2007-07-30 09:19:33 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's based on the logical fallacy that says, "If you don't know everything, you know nothing."
2007-07-30 09:22:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 14⤊ 1⤋
I've been wondering the same thing. I ask questions about the Bible, but I'm "taking them out of context" supposedly. So, I have to quote swaths of verses. But that's not enough. Then, I have to know the Old Testament. And history. And C.S. Lewis. And Thomas Aquinas. And from there, I'd better know a little Augustine as well. And then someone quotes Nietzsche. And then someone else jumps in with the Qu'ran, and . . . then someone else has the audacity to bring Robertson and Falwell into it and . . .
People, I only have so many brain cells, and I've only been alive 29 years. I've slept in between reading, you know. I haven't gotten to it all yet!
Jeebus.
2007-07-30 10:20:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Simple. People use religion to create answers for that which they don't understand. For example, we aren't going to pray for rain this week because meteorologist can tell us whether or not it's going to rain. We aren't going to pray for a cure to a desease that we understand how to cure. We go to the doctor. The more we have knowledge about, the less we need God for. Therefore, as the arguement goes, the only way to not need to make up an answer (God put us here) is to know an answer (insert absolute truth about origin of species here).
2007-07-30 09:27:17 · answer #3 · answered by Chris D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because otherwise how are you going to argue against the Christians who believe that they have knowledge of everything in the universe?
2007-07-30 09:23:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Because that means you'd have the knowledge of God and only the knowledge of God can have enough knowledge to know whether God is real and then you can be an atheist.
2007-07-30 09:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, you do not. You do not have to have very much knowledge at all. However, it is always better to be knowledgeable individual rather than without knowledge. We all have a free will. : )
2007-08-01 04:11:50 · answer #6 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question
If you had all knowledge like Jesus Christ, then you could say something didn't exist or wasn't there, but when the Eternal God of the Bible says He exists and how He created things..we must believe Him. (Check out the fulfilled prophecies and the ones that will be fulfilled)
Ask the Lord God of the Bible, what you want to know, He will answer you. Jeremiah 33:3
2007-07-30 09:30:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is not possible to understand everything in the universe. Knowing that is the first step to enlightenment.
2007-07-30 09:23:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because the people making such claims have ulterior motives and depend on the ignorance of those who would actually listen to them.
2007-07-30 09:23:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who asked you to? Your beliefs (or lack of beliefs) are yours, and you need not defend them to anybody. To expect another human being to have knowledge of everything is, to put it mildly, an unrealistic expectation.
2007-07-30 09:26:58 · answer #10 · answered by solarius 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have to? Guess I'm out of the club (If it wasn't for Talk Origins, I'd be hopeless in Evolution debates)
2007-07-30 09:22:26 · answer #11 · answered by ryoma136 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋