1. The "unexplained" is not evidence.
Using God as a dumping ground for everything you dont understand is only the evidence of lazy thinking and you being bias towards any other possiblities.
A. Just because scientists haven't figured out everythiing yet doesn't mean we should pass them off as being miracles. That would be nothing but assumptions, not facts.
B. So called "miracles" are not evidence. (They're never investigated)
C. "Delusions" are not evidence. Mentally ill people see things that aren't there all the time
D. The "bible" is not evidence. It's all hear say. So many contradictions. http://www.evilbible.com How many times has it been rewritten?
E. A "feeling" is not evidence. "Feelings" have mislead people
F. Faith is not evidence. Faith is a mental block that prevents people from critically examining their beliefs
2007-02-02 08:25:23 · 26 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Stop being logical when asking a question about religion.
2007-02-02 08:28:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Here's the common misconception atheists take. Everything you believe science to be - hard proof - theists (or god believers) would agree with you on. Except maybe evolution because it's still a theory. But proof of what? Proof that there is no God, just like christians that say God contradicts evolution? That's ludicrous. Why does science automatically contradict the idea of God. Obviously there is no tangible evidence of a God but that doesn't mean in any way that there isn't one.
Atheists like Richard Dawkins leave no room for any type of deism or higher supernatural being, why? You cannot deny that the possibility is there.
Why I believe there is a God? Because although evolution and science can explain how humanity came about, it can offer no logical explanation on how EVERYTHING came about- the beginning of material or matter. It is contradictory of it's own law (the natural laws) to say something (being the universe) came from nothing. The laws of the universe state that that is an impossibility. Everything under natural laws has to have a beginning. Something had to have no beginning, something had to always exist. And it only makes sense that that something was outside of this universe and does not have to follow the laws of this universe.
As for the Bible not being evidence. All any historical document is is written testimonies of what people saw at that point in time. That's exactly what the Bible claims itself to be- written testimonies. So if the Bible is not proof of history than every historical document needs to be called into question, which would undo all that we have thought the earth's history to be. And there are plenty of documentations of books of the Bible that we have that were written hundreds even up to a couple thousand years old. These documents have been translated and are saying no different than what we have today. Look up "The Dead Sea Scrolls", they are the oldest of these writings that we have.
2007-02-02 08:51:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. if it cant be explained then it is becuase a greater mind than any humans has made it.
a. evolution is not possible, if the stars have been around for billions and billions of years, they actually wouldnt be around, because stars take gravity to be made and there is no gravity in space. the earth could not have magically appeared this close to the sun because nothing can form in space on its own from between the sun and jupiter.
if evolution were the thing, then we wouldnt exist, because it is thought that we evolved from small protein organisms made up of one cell. well, the sun would have obsorbed the oxidents from the organism thus, it cant survive, or the oxygen would have to be absent, thus the cell cant survive without any form of oxygen.
whenever mitosis happens, the cells divides itself 100% and doesnt change, so where did it change for anything to evolve?
mutations have never created an eye, brain, or lung, they all have actually been harmful, many fatal. thus nothing has mutated or evolved.
if we were to have evolved, then when the cells that were changing must have all changed at the same exact time in order for the living organism to survive- for example, if you remove your lungs, you could not live, (that is meaning as removing, not replacing) if you got rid of your stomach, you wouldn't survive... get the picture. every cell looks JUST like the one it came from, they dont change, so how would cells change if they have not been studied to do so? therefore we were created.
if we evolved, then somewhere along the line of evolving, opposite sexes where to have appeared, right? well, how can different living organisms develop complimentary reproductive organs at the same time to have them reproduce? and how would it be possible for the reproductions to become either boy or girl if not some weird mixture that would be able to reproduce?
more things have been true about the bible and found through out history the complimented the bible, like noahs ark found in the mountains of turkey, the pharoahs that were around moses time that have been written down that they died by the sea (the red sea splitted then drowned him), there IS NO evidence that there was life before 4000 bc. because there was no one alive before then. artifacts arent written proofs of life that declared time lines. revelations is happening everywhere, besides, who has predicted something that was going to take place and thousands of years later it happens? only those who God spoke to and those who the Holy Spirit moved in.
if the earth really was millions, if not billions of years old, then there would be NO carbon-14 in any of the rocks that are found benath the surface, but guess what, there still is a lot of carbon-14. there is more proof that evolution isnt possible than there is of it being possible. get your facts right.
2007-02-02 08:50:27 · answer #3 · answered by Alexial Jastire 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Interesting, so I suppose we should enlighten Cricks idea about us coming from aliens? lol
Hey, it's another possibility, right?
I am not sorry that I believe in God. I do not need to own up to any such intolerant thinking. I don't consider viewing anothers opinion as tolerating them, You are a person just like I am. Like you said.
"Just because scientists haven't figured out everythiing yet doesn't mean we should pass them off as being miracles. That would be nothing but assumptions, not facts."
The same thing could be said about God. Just because Christians don't have an answer to everything, don't assume God doesn't exist.
2007-02-02 08:35:10 · answer #4 · answered by Stacey B 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nothing's wrong with wanting evidence, man.
1. True. There's no reason to attribute the inexplicable to any deity. Why can't people just admit "I currently don't know"?
A. True. Lack of immediate mundane explanation does not imply a supernatural explanation. Arguing that God can explain the gaps in our knowledge is Argumentum ad Ignorantiam (an argument from ignorance which is a logical fallacy).
B. Unsubstantiated rumor doesn't prove God.
C. Personal "experience" is subjective and highly unreliable.
D. The Bible says it's true and it must be true because it says it is. THAT, sir, is circular reasoning.
E. Like I said, feelings are really crappy at determining the truth value of most anything.
F. You're right, it's not. Faith is a feeling, and we just covered feelings.
2007-02-02 08:28:45 · answer #5 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I feel your pain. Faith and the Bible are given as the pieces of "evidence" most often in repsonse to religious questions. Faith and the Bible are subjective pieces of "evidence" which support nothing when given to a person who doesn't have faith or believe the Bible to be true. I ask that religious people give OBJECTIVE evidence - evidence that every person can view/see/understand without having to hold the same beliefs. There's a big difference. Religious people can't give objective evidence.
2007-02-02 08:33:06 · answer #6 · answered by eastchic2001 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There is so much out there that those who want to believe in self-will simply don't want to hear a message of condemnation. It's similar to John the Baptist getting his head cut off because someone could not bear his admonitions. If you want evidence go to the sites below and then SHUT UP (just kidding).
2007-02-02 08:45:39 · answer #7 · answered by truthorcon 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, you won't shut up because you won't accept anything that's offered to you as proof. You'll question and nitpick and argue, then decide that nothing we say is acceptable. Talk about being biased!
And yet you wholeheartedly believe in science, which has a strange habit of changing its theories every time that a new study or a new research technique comes along. Yesterday's science is about as reliable as a broken crutch, but you cling to it like you're going down for the third time.
Or, in other words: using scientific theory as a dumping ground for everything you don't want to accept or consider is only the evidence of lazy thinking and you being bias(ed) towards any other possiblities.
2007-02-02 08:33:12 · answer #8 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
of course you're a non-questioning guy or woman; one that hears in basic terms what's handy. The existence of the universe IS the info for evolution- and on the comparable time, that info that makes it massively unlikely to have been created via any god, or that any god can probable exist. If there have been a god as defined interior the christian and maximum religions, he might certainly be an evil psychopath, a schizophrenic and an emotionally disturbed entity. He might advantages in basic terms people who worship him, and set hearth to something. He ought to evade evil, yet does no longer. If he's all-effective, then the evil human beings of the worldwide inflict unspeakable horrors on infants and international locations along with his permission- and he does no longer something. If he created all of it, then he additionally created maximum cancers, malaria, flesh-eating micro organism and a large number of horrors that prey on his infants. IF a supernatural god particularly existed, might this be his artwork? might you propose this variety of god and sell him to others? WHY? faith defeats itself. It survives via preying on human concern and weak point. It factors the vulnerable with a drug of types, promising an afterlife that for the period of no way gets introduced. except you're too liable to look on the info, you be attentive to that no god exists. that is to no longer say there is not any longer a greater advantageous capacity- there is definitely. all of us be attentive to it as mom Nature.
2016-11-02 03:54:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It appears that to be an atheist ones brain must be unable to think abstractly. What a disability. With one of the many definitions of God being "the ultimate reality" would any atheists believe in God or would they need proof of an ultimate reality before they would give in to such a concept?
2007-02-02 09:07:14 · answer #10 · answered by mecasa 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This amazes me, when all we have done is shown you- CREATION. That is evidence, but the thing is you who do not believe will not accept it. You want to physical see God, and you cannot- God is all spirit- Have you ever read Exodus 33? You should, maybe that will also give you a reason why God does not show Himself- BUT he has shown Himself in what has been made, so that men are without excuse- as Romans 1:20 says.
That is the truth- and how many times do we have to answer you before you realize "oh ok, that is the answer" --we did not say you have to agree with us- but that is the answer. Sometimes the answer is right in front of you, but your pride is blocking the way to see it. (Don't mean to sound mean, I really dont, but pride is such a big probelm in today's world)
2007-02-02 08:31:03 · answer #11 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋