Atheists & Agnostics: Does God Exist-scientifically? (click the link below)?

Question

http://www.allaboutcreation.org/does-god-exist.htm

Feel free to search the site. Actually go to the site. Dont just give me some stupid answer saying something like "No your wrong"

Answer 1

The site is constantly repeating "God provides the best explanation for..." but no proof, just theories and ideas. What about all the other explanations for things? Are those completely disregarded? If someone is going to do a study about "Does God exists scientifically" they need to be unbiased and open to all possibilities.

Answer 2

This is actually like asking does ZERO exist scientifically? of course zero equal to nothing and no value is giving to it, but this invention has great impact on the science we know today and the one you mention in your site and we almost can not live with out zero as we use it every day on our life. However, the invention of God and I really don't know when was that happened has no real impact on science you have mentioned in your site and may be it made life worse, but may be people at that time use it justify or explain things which this concept is not really valid today. So all the great discovery was attributed to the invention of zero not to the invention of God.

Answer 3

I have seen no evidence of God that cannot be explained by scientific methodology.

That being said, that doesn't mean that God doesn't exist. It's always possible that God created the Universe and some basic rules of motion, and then sat back and is having His favorite sandwich watching us screw around down here.

My belief is that there is no God. I could be wrong. I could be right. Nobody's ever bothered to provide testable empirical evidence to show either way. That's the problem with dying - your research notes tend not to come back.

Answer 4

Irreducible complexity is a flawed philosophical theory....it's basically like throwing your hands up in the air and claiming a god did it because you think something is too complex to have a simple explanation. Basically, it's pure intellectual laziness.

Morality has been defined through many theories which don't require placing its basis on the divine. What seems to be the most widely accepted view of morality by secular philosophers is cultural relativism and various variations of that same idea. Essentially, morality exists because humans are social beings and in order to live together as a group we must develop codes of action in order to orchestrate what is acceptable and maintain social order.

Answer 5

Read Quran u will have such scientific facts which were mentioned 1400 yrs ago and they are now proved that is right.. in ur question only u have mentioned that dont say "u r wrong" but i m sorry i cant say that ur site doesnt show anything worthy that can prove the existence of God as a false conception..

Answer 6

There is nothing on that site that gives any evidence, let alone proof , of any god existing. Don't you think that if there were any such proof it would be front-page news over the entire planet? Please, go and read a real book. Try Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett, or Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer. Both very readable and non-technical, and perhaps even enlightening.

Answer 7

"The presence of intelligent design proves the existence of an intelligent designer.....We know that design necessitates a designer. In fact, in accordance with this fundamental axiom, design detection methodology is a prerequisite in many fields of human endeavor, including archaeology, anthropology, forensics, criminal jurisprudence, copyright law, patent law, reverse engineering, crypto analysis, random number generation, and SETI."

If we can use the same methodology as you use to prove that there is intelligent design, then anyone could prove that they have the patent to, let's say, Microsoft. In other words, it's not important to know that the actual patent owner is Bill Gates but rather that there is simply the existence of an owner to Microsoft. If the design does not actually belong to an individual than it could, theoretially, belong to any or all of us.

Answer 8

in order for god's existance to be scientifically testable, it must be falsifiable, meaning that there has to be some hypothetical evidence which would prove that god does not exist.

As I demonstrated on this board earlier today:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnuVT_cxY.Qcp3Q5IEIohILsy6IX?qid=20060819115150AAOJnnG

there is no evidence which would be accepted by theists which would prove the NONexistance of god.

Therefore, "god" is not testable or falsifiable.
Therefore, "god" cannot be proven or disproven scientifically.



So save your links.

They only demonstrate that you don't understand what constitutes scientific evidence.

Answer 9

The site just says that the author is willing to trust in his experience as proof of God's existence. Trusting your senses is good for most things but hey, if i slipped some LSD in your cool aid, you'd see all sorts of things and swear they were real too.

Peace.

Answer 10

I take offence to your question for two reasons. First off, you are pulling the oh-so-trite move of lumping agnostics and atheists into one group when in reality they are nothing alike.

Atheism is a religion just as buddism or christianity. Why? Because to say the god does definitly not exist is to violate the first rule of predicate calculus: one cannot prove a negative.

Being agnostic is to either admit to not knowing the answers, or to not caring, either one.

But mostly I am offended because you are trying to "prove" god's existence scientifically, which is in itself both impossible and a contradiction of interests. By definition science is about observations, and god cannot be observed. To try and make religion a science is to erode and undermine it's very purpose. Your site proves nothing.

Let it be.