Lets just assume you know less than 50%, which I believe in reality is more like a billionth fraction of a percentage point, of everything there is to know in this universe and beyond. How could you then adamantly claim that there is no God when you can only occupy at best such an infinitely small time, space and knowledge?
2007-07-17 13:16:38 · 22 answers · asked by NYBHC 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In science or in any other field of knowledge when a tinny fraction of information is missing from the "isolateable" perimeters, even 99.999% of existing knowledge may seem to point to something very different or render them all meaningless. Much of the knowledge we think of is isolateable, they are finite and thus we can study them on a stand alone basis and prove them true or false but God is not isolateable. If he does exist everything we know and we don't know is his creation. Under this scenario the proof of God's existence cannot come from our knowledge just as an infant could never know based on his own knowledge who his parents are unless told.
2007-07-17 13:48:32 · update #1
I know nothing.
2007-07-17 13:20:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no god because the only evidence to back up its existence is a dusty collection of bronze age myths and legends. I certainly make no claim to know any great percentage of all the knowledge of the universe, but that does not mean I should give up, flush my brain down the toilet and become a supplicating sheep. that is the most fundamentally moronic thing a person can do.
There is no god, it is a ridiculous, primitive superstition which has no place in a modern, rational society.
2007-07-17 21:09:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because "Argument from Ignorance" is a fallacy. You still have to prove there is a God in all that unknown stuff and not, as is more likely, the Cosmic God-Swiffer, the God-Eating Zombie-Monster, and the Celestial High-School Kid Who Bears It All In Silence Until One Day Something Snaps, He Goes Out and Buys a Gun, and Shoots Up Gods.
Given the LIKELIHOOD of these and SOOOO many other things in our vast, unknown universe, how can a God even survive??
:-)
2007-07-17 20:20:45 · answer #3 · answered by PIERRE S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am going to state this for the millionth time. I do not claim there is no god. I require that theists prove that a god exists, since that is their claim. Until then, I have no reason to believe in a god or goddess. The burden of proof lies on the claiment, that is a basic principle of reasoning and critical thinking.
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Hah! Eleventy nailed it. Thumbs up.
2007-07-17 20:21:46 · answer #4 · answered by Chance20_m 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is it possible that in all the knowledge you don't know there is evidence for the Tooth Fairy? Santa Clause? The Easter Bunny? The goose that laid the golden egg? Purple unicorns with silver horns?
You don't not have to have perfect knowledge to claim that something doesn't exist. You do it everyday when you are faced with an idea for which there is no evidence.
2007-07-17 20:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by atheist 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Let me put it this way... WHY should we believe in something that by all appearences was completely made up? It's someone else's fairy tale, and we have NO reason to believe otherwise. There is not one single shred of evidence pointing to the existence of a magical super-being living in the sky. By your reasoning, we should just believe every single thing that is told to us as long as the person telling us claims that it's true, because we can't see or know EVERYTHING in the universe. That's not now things work. I'll believe in something when I have a good reason to believe in it. I'm not going to believe in something just because someone else comes to me and tells me that THEY believe in it, but then can't produce a single scrap of evidence to show that it DOES exist.
2007-07-17 20:26:45 · answer #6 · answered by Jess H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What does god have to do with an individual's knowledge? The world, solar system, animals, etc can still have been here without god and without anyone having 100% knowledge of the subject.
2007-07-17 20:21:12 · answer #7 · answered by daBreezemeister 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Two logical flaws with this argument.
1 -- We would have to say the same for every ridiculous claim ever made at any time. Tooth Fairy, floating space tea pots...
2 -- You have assumed that there are no humans that know 100% of the universe. If you feel safe assuming this, I feel safe assuming the non-existence of supernatural beings.
2007-07-17 20:21:10 · answer #8 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
we dont. we just know that we have validated proof that opposes what is written in all religious texts. We have no basis to believe otherwise. If a deity would like to poke his little godly head through the clouds and say hello i am here, well then we might believe.
You can not fill in what you dont know about with "god". Not only is this irrational, it's ignorant and dangerous.
2007-07-17 20:21:23 · answer #9 · answered by Sheriff of R&S 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't claim anything with 100% certainty. But certainly I see no evidence that gods are any more likely than say leprechauns. Are you saying I should believe in leprechauns?
2007-07-17 20:28:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's often said that god is everywhere, infinitely powerful, and clearly evident. do you believe that? if so i don't have to look everywhere to conclude that your notion of god is almost certainly wrong. and that's all i mean by calling myself an atheist: i don't believe in your god, nor the thousands of other gods from various cultures throughout history that you, just like me, don't believe in.
2007-07-17 20:26:03 · answer #11 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋