For those who dont believe in God: How do you explain your human ability to reason that he does NOT exsist?

Question

no dumb answers people. please give sources if they are applicable to your answer.

its funny how when someone asks a serious question on here, hardly anyone can answer it. thats because some people know that they have done no research on this subject and therefore have no info to back up a claim that they do not have.

Answer 1

I don't have any sources, but how can you explain that he DOES exhist?

Answer 2

Wow, I was talking with some friends from church recently about this. I also had this feeling deep inside, "what if God didnt exist?" We talked for hours, debating on facts. Our conclusion: Yes, God exists. I'll try to give you some insight on what we went over.

Ok, let's not get too complicated and just give an everyday example. Suppose you got home today, and there was this beautiful chocolate cake with icing and everything, on top of ur table. Now, we have 2 theories of where that cake came from:

1) There was an HEB truck this afternoon going by ur house, and all of a sudden, a car hit it at 70mph, and the truck rolled over violently. There were eggs, flour, all sorts of stuff in the truck, and they all got mixed up in the crash, and the truck caught on fire, and the extreme heat baked all that stuff, and as the truck continued to roll on the street, the stuff flew through ur window and miraculously landed on ur table.

2) Someone who knew how to bake a chocolate cake, went there and did it, and then put it on top of ur table for you.

Which one makes more sense? If you answered #2, good! Then God created the Earth and everything in it. If you prefer to believe in an absurd and very creative theory called "the big bang", in which somehow gases mixed up, just in the right proportion, and then everything exploded and the earth was formed ... my friend, you have a very creative mind. First of all, how were those gases there? Someone must have created it. God. Stuff doesn't just appear.

=D Doesn't that make sense? Ok, now, let's get a lil more complicated.

Scientists say that man evolved from monkeys or whatever their creative mind came up with. Well, it has been proven that over time, living beings only lose genetic material, constantly. Therefore, evolution cannot be possible. The human body is so complex, there is no way it just "evolved" from something. A project called GENOMA, just recently finished their research. Their task: make a complete mapping of the human DNA. Many countries joined forces to complete this project, each taking a body part, like arm, leg, or whatever, and finding out the DNA code for it. Germany was in charge of the human eye. At the end of the project, they said that the human eye was so complex, that there was NO WAY it could have evolved from some other animal. It's a fact. Scientists researched and wrote it down. Aren't they contradicting themselves now? Ok, I believe I made a point on this one. Mankind did not evolve. God made man in His image.

Ok, now back to the big bang stuff. The NASA has been measuring the distance from the Earth to the moon, and it's a fact that every year the moon gets further and further away from the Earth. Fact. It's been proven. It's also a mathematical equation. So, if we take that mathematical equation, and do it backwards, we come up with how long since the earth and the moon we're almost touching. The calculations say something about 10 thousand years. It can't be more than that, otherwise the moon would have been rolling around on the earth.

Also, it's possible to calculate the rate of aging of the Earth. Every year, scientists calculate the rate at which the Earth is aging. It's roughly the same. If we then backtrack how long since the Earth was relatively "new", the calculations vary from 10 to 12 thousand years. It's fact.

Also, the population of the Earth. Today, we have roughly 6.5 billion people alive. Populations, increase in a mathematical progression. In other words, there will always be more people alive today, than there are people dead. Fact. It's not possible to have more people dead than alive. Draw a sketch of a simple family tree, and you'll stumble upon the same conclusion. So, if we backtrack how long since the beggining of population, the results say somewhere between 10 to 12 thousand years.

Every fact that we can backtrace, falls upon the same range. 10 to 12 thousand years. In other words, the Earth is relatively new, not millions of years old as some scientists say.

So, why would scientists not agree with this? Why would they come up with these ridiculous theories about some big bang or whatever? The answer is simple. At the very moment that they agree that there is an all-powerful being, a God, that created everything we know, they realize all their sins. At the moment they realize their sins, they know that they'll have to eventually have a commitment and a close relationship with God. They don't want any commitments to anyone. So what's the easy way out? Make up some random theories that we evolved from monkeys and that the Earth just happens to have been created randomly by a Big Bang, that they themselves can't explain how it supposedly happened.

I sincerely hope this has opened your eyes to the truth. Thanks for reading this, and I really hope that you now accept the commitment that God wants you to have with Him. If you're already commited with God, then I hope this text has restrengthened your faith.

God Bless all of you, and have a great day.

Answer 3

Evolution has created a curious mind. Most mammals exhibit some curiosity. However, we have sufficient grey matter in the frontal cortex that we seem to be able to think in the abstract-rational way that so far no other species has ever shown. Because of this, we are natural storytellers -- we've never seen aliens but there are plenty of aliens in Sci-Fi books. So a thing does not necessarily need to exist to be able to consider it.

Otherwise, you'd be asserting as well that unicorns, leprechans, and fairies are true as well.

The idea that we can conceptualize a thing is insufficent proof for the existence of a thing.

Answer 4

"God" has never been defined. It's a word that means too many things to too many people. Therefore, "God" doesn't exist the same way "blobbledeeblip" is an undefined, meaningless term that doesn't exist.

That's just common, human reasoning, though. You can believe in anything you want, but it doesn't make it real.

By the way, you don't have research because "God" doesn't exist! You can't research something that doesn't exist. I bet there isn't any Santa Claus research or Tooth Fairy research, either.

Answer 5

We were all born not believing in God's existence. Someone, perhaps even yourself, convinced you that God is a real thing. I have never crossed the threshold and think of God as real.

Fill in the word "Bigfoot" for "God" in your question and you will understand. If you have an unusual and improbable claim - "this being exists but you cannot see, hear, feel, touch, smell, or taste it nor can anyone else" - the burden is to prove it is real, not to prove that it is unreal.

Your logic is circular - you appear to believe everyone is born believing in God.

Answer 6

i believe in god but, i can honestly say that the reason some people may not is because there is no real evidence or proof that he exists. plus some of the things the bible states is sort of unheard of. like the virgin mary having a child. how can you prove that she was a virgin without paying any attention to what the bible states. in some peoples eyes the bible was written by man and what they may have seen back then could be hearsay today. that's what i'm stating. however what someone believes in is not any of my business. i can't stand it when people want to protest against someone elses beliefs. it's like bible thumpers coming to your home to show you the way. who do they think they are prophets?

Answer 7

If you will agree for a moment that God exists- He gave us free wills and rational intellects. We have the ability to think of something, approach it from both sides, reason about it. If we didn't, we would be robots without free will, doing good things simply because God made us able to do only good things. But since God wants people who love Him of themselves- a free decision to love God- and not robots, He gave us free will. And so we can reason that He does not exist because of that.

Answer 8

I am agnostic, but it is completely normal to say you don't know if something exist if it can not be proven to exist. It is irrational to subscribe to a belief of which there is no proof, and to believe in a book that actually contradicts reality. At the same time, it is also irrational to say that something does not exist, when you have no way of knowing that. Most people are agnostic anyway, even if it is on a subconscious level.

Answer 9

I think you're a bit confused. The burden of proof lies on the one trying to prove existence. I can tell you there's a pink unicorn dancing in my living room ... it's up to me to prove to you that there is, not for you to prove there isn't, since you have no way of doing that, other than using your own logic and reasoning.

So, I use my logic and reasoning to deduce that there is a scientific answer for everything, and God was created in an age where people needed answers, and science wasn't able to do that yet. Now that science is catching up, the need for God is being diminished.

And as for proof, since you're the one claiming existence, the burden is on you to prove there is a god, not on me to prove there isn't.

Answer 10

I use my brain. Put down the bible and pick up a few Science and Biology books. Even if you think these sources are flawed, it makes much more sense than an omnipotent being who despite been so great has never been seen except by the "special people"

Answer 11

That's like me asking you the exact same thing about Zeus or Vishnu. If you don't believe in Vishnu, how do you explain YOUR ability to reason?

See the trap there?

I explain it through SCIENCE, logical conclusions drawn from the best data we have. We can get a rought idea of brain development in animals through the past 500 million years. We have a very good idea of brain development of species that are still here. The human brain is relatively bigger than the rest and has areas that other animals don't have. So we have higher reasoning abilities.