FireShredder24 If God created matter we could measure it, that's not the case. The creation of matter from scratch does not exist or we have not yet observed it. How can anything stay still? Nothing remains motionless, except perhaps some craters between them on planets without atmosphere and with a weak geological activity, like Mercury for example. And again, it only took a bigger meteorite to erase the previous craters ... Nothing is still and nothing is created to our knowledge.
Nothing is magic, but Walt is awesome.
There is another personal reflection that makes me think that all this is nonsense: There have been many different religions, with different Gods, different moral systems, different beliefs. In which their followers believed as much as you believe in your own respective religions. What did we learn about the long term in the end? What have they all been wrong ... Before, it was believed that lightning, earthquakes or eclipses were caused by divine wrath. Except that since then, we have learned that lightning is caused by the encounter of warm air masses and cold air that create a difference of potential, that earthquakes are mainly caused by plate tectonics and that eclipses are the result of the movement of the planets and satellites that shade each other. All these ancient beliefs have been explained by science, proving irrefutably that the Gods had nothing to do with it and that no invisible hand manipulates these events to our knowledge.
From there, knowing that all the ancient religions without exception have been disowned by our scientific discoveries, why think that it would be different today? Why would current religions, with the same kind of reasoning, suddenly be right when all those who preceded them were wrong? From my point of view it's just pure nonsense. To protect yourself from an earthquake, are you going to pray to God or build earthquake resistant buildings? To protect yourself from lightning, will you pray to God or build lightning rods? To protect yourself from the tidal waves, are you going to pray to God or build dikes? What do you really believe in? In God ? Or in science and engineering? I believe in science and engineering because they have a real impact on my chances of survival and my quality of life. God has no impact on my life, because it's a lie. How many have died praying to their respective Gods to be spared? If God really exists and truly wants our happiness, why did he create a planet with limited resources pushing us to make war to obtain them? Why did he create life forms that need to devour others to survive?