Is believing in God logical?

Question

I could care less what people believe.

I'm not saying this to start an E-Fight between bitter members of both sides of the God argument.

I'm just curious.
I don't believe in God....and i see absolutely zero logic behind the theory that God created everything
but i respect everyones' beliefs.

So, I'm just asking if you, as a believer, think that there's logic behind it, or if you just chalk it up to blind faith.


Also, i'm not asking for bible verses, or preaching...I try and be respectful as possible, and i would hope that people could just answer the question and not try to change my beliefs, as i would never try and change yours.

have a good one.

to those of you who've told me that Evolution or The Big Bang aren't logical, that wasn't the question.

I never said that any theory on why everything exists is logical, and i haven't once said i have an answer to the question.
I'm just asking if you think its logical that "an all knowing, all powerful being, who has always existed" created everything


Really though, i'm very pleased with the responces from both sides of the argument (for the most part)

Thanks to everyone so far for being mature about it, even though some of you disregared the question to tell me that my beliefs (which you know nothing about) are wrong.
:)

Answer 1

No, it isn't. Logic requires you to believe in a systematic way of thinking, and only logical steps can be used to achieve knowledge. Religion and belief in God can only be achieved through blind faith and lack of logical reasoning. There is simply no evidence for the existence of any God, and only people's hope in that existence in the reason for the belief.

Answer 2

The Christian view of God is extremely puzzling to have faith except you have had it drummed into you from an early age. there are such distinctive logical problems with the way Chrisitians describe God (see materials) that distinctive people discover it somewhat too old shaped, and exceedingly stupid. The middle theory of a better ability that created us in one way or yet another and is finding over us continues to be very pleasing for distinctive people although, so they say they suspect in the belief of a god so they might have this great theory without being ridiculed for believing the loopy illogical stuff that Christians have faith.

Answer 3

I can respect your your position on this issue.

I look at all the thing that is need for life on this little ball we live on.
I see that we need a right mix of Oxygen to Nitrogen so we can breath.
Then I look at the tilt of the earth that keeps us just at the right tempiture. A few degree off tilt we either fry or freeze.
How the moon help keep us spinning at the right speed. I could go on and on.


I believe that there is absolutely zero logic to the belief that it all happen by chance.

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Answer 4

No -it isn't logical.
It's the chicken & the egg, right? I mean, if there is one supreme being, where did it come from? And who lords over it? How did it get it's power? Is it alone?
If there is a god, it certainly doesn't exist in a manner that we are able to understand or even study. Therefore, if a person chooses to believe in a higher power, that belief must come from faith alone.
People can claim that prayers are answered every day -but look at how many more go unanwered. Furthermore, there is no evidence of divine intervention or supreme beings CLEARLY making their prescence/identity known.
People who really are believers talk about blind faith because they have to. They say that god works in mysterious ways because -again, they have to. There is no proof or logic.

Answer 5

I hope you find this Logical. This is just the beginning of a logical discourse about God given by C.S. Lewis.

‘If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents—the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts—i.e. of materialism and astronomy—are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.’

C.S. Lewis (1898–1963), The Business of Heaven,

Answer 6

I believe that the Christian God is the only rational basis for logic. Atheism has no basis for logic.

By this, I do not mean that one starts from the assumption that we must apply logic to determine if God is logical. We must go one step beyond that to evaluate the presuppositions (world view) from which we claim to use our logical faculties as humans to see whether logic itself has any meaning or basis within our world view. This is something that few people, atheist or Christian, do explicitly. Atheists often say that God is illogical, but never stop to evaluate whether logic exists or has any meaning within their own view of the world. I submit that the concept of logic is borrowed from the Christian world view in order to argue against it.

Read the referenced articles for an idea of from where I am coming.

Answer 7

Absolutely not! You can't explain the origin of complexity with a prior greater complexity.

The probability of a context free closed system state uniquely existing on its own is two raised to the negative k power where k is the Kolmogorov Complexity of the system in bits.

For example take a system with one bit, there are two states on or off, the probability of the state on existing with no exterior context is 1/2. With two bits the probability of any given state is 1/4. with three bits we get 1/8 etc.

Since theists define a context free god which is infinitely complex the probability of finding a context free god in such an infinitely complex state is zero.

Having concluded the theist god does not exist, what can we say about the existence of the universe or reality as a whole.

Since reality as a whole includes all exterior context by definition we can conclude reality as a whole is trivially simple. Furthermore we can conclude the universe we see either has exterior context ( is part of a greater whole ) or is itself simple.

Answer 8

I just find believing in a theory with holes in it to be illogical. that's why I don't believe in the Big Bang, as nothing started it. That's not just a whole, that's a black hole!

besides, someone had to start time, order is unlikely to come from chaos, the universe is so fragile (in terms of the balance of energy and matter and the forces that surround them: if cosmic energy were 1 in 100 to the power of 126 different, life couldn't exist).

Answer 9

Belief in any form of deity is not supposed to be logical, it's called faith.

I am Wiccan myself, and so believe in a God and Goddess.

Part of the reason people believe in divinity, is because science simply can't explain everything. Life is too complicated for it to be explained away so simply.

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Answer 10

Logic and science cannot prove or disprove the existence of God. You either believe or not