Why Do We Believe in GOD

J. Anderson Thomson gave this lecture at the Washington & Lee Law School on October 15, 2008.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• God
• religion
• allah
• evolution
• meme
• hijak
• muhammed
• buddhism
• islam
• dawkins
• darwin
• psychology

[jtdyman]

gods are man made to help control and deal the unknown before science could proof things are real. all religion are flawed due mans nature.

[a42579]

They aren't idiots, they are just ignorant. It's just like how people who smoke 'think' they want another cigarette when actually it's just the nicotine.

[Pomme843]

@a42579 Could you tell me the difference between wanting a cigarette, and it being just the nicotine?

[TraleeFair]

Music is a by-product. WTF Yeah! Like birds don't sing!

Probably put together to the rythm of a beating heart.

JAT either, you are a very poor thinker, or this is just not one of your better lectures.

Px

[TraleeFair]

Religion is a by-product of cognitive mechanisms.

Notice the very subliminal use of the suggestion; buy this product.

J Anderson Thompson is a false prophet.

Px

[TraleeFair]

Hmmm! Ants climb to the top of grass blades and so therefore there is no God because this metaphor illustrates religion. OK? No! It's not OK. Cognitive software?? WTF Cognitive pychology was debunked decades ago. I would not be paying for these lectures. J Anderson Thompson does not exist. Religion is not pre-modern science. Nice peddlling of atheism though. Px

[doctorw2]

GOD and religion are not in the same lexicon.

[rjohson]

well whoes to say that science and religion can be right? all things are crate from sound; sound is a wave frorm and frequenciy, everything in the universe is a wave or frequency, when god spoke the universe into existence his voice was the big bang.

[rjohson]

excellent point very well said

[shade1978x]

Popularity of an idea doesn't validate the truth of an idea. Death is an extremely unpopular phenomenon that shows no signs of going away or being proven untrue. A concept accepted by billions still has no bearing on reality if a single one of the followers can't substantiate their belief system. There's over two billion Christians. But there's a billion and a half people think Islam is the truth. There's a billion Hindus. Any way you slice it, some or all of those are wrong. Likely all are.

[shade1978x]

I think that when people say things like that, they're just being lazy. Plain and simple. Rather than go out and invest some time in studying how and why the world is so complex, people just throw up their hands and say "God must've done it."

And that's fine, but to say "whether you believe it or not. Just my opinion, though." is not only presumptuous and pretentious, but revelatory of the parasitic nature of religion. Blind acceptance without proof motivated by ignorance and wish-thinking.