2006-11-22 16:38:34 · 22 answers · asked by David T 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
RIGHT, yagman. that will be best answer in all likelihood.
2006-11-22 16:43:17 · update #1
I'm glad to hear you say this because noone will ever be able to PROVE that God doesn't exist. So now you get to stay a Christian and gain an eternal reward!
2006-11-22 16:42:12 · answer #1 · answered by yagman 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
When something does not exist you can not prove there is no existence. There are people who believe in Loch ness monster, fairies, ghosts, demons, space ships etc. The people believe this because it makes something in life more special. Every one loves a mystery. Many people will say. I will stop believing if you prove it does not exist. You may be able to prove one instance wrong but not the complete story. The bigger the belief network, the harder it is to disprove or persuade someone it is false. You have picked the biggest story every to disprove. Don't like your chances. You believe what ever makes you happiest (an hopefully many others happiest)as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.
People believe in what they want to.
2006-11-23 00:47:09 · answer #2 · answered by Elisha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you don't. No one can prove to you that God doesn't exist, but Dawkins has put up one of the better arguments I've come across for the non-existence of God, but at the end of the day it still is an argument. This suggestion comes from the personal belief that debate and knowledge are paths one can take to self improvement, and if used correctly make people better people.
2006-11-23 00:51:15 · answer #3 · answered by Just Wondering 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, God exists, You can stop being controlled by a fear mongering establishment and become spiritual. The Truth is within you not a church. You need no one to forgive you only you can do that for you. Does anyone else eat your food, poop you stuff? Only you can live you life. Personal responsibility with impeccability and integrity. How many religions say you can and can not do this or that. Judgement. Hypocrites. who is truly going to have to come back and heal their judgement? Oh they call that hell don't they. Well heaven can be here to it is a matter of perspective and you intent. Some of us are here to heal and some of us are here to assist those that choose to heal by living an example of The Truth. They need to ask for assistance first though or else it is called rescuing and that goes on our karmic record. OOops I did it again. Can't give out to much information they to learn on their own, you asked anyway. Love ya Bro!
John 13-34 The 11 th commandment Love one another as I love you...
2006-11-23 00:53:26 · answer #4 · answered by iamonetruth 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For knowledge to exist, three facts must be accepted as true:
- Math & Logic are valid
- Direct observations or aided observations supported by Math & Logic are valid
- Supernatural existence, if real, does not involve itself in the natural realm (otherwise, any 'fact' could be changed by the interference -- say by the God of Gravity changing his mind on how strong it will be tomorrow).
Free will can thus be shown to be false:
- The mind is a consequence of the physical nature of the brain (Nonsupernatural causation axiom).
- Quantum physics contains a truly random component (Mathematical axiom)
- All observations can be expressed mathematically (Mathematical axiom).
- All principles causal to observations can be expressed mathematically (Mathematical Axiom).
- All mathematical expressions can be evaluated (Mathematical Axiom).
- An evaluation need not be deterministic, it can be stochaistic, that is, describing 'probabilities'. (Statistical mathematics).
- Since quantum physics can affect the human brain, and thus mind, the human state is mathematically stochaistic (consequential)
- If the quantum randomness is rescoped to be viewed as an input, the human brain ceases to be stoichasitic and is deterministic. (statement of rescope)
- A deterministically computable system is incapable of escaping its previous states, and produces outputs based on a computable result of the previous state and current inputs.(Turing-Church Thesis)
- Determinism counters free will. (By definition)
- Free will is not possible. (consequential)
- If a deity exists, free will is a natural consequence. (axiomic, potentially debatable. However, a deity that creates intelligence without free will cannot hold its creation responsible)
- Free will does not exist, therefore, deity does not exist. (modus tollens).
The idea of a god existing is disproven logically.
2006-11-23 00:51:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
well, you can't prove a negative so you're just being silly. but if you really want to escape the dogmatic cage of Christianity you're gonna have to begin to look at it objectively. a good way to do that is to study other religions, read their holy books and notice that all have rules and myths (many of which are similar in the basic concepts), do some research also into history and science and notice the discrepancies between what the Bible says and what the facts actually are. the truth will set you free,
2006-11-23 00:45:53 · answer #6 · answered by nebtet 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The cliché answer is that you can't disprove Zeus or Poseidon or billions of other things. Believing in something simply because you can't disprove it is a stance that an intelligent person would not take.
2006-11-23 01:13:53 · answer #7 · answered by Dawkins 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have doubts about your religion then read the torah and the quran and other religious scriptures and come to your own conclusion.
Salvation does not depend on other's interpretation of God.
2006-11-23 00:52:10 · answer #8 · answered by ohnoitsadel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can stop being a Christian, but still have an active relationship with God. Judeaism and Islam have the same God as Christianity. You don't have to unprove God to stop worshipping Christ, polytheist.
2006-11-23 00:41:39 · answer #9 · answered by Kim-Hotti 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
so you belive in life on mars too becuse you cant prove god...ooops i mean martians exist
a very silly argument
2006-11-23 00:44:30 · answer #10 · answered by Bryn L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋