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God defined into four categories: The first category refers to religious significance that is the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe in monotheistic religions, or it could be called as "miracle", which is today 's point of view in terms of Christianity and Islam. However, in the pantheistic religion, it represents only part of the natural and realistic for control, regards to force, effect, or a manifestation or aspect of this being. The various gods in Greek mythology are predominantly shaped as male images. The third class that defines as an image of a supernatural being; an idol is broader and the religious significance is shallower. The fourth category extends the image of god to any substance as only it …show more content…

This debates with what Richard Dawkins retort of evolution by natural selection (Darwinian natural selection) (Dawkins 2009, 111-151). It seems that life-prohibiting universes are vastly more probable than life-permitting universes (Goodman and Blumberg 2002). However, because there are still many scientific unexplained phenomena and events at the present, the Bible gives the ultimate explanation that it belongs to the God 's plan as he is the creator of the universe (Aitken1968). It greatly addresses people’s doubts and fears to the unknown things. Scientist recognize the notion of an actually infinite number of things leads to self-contradictions unless people impose some wholly arbitrary rules to prevent this (Schwartz 1998, 41). However, Richard Dawkins think it reflects human cannot explain ‘the statistical improbability’ because the creator theory cannot explain who created god himself (Dawkins 2009, …show more content…

In the meantime religious is of significance as a guidance for secular life that The Bible regulate human’s conduct such as the Ten Commandments (Aitken1968). God presents the objective moral values in the world. In terms of the Christian theist, it reflects to the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. ‘They make the existence of a god more probable than it would have been without them’ and hence produce a defensible argument from morality to the existence of God (Mackie 1982, 115-6). From Richard Dawkins’s perspective, our morality has a Darwinian explanation that ‘altruistic genes, selected through the process of evolution, give people natural empathy’ (Dawkins 2009, 209-226). Some certain taboos such as homosexuality is more accepted in today’s moral point of view. Richard Dawkins believes that there is a moral Zeitgeist that continually evolves in society, generally progressing toward liberalism (Dawkins 2009, 226). As it progresses, this moral consensus influences how religious leaders interpret their holy writings. Thus, Dawkins states, morality does not originate from the Bible, rather our moral progress informs what part of the Bible Christians accept and what they now dismiss (Dawkins 2009,

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