Why do people desire to believe in things that cannot be proven scientifically, and therefore are not true?

Question

Why are gods and devils and angels and ghosts and goblins all such a big part of culture, at least for some people, when clearly, they were all invented in people's minds?

Answer 1

Waite a minute back off there a little. From one Atheists to another just because a thing is not proved scientifically doesn't mean it is therefore not true.

Answer 2

No matter you believe in God(s) or not but you must have some common-sense to understand the things arround you

What is science - nothing but human knowledge and some experimental facts. Your beloved Science is still in its infancy - elementary list of items is not yet finalized; some unknown atoms may still be invented in future!!

Science cannot answer to each and every question about the Universe, Life, Intellegence, Mystries of the world - Good & Bad and other related aspects of life!!

If Science cannot explain some thing... it does not mean... that it does not exists !!

Human societies need much more than Eating & Dying....etc.etc!

There must be one - The Almighty lord of universe.

Different names have been given by different societies and cultures but He has no name!!!

Monotheist recognize him as God through the prophecies brought by the prophets of God.

Other do the same in their own ways.

Some still wondering in search...their seach is not finished yet!!

He is in the hearts and soul of every human .. Find Him !!

Answer 3

How empty the world would be, how poor, how unfulfilling if everything depended upon empirical evidence!

Your question is asked in a closed fashion that clearly says you have your opinion and everyone else who is not of like mind is a tad deranged.

Just because you do not believe does not mean something does not exist. If you did not believe in happiness, would that mean it does not exist for the person who smiles from joy?

Methinks you need to be humbled by life somewhat so that your hubris is softened somewhat. Hopefully some day, when life has taught you a few lessons, your attitude towards the beliefs of others will be more tolerant.

Besides, the world would be awful boring if we all believed .. or did not believe... in the same thing. To believe in nothingness may suit some, but to others, it is like a death sentence.

Answer 4

Clearly,believing in a better place & a perfect plan for human beings is better than believing we all are to work our asses off here on this planet & try to be good & then turn into nothing but dust & have no after life to look forward to!
what is your point in living?
God is like the Ford Company.He has a "better idea"!

Answer 5

There are a lot of theories in science that can not be proved "scientifically" like the theory that the earth revolves around the sun...this is just a theory. it is a widely accepted theory, there is much evidence to support this theory but there is NO solid, tangible PROOF that the earth moves around the sun. Evolution is A theory. there is scientific evidence supporting this theory but there is no solid tangible PROOF. And despite the fact that there is NO proof, many people believe in these theories.

Answer 6

I don't believe in any of those things, other than a single God.
But I am curious - do you really think that the only "true" information is that which can be demonstrated scientifically?

Answer 7

Because we haven't invented intelligence drugs that work or politicians that value the education of the people . of course ignorance is the predecessor of all knowledge we just never get past the predecessor to the things of good knowledge.

Answer 8

Scientificly proove that you can scientificly proove something true.

I believe science is the only thing that is capable of miracles. however i don't think anything can ever bee prooven true or false completely. I don't think there is absolution in everything. Maybe from this lack of absolution our imagination creates the dragons and elves and all of the fairy tales we sometimes believe.

Answer 9

Oh, just like evolution since it too can't be proven scientifically or what the big bang. There is no evidence supporting it either.

Answer 10

Science can't prove God but science plus common sense can.
There's design everywhere in the universe. You have to be blind not to see it. In your brain there are 100 billion neurons. Each one of those neurons(remember, there's 100 billion of them) is connected to 1000 other neurons. That comes out to 100 trillion connections in your brain. These connections send electronic signals(and you can measure the electricity) from one place to another. If part of the brain is damaged and you lose some function that is controlled by that part of the brain, the brain can actually re-wire itself and let other neurons in the undamaged part of the brain take over so that you can get back that function. That's only the connections in the brain, not the rest of the body.
Our bodies also have tons of information in the DNA. You have enough information in your DNA to fill encyclopedia sized books stacked from here to the moon and back 500 times. Do you really think that came about by just random chance........kind of like a monkey typing out the works of Shakespear just by randomly plucking away at the keys?
The universe obeys certain rules-----laws to which all things must adhere. These laws are precise and many of them are mathematical in nature. Natural laws are hierarchical in nature; secondary laws of nature are based upon primary laws of nature, which have to be just exactly right in order for our universe to be possible. There are constants(gravitational and cosmological and others) in our universe which must be exact within infinitesmal parameters in order for life to exist(that’s called the anthropic principle). But, where did these laws and constants come from and why do they exist? If the universe were merely the accidental by-product of a big bang, then why should it obey orderly principles----or any principles at all for that matter? Since when does order come out of an explosion? Chaos comes out of an explosion. By the way, what, exactly, did explode? There was no matter there to explode before the big bang since the big bang is the start of all matter and energy as well as the 4 dimensions(3 dimensions of space and one dimention of time). The atheist cannot account for these laws of nature(even though he agrees that they must exist), for such laws are inconsistent with naturalism. Yet, they are perfectly consistent with the bible. We expect the universe to be organized in a logical, orderly fashion and to obey uniform laws because the universe has a creator God who is logical and has imposed order on His universe(Genesis 1:1).
There are branches of science that basically just study the design in nature.........scientific disciplines such as nano-technology and bio-mimetrics. These disciplines study the design in nature.......whales,bats,dolph... have sonar.......and try to create machines that mimic that design.
. You look at bats. They do not fly by sight. They can barely see in the day but they sleep in the day. They are nocturnal creatures. They do all their activities at night and at night they are blind. They fly by means of sonar. They send out sound waves through their nose as they are flying. If those sound waves bounce off something and come back at them, they pick them up and know that they are heading toward something and need to veer in a different direction. Somehow they know how fast they are flying and they know that sound travels at 723 MPH and as they fly they continue to send out sound waves so they continue to get updated information. Given enough info(and continued updated info) a mathematician could sit down with a pencil and paper and some calculus equations and figure out how far the bat was from the object and with the right info could even figure out if the object the bat is heading toward is stationary or moving toward the bat or away from it. But that would take time and if the bat took that much time he’d be flying into trees and telephone poles other things. We have developed computers that can do that in a second. That's what sonar is all about. The bat has a computer in his head that can figure that info out in a nanosecond. It knows what it is heading for without being able to physically see. It's flying by instruments(as pilots would say). Do you really think that the sonar equipment that is in the bats head just came about by random chance(read....luck) natural processes? You do if you're an atheist.
Everywhere you look there's design. What SCIENCE does is that it goes out and finds that design in the universe. Then a little COMMON SENSE will tell you that where there is design, there must be a designer. Who could design a universe? You call Him what you want. I call Him a God. Like I said, SCIENCE alone can't prove God but SCIENCE plus COMMON SENSE can.