1 WHAT GOD?.... May I point out to all the people who rushed to defend God's existence that all the classical arguments for the existence of God were demolished in the 18th century by the Scottish philosopher, David Hume, and the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (who substituted the Categorical Imperative for God). Since that time (to my knowledge) no new arguments have been advanced which command any kind of intellectual respect. Those people all seem to rely heavily on the First Cause argument; this, alas, is totally invalid for the simple reason that it negates its own premise. If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause; if however, we can conceive of anything as happening without a cause, it might just as well be the universe as God. I personally believe that the man who got it spot-on correct was the great scientist and biologist, J B S Haldane when he very perceptibly wrote: "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." I believe that another word from me on the subject would be totally superfluous.

2 The only thing Kant showed us was that God, being beyond our comprehension, is also beyond proof or disproof. So your apparent attempt to disprove His existence via these events is futile, as you yourself should know. Why are you even bothering to post this comment here? It seems to have little or nothing to do with the subject above...

3 @Solid..... Not so long ago you would have been unable to suggest that all things must necessarily have a cause. Even leaving aside Hume's objections to causation something may in princple exist without beginning or end, or have come into existence spontaneously (more on this later). Neither is less probable than the idea of a conscious creator God. Strato of Lampsacus (one of Aristotle's successors as head of the Lyceum) pointed out in the third century BC that the universe could simply exist and that it was up to those who wished to show otherwise to demonstrate sufficient cause for believing that it did not. No one has managed to do it to general satisfaction in the succeeding 22 centuries. Some argue that because the universe is deemed to have a finite age by modern cosmologists, this ruins the perpetual existence possibility. It does not. All the cosmologists say is that the universe as we know it is finite in age. What was before the Big Bang is beyond the reach of the cosmologists. Moreover, if one interpretation of the universe is correct - that it will eventually contract back to the original pre-Big Bang condition - the universe could then be seen as perpetual, merely going through a cycle of expantion and contraction. Why does anything exist? The nearest I have to an answer is this: there is an infinite number of possibilities for something to exist and only a single possibility that nothing should exist.

4 I say they should bring them the western neck-tie parties with a gallows and a place to hang the no good sidewinders from it this is a bunch of crinimal taking advantage of their misfortunes a bit like some of our trial lawyers

5 Why are you discussing God? God has nothing to do with this or these actions: PEOPLE DO!!!!! The entire area that was hit by the tsunami are Muslims but what we're talking about is WHAT BAD PEOPLE DO DURING A CRISIS TO GOOD PEOPLE! It is People who make choices, have free will, know right from wrong and for the most part, people have pulled together all over this earth to help these countries, these people hit by the tsumani but what comes around goes around but there are too many us troops on the ground, in the boats, on the flight decks and all the other troops from all the other countries. Whatever was being done to other people will end immediately; of that I have no doubt. Cindy