To believe there is no God? The athesist must believe that he omniscient, or all-knowing. Out of all the knowledge contained in the entire universe (I mean everything from from the stone age tribes in the jungles, to the most educated person at the worlds top unverseity) the average human being knows only a small fraction of all of this knowledge. How then, can athesist reason that there is no God when they do not have all the knowledge in the unverse? Is it possible that there is a god out there somewhere that has not yet entered the athesists' perspective realm of intellect? The athesist must also believe that he is omnipresent, or everywhere present. Out of all the space in the universe, how much space can you occupy at one time? Not even enough to see if you were to view the universe as a whole. how then, can the athesisr reason that there is no God when they can not be everywhere at the same time? Is it then possible for a god to be out there somewhere that athesis has never been?
2007-05-14 06:55:41 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is no evidence of god... a banana doesn't count...
2007-05-14 06:59:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Yes your quite right, atheists [notice the spelling] do not claim to know everything. Not at all. I'd be quite frankly gobsmacked if you could find me an atheist that thinks he or she is omnipresent.
However, you can quite easily turn your question around. Are theists theists because they are omnipresent and have found God lurking somewhere the atheists couldn't?
Of course not, that is ridiculous. Belief in a God or not is how to make the universe sit well inside your own head. People who are content to let it be explained away by natural phenomena, and do not find the idea that we are "alone in the universe" become atheists. Other people who find this loneliness too bitter and do not believe that science can explain the universe, believe in a God that can comfort them and explain away creation very quickly.
However, I am agnostic, so I believe that God is completely unknowable, I dont know if he exists, and neither do you. More often than not I lean towards the atheist side of things, and if not atheist then certainly deist [belief in a God that has turned his back on the universe, which is certainly seems he has given the amount of stuff ups]
2007-05-14 07:02:49 · answer #2 · answered by tom 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious?
I am well-aware that I know very little. I know what I can experience and believe in what I can see empirical evidence for, I can neither feel nor find any empirical evidence to believe that any gods exist.
I don't need all the knowledge in the universe to not believe in the supernatural, I only need to know what I already know. There is no logical reason to conclude that because one knows less than everything that therefore God exists. Why is that the default position?
Humans thought up gods to explain the unexplainable, and for many thousands of years, that was sufficient for most humans. But now we know the scientific explanations for a great deal of those "unexplainable' things. The more we learn, the less me need a god.
2007-05-14 07:15:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you think that atheists think they are omnipresent, or everywhere present because they don't believe in a "God."? I don't understand why you would think that. We don't think that anything is really omnipresent except maybe the universe itself. I simply think I am where I am at any given time. I also don't assume I know all there is to know in the universe. That doesn't mean, though, that I believe that there is some magical, supernatural, invisible super-being out there. I'm not going to say that I KNOW with absolute certainty that there isn't a God, (anymore than you can say that you know with absolute certainty that there IS a "God". At least--you couldn't say it with honesty) but I have no reason to believe that there is, and I DON'T believe that there is. Are you going to start believing in Zeus because you can't search every inch of the universe, and know all there is to know? Are you going to start believing in the Hindu gods? The Polynesian gods? By your reasoning, we're obligated to believe in everything the imagination came come up with, if we can't search the entire universe and prove it doesn't exist.
2007-05-14 07:43:52 · answer #4 · answered by Jess H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just because you can't prove that God's do not exist is not proof of existence.
Which God or Gods would you suggest we believe in? There are over 2500. And no, I don't believe that I am all-knowing. But I am always learning. I never stop learning.
Also, the word is Atheist. Not athesist or athesis.
2007-05-14 07:04:00 · answer #5 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
So silly. And somewhere in the universe there could be Santa Claus to, correct? Yet you do nto believe in Santa Claus.
When atheists say there is no God, they are usually using the word "God" as it is commonly used. The "God" you describe as possibly existing in no way resembles the God of the major religions.
If you were to define God differently (that is, say, as "some meaningful force in the universe beyond our understanding"), then you would probably get most Atheists to agree that it may exist.
2007-05-14 07:07:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I know I'm not omniscient. But I do know that I don't NEED all the answers from some unseen deity in order to live my life.
You seem to be saying that if you believe in god, then you have all the answers and knowledge in the universe.
Why does there HAVE to be something or someone out there who DOES know everything? Your position makes no sense at all. There need not be anything that is omniscient or omnipresent in order for the universe to work.
It just IS... and I'm okay with that.
(Oh... and it's spelled A-T-H-E-I-S-T... as in [a] meaning NOT and [theist] meaning believer in god(s).)
2007-05-14 06:59:26 · answer #7 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The idea that an intelligent entity could exist with no origin is an obvious nonsense. Intelligence can only have one of two possible origins: An unthinking, undirected natural process (evolution) or creation by an antecedent intelligence. Since a creator deity would by definition have neither of these origins, such a thing cannot exist.
2007-05-14 07:01:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 07:52:26 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is proof that God is real . But you can't find it in knowledge of this world so search for god with all your heart and soul and god will show him self to you and tell you all things in truth. For you will learn who you are why you are hear and Ware you are going when you leave this Earth.
John the one who has seen god and knows the truth.
2007-05-14 07:15:03 · answer #10 · answered by norjoh1@verizon.net 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your logic doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
I don't believe in god because so far NO ONE has been able to show me any real proof. If your god is so great and omnipresent shouldn't there be real proof of him?
2007-05-14 07:00:22 · answer #11 · answered by photogrl262000 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋