Did the gods (god) create us?

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There is absolutely no evidence that gods exist. Therefor there can be no evidence that they made us, or the universe. There is ample evidence that the gods of humanity have been created in our image, rather than we in theirs.

A character in one of Terry Pratchet's novels say "I do not believe in the Gods. It only encourages them" :-)

In fact, belief in any kind of supernatural beings or events has no basis in reality. Every religion known to man has arisen from attempts to explain natural events in terms understandable to people. When you have no knowledge of electricity or weather patterns it's only natural to assume that lightning must originate from a very powerful being, a god if you will. Once you learn the true nature of lightning, though, the need for that god is gone. There's a reason people no longer worship the ancient gods of Rome, Greece, Egypt or Babylonia. Their existence is not necessary to explain the events they were invented to explain.

Certainly religion is also used to explain what happens around us - and so it does even in this day an age, though from another angle. Remember the discussion about why the Haiti earth quake happened?

But, absence of proof is not proof of absence. There is so much science does not know! If you only "believe" in what can be measured, you claim that science is capeable of measuring everything that exists, and as history shows, this is not true. With new technology new discoveries, all the time.

That leaves the last big mystery, death. What happens to us after death? Do we survive somehow? Where do we go? What will happen there? These are the primary questions which keep religion alive in the modern world.

This is a very good point. A lot of us are afraid of death, and I have noticed that villains in many stories and films are almost always afraid of death!
However, I personally think that people are also seeking answers about life, and how to live it.

The truth (as I see it) is that there are no gods. There are no miracles.

But there may well be things we do not know of yet, and which now seem miraculous because we cannot explain them.

Prayer does not work except possibly as a method of calming oneself down.

We do not know that. Mind and body are one.

There is no heaven or hell, no life after death. We are here for a brief time and then we are gone. The only thing passing down through time are our genes, through our children.

Actually, since we are all made of the same material as everything else, all that we physically are is forever circulating. Is is a fun thought, isn't it?

There is no wondrous reason for why we are here. The entire history of mankind is less than a hiccup in the history of the universe, and when we are gone there will be none who will know or care.

I think it is wondrous enough that we are here. Yes, seen from eternity we are less than a hiccup, but so is all other life. Efternity is made of hiccups, you might say ;-)
When we are gone, other life will be here, and that too will be wondrous. And maybe somebody will one day study us, as we study the dinosaurs.

That's life.

You mean, that is death? ;-)

Live it or get out of the way.

Out of who's way?
Why should another way of thinking be in the way? There is room for it all.