2007-02-07 11:54:29 · 31 answers · asked by drunken pumpkin 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
logic is a slave to premise. If you select nonsense premises as true, you can prove anything logically
2007-02-07 11:57:47 · answer #1 · answered by walter_b_marvin 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here we go again. Like I haven't answered this over and over in Religion and Spirituality...
Belief is outside of logic. There is no proof of a god existing or not. If you choose to believe or not believe, either is fine from a logical standpoint. It's a logical fallacy to say that a god exists or doesn't exist if you don't have proof either way. Actually, those are two fallacies, but I put them together for convenience.
If you had proof of a god, you'd KNOW, which is different than belief. Belief is, well, I don't know, but I choose to have faith that a god exists. Or you can choose not to believe if you don't have proof.
But logic supporting belief...you're mixing up philosophical ideas. Perhaps you mean rationality, or science, something like that.
2007-02-07 20:00:30 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really
Because logic tells me that something abstract can't make somthing that you are able to touch and feel. The thing is logic doesnt really support the theory of evolution. A BANG doesnt put things together, but disperses them, And something that has intelligence cant have come from a BANG as the theory of evolution states. If you really look at it i guess logic actually makes more sense in the belief of a God than the theory of evolution. Because logic tells us that an explosion doesnt put things together but disperses them.
So either way it logic to me is illogical!
2007-02-07 20:00:43 · answer #3 · answered by Leelah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some ways...yes. In the human mind, there is cause and affect. Ex: The tectonic plates shift....which creates mountains and earth quakes.
We can't explain everything, but we believe things happen because something caused them to. How does the life force within living beings, do what it does?Why does it remain within that body, and not spread out like light particles? We don't know what makes a heart beat and lungs breathe and brain waves to function etc... in conjunction with each other...and when the life force stops...ALL of these things stop. What causes this evacuation of the life force....and how did it end up inside of a body in the first place?
It was caused by/started by something. I choose to believe that we are pretty primative where scientific discovery is concerned. Why is it illogical to assume it could possibly be caused by a higher power? We didn't always believe in germs or viruses because we couldn't see them. Luckily, some logical scientists did...or we'd still believe small pox was God's punishment for being sinful.
I also think that reasoning is ridiculous by the way. Only the biblically impared for example...thinks AIDS is God's punishment for gays, or hurricane Katrina was God's answer to the 'Sodom and Gammorah' lifestyle in N.O.
2007-02-07 19:57:14 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa E 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning of my search, no. But after i searched , yes.
I thought it is not ideal to have a brain built inside your body and
not use it to know who put it in there, don't you think?
It's like i made a new car model and i put a video in the dashboard so people can see the cars from behind and people bought it because it's amazing, and the buyers later on not knowing why i put it there so they started using it to video themselves inside the car, it wouldn't work well so, they ended up not using it.
On the other hand, if they researched about who the maker is and what that video is for, then, they will maximize the use for the car.
In my website, www.onegoalinc.com, you can go to the homepage and click on Nassim Haramein's Video, he's a physicist and he found the connection between logic and belief in God.
June
www.onegoalinc.com
2007-02-13 14:13:05 · answer #5 · answered by enlightenment2121 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most teachings about God are highly illogical; however, there is a logical explanation for the existence of God.
To live for nothing is illogical. To experience life; only to be snuffed out like a bug -to me -is illogical. If you were a bug (and you might be) can I step on you? No! Why not? I'm not trying to be rude; I can appreciate the atheist view.
Logic is acquired, instinct is not logic.
2007-02-14 00:10:42 · answer #6 · answered by Rick K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In searching for God and His Truth, we are to hold to what is reasonable and logical. We should analyze, test and question everything and every proposition. We are to accept only those that we find reasonable based on your own personal experiences and reject all that are not.
If a teaching by any authority or religion is not reasonable or logical, then the rule is that it is simply not true. Don’t you believe it.
2007-02-07 23:17:20 · answer #7 · answered by Angel Luz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the sense of arguments being premise(s) and conclusions, showing rationale sequence, the existential case for God conforms to logic. You require as much faith not to believe there is God. A simple example premise 1: God created the world. 2. He ordained that all life should live according to specific environment. 3. Fish lives in water only. 4. Man lives on land only: conclusion: Fish and Man are created by God. This is just one instance of logical sequences that can be advanced to support God's existence. Our debates over God is not about the logicality of the arguments or His existence, it is about our choice: whether we choose to believe it or not--either way it is faith not that the idea of God is not logical
2007-02-13 22:30:16 · answer #8 · answered by Elder 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think the issue with alot of people regarding how logical religion is there sense of time.
Man has a way of trying to identify with God's time/or a higher power with our concept of time.....
Most of the holy scripts I have read do not contradict science or logic. I think that another thing used in deeming religion as illogical is that most of the writ tings are not literal but figurative, but because of the society we live in people tend to be linguistically shallow and fail to see the metaphors presented in most holy writings
2007-02-07 20:15:23 · answer #9 · answered by Victoria W 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually yes! I am a seeker of knowledge, a left brained analytical type who was once an agnostic. My interpretation of who I am, how I got here, the meaning of life has developed and evolved through logic and rationale, rather than a belief.
2007-02-13 02:49:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well the Bible in Psalms 14:1 says "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God". That sounds logical to me.
2007-02-12 02:03:47 · answer #11 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋