Social Survey. Do you believe in God?

Question

93% of national Academy scientists don't or express doubt. (Wikipedia > God)
Do you? If not why not?

btw: I don't - poor evidence.

Answer 1

No I don't. It's a hypothesis that has no explanatory power.

Answer 2

Yes, I believe. Not that I don't struggle with doubt sometimes.

I would be lying if I said that I tested all the evidence and decided from that what was true. I came to believe when I was a child...and when you're a child you believe first with your heart, not your mind.

But when I was a teenager I stepped out in faith and trusted God again, and He changed my life in a significant way. Since then I have, in a way, put a magnifying glass to God and the Bible. I can't say that that hasn't been a challenge to my faith. Anytime you allow real questions and truly open yourself to arguments on any belief (whether scientific, political, religious, whatever) I think it opens the door for doubt...but that doesn't mean you shouldn't.

I've found a lot of good evidence for the resurrection to help back up my belief. Would it have been proof to me without it? I don't know. I do know that some who have gone out to disprove the Christian belief in God have become believers in the process...and some haven't.

I think some of the hardest challenges for me didn't come from science or philosphy, but from the Bible itself. Some of the things in the old testament have clashed with my own view of God, even my own experience, and I had some struggles with that.

Answer 3

4 a scientist 2 admit there is a God, would B in some way a scientist admitting he's NOT!
they find the acceptance of a God below them. Men of science R clever, but not that clever 2 realise they've 4gotten 2 take in2 account Faith.
Faith has never been disproved.
U don't believe in God, OK Ur choice.
I do believe in God, I've found it easy 2 live my life ethically, morally & obeying Gods commandments.
Scientist R after all, human & some have been caught lying/changing data or using suspect data.
In their job it must B a regular occurrence.
my evidence?
read up on the Roman Empire & why they changed their national religion, all those years ago?

Or repeat the Lords Prayer?
YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
How much more proof do U need?

Answer 4

It depends of the rafiguration of god in all his nature.you may call god the macanism that makes things happen or a divine entity or just probability.But turning back at faith history it seems that god was created himself by mankind.The inability of man to give a cretain answer to our egxistence itself created god(s).The development of human belief from semplicistic animism and totemism to more complex structural polytheism and monotheism,running through the moderator deism to the more radical atheism is a proof that mankind has used God until it was useful.Althow the existence of god or alike entities can't be proved and the developement of science will took humanity to a new level of thinking faith would became a way to solve the problems that science can't solve.It's a strong way of keeping the masses undercontrol and manipulate and those that have the power wont let it desapear.God is God even without being God(existing).But there are still two questins to make?Why should God have created us ?and Is the belif in God turning back to humanity and causing more troubles then it should solve?
And for giving an answer to your first question:if God was real why should you belive in it?you don't belive in a table or tea spoon that you touch and see but belive in true love and humankind which aren't at all part of this materialistic world.

Answer 5

I believe in many gods, and think of them in much the same way as Carl Jung described "archetypes". Other people might say "virtues", "ideals", or "personifications" not unlike the great image of "Liberty Enlightening the World" ... not just a great bronze statue, but living within many of us.

If "god" refers to the rather angry creator-deity featured in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures or in Akenaton's all-powerful "Aton", then "No!" This is not too different from the "Bogey Man" used to scare kids into obedience. Maybe "Bogey" came from the Russian "Bog".

If "god" refers to happiness or goodness or peace or the glory of Nature or sense of the "tree of life" that links human beings to the thread of all life, then "Yes!". Those are essentially relative, not absolute terms, of course. A pantheist concept of "God" has no real division between self and "other"; some religions basically have this outlook, but it's equivalent to believing that "what is, is" ... not a problem!

Mostly "God" has been a concept used to manipulate and terrify people into unquestioning obedience to certain crafy leaders who claim to be chosen specially as "agents" or "vicars" of that "God". This permits them to organize mob violence, Crusades, Jihads, wars of extermination, etc., against all who choose not to quickly become subservient to said crafy leaders. In Antiquity, wars certainly existed, but religion was pretty much inconsequential to them. Now we have learned better, and religion is often central to war or significantly related as a motivator, 'cause "absolute power is good". Never mind what Lord Acton recognized as a problem there.

But how "God" has been used in history does not address the question of whether this universal "God" exists. His doctrine appears to be extremely laissez-faire, as if "not there", "vacancy", "no such number", "retired", or "never was". "God" lets people literally "get away with murder", even when, or especially when it's done in his name.

One can come up with all kinds of answers for this behavior or lack of interest, but the answers are weak and apologetic. The core of whether anyone believes in God or not hinges on definition, and examination beyond the surface shows quickly that people do NOT share agreement after all, because "Omnipotent", "Biggest & Best", "All-Knowing", "First Cause", "Unknowable Essence", "Creator of Everything", etc., are not really explanations or solid definitions, but more like wordplay. I can ask "Does Nothing Exist?" or I can actually write "1=0", but what reality exists behind those words and symbols? At best, they attempt to explain a mystery with an enigma.

Are human beings the greatest, smartest, most ethical or wisest life forms in this vast universe? It would be surprising if that were so, and any entity surpassing us a thousandfold in such attributes would widely be considered a "God" or at least likened to one. I can hope such do exist and that all the eggs aren't in this vulnerable blue basket called Earth.

Paraphrasing the original question most simply would be the ask "Do you believe in the God as sketched in the pages of the Qur'an, Bible, or Torah? No. How could such an ostensibly great and noble being be associated with the petulant, cruel, menacing, bullying attributes described quite literally in those pages? There are contraditions in asserting so many absolute qualities in one entity, but wordplay does allow "bright darkness" , "freezing heat", "arid moisture", etc. That you say say it does not mean it true or real. It can be used as poetry or a sort of meditative quandary.

Answer 6

I do not believe in God. Because the concept of God is a tautology. Under Intelligent Design, they claim that things that are complex and have a use require a creator. By that same logic, God requires a creator. And if God were to be created incrementally, it would be by Darwinian Natural Selection. There is just no argument for a god that holds up to scrutiny.

Answer 7

I believe in an "unmoved mover" who is the ultimate creator of the universe. I call him "God". I believe he set the universe in motion (the ultimate cause of cause and effect), but he does not interfere with it or send prophets, messiahs, etc. to earth.

Answer 8

I believe there is a creative dynamic in the universe that existed before time and space. I do not believe that dynamic has any human attributes.

Answer 9

absolutely i believe in God

Answer 10

No, I don't...
No evidence..