Why do the theists insistently give the wind as a sample for God's existence?
2006-07-09 19:39:20 · 16 answers · asked by skeptic 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Electricity,gravity,energy can me measured in scientific terms but God can not?Love,pain,emotions are caused by chemical activity in the brain so they are material but is God material? So you can't give these as a sample for God's existence
2006-07-09 19:59:17 · update #1
Can you see thoughts? Can you see love?
2006-07-09 19:42:23 · answer #1 · answered by johnusmaximus1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answers of the people who answered point to one direction.Please check this out:
The discovery of living coelacanths in this century electrified the scientific world. A fish that had thought to have died out with the dinosaurs was found alive. The first was taken in 1938 about three miles from the mouth of the Chalumna River, southwest of East London, South Africa. The second was caught in 1952 off Anjouan Island in the Comores Islands, northwest of Madagascar. Another was discovered off Sulawesi, Indonesia in 1998. The Indonesian locals call the coelacanth Rajah Laut, "King of the Sea."
How could the Coelacanth disappear for over 80 million years [ET*] and then turn up alive and well in the twentieth century?
In 1987, a German naturalist, Hans Fricke, observed and photographed coelacanths in their habitat off Grand Comoro Island. He found that they swam forward, backward, and even tilted head down, but never once walked, crawled, or otherwise moved on the bottom with their lobed fins, as some thought. So the coelacanth would never have moved up on land as hypothesized in the evolutionary scheme. It wasn't a missing link after all; it was a fish and it always had been a fish - for 400 million years [ET*].
Evolutionists try to explain "living fossils" by calling them "primitive," That is, some species was more primitive, but now it is not.
How can Love, Electricity exist yet not seen, without an intelligent being(God) behind them....
You can't tell me that the wholeness of a human being comes and diverse behaviours of animals come from a "soap"!!
Who teaches animals to do the things they do on earth? All their diverse behaviors, lifestyles...How did they know how to mate?
God bess you!
Come on Evolitionists! Wake up and see the truth of God before you die!!!!
2006-07-09 19:56:41 · answer #2 · answered by Hope Dollar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is because the wind is an excellent example of an entity that is not tangible, but whose effect can be felt.
God is exactly like that. The main war between science and religion is that while scince looks at nature and proves that God does not exist, religion looks at it and says that god does.
This is a war that will never be resolved and it is up to a person's own viewpoint to decide whether he/she sees God's Hand in Nature or not.
2006-07-09 19:46:01 · answer #3 · answered by JustAskMe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a very old statement, from a time before it was commonly accepted that the air had mass. Try to take it in that context. There is a difference between invisible, and imaginary.
A poetic rendition; you don't need a weather-man, to tell which way the winds blowing...
2006-07-09 20:22:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point being made is a simple one. God is "invisible" just like wind. You can not see it. You can on the other hand see how wind works, and the changes it can make. God is not visible but, if you look, you will see how he shapes things.
2006-07-09 19:46:00 · answer #5 · answered by jedidaddy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! no longer even on the tip of the international! Revelation 7:a million (Infallible King James version!) And after those issues I observed 4 angels status on the 4 CORNERS of the earth, keeping the 4 winds of the earth, that the wind shouldn't blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. a lot for Christian technological expertise…!
2016-12-10 07:13:35 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are a bunch of uneducated morons, okay. Just let it go. Christians do not have instruments to measure and analyze these things, so they must be invented by god. Their highest education comes from a 2000 year old textbook, come on, give them a break. They dont know any better.
2006-07-09 19:55:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're deaf and dumb (that is, you can't speak), and you eat the most delicious chocolates, how do you convey that feeling to an ordinary person, over the telephone?
Maybe the theists are in the same position, in which their experience does not translate well into words, and this weak simile is all they have to give the rest of us.
Then again, maybe they're full of sh1t. . .who knows?
2006-07-09 19:45:11 · answer #8 · answered by ThatGuy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i imagine that it's the best anology that can be used. god is a mystery. they say that we don't know what he is exactly except that he is god, he created everything and us. for all we know, he may possibly be made up of some type of matter. i don't propose to know.
when u're trying to describe something that can only be felt thru one's own experiences, u try to find something that everyone has felt and everyone has felt and knows what wind is.
2006-07-09 19:45:43 · answer #9 · answered by Lila 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what pushes wind and what causes that etc. somewhere your going to have to admit there is an intellegent maker of all that lives even if it is something as soft as a breeze and as gentle as God
2006-07-09 19:46:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋