Philospohers, Scientists Religionists have believed in GOD as they understand it.
Interesting Article..
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/metaphysics-god-substance.htm
As atheists do you just have trouble believing in a Monothiestic GOD or GOD is the metaphysical sense?
2007-06-11 04:06:37 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually they can dispute the truth. They can believe anything they want. Just like I believe in God and in time I believe that will be absolutely revealed.
2007-06-11 04:11:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
J.P. - basic theism (belief in the existence of at least one god) and deism are essentially the same.
Also, theism is not disprovable. You cannot prove nonexistence, only assert a lack of evidence to the contrary (existence). If you limit yourself to physical evidence then you will find none. That neither proves nor disproves.
X Theist - would you care to revise your Nobel quote? Of 787 Nobel Laureates, 292 are listed on Wikipedia by religion.
Of those listed:
64 (22%) are Christian
6 (2%) are Hindu
181 (62%) are Jewish
8 (3%) are Muslim
33 (11%) are Humanist ("atheist") of which 30 are confirmed and 3 suspected.
So 89% of Nobel Laureates listed have a confirmed religion.
I suspect the unspecified 495 offer a similar breakdown. However, even if all of them turned out to be atheist (an *extremely* doubtful proposition), that would only be 67%. That is far short of your claim.
EDIT: "Deists" are plainly not "atheist" as they believe in the existence of at least one god (even if inactive) whereas "atheists" deny the existence of any.
Don't blame me. I merely researched your claim and found it incorrect.
2007-06-11 12:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by John K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No,just have trouble believing in god.Who said it was a "truth" I am in the position of being able to dispute anything that I do not firmly believe to be true and so far there has been no convincing argument that sways me.You may come on here and tell me that Joe Soap said this and Joe Blogs said that,it is still after all,NO PROOF.
2007-06-11 11:39:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Philospohers, Scientists Religionists have believed in GOD as they understand it."
Argument from authority. Logical fallacy.
I know around 95% Nobel Prize winners who are Atheists.
And that website is a lie.
You need evidence backing up your words, ok? Remember that next time, you're giving bad name to some other christians here.
EDIT:
John K, the Wikipedia lists Albert Einstein and other such scientists in the list of Jews and Christians.
Are you KIDDING? They are Deists, personally have refuted monotheism and other god-based beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates#Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
Go Figure!
2007-06-11 11:10:35 · answer #4 · answered by X Theist 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Actually in a free country anyone can dispute anything.
I am an Atheist and I do not believe in god. Any god. And trust me, I have no trouble with not believing in it.
2007-06-11 13:50:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Define "substance".
Seriously, though. God exists whether or not some of us want to believe it or not. You didn't even know I existed until I answered your question.
Think about it. Do you know everything or is your life a particularly subjective perception template based on a varietal set of emotions and mental capacity intertwined within a subset of agendas and adopted transparencies termed 'behaviors'?
2007-06-11 11:11:18 · answer #6 · answered by Michael 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
But now your getting into the forces of the universe and calling them “god” and I'm not sure that I want to label that "god".
I mean, if you want to call a rock “god” then I will tell you, “fine then I believe in ‘god’” as far as you've defined it.
You know what I’m saying?
2007-06-11 11:14:57 · answer #7 · answered by A 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Trouble believing? Nope because I don't believe in god because it is a silly concept to me. The whole Idea that one of the thousands of gods mankind has made is actually real just seems silly to me. After all how do you know that the Greek pantheons isn't real? at lest their gods interacted with man on a almost daily basis and "reveled". themselves
2007-06-11 11:17:17 · answer #8 · answered by John C 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
quote from the site you list:
"Many philosophers and scientists of the past have understood God as One Dynamic Substance. This is conducive to the pantheist conception of God as the Universe / Nature / Reality."
Note the pantheistic view.. this is NOT the christian view of God.. try to understand that before using this as a resource.
2007-06-11 11:10:25 · answer #9 · answered by Kallan 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
What truth?
Demonstrate the truth in this. You can tie yourself in philosophical knots on this one, and only come up with something as valid as Zeno's paradox.
The truth is that God is a creation of man.
Get over it.
2007-06-11 11:17:44 · answer #10 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋