Or vice versa, if you get my drift.
2007-05-01 05:47:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I would sure like to give a lot of you Best Answer on this one.
In short, my theory that god exists doesn't stack up worth shinola --Nevertheless, millions cling to it, and its most preposterous form, the Bible god....
And what is the evidence? Faith. Translation: raw emotion.
2007-05-02 06:32:01 · update #1
Well you have as much proof of his existence as I have that purple unicorns exist. That being none.
2007-05-01 05:51:08 · answer #1 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
http://www.existence-of-god.com/
Belief in a god or gods, it seems, arises naturally the world over. It seems that there is some element common to all human experience that causes us to look for something transcendent on which to build our lives, to ask the question Does God exist? and to affirm, at least in some sense, that he does.
That so many societies have independently come to religious belief requires an explanation. Is this just a coincidence? Or is religious belief a natural psychological defence-mechanism against the difficulties that life inevitably throws at us? Or is there some truth that this widespread instinct to look beyond the physical world leads us towards?
Some people have thought that answering such questions as these is and will always be beyond us. Others have thought not only that they have the answers to these questions but also that they can prove to others that their answers are the correct ones.
2007-05-01 12:55:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Occam's razor favors my theory. Occam's view was that the theory which required the fewest unprovable assumptions would tend to be the correct one.
Since any theistic belief requires a whole set of assumptions regarding the core of the belief, not to mention the fact that most religions add an even more massive set of assumptions around their core beliefs, Atheism wins. It is the purer theory.
2007-05-01 12:51:17 · answer #3 · answered by Dave P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Albert Einstein was once asked a question of how much knowledge he thought he had. His answer was less than 1% of all the universal knowledge. I ask you, would it be foolish not to think that in the other 99% of the universal knowledge that God would exist? You get my drift?
2007-05-01 12:54:59 · answer #4 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to have faith whether you are an atheist, or a deist.
I happen to be a deist, because it requires less faith than atheism.
Saying that God made the Universe, or that the Universe made itself from nothing... are both leeps of faith.
I just happen to believe in the more plausible faith.
Because my faith is backed by evidence.
the moon, for example, was supposed to be millions , billions of years old...
Scientist expected tons of loosly compacted dust to be on its surface... as proof of this age assumption
However, when the first men landed on the moon, only 2 inches of dust was discovered...
not tons, not miles of dust.... the capsule sank 2 inches into the ground.
that's physical evidence that prooves that the moon doesn't fall inline with the evolutionary time table.
It prooves the moon is 10,000 years at its oldest.
not billions of years.
The above Fact is only one of tons of evidence that no one ever brings up, because to question evolution... makes one look bad.
Maybe why that's one reason why it is accepted blindly as fact today... regardless of the evidence.
Evolution was created as an alternative to believing in God.... to believe that He made it all...
It just takes alot of faith to believe in the religion of Evolution...
and Atheist have to believe in Evolution to explain how everything came to be without God.
However, no one can proove or disproove God to anyone, because no matter the amount of evidence or "evidence" that is presented... faith is still required...
You have to have faith in certain things ....
You believe that we are held on earth by the law of Gravity...
Likewise it takes faith to believe in God, and it takes faith not to.
I prefer to believe in God.
Yall can believe in whatever you want to,
But are you so certain that God doesn't exist? That is your belief....
you can't proove that ....
waiting until death is a h*ll of a way to find out if your right or wrong...
In my case, it doesn't matter, if Im wrong then, I just die....
and if I'm right, then I'm good to go.
Yall have free will, so believe what you will.
-Splinter_In_Finger
2007-05-01 13:14:10 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Agappae 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I theorize an 800 ton purple duck, cleverly disguised as a garden gnome, who farts universes. How does that stack up against your god theory? There is as much evidence for the one as the other...
2007-05-01 12:52:52 · answer #6 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They would have the same sized stack of evidence, none. That's what makes it faith on the one side and what supports lack of faith on the other.
2007-05-01 12:51:52 · answer #7 · answered by Momofthreeboys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For something to be a theory you need verifiable proofs, you can't do htat with god, so he's not even a theory, he's just an abstract idea
2007-05-01 12:51:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is your god the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Mine is.
How does my theory that FSM exists stack up against your theory that FSM doesn't exist?
Get my drift?
2007-05-01 12:52:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what your theory is.
Most likely, it'll be like every theory about god ever proposed and will be either illogical, misguided, or easily explainable by natural phenomenon.
2007-05-01 12:58:12 · answer #10 · answered by Mike K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both the theory that there are no gods and the theory that there is but one and he's omnipotent,omnipresent, etc., fail miserably against polytheism.
2007-05-01 12:54:18 · answer #11 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋