but why do they assume that no evidence will ever be revealed to them? Do they believe that they can predict the future of their life experience?
No hostile answers, please. I am not asking this question in a hostile way. Thank you.
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2007-03-27 13:36:18 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When i see a building how can I know there is a builder?: The building is 100% proof that there is a building. When i see a painting how can I know there is a painter? The painting is absolute 100% scientific proof there is a builder. When i see creation how can I know there is a creator? Creation is 100% scientific proof there is a creator.To believe that it happened by chance is to have brain liposuction.
2007-03-27 13:45:51 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I pose a question to you, why do you not worship Zeus along with other Greek Gods? I mean, there has yet to be proof, but why do you assume no evidence will ever come about? Why do you think you can predict the future?
To answer the question, because doubting the existence of something with no proof makes much more sense than believing it exist with no proof.
Riku, wow that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I point to you as a reason religion is corrupting the world.
2007-03-27 13:46:29 · answer #2 · answered by risingers01 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't assume that. I think it's unlikely. No evidence has been presented so far, but I've always been ready to be hit in the face with some.
As an comparitive example, let's say you don't believe there's some Gatorade in your fridge. The fridge is impossible to open, and you don't see any reason to believe there is Gatorade in there. You can't even predict if evidence will come to you or not. Someone may tell you that there's Gatorade in there, but it's impossible for them to know, because they haven't seen it either. Do you think you'll come across some evidence eventually?
I tried my best with the example.
By the by, I think it's impossible to predict the future, like most atheists..
2007-03-27 13:42:18 · answer #3 · answered by juhsayngul 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh I thought you had something to share with the group...
Why do you play these games!
lol
Well I'm never hostile.
But---
If God or the gods reveal themselves in the future, well-- that is the future.
TODAY is another matter.
So until that blessed day when Baby Jesus reveals himself to me I will think as I do and go about my living as I have.
Anyway, there are many reasons behind a person denying or questioning god. Let's not oversimplify it. There are many questions that need to be answered. Even if you do prove his existence for me there are many questions that still need to be answered. I'm not going into it but basically even if he existed I don't see how this God of yours is even worthy of worship.
But---I think you're rolling off into Let's Have Faith territory and I don't think I can comment on all of that because it seems as if you're suggesting that people should believe in your God 'just because'. That doesn't make sense to me.
Plus I just don't see how faith solves anything. Rectifies anything.
It doesn't.
....just allows people to believe in spite of it.
Sorry.
2007-03-27 14:05:48 · answer #4 · answered by Leila R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible, which is where you derive your belief in a 'god', is false. And obviously so to anyone really paying attention.
The two creation stories are silly and incorrect. And they each have different gods in them, EL and YAH. It's only through a trick of translation and willful ignorance that you don't know that.
There is no useful biological information in the Bible, and what is there is wrong. If the 'god' that you claim both created mankind and wrote the Bible, the information would be correct.
There are no angels in the sky, disease is caused by a variety of factors and demons are not one of them, decomposed bodies do not come back to life as depicted in the Gospels after Jesus 'dies' on the cross ( I am referring to the 'saints that appeared to many') and 10,000 other ridiculous fables in the Bible.
Without the Bible, your 'god' blows away in the wind, and the Bible's testimony is false.
2007-03-27 13:50:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe I cannot fly unaided as all scientific evidence (and practical experience) tells me this. I do not believe that a way of me flying completely unaided will ever be revealed to me on this earth. I believe this I can predict. Same with athiests and God I guess. (I am not an athiest.) It is obviously more reasonable and sane to NOT believe in God as there is NO evidence.
2007-03-27 13:40:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without Hostility. Proof and evidence would convince. That is not unacceptable to an atheist. That is in fact the requirement.
2007-03-27 13:50:26 · answer #7 · answered by Magus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't believe that they can predict the future of their life experience. They are just ok with not knowing. People who believe in a god are not ok with the possibility that there may be nothing. Remember, every culture has their own god. Who's to say that your god is the real god and not their's? No one can honestly say that they can predict the future of their life experience if they believe in a religion anyway. No one can, and it's ok. Just believe in yourself and others. That is god.
2007-03-27 13:42:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I spent a vast majority of my life as an atheist. I was miserable. I hated myself, and if there was a God then I hated him. I felt that my life was doomed and I hit rock bottom.
But then at one point when I could go no further and I was desperate for change, on a whim I knelt down and begged that if there is a God to prove it to me, to help me out of this horrible life. Then all the sudden a strange feeling came over me. I started remembering things that I hadn't thought about in years. Things that proved his existence to me. Things that actually happened (documented). Not stories, but my earlier life, back when I was happier. I suddenly had a strength that I never thought I had. I started noticing things and I started taking responsibility for my self and my own actions.
I have actually been blessed many of times since this, and I have NEVER been down the way I was at that point.
So I honestly believe thats why Atheist believe the way they do. You can't have a closed mind filled with hatred and expect good thoughts to come to you.
Its like a Klan member who has never met a minority. But they "KNOW" they are bad and must be opposed. But take that member out of his environment and give him a chance to adjust and see things for himself without the hatred and pressure to hate, views will typically change.
2007-03-27 13:57:12 · answer #9 · answered by Chrissy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, it is they are as much believers as those who believe there is a God, just in an equal and opposite direction, generally believing the assertion of God's existence is meaningless, as existence is "closed" rather than "open."
They cannot posit evidence might be given them, as then they would not be atheists, but rather agnostics, and have to admit God could exist, but may be "an unprovable thesis."
As far as your question about prediction, there are probably as many answers as there are atheists, but, in general, most feel there is order, but it is Nature, or logic, or reason, or materialism, or logical positivism, or whatever, not God.
2007-03-27 13:49:04 · answer #10 · answered by johnhanscom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not hostile, but it is patronizing and insulting.
As far as evidence goes...
... I'm waiting, where is it?
Nothing yet? Well, I'll keep living the good life without Christianity and you let me know when you actually have something mroe than an empty promise.
2007-03-27 13:43:14 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋