Why are we content to trust our instinct with simple things
(judging someone new, choosing a career, choosing a spouse, etc.) but can't rely on our instinct, to prove the existence of God?
I am sure your instinct has saved you many times.
Why is it hard to trust our instinct when it comes to prove or disprove the existence of God?
What does your instinct tell you?
2007-05-18 03:15:51 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Instincts and intuition are two different things.
Instincts are not right or wrong (eat, sleep, have sex)...
Intuition is wrong on many occasions; we should check it based on research and facts.
2007-05-18 03:19:06 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your instincts will not always reflect the truth of the outside world. What's your instinct towards my eye color?
What's your instinct towards the number of fingers I'm holding behind my back?
What's your instinct towards the shape of my mailbox?
If you could get these trivialities wrong, then it's even more likely that you'll get an instinct about the divine wrong, because you have absolutely no knowledge of the divine at all.
You see how this makes you look really, really irrational, right?
2007-05-18 03:21:18 · answer #2 · answered by Dylan H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My instinct tells me that there is no God. At one time in my life it told me there was. I do not rely on instincts but instead research for answers, instincts can change dramatically over time.
2007-05-18 03:18:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's ridiculous. Instincts are items of pre-programmed behaviour that evolution builds into animals to increase their chances of survival.
No instinct can provide guidance about questions like the existence of a deity. In fact some instincts we have are extremely bad for us in our current situation: we're so crazy about sugar that we're killing ourselves eating too much of it.
Not to mention sexual jealousy. This was useful once but nowadays it just leads to pain, misery and sometimes murder.
You may have an instinct to hope that there's a big sky-wizard who looks after you, but your hopes are no guide to accuracy - the reverse, in fact.
CD
2007-05-18 03:24:43 · answer #4 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your instinct tells you lots of things........but it's up to you to decide whether you're going to trust it or not, bearing in mind that instincts can sometimes lead you astray from the actual truth. As for me?......mine tells me that there is a God.
2007-05-18 03:30:15 · answer #5 · answered by Spurious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All my instincts tell me that a supernatural being would stand out from the fabric of the natural universe like a sore thumb.
2007-05-18 03:26:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My instinct is that the universe is a huge, complex, beautiful, and awe-inspiring thing.
My instinct says nothing one way or the other about the existence of a deity.
2007-05-18 03:20:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intuitively conversing, i've got self belief that throughout each and every subject the main suitable action would be self-obtrusive. You have been born with instincts (no longer a sparkling slate). you have been given the present of know-how - use it - you recognize the distinction between genuine and incorrect. If it feels "dodgy," do no longer circulate there.
2016-11-24 21:25:02 · answer #8 · answered by pass 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my instincts tells me that there is a God, simply because man is not smart enough to grow trees and to make mountains, and to create the different species of animals, and to make the different races. just take a good look around you and just think about how everything is made and works together. man wants you to think that it is evolution but think about where did evolution came from. there wasn't light just darkness there were no animals there wasn't water, there wasn't anything on this earth, not even an earth until God made it. do you think that man did this? do you think that a pure man is smart enough to do all you see around you? just think about it. nobody dead or alive could have done this. think where your senses come from how did you develop the knowledge that you have? do you think that you did this on your own. without God's will you wouldn't you would be dumb as a door nail. the cells in your body, your blood your brains, your internal organs, without God's creation none of us would be here. simply because without God man is not able to or smart enough to do all what has done by themselves.
2013-10-29 04:24:13 · answer #9 · answered by edie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are born with no instinct to believe in imaginary friends. It is only as we grow up and become influenced by the society in which we live, that some of us pick up bad habits.
2007-05-18 03:57:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My instinct tells me you don't really know what you are talking about. My Holy Ghost tells me that there is a God.
2007-05-18 04:17:49 · answer #11 · answered by Southern Apostolic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋