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All day long you'll see this on this forum "There is no scientific proof that God exists". Granted the burden of proof is probably on Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc (any that follow God) that He does exist (which He does, just get used to it), but how can "science" be an absolute proof that God does not exist? Just because an experiment can be proven, how do we know that God didn't design it that way?

2006-12-01 07:01:36 · 20 answers · asked by Let there be JIMBO 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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2006-12-01 07:05:07 · update #1

20 answers

Telling a Christian his Bible is a lie is like trying to tell a butterfly his cocoon made no difference.

Telling an atheist there is a loving god is like trying to play music to a corpse!

I'm glad I'm a butterfly!

2006-12-01 07:07:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 3

Basically science is at not at that point yet, where it can definitively disprove the existence of god, but the likely hood of God existing is very low.

Everything in this universe is going from simple to complex and to have a creator god you need an incredibly complicated god to make something simple. A god that micromanaged the universe effectively would have to come from somewhere.

Plus the answer "god" doesn't increase our understanding. It just seems to be used as a short way of saying I don't know.

Here is an example from history.
In the 14th century one-third of Europe died of the plague. The people believed that it was the hand of god and no other explanation was needed.

Now after science looked into we find that the plague is spread by fleas living on rats, poor sanitation and bacteria. This idea of ID might just end up in the same flied.

2006-12-01 07:19:24 · answer #2 · answered by Just Wondering 3 · 0 0

>> Granted the burden of proof is probably on Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc (any that follow God) that He does exist

Yes it does. It's funny how many people that forget that part.

>> (which He does, just get used to it)

Your saying so, doesn't make it so. Barney the Dinosaur can fly. See? Doesn't make it true or real.

>> but how can "science" be an absolute proof that God does not exist?

It isn't and it never will be. Science excludes god from its explanations that's all.

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Science in the broadest sense refers to any system of objective knowledge. In a more restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research.

There are different points of view regarding the scientific method: Methodological naturalism maintains that scientific investigation must adhere to empirical study and independent verification as a process for properly developing and evaluating natural explanations for observable phenomena. Methodological naturalism typically, therefore, rejects supernatural explanations, arguments from authority and biased observational studies.
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See? Not supernatural occurrences. Therefore, science does not entangle itself with god. However, it does successively encorach upon god's job responsibilities. For instance, we once needed a god to move around the heavens - now we know it's just distant hot stars filled with hydrogen and other planets like us that get pulled in by the Sun's gravitational pull to move us around. We have explanations for the origin of life ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life ). God is not being "proven the he doesn't exist" by science, just that god as a creator and provider, is being supplanted by actual scientific reasons for the way things are.

>> Just because an experiment can be proven, how do we know that God didn't design it that way?

You would have to suppose that the supernatural has a hand in results, which science doesn't assume. Unless of course you adhere to Critical rationalism:

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Critical rationalism instead holds that unbiased observation is not possible and a demarcation between natural and supernatural explanations is arbitrary;
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which anything god changes can't be determined anyway.

So your better question is - is there a relevant god?

2006-12-01 07:10:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Most of your finely tuned "intellectual elite" will pull out a pocket calculator and a pencil.Science of a godless sort has been burrowed into their head for so long they can't think any other way.Their so smart,their dumb.I don't mean that in a bad way,but use Bobby Fischer for an example.He is so smart he can't even get along in the real world hardly.A lot of your child prodigies have a hard time coping with something as simple as everyday life.I'm glad I was one that was able to see through all the smoke those intelligent professors were blowing.

2006-12-01 07:09:54 · answer #4 · answered by Derek B 4 · 0 0

For a concept to be scientifically falsifiable, it must be capable of being tested (verified) by some experiment or observation. God is not falsifiable. It's the same with Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It is not possible to prove that any of these do no exist. Therefore, the entire ideas are considered unscientific, and discarded.

2006-12-01 07:04:50 · answer #5 · answered by Michael 5 · 1 0

Yes, there isn't really a proof that God doesn't exist. The existance of a personal God just seems very improbable to me. But this is not something I want to quarrel about. I don't ask anyone to prove the existance of God to me. For me it is fine if others believe in God and I don't, each to his own.

2006-12-01 07:16:33 · answer #6 · answered by Elly 5 · 0 0

Science is based on observation and experiment. There is no proof using these methods, that any 'God' exists. Science doesn't say "God doesn't exist".

Scientific knowledge is based on verifiable facts, by observation and experiment, only; not rational thought, by itself.

As far as "God designing it that way", then we're playing with a marked deck; there's no way to proove that.

2006-12-01 07:08:43 · answer #7 · answered by robert2020 6 · 0 0

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
You get everyting wrong.
God ask us to believe in Him without any proof.
If human could prove the existance of God, there would be no point in believing in Him.
Same there would be no point in conducting an exam if we give the answers of the questions in the exam to the students before the exam.
If you want to know if God exist or not, read the Quran with an open mind.

2006-12-01 08:21:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The question is not an absolute proof that god does not exist, but rather no concrete proof that he does exist. Science cannot prove it, neither can religion. Religion is based on faith which means lack of rational and intelligence. Science is fact. There are no facts that god exists. It can only be faith.

2006-12-01 07:07:13 · answer #9 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 1 1

How about you try to prove that there isn't a swarm of invisible purple polka-dotted elephants that create the winds on our planet?

Or how about you prove that the center of Pluto has an invisible portal to another dimension?

Simply because someone can think up some silly thing, doesn't mean anyone is obligated to disprove it.

2006-12-01 07:16:09 · answer #10 · answered by Chris J 6 · 0 0

Science doesn't prove or disprove god. It can't prove or disprove that either way with current technology. It disproves the bible. And people can't seem to separate the two.

2006-12-01 07:13:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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