Is this proof that God does not exist?

Question

Its called the photic sneeze.

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=15801
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
http://www.ucsf.edu/humgene/photic_sneeze_reflex.htm

I personally suffer from it, occasionally. I look at the sky or a bright light - and I can't help but sneeze. Driving out of a tunnel this could end up costing me my life!

It's because we're wired wrong. Its an unhelpful reaction to sensory data. Like a programming bug in some computer code. So much for Intelligent Design. You have to choose to worship, a dimwitted, clumsy creator or bin the whole god hypothesis and give evolution a go -

What say you? :-)

How come some people say mankind messed it up with sin? Its not my fault. I didn't write out my DNA!

"Either it's a clumbsy creator or a flaw in your evolution theory... either way this isn't proof of anything except that we are imperfect human beings - which is more accurate with the Creation theory." Well you got that backwards, Small - if we were created we could have been perfect - I find it hard to believe God went so far out of his way to make it look like we'd evolved, designing us so unintelligently.

Religious people sophisticated enough to understand evolution is a fact - this question really isn't for you. Let me have my fun with the creationists...

NOW - some of you are implying getting cast out of eden caused our problems - but many of our problems are such that they havent got worse - we can tell they've always been this way - like the unintelligent design of the eye the wiring to collect information are in front of the sensor. What kind of idiot would make a camera like that?

Answer 1

Ha ha ha, I have never thought of it that way, but you are correct. If God was a mechanic, most of his cars would not work properly. Great point.
Love the answers that God purposely created us flawed for us to learn something on this planet. So obviously God is conducting a science experiment, which would be "that if he threatens us enough with going to Hell for eternity, will we all kiss his butt and tell him he is the bestest and most wonderful God ever. That is is super, duper good and good looking and thank you for creating everything and all time and all events that make up time. And thank you for giving us original sin, because guilt makes us feel so good. And thank you for giving us the 'gift' of sex, and being angry at us using it, and thank you for free will and thank you for being pissed that we use that free will and does not follow your will." Not a very good one at all. We are obviously just entertainment for God, or else why not create us perfect and avoid the whole planet thing.
Back to your question, it is amazing how many religious people just do not answer the question, but avoid it and say they will pray for you or your are going to hell or God is blind to you (because parents normally do that to their children), etc, etc, etc. When is a religious monkey going to actually answer a question with anything but fluff and BS?
Oh, and love the comments that God created us but evolution has mutated our genes. How is that God (who is perfect and all knowing) could create something that he knew would have defects in the future? Either he is a jerk or did not know what he was doing, or does not exist?

Answer 2

Just imagine you could not sneeze - then you would be in real trouble!
It is very funny that you should choose sneezing of all things to prove the non-existence of God, because there is a religious tradition that the first thing Adam did, after God breathed into him the Divine Spirit, (which - by the way - marked the successful conclusion of evolution) was to sneeze, and then say "Praised be God!".
Since you however are so desperate for proof that God does not exist, I can reassure you that in the direction that you are driving, there won't be a light at the end of the tunnel that might cost you your life, but the bad news is, you are going to die anyway! And the light that you will face at the end of that tunnel, (i.e. when your spirit leaves the darkness of ignorance and denial into which you have driven the vehicle of your terrestrial conveyance - your mind and body) will be proof enough, only then it will be too late to sneeze...

By the way, to look for the proof of any non-existence at all, is far more dim-witted (and clumsy for that matter) than to consider the existence of something meaningful a fairly strong indication that there is an intelligent power that has put it there or caused it to be.
To comprehend this however might be slightly out of the range of your wits...

Answer 3

This whole debate is grounded in the tendency to antropomorphize the concept of God. God the creator as you put it reassembles a sculptor, or an engineer. Conceptually, that is not much different from the Greek's Zeus.
More subtle theologians recognize God as something outside the normal range of experience and understanding. The existence of such being does not have to exclude laws of nature as we perceive them, including the idea of evolution.
You may wonder why someone would even want to posit such a God - and I think such a God is simply based on the belief there must be more to this world than meets the eyes. Nor is it a God of brimstone and fire, simply the assurance we have to, at some point, admit to a reality higher than our own.

Answer 4

Proving that God does not exist is as futile as trying to prove that God exists. The issue is a matter of faith. There is nothing contradictory about believing that God exists, created the universe, and deliberately chose to allow inhabitants of that universe to be imperfect. Think about it this way: imagine a perfect programmer--one who could ensure that every line of code functioned without error on every machine, and that all user needs can always be fulfilled when needed. Is there anything preventing that programmer from allowing some parts of the code to operate incorrectly, incompletely, or with "error"? No, there isn't. Now one might question the motives of such a programmer who can avoid error but chooses to allow it to exist; but this does not disprove the existence of said programmer.

Again, don't bother with teleogical proofs for or against the existence of God--they all fail at one point or another.

Answer 5

Well all organic life is rather sloppily put together, and everything is far too ****** up to be the work of a supreme being. I do agree with you that intelligent design is a load of crap (but then again, even the pope and almost every intelligent religious person realizes id is crap), and evolutionists have repeatedly demolished all their points (in fact it's sad that most christians don't get their information from research but from the distorted views of their pastors or christian apologists sites - so they don't know this).

Evolution itself has disproven intelligent design, the only issue is that most average people don't even understand what evolution really is, so they mistakenly think ID has merit.

Unfortunately, your condition is not "proof" against any god. You could consider it evidence, but it's not enough on its own to prove anything.

It's also not enough to make the brainwashed question their faith. You're better off asking why God only "heals" people who might get better anyway, and why he never magically heals anybody who's lost a limb.

Answer 6

To answer your question succinctly; no.

There are numerous "quirks" in the natural world, and can be interpreted many ways. For example, the human eye serves no purpose without the complex clump of cells sitting behind it. During the evolutionary process this would have been a hindrance rather than an advantage, yet it prevailed. Similarly, the wing of a bird was a hindrance long before it evolved into an advantage. Simple ideas like Survival of the Fittest, and Creation do not do justice to the complexity of the Universe, nor do they explain every detail.
My point is, the Universe is not so simple as to be lumped into two categories, viz. God/Evolution.
They are not mutually exclusive.
Evidence that we are imperfect hardly proves nor disproves the existence of an omnipotent power.

Answer 7

Neither this, nor anything else is proof that god does not exist. It is impossible in principle to refute an existential statement, although it is of course possible to demonstrate the truth of one by showing the existence of the thing claimed -- but that is not the case here. On the other hand, nothing in the way of proof of god's existence has ever been proposed, nor is thare any evidence either one way or the other. It follows from this that no theory of god can have any use or significance in the real world.

Answer 8

That sounds like a spirit to me. Maybe you need an exorcism, God really does exist sweety, if you tried to find out for yourself maybe you'll see, you may not be able to see Him but you sure can feel Him and hear Him when He speaks to your spirit, when you develop a relationship with Him you can have the same wonderful experiences. When Jesus was here in the flesh and performed all the medicals He did for people there were people who still didn't believe. That's why He said to one of His disciples oh, ye of little faith, you only believed because you have seen but blessed are they who believe and have not seen your faith may only be on what you see and you have to be careful with that because what you see may not always be what you think you saw you know you felt somewhere in your heart that He does exist science it's self could not have make such a great creation that each and every single one of us has a unique finger print not a single one of us has the same finger print! You know you will leave this earth one day and you are going to have to face Him whether you believe in Him or not you can't say that it's unfair because I'm quite sure He's given you plenty of opportunities to accept Him into your heart and you rejected Him don't do it again or that may be your last time breathing I mean you just never know so be careful and I will be praying for you

Answer 9

wow you guys are really stooping to great lows to disprove God's existance . I'm still waiting on the answer to where the materials for the "Big Bang " came from and also for that one braniac to wrap their mind completely around the concept of infinity , at least well enough to explain to me it doesn't exist either. And you , my friend are working on the Photic sneeze argument to Gods existance .... Good luck with that .
See , the intelligent thing to do would be to wear sunglasses but maybe you just aren't DESIGNED that way !

Answer 10

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