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St Thomas Aquinas would have loved YouTube. In the 13th century, he argued (more or less) that one way to prove the existence of God was by looking at all the amazing things He has created. This idea has been taken up by the lunatic fringe of the US creationist movement, who post increasingly entertaining YouTube clips explaining how various things are “atheists’ nightmares”.
l In one, sitcom actor turned evangelist Kirk Cameron explains that bananas prove the existence of God because they fit so neatly into our hands, taste nice, etc. Unholy sceptics argue that 10,000 years of banana domestication and cultivation have helped.
l In another, former guided-missile designer Chuck Missler explains how peanut butter disproves the theory of evolution . Because when you open a jar of peanut butter, you don’t find that life has spontaneously appeared inside it. He hasn’t tried leaving a jar of peanut butter in a warm place for 100 million years yet, but I’m sure he’s on to it.
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Next question: how can an omnipotent, omnicient being with FREE will arise in a any form of exitence? It cannot. Ergo God does not exist
Alan, Cockermouth, UK
People need something to beleive in. They spend most of their lives in front of a box and are awake but not conscious. They'll fall for anything.
John, London,
Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.- Jeremiah 32:17
Mike, Bristol,
"What about applying the same theory to a pineapple, then."
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<br/>Yes! Clearly created by God! No atheists' "law of nature" would ever create something that cuts into rings that fit neatly in tin cans. Only a divine higher intellect is capable of such parsimonious design.
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<br/>Amen.
Andy Myles, Edinburgh,
Who know what 'god' is...but after god knows (no pun intended) of human exisitance we still haven't come up with any 'testable' and 'repeatable' evidence of the exisitance of a supernatural force that commands everything. But at least we're having the conversation now and ppl ain't being killed 4 it
Ben Chaud, London, UK
Trick question: do you have free will? Yes, because you are using it to answer the question. Without it we could not have a justice system because no one would be culpable.
Next question: how can FREE will arise in a natural universe of cause and effect? It cannot. Ergo God (ie supernatural) exists
Geoff Lear, Dover, UK
David ,Plymouth
You ask the question how did an eye evolve? I would recommend that you read works of Richard Dawkins, who gives a very simple explanation in his books The Blind Watchmaker and I also belive that there is a brief description in The God Delusion
Lisa, London,
Bill Green - I've no doubt at all that Jesus was born and strirred up a fuss while he was around in order improve the human condition. I also have no doubt that there's no god and that the various bibles, which set out primitive people's understanding of their world, were written by men not gods.
Jacques Francis, Westcott, Surrey, UK
God can't exist or ever existed...because he/she wouldn't be stupid enough to create someone almost as powerful as himself aka the "devil". We weren't created accidentally, we weren't created by one being ... but probably by a group of beings. Man created God out of our own fears!
Anthony, Toronto,
God is able to answer for Himself. Anyone who truly wishes to know of His existence and truth just need to be sincere to inquire and not have a personal agenda.
stop being lemmings and following other's thoughts. Stop being fooled by the god of peer pressure, false intellectualism, and fear.
Darcy, Palm Coast, United States
In the finite universe, nothing comes from nothing and nothing creates itself, therefore only an infinite creator can be an original creator. However, the infinite creator has to continuously create, therefore evolution doesn't disprove G-d, it merely tells you how he did it.
Antony, Las Vegas, USA
Firstly, to everyone who says there are huge holes in the fossil records, you don't need evolution to reject the theory of god.
Whether evolution has support or not from fossil records, I fail to see how the validity of evolution proves or disproves the existence of God.
Peter Noone, Yorkshire, UK
Forget banana domestication & man-made jars of peanut butter, my question [as put to me years ago] is 'how did an eye evolve'? It either was already [Creation] because there was a need for sight, or it became [Evolution] when the need for sight became apparent? If the latter - then how, from what?
David, Plymouth, UK
The fossil record is one many components that could support or negate the theory of evolution. Even without fossil evidence, there is countless data, from DNA makeups to embryo comparisons to behavior patterns that backup the theory. Evolution is fundamental to our modern understanding of biology.
Paul, Apple Valley, MN, USA
Yes there are some holes in the Fossil record...but the fossils we have found fit perfectly into the evolutionary model. You base fact on evidence that you have not evidence that you don't have. The one thing we definitely don't have any evidence of is the existence of God.
John, Liverpool, UK
It amuses me when people use "God did it" as an explanation for anything. It is in essence, saying "I can't think of an explanation so... I Give up". God explains nothing, but it does make some people feel more snug in their ignorance.
Brian, Cirencester, UK
You geniuses crack me up. While I agree that some of these examples attempting to prove the existence of God are way out there, those that purport that evolution is the end all explanation are just as religious in their zealous beliefs in a flawed theory. There are huge holes in the fossil record.
BobCinGA, Cumming, GA, USA
Traditional Christian faiths (Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox) have never had a problem with evolutionary theory, because it does not conflict with the traditional Christian understanding of creation. Further, those who believe faith and science are incompatible know little of one, if not both.
Miles Smoljo, Toronto, Canada
There are many secular, Jewish and Christian writers who have asserted that Jesus was, indeed, a historical figure. Check out these two extra-biblical sources--Cornelius Tacitus (c. A.D. 55-120) in his Annals XV, 44); and Flavius Josephus (c. 37/38 A.D. to about 100 A.D. in Antiquities, XVIII, 33).
Sonny Jeane, Rowlett, United States
Evolution does not disprove God.
It would be like pointing to a cake baking in an oven and saying that the affect of the heat on the ingredients disproves that somebody mixed them in just the right proportions.
Michael Welch, Springfield, USA
The more these loons 'prove' gods existence with these crackpot ideas the more that people reject religion as the ludicrous nonsense it is. Keep it up it helps us all. Jesus never existed and as soon as you can come to terms with this FACT then the rest crumbles before your very eyes.
Bill Green, Birmingham, UK
To cling to ancient explanations of babbling "prophets' shows that some minds cannot get beyond the intimidations and pronouncements of those demanding faith in their obviously contradictory explanations. Contrasting belief with proof will go a long way to seeing the virtue of the evolution.
Dale Netherton, Farmington, U.S.A.
I can prove the existence of God. But you wouldn't believe it. Jesus Christ proved the existence of God in plain view, and you don't believe that. So ... deny all you want. You choose.
My proof is based on what I KNOW - what I see & hear, on love and being loved.
That makes me a fringe lunatic.
Dee Pahn, Atlanta, USA
The theory of evolution is the ultimate comedy of errors. It really stretches the bounds of probability to deny the existence of God.
Humanity will never bury religion and atheists are the ultimate comedies.
haiku, Marion, Canada
What about applying the same theory to a pineapple, then.
Michael Jeremy Cawood, Wrexham, Wales, UK
When the human race finally buries religion, it will be a sad day for comedy.
Ross, Ripon, UK
Is anyone else alarmed that a misguided person designs guided-missiles?
Paul S, London,
Tetrapak must be the work of The Devil.
Mick, Leeds,
I am sure the religion in question is Christianity-representing its semitic cousins too- and not certainly the Vedas and Upanishads which were far less childlike.
RG, NewDelhi,
One day the world will wake up and realise who we really are - an amazing intelligent species as a result of millions of years of evolution (not 10,000 years!) According to some creationist's the dinosaur bones were put there by God "to test us"! They need to go back to school...
Danny Williams, Huddersfield, UK
Don't kid yourselves: nobody can prove the existence of god outside their own heads. Because that is the only place he exists.
Rosemary, Germany,