Why do we believe in God, when there is no scientific evidence for its existance?

Question

We address self-proclaim psychics and mediums as lunatics, but praise those who devote themselves to God. A bit contradicting, dont you think?

Answer 1

here's your answer... it's pretty long, but really worth it:

INTERESTING CONVERSATION

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty.

He asks one of his new Christian students to stand and.....

Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son?

Student : Yes, sir.

Prof : So you believe in God?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Prof : Is God good?

Student : Sure.

Prof : Is God all-powerful?

Student : Yes.

Prof : My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm?

(Student is silent.)

Prof : You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?

Student :Yes.

Prof : Is Satan good?

Student : No.

Prof : Where does Satan come from?

Student : From...God...

Prof : That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Prof : Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?

Student : Yes.

Prof : So who created evil?

(Student does not answer.)

Prof : Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?

Student :Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?

(Student has no answer.)

Prof : Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the
world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?

Student : No, sir.

Prof : Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student : No , sir.

Prof : Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof : Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Prof : According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof : Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof : Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof : Yes.

Student : No sir. There isn't.

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof : Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Prof : So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof : Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite,
something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and
magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof : If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?

(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it?.....No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Prof : I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir.. The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive.

Answer 2

You could be the best scientific evidence, because you are one of the creation of the Creator. An analogy with this, a pencil cannot explain further who created himself, rather he could only answer the question why it was created, that is to write and produce sentences.

Our mind, like a physical body, always has limit. Finding the scientic evidence of God's existence is a matter of eternity, something that can outlive us before we discover it. The main explaination would be that, if we are here living on this world, there is someone who have created us with certain purpose and that it God.

Answer 3

Science can only prove things about material things. God, The Soul, Heaven... All exist outside the reach of science.

So your point about having no scientific evidence for the existence of God is also true of the non-existence of God. i.e. there is no scientific evidence that God doesn't exist.

That is because science needs it to be material in some way or another, or atleast to influenced by something material... God has no matter about him.

Answer 4

Spirituality is born from a personal occurrence with a divine, psychic or mystical experience of one form or another which inevitably connects a person to All that Is/God/Goddess/Allah/Great Spirit /whatever you want to call it.

Religion is second hand opinion of someone else’s divine experience. I think you will find that religions, and especially fanatical religions, tend to separate and divide people, while spirituality brings people together.

Thank God that Spirituality is on the increase!

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Answer 5

Extremely, but what form of God are you referring to? If you are reffering to traditional forms of god in the Christrian religion, as the big guy in heaven, then I would say that people believe in him because that's what they are told to believe in. That's the point behind religion. It's easier for people to believe what someone else might tell them than to verify it themselves. Science, to some degree, can have the same tendency. There are a lot of scientific theories, laws, and phenomenon that the majority of people believe without understanding it or even seeing some of it.Man exists, he is an expression of consciousness and expresses consciousness, and if consciousness is one's interpretation of God, then I would say God exists.

Answer 6

Creation demands a creator. How can you say there is no scientific proof? Have you examined cellular biology? The simplest cells in the world have parts so complex that we struggle to understand even their basic functioning. Life is not an accident and people are generally aware enough that anything that functions as beautifully as our world came from something that deserves our awe and respect.

Answer 7

If there is no God, then what is the guiding force behind our existence, our achievements and our commitments. How can we distinguish between good and bad. How can we lead a life filled with constraints. How can we take up challenges and reach new heights without the help of a super being who is omni present.

Answer 8

Yes it is contradictory. We believe in god because we have to believe in sometime, more powerful and potent than us, who can do what we can't. Primitive man believed in the elements like fire, rain, wind etc. We today, have our beliefs in religions such as christianity, muslims, jews, hindus etc. These beliefs will evolve and change with time, but fact remains, that we want to believe something.

Answer 9

not every one believes in god i think most people do because there used to it that way by their parents making them go as kids or friends but for me i don't believe their is a god and no there is no reliable evidence at all the bible could be a book mistranslated or maybe even what they thought to be "miracles"

Answer 10

A college student was in a philosophy class which had a discussion
about God's existence. The professor presented the following logic:

"Has anyone in this class heard God?" Nobody spoke.
"Has anyone in this class touched God?" Again, nobody spoke.
"Has anyone in this class seen God?" When nobody spoke for the third time, he simply stated, "Then there is no God."

One student thought for a second, and then asked for permission to
reply. Curious to hear this bold student's response, the professor
granted it, and the student stood up and asked the following questions of his classmates:

"Has anyone in this class heard our professor's brain?" Silence.
"Has anyone in this class touched our professor's brain?"
Absolute silence.
"Has anyone in this class seen our professor's brain?" When nobody in the class dared to speak, the student concluded, "Then, according to our professor's logic, it must be true that our professor has no brain!"

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"I believe in God like I believe in the noonday sun, not that I can see it but that by it I can see everything." --Clive Staples Lewis