Does God Exist?

It depends on your definition of "God"

No. I don't particularly care if other people think God exists, though. Just so long as they don't try to tell me what to do based on their own religious beliefs.

I don't believe he/she/it/they do(es).

Not to my knowledge.

Who's definition of God?

Of course not. The idea of God or Gods is a psychological crutch that helps us feel better about living in a complicated universe that we'll probably never truly understand. God is a kind of mental shortcut. I believe if people really stopped to think about it, they would not believe in God, but who has time? Of course, I can't really prove God doesn't exist. But, I also can't prove the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist.

Here's an exercise: Do you believe in the Greek Gods (like Zeus, Apollo, Poseidon, etc.)? Why not? OK, now apply that thinking to your own idea of God. How does it stand up?
Historically speaking, modern versions of God are derived from ancient ideas about God (eg. Zarathustrian, Egyptian, Greek, etc.). We blended and merged various ideas into what is now our current day concept.

Pull the God crutch away, you don't need it.

Religion is often used to control people. It stands in the way of progress. It resists scientific progress -- not just in Galileo's time, but today with things like stem cell research. It blocks human rights -- not just in the past, but today for women and homosexuals (all over the world).

I see religion and thus belief in God as a barrier to human progress.

I am agnostic.

I neither recognise the existence or non-existence of a God.

The Buddha was asked if there was a God and he replied:
"This is a question that does not help spiritual progress".

Make of that what you will.

Dunno.

maybe.
i don't know, maybe i'll find out, maybe i wont. but nothing anybody tells me on the subject of god is going to convince me of anything. it's noble to seek god, or evidence of anything spiritual, but to claim you've found it is mind-closing.

i agree. the question does not help, because it cannot be answered. if you think you have answered it, then you have closed your mind off from the bazillion different possibilities this universe offers.

There is many gods and they all exist.

> No. I don't particularly care if other
> people think God exists, though. Just
> so long as they don't try to tell me
> what to do based on their own religious
> beliefs.

Yay! I agree with you! I am a Christian and I hate when others try to say what others should or shouldn't be doing based on their religion or denomination only. If it's something common sense-morals based (you know-not killing people, stealing, etc) it's one thing, but I hate when people expect people who have different beliefs to conform to the actions, behaviors of their own. I think it serves no purpose to expect anyone who is not a Christian to conform to the aspects of Christianity *just because* they'd like to see everyone behave that way. If I think someone would be better off not drinking or smoking, it has nothing to do with my religion, just facts, common sense, health, etc. So I wouldn't say "Well my Bible says!!!!" if they are not a Bible believer.

I completely agree. I would never try to convince a believer that they shouldn't believe in God or in their religion. The only thing I might argue with them over would be if their beliefs were specifically causing them to be hurtful (granted, in my perception) to someone--if they were gay bashing, or taunting women at an abortion clinic. They don't have to rush right out and be gay or get an abortion, but they do have to respect other people's rights to do so. Just like I respect their right not to get an abortion because of their religious beliefs.
I will admit, though, that when it comes to biblical interpretation, I am more likely to try to convince someone that their interpretation is misguided. But that's because I study the Bible for a living, and I can't stand to hear people's serious misconceptions about it on a literary and historical basis. I find that too many people don't know what the Bible says, but they're not afraid to say things about it--and this goes for non-believers, too. But I never try to argue someone out of the belief that the Bible is a theological treatise.

Why of course!

Yes, of course. He is always there.

Other. I agree with hard agnostics, that this is a question without a real answer, and is therefore inconsequential to any understanding, secular or religious. The best answer I know to this question is "MU," a Buhddist word that essentially unasks the question, inferring that one wastes time attempting to resolve it.
The only value of a (dis)belief in God's existence is to understand why you have been led to think so. Your answer will always be more a comment about yourself than of God, just like questions "does true love exist?" or "are people mostly good or bad?" If God exists, it's because you need God to exist. If God doesn't, it's because you need God to not exist (not because you don't need God). It has nothing to do with what actually is the truth, for that truth can't be known.

lately im gonna have to say...no

This is probably the best survey ever with the options provided upon this subject.

Well i am no one to judge you but have you ever put your brain to work and thought about who made this earth? and who made life? i am not saying it could have been god but it had to be some one or something!

There are some plausible scientific theories on how the earth was formed and how life came to be. I'm not sure if we'll ever know for sure how things happened.

It depends on how you define the term.

Oh yes.....all around

No God in Buddhist !

God always was; is and will always be.