To me I could never believe that there is no God or creator of some sort. That everthing is just by accident!
2007-05-29 13:28:10 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a Christian, I find it takes very little faith to believe in God since the whole concept of Creation make perfect sense. It would take an amazing amount of faith to believe that life just happened by chance in some primordial soup.
For the non-believers that say they have no faith at all, I disagree. While I have faith in a God I've never seen, they have faith in the scientists that tell us that electrons or quarks exist...have they ever seen one? No, they take it on faith.
While I have faith in Jesus whom I've never seen, they have faith in black holes that they've never seen.
Regardless of what you believe, it takes faith to believe almost any of it. While we all believe in gravity, which theory about it do you believe and why? For those of you that don't realize it, there's been many different theories for the existence of gravity proposed. Why do we accept Newton's theory over the rest? Faith.
I'm not trying to discount science, I believe in a lot of it as well and even try to harmonize the Bible with science in my research but many of the things that scientists tell us requires lots of faith on our part just as it takes faith to believe in God.
For every scientific theory, there are usually several opposing theories. The scientists, and we, believe a certain theory based on faith in a particular scientist's research...certainly not because of proof. For example, you can't prove to me that the earth revolves around the Sun without taking me deep into outer space so I can watch it happen, yet I believe it...on faith.
I would have to say that it takes a lot more faith to believe in theories devised by man than to believe in God.
2007-05-29 15:46:34 · answer #1 · answered by Dakota 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you need more faith to be an atheist. Scientific evidence is proving more and more that there has to be something out there creating everything. It is just to great to happen by chance. In fact, the odds are so large, they're considered mathematically impossible! There is a lot of evidence out there pointing to a Creator, and to believe otherwise requires a lot of faith.
2007-05-29 20:39:47 · answer #2 · answered by Abby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need more faith to be a Christian.
Science can be proven with experimentation. Eventually, as is the scientific method, you get to the truth through trial and error.
But no matter what you do, you cannot prove that god exists. If you could, we'd all believe, and we wouldn't be sitting here debating it. (After all, the existence of god remains one of the biggest questions for humanity right after "why are we here?")
2007-05-29 20:32:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's blindingly obvious to anyone who knows anything about it that the origin of the universe, life and species have nothing to do with 'accident'. They are products of physics.
You need to know more before you criticise these things. Your belief in a Creator is driven by need, not logic.
CD
2007-05-29 20:35:11 · answer #4 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You need more faith to believe in God...I'm with you...too many odds against life and too many unexplained coincidences in my life for their to not be a God....but others have different experiences. I know for me, God being in existence makes perfect sense.
Peace, Love, and Blessings
Greenwood
2007-05-29 20:32:08 · answer #5 · answered by Greenwood 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it takes the most faith to believe in the literal translation of the Bible, but it doesn't take a lot of faith to believe in things that make sense.
2007-05-29 20:31:23 · answer #6 · answered by Daisy Indigo 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is why I think Christians are intelligent people who want an intelligent answer. I think it requires more faith to be a Christian, to believe in something that you may feel but you can't see.
2007-05-29 20:33:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Believing in some sort of god requires faith, since there isn't any evidence. It requires work. Having no belief in god requires no work, it requires no faith. God is not self-evident. Plus you need to look up something called 'physical laws'.
2007-05-29 20:32:21 · answer #8 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Christians require MUCH more faith.
There's just so many more details that have to be overlooked in order for it to be true.
Atheists only need enough faith to say that god doesn't exist.
2007-05-29 20:33:15 · answer #9 · answered by joetho 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Faith is believing what you know ain't true." -Samuel Clemens
Your personal inability to comprehend a natural universe has no bearing whatsoever on reality.
If I believe with all my might that you are a male chimpanzee, does it in any way effect who or what you really are?
2007-05-30 13:08:54 · answer #10 · answered by Atheist Geek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋