How is it that someone can believe in friction(which is invisible) but not in a higher being(also invisible)?

Question

I'm just curious and I'm not here to debate either.

Answer 1

perhaps gravity would be a better comparison. however your logic is faulty. invisibility is not the primary reason people do or do not believe in a higher being. friction, gravity, other forces are testable is an objective and reproducible fashion.

yet they too remain theories, or laws of current understanding waiting to be proven wrong.

Answer 2

Man, that's a tricky question. In the first place I think any rational being *has* to believe in higher beings. If they don't they're a clueless fool since there are so many everyday examples all around us:
1) A hardcore pothead (certainly higher than most)
2) A construction worker on a high scaffold or a TV antenna installer working atop a skyscraper is almost certainly higher than most people in the whole city
3) Also we have the case of pilots and their passengers who are surely some of the highest beings on the planet (to say nothing of astronauts and cute female space tourists)
4) Birds, squirrels and head lice would qualify as irrefutable natural examples of still other beings higher than ourselves.

Friction, on the other hand is a mere fiction whose existence requires an irrational 'faith-based' understanding of that much ballyhooed pop-religion known as 'physics'. Since people of the Physics faith (once called physicians?) also advocate the existence of a myriad of invisible ludicrosities like quantum tunneling, relativity, quarks with fractional electrical charges, and that all-time classic "W vector Bosons" there can be little doubt but that they are completely out to lunch.

Answer 3

Because I can experience friction with several sensory organs:
1] walking through water is more strenuous than walking through air:
2] closing a window in a high wind is more difficult than on a calm day;
3] ever had sex?

Many people claim, including me and several close friends and relatives, to have experienced a higher power in their lives. Cool. Although I believe there is a creative force that has been since before space and time existed, I have never experienced that force as having any particular human attributes. The experience is usually (but not always) different from sex.

Answer 4

I don't just 'believe' in friction, I know it exists because I can prove it. To quote mark twain "faith is believing something you know ain't so"

I can prove friction exists by walking. If friction didn't exist I wouldn't be able to overcome inertia, my feet would slip slide out from under me, I'd fall down and slide to the lowest point of the floor.

I can see thatt friction is a property of matter in tha same way I can see someone hiccup. Friction is a property of things, not a thing in and of itself, it is an action, not an object, it is not invisible or visible anymore than a hiccup is visible or invisible .

Answer 5

The main reason is our beliefs. Our culture beats into us the facts that friction is true and higher being is not. It can go on and on, but that is a main reason. The belief that higher being is not a true thing is a MAJOR race thought. And being that our beliefs shape our reality, then obviously friction is going to dominate over higher being, although both exist. And still, many many people have come to a point of so-named higher being.

Answer 6

I believe in friction because if I go to church, I do not slide out of my seat.

On the other hand, if I sit there and hold my breath waiting for a divine presence to reveal itself, I will suffocate.

Every culture known thru history has had its god or gods. Since most of these were obviously fabrications to help explain or simply cope with the harshness of their world, one obvious possibility is they all were.

But keep a light on just in case.

Answer 7

Easy. Friction is the force that resists relative motion between two bodies in contact, a force and therefore can be quantified. We cannot see friction but we can measure it and see and predict its effect. Can't do that with God, which means friction holds up better in court. You're cute.

Answer 8

I think its bcoz we can see and prove the effect of friction. we need friction 2 explain lots of thins like why fire starts when we strike 2 stones together. higher being cant be seen , and not everyone needs to believe them to explain how the world works

Answer 9

Friction is not an object but a defined predictable process.

"Higher beings" are claimed to be objects but are lacking in testable characteristics.

This does not mean "higher beings" do not exist but only that they are beyond the scope of scientific enquiry.

Answer 10

Friction can be demonstrated, tested, verified and experienced.
Bad analogy - but I get your point.

For what it's worth, all scientific explanations of the origins of life all start with the building blocks already in place - none offer an explanation of where these originated, or why.