2007-06-13 03:58:47 · 38 answers · asked by Dwayne 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
100% = All knowledge
You have all knowledge?
2007-06-13 04:02:55 · update #1
me, to be intellectually honest i'm 99.9999% sure. To say you are 100% sure is to say you can prove a negative, which is impossible. An atheist who says they are 100% sure is being dishonest to the reality that in effect, they could always be proven wrong, no matter how small a chance of that there may be,
2007-06-13 04:03:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not certain that there is no God. To be certain would mean that I have proved that God does not exist, an epistemological position that is, frankly, impossible. Actually, disproving anything is impossible. So I can't say with certainty that there is no God.
However, I have never seen an valid evidence for the existence of God. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
However, I can, with some certainty, say that the God of the Bible doesn't exist. Various philosophical problems deny any such existence, as well as the lack of authenticity of our single source of information on the subject.
BTW, the true definition of an atheist is "without belief in god." Notice that this statement does not make any claims. Atheism isn't a religion, nor does it require faith to work. I can say that I am an atheist without making unjustifiable, unprovable, and ridiculous claims about the world.
2007-06-13 04:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by riven3187 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Philosophically, I am a scientist and thus must always remain open to the possibility of new evidence. Evoking the mathematics of limits, I can safely say that the probability of God's existence in objective reality approaches zero. Inversely, the probability of God's non-existence approaches 100%. This jargon means I am as certain as I can possibly be, knowing that I cannot predict possible future discoveries.
Theists, on the other hand, imagine the future is completely known, having been defined by events of the past. They imagine the God of our ancestors, through various prophets, has revealed what the future will bring.
Thus, we have a majority who actually know very little about the true nature of the objective universe, telling us what the future will bring, based on the subjective prejudices and superstitions of our ancient ancestors. Meanwhile, we have a minority who actually know a great deal about how the objective universe operates, telling us that the subjective opinions of the past can have no plausable effect on the objective realities of the future.
Our primative ancestors were all solipsists -- they believed their subjective experience actually was reality and they imagined objective reality was an illusion created by their own consciousness. It is extremely important to understand that all the characters in scripture, as well as the men who wrote and edited the Bible, believed that Solipsism was a correct description of reality.
Modern educated human beings don't think this way anymore. We know, because it has been experimentally verified many, many times, that objective reality is absolutely real and that our subjective experience is an illusion, created by our brains, based on information provided by our senses and modified by our expectations.
It is my opinion that the paradox we are grappling with here (God's existence or non-existence) is created by the change in how humanity defines what constitutes reality. Faith was much easier to achieve in the past, when everyone agreed on the nature of reality. Now that some of us know with total certainty our ancestor's got it wrong -- physical reality IS real and subjective experience IS an illusion -- it has become impossible to accept faith as a valid means to discover truth.
2007-06-13 05:05:37 · answer #3 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 100% sure I do not believe in the existence of god. If one fine day there is some proof, then I might start believe.
Yes I have the full knowledge I do not believe in the existence of god. That does not mean god is 100% not there, just I do not believe so.
2007-06-13 04:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is a logical impossibility.... that is good enough reason to not believe in him.
100% in not all knowing. I am 100% sure 1+1=2. That is not saying I know everything.
2007-06-13 04:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I"m Roman Catholic and I'm far from 100% sure there is a God, more like 58% there is a God, 15% there isn't a God and 27% I have no clue if there is a God.
2007-06-13 04:07:49 · answer #6 · answered by m d 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to be any percent sure, you just have to believe there isn't one. So that is over 50% but there is a lot of gray area between an atheist and an agnostic.
I am about as sure about your God as I am about Zeus, Odin, Anubis, and the rest personally.
2007-06-13 04:04:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Until I am 100% there IS a god, I will stay an atheist.
2007-06-13 04:03:37 · answer #8 · answered by atheist 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not 100% certain of anything. Ya happy?
The reason I don't call myself an "agnostic" is because I think "atheist" has more moral punch.
The traditional type of theism - e.g. Christianity - is a lie. I'm as certain of that as I am of anything in this life. But even the more refined and abstracted "Deist" idea of God is probably only a final capitulation to tradition. Our gods have developed with us, and we will eventually outgrow them altogether, just as we as a species have collectively outgrown totemism etc.
2007-06-13 04:01:25 · answer #9 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to be 100% sure there is NO god, just 100% sure that God doesn't exist as laid out by any Religion thus far. Then what else is there?
2007-06-13 04:01:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋