I am a Boy at Christian School. I have to ask 5 question and figure out your worldview.

[columbus]

Some things are ingrained as wrong--like the taking of innocent life.

This is clearly not ingrained, or there wouldn't be so much murder, abortion, and war.
Tom

 

[Terry Sampson]

Whoa! There must be a lot of wise guys in RF.

 

[Altfish]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   The Big Bang is currently the best explanation
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   No
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   That's life
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   They cease to exist and become stardust
5. How do we know right from wrong?

Experience, fair play, empathy

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

1. How do you believe the earth was created? By the accretion of gas, dust, and rock particles under the influence of gravity some four + billion years ago.
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God? No, but I don't say that no gods exist - just that I have no reason to believe they do.
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people? Either malice if deliberate, or bad luck if not.
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die? We don't know, but I have no reason to believe that the time after death will be different than the time preceding birth. There is no evidence that consciousness can exist outside of a healthy, living brain.
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong? Some don't. Others have a well-developed moral faculty, the conscience, that informs them of what is right and wrong, rewarding them with a sense of satisfaction if they choose well, or shame and regret if they defy their consciences.

Good luck with your studies.

 

[Jeremiah Ames]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

1. The internal essence of every substance is the same. The universe was set into motion billions of years ago with only this original essence. From that the universe began to expand and change. New substances were formed. Some of these substances eventually came into contact with each other. Stars and planets eventually formed. The earth eventually formed.
2. Of course.
3. What is bad? Who is good? Do you know?
4. Our spiritual self continues. We all continue our existence where our true love is given to us for eternity.
5. What is right aligns with truth and goodness. What is wrong aligns with falsity and evil. To know what is right is to know truth, and goodness. How can you find the truth? Only through wisdom. How can you find goodness? Only through love. Where do you find wisdom and love? Everywhere. One need only seek.

 

[Kenny]

This is clearly not ingrained, or there wouldn't be so much murder, abortion, and war.
Tom

I think it is... but one learns to violate ones conscious until it become seared.

 

[robocop (actually)]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

1. Through natural causes.
2. Yes.
3. So that you can have a portrait of your life with darker colors.
4. Consciousness can be conserved scientifically.
5. That's what we're here to figure out together.

 

[PureX]

How do you believe the earth was created?

I don't think the how, matters. I think the real question is 'why'.

Do you believe there is a God?

I don't know if there is a "God", or even what a "God" would entail. But I do choose to believe that a "God" of my own understanding does exist, because I find that my experience of life is better for it.

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Lots of things happen to everyone. What I label "bad" or "good" is relative to my own very limited understanding of existence. And the same goes for everyone else. So the truth is that none of us really know what's bad or good beyond our own way of thinking.

What happens to humans after they die?

The physical matter is redistributed into other things. The unique energy ... no one knows.

How do we know right from wrong?

We don't. We each must choose for ourselves how we define our moral imperatives. I choose love, forgiveness, kindness, generosity, and compassion.

 

[Milton Platt]

Boy???????? Your profile says that you are 20 years old.

I will answer your questions anyway.

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   From the accretion disk that was around the sun after it's formation.
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   I not believe any of the gods so far proposed exist.
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   For the same reasons good things happen to bad people. Because all people are subject to the same laws of nature directly, and with regard to natural events.
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   Their life ends, their body decays.
5. How do we know right from wrong?

People individually and societies collectively decide what is right or wrong. Different societies have different takes on what is right or wrong. I would point out that what is right or wrong is not necessarily the same thing as what is moral or immoral.

 

[columbus]

I think it is... but one learns to violate ones conscious until it become seared.

Of course you do.
If you didn't believe in this, your omnimax God image would collapse like a house of cards.
But it still doesn't make any more sense.
Tom

 

[Terry Sampson]

I think it is...]

Uhhh, KenS, Porter asked the questions and Columbus gave his own answers. For Porter's purposes, there are no right or wrong answers. Mind your p's and q's and don't try to get Columbus to change his answer.

Ugh! Too late! You've derailed the survey.

 

[Terry Sampson]

I think it is... but

Of course you do.

Take it outside. Can't you see that Porter's taking a final exam here?

 

[viole]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?

By some astrophysics process. I guess by the coalescence of some cosmic dust due to the sun gravitational field.

1. Do you believe there is a God?

Of course not.

1. Why do bad things happen to good people?

Because we live in a naturalistic universe. Therefore, in an amoral and a-teleological universe, blind to what some great apes declare good or evil.

1. What happens to humans after they die?

They go in the same place they were before being born.

1. How do we know right from wrong?

In the same way I know pizza is good. It is an emergent property of the functioning of my brain inaccessible to introspection. Like most things, a naturally selected property of our brains geared towards maximizing survival of primates constrained to live in a social environment.

Ciao

- viole

 

[osgart]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

1) gravity seems to produce spherical objects with the warping of spacetime.
2) no because there is no moral order to nature, and existence is indifferent to life.
3)unfortunate circumstances, and lack of foresight and planning.
4)they return to the source and matrix of all life. Into the eternal sea of life.
5)discovery and improvement by trial and error.

 

[Kenny]

Of course you do.
If you didn't believe in this, your omnimax God image would collapse like a house of cards.
But it still doesn't make any more sense.
Tom

That didn't make any sense.

 

[Kenny]

Uhhh, KenS, Porter asked the questions and Columbus gave his own answers. For Porter's purposes, there are no right or wrong answers. Mind your p's and q's and don't try to get Columbus to change his answer.

Ugh! Too late! You've derailed the survey.

I wasn't trying to change Columbus answers. I was answering his comment.

 

[Milton Platt]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

Why is this post identical word for word to the post by EWPIII.

 

[columbus]

That didn't make any sense.

Why does God keep making humans stupid and fearful and driven by instinct, if He doesn't want them that way?

It's obvious to me that there is no omnimax being that cares about what humans believe, do, or what happens to us. That's why Creation is the way it is. I believe in God, but I know God doesn't care about anything any more than gravity cares about anything.
God is not a sentient being. The God of Abrahamic religion is a fictional character from old literature.
Tom

 

[columbus]

Take it outside. Can't you see that Porter's taking a final exam here?

Why would I care about doing Porter's schoolwork for him?

Rather, I would challenge him to learn about the humans he shares the world with by staying on RF and reading and responding to what goes on here.
Tom

 

[columbus]

That didn't make any sense.

If you recognized that humans were designed by God, an omnimax creator of everything, and that we are quite stupid and ignorant, you would recognize that your religion is irrational.
God made us, each and every one of us, just as we are and put us into the situation we learned to live in.

If the sort of god you believe in exists.
Tom