Atheists: Why do you need evidence/proof to prove God exist?

Question

There are billions of things in our universe that the naked eye will never ever be able to see, not even with the most highly advance technological systems this world offers. Why do you put such high stakes in proof/evidence and sight?

You can see far more through the eyes of faith than through the physical eyes of sight. You can see far more with understanding than you could see without this God given intelligence. Surely you must know in your deepest heart that you are not alone in this universe. That there is a God who cares for you.

Answer 1

There has to be something much much bigger than us measly humans. We are so puny and small on this big planet. Like little ants running around. We think we are so smart and have it all figured out. There is one who is much bigger, smarter and mightier than us. That would be God Almighty. Creator of the heavens and the earth and everything that inhabits the earth.

Answer 2

I need evidence because I do not use my heart to find truth, I use my mind.

Truth-value is an inherantly logical consideration. Emotion inhibits logical portions of the brain.

Let's try this:

Gilbert W: Why do you need evidence/proof to prove Zeus exist?

There are billions of things in our universe that the naked eye will never ever be able to see, not even with the most highly advance technological systems this world offers. Why do you put such high stakes in proof/evidence and sight?

You can see far more through the eyes of faith than through the physical eyes of sight. You can see far more with understanding than you could see without this Zeus given intelligence. Surely you must know in your deepest heart that you are not alone in this universe. That there is a Zeus who cares for you.


Does that make any more sense?

Answer 3

I would love to believe that, I honestly would. I don't need proof to believe in God (I'm agnostic), but I do need something, even just a fuzzy feeling inside. The problem is, of course that there is no proof either way.

Personally I feel that faith clouds you vision, you already have an answer for everything. For people without faith, they want to know why a particular creature has a particular characteristic, or such and such. Whereas those with faith can simply say "God did it"

Answer 4

Why should I believe something exists without reliable evidence? If I shouldn't rely on some kind of evidence, then I should accept anything anyone tells me. For instance, there are pink rhinos that sleep in your shoes at night. Do you dismiss this as nonsense? If so, why? If not, I worry about you!

"Surely you must know in your deepest heart that you are not alone in this universe. That there is a God who cares for you."

This is completely false. Just because you are convinced in the existance of God, it doesn't mean that everyone else, on some level, shares your belief, no matter how certain you feel you are.

Actually, I'll amend that. I don't think I'm alone in the universe. I'm reasonably confident that the odds are on for life on another planet somewhere in the universe. But not a god-figure.

Answer 5

Good question Gilbert...atheists need evidence or proof that God exists, yet they still believe in Darwin's Origin of Life theory regarding macro-evolution (a.k.a. Theory of Evolution). The reason it is a theory is because it can not be proven using the scientific method. It is all based on 'educated' guessing since Charles Darwin was not around billions and billions of years ago. The same could be said about the existence of God, if one decides to not look at the evidence of creation and all the truths that can be found between the covers of the best sold book in existence. Moses wrote what he knew as told to him by his ancestors...they lived longer back then. The connections from Adam to Noah were pretty close since Adam died shortly before the flood...Methuselah would have been able to tell Noah all about it. Noah was still around when Abraham was young...who can say if he did not tell the history to him? The other great grandchildren of Noah probably heard the story from Noah too...but after the Tower of Babel, and the dispersion of the people by language group...the stories stuck in legends and changed as the people forgot about God. The Hebrews were excellent at keeping the stories straight from generation to generation. So by the time Moses wrote everything down, much of the history would have been well known by people Moses' age. The trial through the wilderness pretty much took care of all of those that were his age. They had too many doubts and disobedience was more fun. They were found unworthy to inherit the land that Abraham was promised, so their children got it.

Answer 6

Actually, no. I don't "know in my deepest heart" any such thing.

The "eyes of faith", as far as I can tell, are purely self-delusion. People read "divine intent" into things like earthquakes, rainfalls, accidents, and good fortune with absolutely no reason to come to such a conclusion. Attempting to do so is projecting human-like traits to impersonal forces.

Beneficial and injurious events occur to everyone, regardless of faith or morality. The universe does not care what happens to any particular individual, species, planet or star. There is no reason whatsoever to assume that there is any sort of super-intelligent sky fairy anywhere beyond the wishful hope of life after death.

Testable, real-world evidence is far more reliable than random speculation about the intent of a supernatural being that behaves exactly like something that does not exist at all. Your God has not stopped a single war, has not healed a single injury, has not demonstrated any evidence at all that it exists beyond the purely speculative wishful thinking of its followers...and none of its followers can agree on its intent, disposition, or favorite groups or individuals. No one's god has accomplished anything detectable in the world.

How, therefore, can people continue to insist that such a thing exists? Why indulge in belief in a god that has no more substance to it than an invisible pink unicorn or a teapot orbiting the Earth? What use is it to believe in something that cannot be demonstrated to exist outside of the "holy" books of the various religions of the world? There is no practical reason to do so beyond the wish that there might be some sort of existence beyond this one.

Believers live their lives trying to figure out the "intent" of their deity of choice, and many are convinced that their actions are their god's will. Yet this cannot be so because so many believers work at opposing purposes, resulting in intense, bitter conflict and even war. Tom DeLay, Jimmy Carter, Osama Bin Ladin, Ehud Olmert, Depak Chopra, Jerry Falwell, and many others all insist that they are doing "God's Work", yet they all advocate policies and actions that run in direct opposition to one another. Only one (at most) can possibly be correct, but each is utterly convinced that they are the ones who have it right and everyone else is utterly wrong.

That is what your "faith" does.

I will not be cajoled, tricked, manipulated, or otherwise told what to do by anyone who claims to speak on bejalf of any kind of divine creator. If such an entity exists, it knows exactly what it must do to convince me it does. Without evidence...real-world, testable evidence, I have no reason at all to believe what you or anyone else might say about any deity.

Answer 7

non secular ideals use an particularly convoluted and imprecise device of defining how the godhead interacts with humanity, so it somewhat is amazingly complicated to respond to this - it somewhat is a shifting objective. Inconsistencies interior the bible is a good place to start - the indisputable fact that God created Eve from Adam - they could have a similar genetic fabric, and consequently there does not be the racial version interior the worldwide as we communicate in the event that they the mothers and fathers of all humanity. If Adam and Eve have been the mothers and fathers of all humanity, then generations previous them must be the effect of incest between their little ones. The bible states that God stopped the solar interior the sky for an afternoon - the writers of the bible did no longer understand that the solar is table certain and that the earth revolves. If this somewhat handed off anybody could have been thrown sideways on the linked fee of the earth's rotation (around a million,000mph). There are different sufficient proofs that look to bypass no longer noted - What appropriate to the style of religious non secular people who're horribly murdered by evil people who're no longer punished for it? If God exists, why does he do no longer something appropriate to the enormous style of catholic clergymen who molest little ones? i ought to bypass on - the checklist is rather countless.

Answer 8

So whatever you can not see or understand it must be the work of a god? That kind of thinking and logic worked well for superstitious early man. It is not that I require any kind of proof for a god since I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that such a being does not, and has never, existed. Man created god in his image, not the other way around.

Answer 9

We need evidence / proof that god exists for the same reason we need evidence / proof that anything else exists.
The things in our universe that we will never be able to see we might conjecture about, we might speculate about, but we don't say we believe in them. If you will read some quantum physics you will find that the physicists only talk about the existance of things they can actually either see with their eyes or in some other way thru technolgical means percieve. If there is an entity, or object that is beyond even the grasp of the most advanced techology to percieve then they don't talk about it as existing. Now, when you speak of god as existing it is not just the case that this is beyond the most advanced technological means to detect, it is defined as something we are not able to detect because it is "spiritual", not PHYSICAL. This is a huge difference that you often fail to understand. Something that is defined as not being subject to human perception because it is not physical is not merely beyond our technology, it is beyond detection period. The eyes of "faith" are the eyes of the abandonment of reason and the casting out of our intelligence and simply "accepting" something because someone says so. That is the essence of faith, to abandon your own understanding and to just accept. This is not science, or reason or knowledge, but rather, a form of insanity, albiet one that is often approved of in our society. Sad state of affairs wouldn't you agree?

Answer 10

Understanding comes through experience. Experience happens when I use all five of my senses to know something. Faith is not understanding. It is faith. You believe in what you haven't experienced.

It is not just seeing god we atheist need, it is proof. Something that can not be explained away. The only possible answer must be god. A booming voice thunder and brimstone would be fine (he has done it before). Even that old burning bush trick would be nice.

What do your "eyes of faith" show you? Do they revel the beauty of our universe the way the Hubble telescope does? Do they allow you to see the inner workings of a cell? What do you understand about the physical work with your "eyes of faith?"

Answer 11

We moved past 'the naked eye' a long time ago.

We are now able to see subatomic particles, as well as deeper and deeper into the seemingly infinite reaches of space.

Technology and science continue to unlock doors - and even though it has advanced considerably, we are barely scraping the surface.

I don't have a problem with someone having faith in god, or believing whatever they like - but don't try to act confused as to why I would demand proof, or won't accept the historical fiction in the bible as anything other than that.