Do you think that modern science has "killed God"?

I think "God" is entirely created by cultures that had no better explanation for what they saw in nature.

Early cultures, like the Mayans, worshiped the Sun because it seemed supernatural. The fact that it rose every day, was a huge ball of fire in the sky...it must be God. So they sacrificed people to appease it. This is significant. Not only did they worship the sun as a god because it was beyond their understanding, but they imbued it with needs and demands. Thus, they had to sacrifice people to appease it. Obviously the sun isn't demanding humans to sacrifice each other. But the religious people of the time convinced themselves of that.

People have also worshiped the whole of nature, such as with Buddhists. Not understanding the origins of nature or much about how it worked, they reasoned that it must have been brought about by an all pervasive spirit.

Then we move to middle Christian times. They believed that the earth was flat, and that the sun moved around the earth, and that the earth was the center of the universe. Having no understanding about how the world came into existence, they created the notion of a god (in the Hebrew/Christian) sense. Humans were somehow super special, above all nature, and had a soul. This God also had requirements, and, particularly in Hebrew times, demanded sacrifices. Sound familiar? Yes it's the Mayans all over again.

So anytime man doesn't understand something, he makes up a god story to explain it.

Modern science has come up with explanations of the world around us. Thankfully. And although not every mystery has been solved, the bulk of them have to enough of an extent. We know that the sun is just a star. We know that there isn't a magical force of nature that pervades everything. We know that the sun doesn't revolve around the earth; the earth is just one tiny spec in a huge universe. And we know that man isn't above the animals. He is just an animal like all the rest. And we know that man evolved through the process of natural selection. So we don't have to make up a god to explain the origins of man.

So, yes, science has killed God.

I believe they were invented by the devil. That's how I know, for sure, there is a God. Because brussel sprouts exist and hence having proof of the devil, we can extract from that evidence that the probability of having a God is quite high.

That's the Chocolate Teapot Theory. If I told you there was a chocolate teapot that was orbitting the sun, I could then tell you that it's just that scientists haven't yet been able to detect it, but it's definitely there.

So if you take that "just not advanced enough" idea, then absolutely ridiculous things *could* be true. That's no way to live your life. The opposite approach makes much more sense. Chocolate teapots and gods don't exist unless they can be scientifically proven.

Unlike life on other planets, which hasn't yet been proven, there's a logical reason, based on our understanding of the origins of life, that life could have happened else where in the universe. There's currently no prove, but its possibility does fit in with our understanding of how things works.

But contrast, nothing about our understanding of nature remotely suggests the need for a god. We just don't need miracles to explain life. So if God did exist, it would contradict many of the laws of science and how the world works as we know it. And that's just not likely to happen.

Yes, the Catholic church is filthy rich and has been for centuries. Churches rely on worship by their followers towards them.

My father, who is religious, told me that the third-world missionary receptive countries were more receptive to the word of God, and that made us westerners more tainted by sin, or something like that. The reason is that people get wiser to the con job that the church is pulling the more education that they have. That's why no one much goes to church in Australia. We know it's a con. And developing countries, with their lower education levels, and in many cases no education at all, are fully receptive to superstitious nonsense. So where does that leave Americans? A large proportion of Americans believe in God...

That's why the Catholic church forbids contraception. The more kids you have, the poorer you'll be. That's more poor and uneducated babies for their church.

My website got listed pretty quickly, but just the main page. It took a couple of months before the whole site got spidered. So Google, like God, can be slow to act and works in mysterious ways.