If you as an infant were in a shipwreck and washed up on an uninhabited island and survived to adulthood would you still know that there was a god without someone telling you there was?
2006-12-23 05:26:16 · 19 answers · asked by buffalo chip 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, I believe it is written in my heart. Mankind has always had the desire to search for something greater than themselves.
2006-12-23 05:44:02 · answer #1 · answered by professor grey 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. The land that surronds me should have been made by a supernatural being. The miracle of surviving a shipwreck should be enough for me to know that truly a God existed and still is. For it is not by any power or unique strength within me that I should survive this shipwreck, but a unique and powerful God who created me.
2006-12-23 13:33:19 · answer #2 · answered by * Akosua* 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They would still believe in a higher supreme being. A philosopher (whose name I can't remember) said that if God didn't exist, we would make him up. The adult even though stranded away from civilization will think a being is causing rain or the sun. Many civilazations believe this. Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, and the Mesopotamians, they started their own city and culture but found something to worship. I think we humans need that. We need to worship a being or someone because it gives us a purpose in our life and hope.
2006-12-23 13:32:20 · answer #3 · answered by cynical 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sincerely doubt it...the thought would never cross your mind. Why should it? Without an adult to plant the idea in your head, how would an infant survive ????? Strange set of premises.
2006-12-23 13:28:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
One would develop their own ideas about the world around them and their existence, just as humans have done through the ages. Of course they would also not likely develop any language all by themselves, so I doubt we could ever really find out.
Peace!
2006-12-23 13:29:22 · answer #5 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So long as your not mentally retarded due to the fact that you have had no human contact since infancy. Yes, God has put His testimony in creation as well as in the conscience. Even atheists have doubts at times and feel that tugging on their conscience.
2006-12-23 13:35:17 · answer #6 · answered by sickblade 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I'd assume these guys showing up on a big floating metal object would know what they're talking about.
Oh wait, I thought you were talking about rescue. I don't know what I would think. I probably wouldn't have thought about it.
2006-12-23 13:27:21 · answer #7 · answered by Atlas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Source for that? There are many phenomenon that could be answered without God. Why something we cannot answer, we say God did that? How dumb
2006-12-23 13:27:37 · answer #8 · answered by Oh Dee! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not A god, but maybe some higher power or intelligence.
2006-12-23 13:27:31 · answer #9 · answered by Baphomet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no god. So with no other extreme theists to indoctrinate me I wouldn't believe.
Actually... being in America alone in real life has kept my common sense intact and I've been atheist all my life - and I even have Christian/Catholic parents.
2006-12-23 13:36:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not the biblical God
2006-12-23 13:29:54 · answer #11 · answered by mykl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋