what will athiests do if one day science comes up with the evidence that God exist?

Question

Science is always progressing, so its possible.
By God i mean a Conscious Intelligent Being/Self standing as the basis of all creations.

Answer 1

There already is empirical evidence that the universe is conscious. Robert Nadeau, Menas Kafatos; "The Non Local Universe; the new physics and matters of the mind."; Oxford Univ. Press Inc., N.Y. NY, 1999, pp 197-198., Brian Clegg; "The God Effect; quantum entanglement, science's strangest phenomenon."; St. Martins Press, N.Y. NY, 2006, Gary E. Schwartz (with William Simon); "The God Experiments; how science is discovering God in everything including us.", Atria Books, N.Y. NY, 2006.

What many Atheists do is to shelve the evidence as "weird" and hope for a further discovery that will explain the phenomena more to their liking. The religions mostly ignore these facts too as they reveal a consciousness different than the traditional ones.

Answer 2

Well I think its hard to find a true atheist on here, because they contradict themselves by being here, a true atheist would not waist their time on a web site for religion, so if one day science does come up, and it will with evidence they will do their best to come up with rubbish like saying it's made up, it's lies, science has got it wrong, how stupid can they be, anyone who does not believe in God, should at least keep an open mind because there is evidence pointing towards it being true than not, but I think evolution, and God go togeather, but that's another story

Love & Peace

Answer 3

God has managed to keep Himself hidden, and refrained from demonstrating His existence by any physical, objective observation throughout history, so I doubt if that scenario would ever come up.

Of course believers will say that God made his existence evident when he spoke to Moses and Adam, etc., but that is no more objective proof than Pat Robertson's claim that God personally and verbally talks to him all the time. So did Jim Jones of "The People's Temple" and he said God told him that his followers should commit suicide and "in God's name" presided over the murder and suicide of nearly 1,000 people.

If God does change His mind and finally reveals Himself to mankind (and thus science) via undisputable physical evidence, then I suspect that most athiests would become believers since as a rule they base their beliefs on logic and observation rather than on blind faith and mysticism.

Answer 4

Athiests as you call us would still be living in the same world we always have.. There would be nothing to change if not religion if suddenly there were 'evidence' of his once existence.

Us as the non-believers don't live in a bubble believing that we are here for any other purpose than to get up, go to work, have children and enjoy the fruits of our labour.

I live in the real world where real heartache occurs, people get killed, maimed, the fighting still goes on and I dont believe for one moment that I was put on this earth for an other reason.

These 'god believers' are no different to anybody else except that they have been brainwashed into this false sense of security.

Answer 5

Here's the problem. The evidence would have to 1) suggest a diety as a possible involved factor, and 2) have no other logically possible explanation. There is no possible evidence that can satisfy both criteria.

This makes no statement about the existence of any deity, other than that such an existence is not an empirically testible subject.

Answer 6

I would accept that a God exists if the evidence really is there. As for proof that the Christian God exists, there will never be any; it's non-existance has already been proved through the Bible's many contradictions.
What if sceince found there was multiple Gods. Would the monotheistic religions accept that? Probably not; they tend not to accept fact.

Answer 7

St. Thomas Aquinas proved it but it's being conveniently ignored:
In the Summa theologiae Aquinas records his famous five ways which seek to prove the existence of God from the facts of change, causation, contingency, variation and purpose. These cosmological and teleological arguments can be neatly expressed in syllogistic form as below:


Way 1
1. The world is in motion (motus).
2. All changes in the world are due to some prior cause.
3. There must be a prior cause for this entire sequence of changes, i.e. God.


Way 2
1. The world is a sequence of events.
2. Every event in the world has a cause.
3. There must be a cause for the entire sequence of events, i.e. God.


Way 3
1. The world might not have been.
2. Everything that exists in the world depends on some other thing for its existence.
3. The world itself must depend upon some other thing for its existence, i.e. God.


Way 4
1. There are degrees of perfection in the world.
2. Things are more perfect the closer they approach the maximum.
3. There is a maximum perfection, i.e. God.


Way 5
1. Each body has a natural tendency towards its goal.
2. All order requires a designer.
3. This end-directedness of natural bodies must have a designing force behind it. Therefore each natural body has a designer i.e. God.

Answer 8

Which branch of technology? besides, i might study some books, maybe some newspapers, wait until the printed paper got here out and then i might study that too. If all of it appeared above board there is not any reason to no longer settle for it. in spite of the indisputable fact that, despite if that's a god that would not deserve any admire, that's merely no longer getting any.

Answer 9

It will NEVER be possible to PROVE that god exists; how would you imagine that the existence of god would be provable? There is far greater likelihood of proving the theories of the Big Bang (i.e., background radiation) and evolution (fossil records and DNA) than there is of establishing irrefutable evidence of the existence of a god, who presumably is an invisible presence without physicality. For your peace of mind, it is probably equally impossible to prove the nonexistence of god, although there are persuasive and logical arguments to that effect.

Answer 10

Go with the scientific evidence but if they ever discover an old man with a long white beard sitting on a cloud, I shall be surprised, especially if they discover evidence for all the other gods apart from the jewish sky god.