That you know everything? Example: If you try to say there is gold in Alaska you would have to dig up every square inch to prove that theory wrong? If there were one square inch of land you did not dig up, there may be gold there. And you cannot say there is no gold unless you dig up EVERY square inch. However to prove this theory correct all you have to do is find one piece of gold.Meaning unless you know every answer to every question, you do not know? As long as there are unanswered questions and some shred of evidence God does excist, you could not say He does not? I agree that there are those who say they do not BELIEVE there is a God, but that is your right. I am speaking about those few who try to say God is imaginary, there is no God, prove God to me, so on.
2007-03-16 05:57:17 · 24 answers · asked by sammyw1024 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
thank you veryy much for another person like Me that KNOWS there is no such thing as an athiest...you rock
2007-03-16 06:03:03 · answer #1 · answered by Pastor Biker 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
For those of us who have struggled with faith before finally accepting that there is no god, you could say that we have dug up every square inch of Alaska looking for gold. I spend the first 12 years of my life as a christian. When I first realized that I started doubting, I got even more involved in church, bible study, and prayer in hopes that all this would help me to see the truth. After doing this religiously - for lack of a better word - for a year, I realized that christianity must not have all the answers. For the next 5 years, I explored every major religion and quite a few of the minor ones, and I didn't find god there either.
So, combining my personal experience and the lack of evidence, I feel that I can make the educated statement that there is no god. I don't know everything about zoology, but I can make the educated statement that unicorns don't exist. I don't know everything about mathematics, but I can tell you that a number which is both positive and negative at the same time does not exist.
According to your way of thinking, none of us should make any statements about anything, because none of us know everything.
2007-03-16 06:13:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theories can only be proved wrong. No theory can ever be proved absolutely right. You believe our theories about gravity are correct because you have observed enough things fall (experiments that yield results that support the theory). Yet you have not dropped everything that could ever be dropped and seen it fall.
What we are dealing with is probability. There has been enough observed results of gravity to declare the theory correct even though nothing can be absolutely proved. I'm sure gravity is a theory you accept because (based on the evidence that has been gathering for a very long time) you know that gravity has a very high probability of working the way you think it will even though you know philosophically that you cannot absolutely prove it will always work for every item under every circumstance.
No, we cannot say absolutely that God does not exist. We can say that it is extremely improbable that he does.
2007-03-16 06:10:04 · answer #3 · answered by Crabby Patty 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You (sammyw10) are correct. The same crowd that claims there is no God, won't use the criteria for their hypothesis that science uses to prove itself and furthermore, the criteria they demand believers would adhere to. They just toss an opinion based on speculation out there and because they said it we must believe it. You can't claim something doesn't exist until you've exhausted all possibilties to prove it's non-existence. So, in reply to the "logic" comments, we need documentation, not opinions. Not only are they saying they know everything, they also reject absolute truths. No God, means there really isn't right or wrong, it's all relative. Not believing in God doesn't make Him any less real.
2007-03-16 06:13:41 · answer #4 · answered by imdmutt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To put it one way ~
Is there a pink unicorn that lives on the Sun? Surely the idea is ridiculous, however how could you ever truly know? It would be impossible to know for sure. Suppose someone claimed to have seen it or been visited by it. Could you prove this person wrong? You would have to use common senseto determine whether this idea is true.
The same goes for gods. There is no proof outside of religious scriptures for their existence and more often than not they were simply early ideas to explain previously unexaplainable phenomenon such as lightning.
My personal opinion which is shared by many others, is that clinging to these out of date ideas is detrimental to the development of mankind as a whole and does nothing but give false hope and guilt where it need not be.
2007-03-16 06:08:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is and never has been in historic history evidence of a God(s), meaning, that just like anything else anyone could think of, purple unicorns, flying pigs, a deity almost certainly does not exist.
Taking that further, the texts of the current religions, although many came before them, disprove themselves through a vast deal of worldly knowledge we now have.
So no....
2007-03-16 06:02:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Beliefs, sammy, are not volitional in any straightforward way. We cannot choose to believe. So, it is just as hard for those who do not believe in God to imagine what a good argument would look like to convince them otherwise. Religious folk generally fair no better either. So, presented with a sound argument for the existence of God leaves those who do not believe unfazed.
HTH
Charles
2007-03-16 06:04:02 · answer #7 · answered by Charles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it isn't.
Sometimes things have a necessary consequence. If that necessary consequence is missing, you know the thing must be missing too.
The existence of a deity produces a necessary consequence of free will.
Free will is a complete impossibility in the universe in which we find ourselves, because free will would violate the Church-Turing Thesis.
Since free will does not exist, deity does not exist either.
This is a logical structure known as modus tollens and can be expressed as follows:
X = A deity exists
Y = Free will exists
IF X THEN Y.
NOT Y.
THEREFORE NOT X.
2007-03-16 06:05:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, no. Saying there is no god is saying there is no god. It has nothing to do with the presence of gold in Alaska or with the knowledge of basic Sanscrit, or with an acquaintance with quadratic equations. It is a statement that is limited in meaning only to that which it expresses.
2007-03-16 06:02:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Right. There is no scientific theory ever presented that shows any evidence that God does not exist. There are several scientific theories that may prove that God has to exist.
2007-03-16 06:02:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is considerable evidence for visitations from Santa Claus (missing cookies, presents under the tree).
I think it safe to say that Santa Claus doesn't really visit people.
2007-03-16 06:08:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋