[axod]

"Scientific evidence to date suggests there is no God"

IMHO That's the truth, and the facts.

[jdanieli]

The truth is also that scientific evidence to date does not suggest there isn't a god. Unless, of course, you know of something I don't. Ideas such a creationism have long since been dissolved, but the existence of God? Not so much.

Additionally, I believe there was a very good essay somewhere that argued there was a heaven and a hell. Saying that if we know there are an infinite number of other dimensions with an infinite number of possibilities, whose to say there isn't one where ONLY good things happen and one where ONLY bad things happen. These places would be heaven and hell, respectively. Of course, if someone is actually sent to one of these places, they will immediately change it if they do something contrary to what is expected in that specific realm, no longer making it heaven or hell, and a new heaven or hell takes its place where that even didn't happen.

So, if heaven and hell exist, who is to say god does not?

[axod]

Well, true. But you could argue the same about Santa Claus or any number of mythical creatures.

Do fairies live in the bottom of my garden? I'd say scientific evidence to date suggests not.

[axod]

Luckily the question doesn't really come up in a community of non religious types.

[noonespecial]

I think the community here just knows that science is not really the right tool to use to decide if God exists or not.

We probably also know that the argument degrades rather quickly once started.

[axod]

Oh I was meaning in my real life community. In the UK I think religion is quite a bit rarer these days, so it doesn't really come up as a topic of conversation here.