imagine a teapot in space, orbiting the earth. how would you prove it exists to the average person here on earth? it is so small, that no telescope would spot it. there would be no practical way to prove that it exists. yet you believe its there. you were the only one in the world who believes in that teapot orbiting the earth.
most likely, everyone would consider you to be crazy. now, imagine that millions of people believed that the teapot was in space, orbiting the earth. you had people to back you up, yet there was still no practical way of proving its existance. most likely, only some people would think you were crazy, but many people would not... perhaps the government believed you were not.
you couldnt prove or disprove the existance of the teapot, but you fervently believed it was up there.
the so-called god is much like the so-called teapot. there is no practical way to prove or disprove its existance.
can you agree that this teapot is like a god?
2006-09-24 20:00:24 · 17 answers · asked by lostcause8436 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-09-24 20:10:22 · answer #1 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You told it wrong.
The Teapot Atheist story was originally told by Bertrand Russell, in his book "Why I am not a Christian" and the teapot is closely orbiting the sun, so that telescopes (of that era..the 1920's) could never see it.
The argument is that we are all teapot atheists, there is no reason to assume there is a teapot orbiting the sun, there is no proof of a teapot. The analogy is that for theists the same argument is used as a reason to believe in a god. Refusing to believe in the nonexistence of gods while believing in the nonexistence of ghosts, Santa Claus or the Invisible Pink Unicorn is inconsistent.
2006-09-25 03:07:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. With as many telescopes pointed to the sky someone would eventually see the teapot. I haven't heard of any scientific.sightings of God in outer space.
2006-09-25 03:01:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
teapot's existence doesn't come from imagination and fantasy thinking like u portray
it comes from a thinking mind that is ready to use physics and other means to learn about universe rather than making star-wars type of assumptions
go back and do ur homework
2006-09-25 03:12:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The reason God can not be proven because all the instrumentation we currently have are to prove behavior and different aspects of matter. So if these same instruments are utilized to discover God it bounds to fail. But we are so good to prove matter exists with various instrumentation, then whatever we know about matter can directly be inferred to prove that spirit exists by taking the opposite of what matter is all about. Since the duality of nature says the opposite of material energy is spiritual energy.
yeah, I know you would disagree, but that's my honest answer without taking a single verse in the bible.
2006-09-25 03:36:30 · answer #5 · answered by Frontal Lobe 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
broken teapot theory
scrapnel everywhere
"g" is an energy that lives in the minds of man
a teapot, well, is a teapot until you turn it into a muffin or a broom
if in your mind you want "g" to be a teapot, so it is
one man's "g" is another man's tree
2006-09-25 03:31:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
E=mc2
No mass all energy/100%energy has no mass Like Lightning
check out the string theory
The tea pot analogy is not faith or physics
God is in an other dimension and human eyes cant comprehend his invisibility.
2006-09-25 03:18:25 · answer #7 · answered by timex846 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oooooo I've heard this one... but usually the teapot is orbiting the moon or the sun.
2006-09-25 03:08:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My only objection is that the teapot theory is..not a theory :), its a teapot religion.
2006-09-25 03:02:33 · answer #9 · answered by leikevy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do believe in teapots, but not god.
2006-09-25 03:03:01 · answer #10 · answered by tammidee10 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We can find and track objects in orbit as small as a dime.
We still have not found any deity.
2006-09-25 03:03:24 · answer #11 · answered by upallnite 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋