I do not feel offended, but it does concern me that I have repelled you even further from God. Humanity is capable of good, but it is my personal opinion, and I have heard ALOT of atheists agree with me, that humanity is capable of much, much more evil.
Not at all, and I apologise if it was unclear. First of all, I am presuming that there is indeed a God. Second of all, I only believe that the people that have heard the word of Jesus and CHOOSE to reject him go to hell, everyone else who has not heard of him is judged on their moral actions...
My personal opinion is that, yes indeed, I do not believe in myself. This is not a self-esteem issue, it is merely my believing that I am just a man, and man, despite its vast amounts of knowledge and reason, is flawed beyond belief. Wars, Poverty (could be solved by man), mass-genocide etc etc...
I can see where you are coming from on this point skydivephil, but the universe must operate through reliable physical laws, since it would be impossible for sentient creatures to make sense of a universe in which the physical laws were randomly applied. The Bible explicitly...
The tectonic plates, which caused the earthquake, are ABSOLUTELY required for advanced life to exist on our planet. Earthquakes are caused by the movement of continental plates that float on a molten mantel. Without the mantel, the earth's Van-Allen radiation shield and the earth's...