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Revisiting the God Debate
I know there are many athiests and agnostics on this site. I myself am agnostic, but I would like to believe that there is something beyond this life. I just don’t know what it is. If there is a god, I do not know what its nature is. I don’t have the sort of faith that many believers have, just hope.
I’ve heard many comments on here and elsewhere that make light of belief in God as something silly and irrational. So, in response to those that prefer science over magic and superstition, this occurred to me recently. It’s not something no one has thought of before, but it was the first time that I fully grasped the concept.
In science, there are laws about conservation. Conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, and so on. If I set a piece of paper on fire, it will burn and give off light, heat, gases, and a pile of ash will be left behind. The paper no longer exists, but it didn’t just magically disappear into thin air, it changed into something else.
When we die, our body will decompose and be changed into something else as well, but what about our consciousness? What happens to that? What exactly is our mind? Are we nothing more than biological computers, and when our bodies shut down the data is lost? Or is there something more to our mind? Even with a failed computer, the data is still there and can be recovered and transferred somewhere else. Where would our mind be transferred to? Of course, disks can also be erased and reformatted. Our brain will be decaying along with the rest of our body, so if our consciousness doesn’t leave it, then it would be gone.
So I guess it comes down to whether or not the consciousness has the means to leave the body, and whether it has a place to go where it can continue to exist. Perhaps it is like becoming one with The Force. This energy that was once in our body now becomes part of some greater energy field, and we all become “God” in a sense. Or maybe this is an argument for reincarnation. Our energy finds another being to enter.
Whatever the case, there are so many possibilities that make as much logical sense or more than our mind just, *poof*, magically disappearing. This is why atheism makes no sense to me.
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