1. The CIA's World Factbook gives the world
population as 7,021,836,029 (July 2012 est.) and
the distribution of religions:
Christian 31.59%
Muslim 23.2%
Hindu 15.0%
Buddhist 7.1%
Sikh 0.35%
Jewish 0.22%
Baha'i 0.11%
other religions 10.95%
non-religious 9.66%
atheists 2.01%.
2. Pantheism
• Pantheism is the belief
that God and the
material world are one
and the same thing and
that God is present in
everything
• Reincarnation.
• The symbol of
Naturalistic Pantheism
is the Spiral.
4. Monotheism
• The belief that there is
only one God, as found
in Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam.
• The truth of this one
God is reviled in
Sacred writings.
5. Hindus
• For Hindus, the highest
of all truths is believed
to be the truth of all
religions.
6. Atheism
• Atheism is characterized
by an absence of belief
in the existence of gods.
• No adequately explain
the existence of the
universe.
• No rational basis for
determining good and
evil, or the human need
for absolute moral
standards
7. Religion of Atheism
Evolution: No God and no answers
• 1. Where did the space for
the universe come from?
• 2. Where did matter come
from?
• 3. Where did the laws of the
universe come from
(gravity, inertia, etc.)?
• 4. How did matter get so
perfectly organized?
• 5. Where did the energy
come from to do all the
organizing?
• 6. When, where, why, and
how did life come from
dead matter?
• 7. When, where, why, and
how did life learn to
reproduce itself?
• 8. With what did the first
cell capable of sexual
reproduction reproduce?
8. Buddhism
The Goal
• Most people have heard
of nirvana. It has become
equated with a sort of eastern
version of heaven. Actually,
nirvana simply means
cessation. It is the cessation of
passion, aggression and
ignorance; the cessation of the
struggle to prove our existence
to the world, to survive.. We
no longer need to manipulate
things as they are into things
as we would like them to be.
9. • Buddhism teaches that the question of God's
existence is meaningless.
• Buddha taught that a person can escape the
cycle of reincarnation and enter nirvana only
by following the "Noble Eight-fold Path", a
strict ethical system. Buddhist teachings
include dedication to meditation.
• At its root, Buddhism is a form of agnosticism
or at least practical atheism. It provides no
answers about the ultimate meaning of
existence.
10. Islam
The Goal
• A sensual Paradise
where believing men
are rewarded by being
wed to 72 virgins.
• Women will be
provided with only one
man, and they "will be
satisfied with him”.
11. Islam: Six Articles of Faith
• Muslims God:
– There is one God. The Muslim name for God
is Allah, which is simply Arabic for "the (al) God
(Ilah)."
• Muslim Prophets:
– Muhammad, the founder of Islam, is the last and
greatest of the messengers of God. He is not
divine in any way
Editor's Notes
atheists 2.01%. (2010 est.).[1]
Mother nature
FOUR LOOSE DENOMINATIONS OF HINDUISM
1. Vaishnavism: the worship of Vishnu, the sustainer, as the supreme god. We might be familiar with some of Vishnu’s avatars, such as Krishna (the main character in the Gita) or Rama. Vishnu has ten avatars, but only nine have appeared … maybe you’re the 10th!
2. Shaivism: the worship of Shiva (the destroyer god). Although he’s supposedly better at destroying, Shiva is also a benefactor whose nature is ambiguous and paradoxical. Thus, many who follow Shiva are philosophically dualists.
3. Shaktism: is the worship of the Mother Goddess, who is full of energy and creation. She is often seen as complementary to the male counterpart god, Shiva.
4. Smartism: the worshipping of manifold gods.
1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
2. Where did matter come from?
3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?
in·er·tia (-nûrsh)n.1. Physics The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force.
2. Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change: the inertia of an entrenched bureaucracy.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inertia
4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?
5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?
7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)
10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)
11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?
12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true?
13. When, where, why, and how did: a) Single-celled plants become multicelled? (Where are the two- and threecelled intermediates?) b) Single-celled animals evolve? c) Fish change to amphibians? d) Amphibians change to reptiles? e) Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!) How did the intermediate forms live?
14. When, where, why, how, and from what did: a) Whales evolve? b) Sea horses evolve? c) Bats evolve? d) Eyes evolve? e) Ears evolve? f) Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?
15. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)? a) The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)? b) The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? c) The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? d) DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts? e) The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose? f) The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants? g) The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones? h) The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system? i) The immune system or the need for it?
