What is real? How do you prove what is real?
How do you prove God is real, or Evolution is real?
How do you prove love?
How do you disprove these things? Is it neccessary for something to be disproveable before it is real?
What is real? Electronic signals in the brain? China real? I have never been, I know people who've been, am I believing what they tell me on faith?
What is real? A woman in another state has never met me but I feel her touch on my hand making a heart. Is that real?
2006-09-09 10:18:10 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God cannot be proven, only evidence for his existence can be presented. It ultimately comes down to faith.
Evolution cannot be proven since it cannot be repeated as in a scientific experiment. However, compelling evidence can be presented for it.
I know that love is real, though, because my wife, kids, and friends show it to me daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly.
Good Q.
2006-09-09 10:30:47 · answer #1 · answered by Kidd! 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Is 2+2=4? If you doubt it, then, we do not have much to discuss, since it is would be a valueless conversation for me to accept that you doubt that 2+2=4.
Basically, you can not prove immutable facts. You accept them.
Is time without beginning, or space without end? Can we conceive it? Kind of hard since these are ideas that include infinity. But they are true none the less.
Now how about God? Many very smart people have tried and they do a stellar job in intellectually "justifying" that God exists, but they never prove it and cannot, unless God shows up and proves He is God. Proof is a high standard.
Therefore, the only proof that will ever work, is deductive thru a process of elimination. If science cannot show that life is self-creating, that genetic code is impossible to occur by natural means, then we have only one remaining option, we were created. If you do the research you will find that science will never show that natural biological creation is possible. Thus, a creator must exist.
Then the question is, who is God and what religion is the right religion?
2006-09-10 09:19:53 · answer #2 · answered by Cogito Sum 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Epistemology, Jim? Nothing is real or unreal in any demonstrable sense accept for ones own consciousness (impossible to doubt the doubter). It is much more useful to take the approach of naturalism; things are (at least approximately) as they appear unless I have good reason to believe otherwise. Good reason entails counter evidence provided by all of the tools and methods of science and philosophy. It is not necessary for something to be falsifiable to be real, but that is often considered an important part of any scientific claim about what might be real. From the naturalistic perspective I assume your experience is a real experience (like the experience of a phantom heart on the hand), but I can say nothing about its correspondence to anything outside of your experience. It is too private.
2006-09-09 17:38:52 · answer #3 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing that we humans can ever know is real is love, because we can know love by feeling it, unlike all other things.
We need neither to know nor to prove something for it to be real.
Reality exists independent of humanity, but we are completely dependent on reality (or else we go insane).
It's like that whole "If a tree falls and no one hears it, does it really make a sound?" thing.
The scientific process of proof and disproof is limited greatly by our intelligence and senses, which means it has no meaning in the spiritual realm; i.e. no meaning for faith, hope, love, God, etc.
2006-09-09 17:34:54 · answer #4 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some things just can't be proven, only felt, but that doesn't make them any less real. Anything involving emotions can't be seen or proven, but they sure are real to me. Scientists may put labels on them and try to give scientific reasons for why they happen, how can they explain why I feel love for a certain person, yet nothing special for another who may have similar qualities. Evolution can't be proven any more than Creation. They're both just theories since no one is around who was there to verify it. But Creation makes much more sense to me. Some people are just more open to believing what can't be proven.
2006-09-09 17:41:14 · answer #5 · answered by cj_justme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None are real. The only thing that is real is no-mind, when one acts out of no-mind they are perfect. The rest are the inventions of mind, which is an illusion. The only thing that is real is emptyness, or Bardo.
2006-09-09 17:20:55 · answer #6 · answered by Helen Boucher 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Somethings are abstract and you need to feel them to know they are real. When you love a woman, you know love is real because you feel it in your soul same as loving God. When people love him they feel it in their soul.
2006-09-09 17:25:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you need to stop chatting with females online and find a REAL woman, then you'll know what's real. if you find your true love, then love, faith, God and everything in the world is real because you're with a real person who loves you .
2006-09-09 17:24:56 · answer #8 · answered by Chris E 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is your question real?
We all want to know who she is!
Stay tuned for the next exciting chapter of.......the Darwin experience.
2006-09-09 23:03:38 · answer #9 · answered by peppermint_paddy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know gravity and love are real having experienced both.
2006-09-09 17:23:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋