Many people believe in « god » or other « gods ». That comforts them, gives them hope and a simple explanation for the origin of everything. However, that gives them a false sense of security.
There is not a single serious evidence that supports the existence of « god » or other « gods ». « God » in its traditional definition of supreme being probably does not exist for three simple reasons:
1-We don't see « god ».
2-« God » doesn't talk to us (at least directly).
3-« God » doesn't help us.
Certainly, religions and cults have invented various arguments of varying complexity to justify these three problems, but these are only delusions or lies. For example, some will say that "god" speaks through the torah, the bible or the koran. This is false. These books were inspired by human beings, not by "god".
Some would say that it took a "god" to create everything, otherwise how the universe and life would appear? This is a bad argument, because one could also ask who then created "god"?
Some will ask why does life exist? Complex chemical reactions that occured for a long time generated the first unicellular living beings. Then, evolution of the species generated all the life forms that exist and have existed.
The real question is not why life exists, because we already know why. The unanswered question is rather why the universe started to be, that is 13.8 billion years ago. Astrophysicists know that the universe began in a singularity and then there was the big bang and the rest got going, fundamental forces, fundamental particles, atoms and so on.
There are four fundamental forces in our universe :
It is possible that these forces have a common origin which would be the foundation of the universe, its creative force. But not a "god" as the different religions or cults speak of.
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first."
-Physicist Stephen Hawking.
"We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no god. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful."
-Physicist, Stephen Hawking.
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
-Professor Richard Dawkins.
The Root of All Evil?, later retitled The God Delusion, is a television documentary written and presented by Richard Dawkins in which he argues that humanity would be better off without religion or belief in God. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said that the title The Root of All Evil? was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy. The sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous. Dawkins' book The God Delusion, released in September 2006, goes on to examine the topics raised in the documentary in greater detail. The documentary was rebroadcast on the More4 channel on the 25th August 2010 under the title of The God Delusion. (Wikipedia)