Or you could just completely disregard religion...

Quote Originally Posted by DPB View Post
stop using 1st century thinking. we know why religon was created and where it came from.also to say that god exists outside of our known universe or is beyond space and time is a cop out.
Awfully bold statement, but there are a few problems:

a) by telling people that they're straight up wrong, you're only going to make them more belligerent... (also i like how you dismiss the religious argument as being as absurd as "invisable purple dinosaurs" ... i mean, you're entitled to your views, but you'll never win an argument like that... might as well just scream 'NO!' while the other guy screams 'YES!', you'll get just as far. The only way you'd win this argument with a religious zealot is if they just got tired of listening to you talk and gave up...)

b) Never said God IS anything... I said that a being that is supposedly omnipotent and capable of creating reality as we know it would most certainly exist outside of that reality, and thus time and space.

c) i stick by my statement... if a being did exist that were in fact omnipotent and did in fact create the universe as we know it... that being would have had to have existed before said universe and thus able to exist outside of it... not so much a cop out as a logical progression
Why would a god who created time and space then be limited by his own creation... come on.