There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life

I think this one slipped under the radar on this site somewhat - perhaps its due to the American bias on the site.

They'd never allow this sort of thing in the states.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/21/religion-advertising

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/20/transport.religion

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Funny thing, one of the reasons I became interested in God is because I saw how Christians were able to stop worrying and enjoy their lives. This was a big contrast to the non-believers I'd spent much of my life around.

I'd say the slogan is aimed at atheist/agnostics. Seems a bit of a waste to me.

 

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That wouldn't make much sense..

 

Agreed, but atheists have never made too much sense to me.

 

Why not ?

 

What organization is that? (that made/paid for the billboard)

 

well it started out with just one individual who was tired of religious advertising and grew from there - it was funded pretty much completely from donations by the public

http://www.atheistbus.org.uk/

 

The British Humanist Association

 

I think that was partly the idea - you could say the same about religious advertising of course

 

It's not aimed at atheists.
It's a counter-action.

From the first article (OP):
"Because of your enthusiastic response to the idea of a reassuring God-free advert being used to counter religious advertising, the slogan "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life" could now become an ad campaign on London buses – and leading secularists have jumped on board to help us raise the money."

 

Well, being a theist, you are slightly insane, so I'm hardly surprised.

 

you got questions? they got answers:

http://www.atheistbus.org.uk/faq/

 

I'm sure you would argue that sanity was a subjective notion.

For instance, I can't look at the Flagellar Motor and it's 40 some components that are required for it's operation and pretend that it's a completely random chance that they all fell to gether in such a manner. That would be like throwing a deck of cards and having them land face up in matching suits starting from smallest number to the largest.

Ain't happening.

 

Is this why you think that atheists make no sense ?
See, you have no clue about evolution. lol

 

What if it happened in a syntropic system with infinite time? Would it still be as unlikely?

 

Infinite time ? :bugeye:

 

Probability, my friend. The complex patterns and recognizable specifications found throughout genetic code are destroying idea of life's origin being that of chance. Smarter men than you and I (atheists, no less) are deserting the theory every day.

But, by it's nature, science is always changing.

 

It's not chance, it's evolution.
You would do well to study evolution a bit

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Perhaps you're right, Enmos. Maybe there's a polar bear out there thats perfecting a set of gills.....The other will just have to...uh,hum...hold their breath.