Religion & Spirituality - 13 July 2006

In science, competing theories have to be falsifiable to be valid - There has to be at least one test you can do which has the potential to show that the theory is not consistent with reality, and therefore must be false. Without falsifiability, we have no way of distinguishing between true and false ideas.

So, assuming for the sake of argument that gods could exist, by what method can you distinguish between a real god and a fake one? Clearly faith alone is not enough, because people will always have faith in whatever gods they believe in, regardless of whether they really exist or not.

Let's say that you believe in the Christian god or the Muslim god and your view is that Zeus is just a myth - How can you test this view against reality? If you can't test it, how can you rationally justify dismissing one god and not the other?

2006-07-13 22:07:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Okay, I am not classifying all religious based questions (and answers) as being stupid, ignorant and meaningless, I am just referring to the 50% of them that are! Let me go find a few...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aqf7vyeNui1khhfXWLVIb7Pzy6IX?qid=20060714015039AAt0a5n
Okay that one may just be my, but let me find some more...*sighs* Just lookk at these and you will find some...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqoknOIUxzD8uYgk9VodwqDzy6IX?qid=20060621121151AA9ttPp
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnRsV9NQ.vo9Apeabzojf6Tzy6IX?qid=20060613182802AAs0rmL
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmW0YLu1VWIYbGgsGSO6rofzy6IX?qid=1006051128447

Does anyone feel the same way as I do? And does anyone else think that they can be stopped by a little commen sense on the part of the askers?

2006-07-13 22:01:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-13 21:59:58 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

there are so many peope ı know really blieving just for this!!

2006-07-13 21:58:15 · 9 answers · asked by poison21 2

why? if god loves us? wouldn't you do the same your own chilldren?

2006-07-13 21:56:54 · 24 answers · asked by 88 m 1

this is one of the doubts i always have while reading genesis..bible doesnt mention any where about having any daughters,even if they had then also it would have been incest.dont take offence its a serious question ,one friend asked while doubted the theory of evolution

2006-07-13 21:56:31 · 9 answers · asked by anoop_pattat 3

According to the Bible, I cant covet my Neighbours A$s. What makes her a$s so special?

2006-07-13 21:55:02 · 10 answers · asked by reality check 3

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2006-07-13 21:52:29 · 9 answers · asked by remo 2

it stands in my livingroom and then in the corner of my bedroom and stare at me and my fiance. it also has turned the television off and on and the lights and it comes out of my daughters room at 3 o'clock in the morning everynight. it also watches over me and my finance while we are sleeping and when it gets tired of watching us it puts its head down like its sad and leaves out of the room. it stand at least 6 feet tall and slender and black all over.

2006-07-13 21:50:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-13 21:47:29 · 1 answers · asked by huneebubz 1

does anyone here belive the end of time is near, could all thats happening in the world be signs from god ? Or has the world always been total caos?

2006-07-13 21:45:15 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you all think that all this thats going on with israel is a sign of the times? how much longer do you think we have?

2006-07-13 21:44:56 · 12 answers · asked by iheartskcs 2

One of the great anti-atheist believers on Y!A posted this sentence in answer to a question some 10 hours ago:

YOU CAN NOT HAVE GOD'S KNOWLEDGE, OUTSIDE GOD'S WILL. PERIOD.

I apologise for the caps-lock. It's his words, not mine.

I'm trying to understand this sentence. Is it God's will that there be atheists in this world?

2006-07-13 21:44:23 · 17 answers · asked by XYZ 7

Where u raised believing in God? Did u convert from being an Atheist? Have u ever questioned ur belief? did it make ur belief stronger?

2006-07-13 21:39:42 · 20 answers · asked by bobatemydog 4

The Christian Fundamentalists seem to always answer questions as if we were attacking them. Responses are pretty much "you wont make me lose my faith" Can you guys try to answer instead of JUDGING the questioner and feeling threatened by the question? Thanks

2006-07-13 21:38:23 · 10 answers · asked by Johnny W 2

In the beginning, God told Adam to go nuts and eat all the fruit except the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden. He said "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die."

So then fast forward, Eve was created and she's hanging out by the tree, talking to the serpent (Satan) and Satan says: "You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

So what happened? They ate the fruit and died? NO. The Bible says they ate the fruit and suddenly their eyes were opened, they knew that they were naked, they knew good and evil that was previously hidden from them and they lived on for hundreds of years.

But how was Satan wrong and God proven true? Wasn't it the other way around? Satan wins this one in my book.

2006-07-13 21:37:55 · 31 answers · asked by eat 4

2006-07-13 21:34:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

that the phony God has given?Is it not more likely that the idea of Hell is just a way to get people scared and make them believe a sack of lies?

Giggles loves you and there is no Hell!Learn the truth for yourself or be forever scared and hateful!
http://www.freewebs.com/holyfairies/

2006-07-13 21:33:28 · 9 answers · asked by EasterBunny 5

2006-07-13 21:32:55 · 15 answers · asked by DustInCarroll 4

Seems to be that they are the most influential people on the planet with so much wealth and power. They have the power to shape the future of earth

2006-07-13 21:32:46 · 8 answers · asked by sherwin 2

I've seen it a few times here, but it seems very odd to me. Is God permitting, or even instructing, Satan to do bad things in the world? If so, what's the reason?

I worded the question the way I did because any longtimers at R&S will know that I don't believe (and newcomers might understand it from my avatar), but that doesn't mean I don't want to understand Christian theology and its effects on morality.

The whole issue of Satan confuses me in many ways actually, but this is as good a place to start as any.

Don't worry - despite what some people imply, I addressed the question to Christians, so I _will_ choose the Christian who explains the theology most cogently.

Thanks in advance.

2006-07-13 21:31:02 · 10 answers · asked by XYZ 7

everyone mentions mormons, jehovah's witnesses, sda's etc of being cults, but nobody calls catholics a cult.

2006-07-13 21:26:43 · 14 answers · asked by sevvy7 1

If this is the beginning of World War III, why haven't modern Isrealites accepted Jesus as the Son of God. It seems as though only the "Gentiles" have done this yet the Bible states that Jesus was the King of the Jews and the Jews are the chosen people to go to heaven. Any advice would be appreciated because I have pondered this idea for many years . . .

2006-07-13 21:25:59 · 25 answers · asked by dopey5280 1

I mean the bible is a story book full of lies. Say no to jesus.

2006-07-13 21:22:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Before I start, Please do not repond saying no one knows, and give me Matthew 24:36, "and of that day and hour no one knows"


Of you read your bible it says Matthew 24:33 "when you see all these things, you will know it is near, Even at the doors"

We shall know when its near, just not know the day and hour.

Here Please go hear, I dont have enough room to type it all.


http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=76296974&blogID=136883008&Mytoken=86C561F6-F406-4480-A1EB1C8D988300E41891189234

2006-07-13 21:22:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Back in 1978 Jim Jones was the leader of a group known as “The People’s Temple" that was founded in the USA but eventually moved to Northern Guyana. The group settled in a jungle and called their communal village "Jonestown". As a result of a investigation conducted by USA authorities, Jones lead their followers to a mass suicide. Official reports said that 913 of the 1100 people at “Jonestown” at the time were murdered or committed mass suicide, 276 of them were children. It's has been report that Jones shot himself.

2006-07-13 21:21:51 · 11 answers · asked by Alene 2

Else, the mark of the beast and eternal separation from God.

2006-07-13 21:19:36 · 13 answers · asked by thepaxilman 2

By the same logic, if people say Thor doesn't exist, that must mean he exists, right? If people say fairies don't exist then they must exist, right?

Why do people say such breath-takingly stupid things?

2006-07-13 21:16:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-13 21:10:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

The real God, Giggles, never did that and never would because he loves us so much that he only wants us to be happy.

Learn of him and end the hate!
http://www.freewebs.com/holyfairies/

2006-07-13 21:10:30 · 10 answers · asked by EasterBunny 5