monotheist take on "God"? Well, God is the personification of what we Buddhist call Karma. I thought Buddhists worshiped Buddha? Is there multiple forms of Buddhism? Who knows, perhaps there is a consciousness out there responsible for the workings of our little universe, and, like the feudal overlords of old Europe, He is our local lord. But I dont subscribe to that thinking. I consider a it rather primitive thinking; an explanation to people whose knowledge cannot begin to understand the real workings of the universe.Very nice grammar, to bad I don't have grammar like that. In a way Santa Clause is the personification of the spirit of good will; and God is the personification of Karma. Santa Clause doesn't exist (yes I know, he was a real man in the past) but the spirit of Christmas certainly does. So also, God doesn't exist (in the monotheist way) but the spirit of Karma certainly does.Interesting...