Question with boldness even the existence of a god;?

Question

because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

It is now 200 years hence - where have you all got on this god notion?

Answer 1

We're all happy....and silly.

Like the Eloi that Wells spoke of. We have nice cloths made for us by surly subterranean creatures that scare us. We dance and giggle on the strings of popular music, fashion and day to day banalities.

Our mercurial attention spans don't allow us to go into depth on any topic other than what our cultural icons are wearing.

As we near death, we latch onto an imaginary, cartoonish, Santa-like notion of God and beg forgiveness for our lives of sloth and inattentiveness.

Thanks for being our President, please don't trip and hurt yourself as you rush back to your time machine.

Answer 2

Tommy
Maybe you should pull your heard out every so often and see what science knows....
Although two chemical molecules may appear to have the same elements and similar properties, they can still have different structures. When two molecules appear identical and their structures differ only by being mirror images of each other, those molecules are said to have chirality. Your left and right hands illustrate chirality. When a random chemical reaction is used to prepare molecules having chirality, there is an equal opportunity to prepare the left-handed isomer as well as the right-handed isomer. It is a scientifically verifiable fact that a random chance process, which forms a chiral product, can only be a 50/50 mixture of the two optical isomers. There are no exceptions. Chirality is a property that only a few scientists would even recognize as a problem. The fact that chirality was missing in those amino acids is not just a problem to be debated, it points to a catastrophic failure that "life" cannot come from chemicals by natural processes. If proteins and DNA were formed by chance, each and every one of the components would be a 50/50 mixture of the two optical isomers. This is not what we see in natural proteins or in natural DNA. How can a random chance natural process create proteins with thousands of "L" molecules, and then also create DNA with billions of "R" molecules? Does this sound like random chance or a product of design? Chirality is not just a major problem for evolution; it is a dilemma. It is this handedness that gives DNA the spiral shaped helical structure. If one molecule in the DNA structure had the wrong chirality, DNA would not exist in the double helix form, and DNA would not function properly. The entire replication process would be derailed like a train on bad railroad tracks. In order for DNA evolution to work, billions of molecules within our body would have to be generated with the "R" configuration all at the same time, without error. If it is impossible for one nucleotide to be formed with chirality, how much less likely would it be for billions of nucleotides to come together exactly at the same time, and all of them be formed with the same chirality? According to evolution, natural processes must explain everything over long periods of time. However, the process that forms chirality cannot be explained by natural science in any amount of time. This is evidence straight from the labs of Science. The Bible has nothing to do with these facts. Yet the magnitude of the problem indicates that there WAS a creative force behind all life and that the spontaneous life generation that most scientist hold up as fact is at best far fetched and worst impossible..... Welcome to the 21st century... Jim

Answer 3

here's another question to ask: If a single god, this includes ANY religion that professes that a god created all, did create all this would lead to the notion that in order to create one must first be created, so in order for a god, allah, ect to have created all, who created them? Who created that which created the god that created the god that created all? Think about it. You can't have something from nothing and you can't take nothing from something.

Answer 4

I would imagine that the genuine Peter Carr is now deceased.

Answer 5

(Though I agree with you, Jefferson was most certainly not a Christian and most likely not even a theist):

Because a 'quote' is a sliver of a saying, it captures the sliver of meaning. You can make any text convey any meaning you would like to convey.

Answer 6

Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
or you will be like him yourself.
Prov 26:4 (NIV)

Answer 7

Brilliant quote.

Answer 8

i think it's fine to question. but with humility instead of boldness.

if God doesn't exist then where did we come from?

Answer 9

"Lay down with cowardess before the agressor."

- Average Leftist

Answer 10

We questioned it, considered it, and discarded it as superstitious nonsense.