I have a question on science and god...?

Question

A user just answered that "science allows for the possibility of the existence of God. " Which one, please?
There are over 25,000 gods in recorded history.. so which one did science pick out as the viable one?

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Addendum: could you also provide a link or quote from a scientific journal on that? thanks in advance.

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idaho mike, did you actually read the question? That's not an answer.

Answer 1

Depends on the attributes the particular deity is supposed to have. I'd say that science allows for the possibility of the existence of most Pagan deities...however one thing it absolutely rules out is the existence of an omnipotent god like the one the Christians worship.


Is it logically possible to stand above time, space and all other dimensions - and still exist? I'd say that everything which violates the laws of physics are logically impossible and thus omnipotence is logically impossible.

Omnipotence, you see has too many paradoxes. IF god knows everything, he knows what he will do in the "future" (in any dimension, not necessary the time dimension). He must have known that from the very start of his own existence. Thus god's actions are predestined. God is tied by faith, he has no free will. If god has no free will god is not omnipotent. Another way to put it is that to be able to make plans and decisions one must act over time. If god stands above time he can not do that and has no free will. Indeed, if god stands above all dimensions god is dimensionless - a singularity, nothing, void!

Besides there can exist no free wills at all if god is almighty. If you had a free will, god wouldn't know what you would do tomorrow and wouldn't be omnipotent.

Answer 2

Science allows for a god or gods because it can't disprove them. Any thing you use in science be it evolution or the big bang the god solution would be "Well god made that happen". Science and it's factors an be proved. A god can not. Science can on the other hand disprove some religious beliefs. It would be easy to tear the bible apart using science. The belief in a god isn't wrong. Religion on the other hand clearly is flawed. So to answer your initial question science can not point out which god is right or wrong or if any of the m are. Although I'm sure the bible thumpers are saying different.

Answer 3

That individual is probably saying that science allows for the existence of the biblical Jehovah.

Which is true.

Science also allows for the existence of Odhinn, Isis, Amaterasu, Lord Amida, and Coyote. You get my meaning.

Science allows for the possibility of the existence of Santa Claus.

There is a differentiation that has to be made, though. Just because a person admits that there might be some small chance that proof will emerge that tends to affirm the existence of any of these, we're not going to be neurotic enough to worry about that small sliver of possibility. We're just going to say, "Hey,.we need to get about the business of leading our real lives with what the vast preponderance of evidence tends to say". Because, you know, that's reasonable.

Scientists have to deal with the inherent agnosticism of science, which allows for all sorts of things, and reason in practice, which acts with what the evidence tends to point toward.

God bless them for it.

Hail Satan,

Lazarus

Answer 4

NO religion can be proven by science. The point of religion is to rely on faith, belief, etc. People who say that science can PROVE the existence of their god(s)/goddess(es) are sadly mistaken and/or misguided.

By the way, I'm a pagan, not atheist, just as a side note.

Answer 5

What if all the gods have their own version of YA, and like us they sit around debating endlessly which of them is the real true God? It's like that gameshow, "What's your line?" --- Will the real God please step forward?

Do you think each of them argue over who's the more powerful deity, in the same way all of their puny creatures are debating which of their gods are best?

"I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization."
— Don Marquis

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking “for our sakes was the world created.”
— Julian The Apostate

Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea."
– Mark Twain

Humble man is arrogant. He believes this Almighty being has nothing better to do than tend to his needs and be at his beck and call for every silly prayer. It's no different than the early Church leaders that insisted the sun revolved around the earth because we were the center of the universe, and killed anyone that disagreed.

SPIRIT
I was an infant when my mother went
To see an atheist burned. She took me there.
The dark-robed priests were met around the pile;
The multitude was gazing silently;
And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien,
Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye,
Mixed with a quiet smile, shone calmly forth;
The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs;
His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon;
His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob
Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept.
"Weep not, child!" cried my mother, "for that man
Has said, 'There is no God.'"
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822)

Answer 6

I wanna see the control group...I have questions for those "gods" that need answers...don't mind me...I won't interfere with the experiment...

LOL!!!

Is there a building big enough to hold the control group? Indoors? Besides the Staples or ATT center...I don't like being in the sun...

Answer 7

The God Yahweh is a scientist who created what we see and don't see via His awareness of stepped forward fields of technological know-how that many are nonetheless unknown to mankind as we communicate. faith developed from the shortcoming of mankind's scientific awareness to describe what God has carried out via His stepped forward scientific awareness.

Answer 8

you don't have to look into the 25000 gods in recorded history, some problems can be figure out in our head within 5 - 10 mins. Science believe in reason and logic. I agree that science allows for the possibility of God, infact it confirms in many ways. e.g. the beginning of the universe, etc etc. since you have assumed that God exist. now lets begin with this assumption, and arrive at a conclusion through reason logic and science.


God cannot be more than ONE because if there were many gods besides God, then there would not have been such order in the universe, and each god would have taken away what he had created, and some would have lorded it over others. If there would have been many gods then each god would try to defeat others to establish his rule.



God has to be Eternal then otherwise He would have a beginning. Suppose, we say God had a beginning, then there was a time when God did not exist. It means that he needed somebody else to make him exist. So there is somebody else who is God, not him. but as we agreed that there is only one God, therefore, there is no one else who make Him exist. When we say that God cannot be born, we are also saying that a creator cannot becomes his creation, because creation means what is in need of a creator. To be a creature, mean there had to be someone to create you. So if God becomes his creation, it means now he is in need of a creator. And this is absurdity! As we know, A creation is not eternal. An eternal being is uncreated. We can conclude that the one God who is uncreated, has to be Eternal.


It follows by logical necessity that if God is one, and if He is eternal, Then obviously He does not beget , Nor is he begotten. Because if He beget, then He will have a child and the child will have to be God-like. So there will then be two Gods, because "the son of a man" is "a man", "the son of a horse" is "a horse", but natural son of God should have to be a God. Since we agreed that there is only one God, you cannot have two. OR If he was begotten, that means he would have father. Then the father will be older than him and more eternal than him. and we cannot have one who is more eternal than "ETERNAL"

see now we have arrive at the definition of God exactly defined by the Quran ( holy book of islam) in the following verse. >>>

"Say: He is God, The One and Only. "God, the Eternal, Absolute.
"He begets not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him."
[Quran 112:1-4]

Answer 9

Oscar Wilde said:

"Science is a catalogue of dead religions."

He meant that once science had explained something, it lost its mystical component. Just as people used to believe eclipses were divine events, but now they have no divine signifcance since science has explained them.

God is simply waiting to be explained by science and then he will cease to exist.

Answer 10

The Prime Mover,The Uncaused Cause, The Uncontingent Supreme Being,The One Infinite and Eternal,The Ultimate Transcendent and Immanent God, not one of the race of gods