I'll believe it when Jesus out of nowhere appears in front of me and says "Hi, I'm Jesus". Wasn't he supposed to come back in the year 2000?

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Miracles? I've watched Chriss Angel, and he does miracles. He must be jesus.
I'm just saying, I think the bible is just a book of stories, heck it's only 2k years old. People have been around longer than that. I was caught up in a Baptist church for a while and started believing some things, but I can't believe it any longer. If you put bread and water in ideal conditions, you create mold. Creation? Perhaps not idealistically, but same theory applies.

The earth is perfectly positioned not too far or close to the sun so we neither freeze or burn to death. If we didn't have the earths magnetic field we would never exist due to gamma rays and radiation from the sun etc ,etc, The earth and our own bodies are too perfectly created to just be random chance.

No

I think religion has done sex a signal service by declaring it a sin.

Well, you're wrong. Lately astronomers have been finding Earth-like planets around nearby stars and they concede that the Earth's orbit and other properties are most likely far from unique in the universe. Would you feel depressed and disappointed if it was confirmed that our planet and everything on it was just an accident? I sure wouldn't.

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You might want to take some time to study evolution. It's not really about random chance. It's the survival and propagation of those gene mutations that serve a benefit. This is much more well documented than any creationism.

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Most folks have no conception of how to employ their current lives,so they vainly strive for an eternal one.

Some people don't believe because they can't command God at will to send lightning bolts from the sky to prove himself.
He say's not to put God to the test.

My only advice without starting an argument that will go nowhere but ugly is to go take some adult Bible classes and make the determination yourself.
You must be interested in believing in something if you even asked the question in the first place.
You want answers.

Go ask some hard questions, I did, it took a while, but I finally understood after I actually talked to my pastor about some things and took some classes.

I had experienced too many small miracles in my life to deny that God's existence.

I can give many examples of small miracles in my life, but I'll share one that stands out as the one that solidified my belief.

Years back when I lived near a bad part of town, I got jumped (again) by a group of black guys waiting to kill the first white kid they see, yes, racism at it's best.
I spent some time in the hospital, and so did two of my attackers before it was all over.
While I was healing, my brother borrowed my only car, I told him to take it easy because I just had my first child and I needed that car to get to work.
Long story short, he beat the crap out of it and blew up the transmission.
I looked everywhere for a free transmission because I was a struggling young Dad with a Wife and a baby, a crappy job, and a broken body.
I price checked used tranny's everywhere and the price at every junk yard was $300 for a good used trans.
I did not have the money, I was struggling bad, was injured, and was at the end of my rope.
The only thing I could do was call out God's name and ask him to somehow please provide me with a miracle to pay for this transmission.
Okay, you ready?
The very next day, I check the mail and among the bills found a check made out to me in the exact amount of $300.00.
I almost passed out and I felt the warmest sensation go over my body in recognizing this was a miracle from God.
What else could it be?
Turns out, there was a woman that witnessed me getting jumped and called the cops, but did not give a statement to avoid getting retaliated against by the guys that jumped me.
She decided to contact an agency for crime victims while I was in the hospital, told them what happened, they reviewed my case, sent me a minimum amount.
I contacted them to see how this came about, and they would not give me the Woman's name, but said the woman prayed for a miracle that I would not get killed and would somehow be blessed as a result of this mugging.

Here's one, I could share more, but I'd much rather see you non believers realizing your own small miracles on a daily basis.
God wan't us to seek him, talk to him every day, ask for his guidence and you'll see changes in your life that will make your head spin.

With love Brothers, give it a shot, he did for us.

You mean the ideas Charles Darwin denied and denounced on his death bed?

Why did God let you go through the mugging & blown transmission in the first place? I'd call that luck. First you were unlucky to get mugged and have a blown transmission, then you got some luck and things were better. Have all your prayers always been answered?

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Yes. The field of genetics has more than proved him right. He'd be delighted to know this.

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Why did God let you go through the mugging & blown transmission in the first place? I'd call that luck. First you were unlucky to get mugged and have a blown transmission, then you got some luck and things were better. Have all your prayers always been answered?
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Why did he sacrifice his own Son?
I know where you can find these answers.

You must be on drugs!

He didn't deny or denounce any of his theories of evolution. He did denounce his religion though and become an agnostic.

Why don't you do your homework BEFORE you post dumb incorrect facts next time?

Read up> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

While I wouldn't argue with the observed condition, it's certainly not limited to those expecting an afterlife.