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Our sensory equipment is designed to handle a three-dimensional reality.

However, science has concluded that there are far more dimensions to reality (time being the one most often recognized).

Is it wise to declare authoritatively there is no god, deity, or other supernatural phenomenon when the senses used to determine this are widely recognized as useless outside the three dimensions?

2007-08-05 03:50:15 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

33 answers

does it really matter? no

2007-08-05 03:53:29 · answer #1 · answered by Yancy 3 · 1 2

properly, this is an exciting question. i assume it relies upon on what you mean by ability of spirituality. The universe is obviously a exceptionally complicated alluring and mysterious place. Quantum mechanics and relativity are somewhat somewhat weird and wonderful once you study the effects, however the mathematics holds as much as ridiculously precise element so it style of feels to be the appropriate option. String thought is an attempt to unite the two, yet so a strategies it somewhat is in basic terms a mathematical build and would't be examined or used to maked predictions. it may become no longer something yet exciting with numbers. The existence of "weird and wonderful physics" notwithstanding does no longer mean that there is a few supernatural being in the back of all of it. by ability of definition, supernatural ability previous the understanding or rules of nature. It seems a number of the guidelines are weird and wonderful and unpredicted. I do get a feeling of awe and ask your self approximately a number of those techniques, yet i do no longer characteristic it to a supernatural creature.

2016-10-01 10:55:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Weak atheists do not exclude the possibility of this. However, atheists do not see any reason to believe a claim that has no back to it. The natural explanations to our universe can be tested and are growing. If the supernatural is part of our reality, wouldn't we be able to detect it? If not directly through our senses, then indirectly through what it causes.

Atheists make as few assumptions possible, and feel it is necessary to question and prove all claims. I think this is wise.

The string theory suggests there are what, 9 dimensions? Probably more. It is near impossible for our minds to even imagine what that is like.

2007-08-05 04:05:00 · answer #3 · answered by khard 6 · 1 1

Yes, it is definitely wise. Supernatural will become natural when it is understood. For example, rainbow was once called the bridge of god and humans who can cross the bridge will be able to go to heaven. In some western country, it was said a pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow. If you say that now, I am quite sure you will be the official laughing stock.

It is wise to disbelieve things that are without proof until proven, if done other wise, mind control can easily work on you.

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By the way, if we were to claim everything we do not understand as "god's mystery", I am quite sure we will still be in the stone age right now and not using the internet, noticeably, lighting (electricity) will still be the weapon of god and not used to power your computer.

2007-08-05 03:56:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I take this to mean that atheists deny the existence of a deity because they simply cannot see one. I agree that this is unwise as well as contradictory as humans believe in many things that cannot be directly observed such as virtually all emotions. And aliens.

I deny the existence of a deity based on the evidence provided. The world does go on without the existence of a benevolent being who is supposedly guarding the light at the end of the tunnel. From a local prospective when we live houses full of food, cars in the driveway, TVs and computers in almost every room, etc. - it is easy to believe. From a global stand point - it is impossible. I will not accept a god that allows tens of thousands of people die everyday of hunger and disease.

2007-08-05 04:00:13 · answer #5 · answered by scilletta 3 · 1 0

Scientists have not proven that there are other dimensions and what are being bandied about as "theories", such as Brane or M theory are actually little more than mathematical hyptohesis without much chance of being proven, or being provable.

Unlike God, however, there are ways that these ideas can be tested and provide confirmation of the ideas - ways that can be independently verified and documented.

We have invented new "senses" like tunneling microscopes, neutrino traps and superconducting supercolliders to help us see what nature has not given us the ability to see.

If you can invent a Godscope and give us snap shots of God that can be independently verified and confirmed as being of God and can verify that he has all the powers attributed him, then you can step up to the plate.

2007-08-05 03:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I'm no authority but I use my 'common' sense when looking at these matters, and science whenever I can.
Until there is proof of a god, or, for that matter, more dimensions than the accepted 4, then I cannot accept the concept.
"Science has concluded" does not sound like proof to me!

HOWEVER, I do accept that we are not at this moment capable of knowing or understanding these things, and it will take a giant step for man to be able to grasp the illogical concepts that must be inherent in the answers we seek.

2007-08-05 03:58:59 · answer #7 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 1 0

>Are Atheists wise to exclude the supernatural based solely on their senses?

If you think we atheists back up our beliefs only with that which is DIRECTLY perceivable, you have no clue what you're talking about. Any sensible atheist understands the intricate scientific evidence for and against God as well as the everyday, macroscopic evidence. Just because we atheists can't see bacteria without a microscope doesn't mean we don't consider the bacteria as possibly being evidence for or against God. Get the idea?

2007-08-05 03:56:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Science has CONCLUDED nothing regarding the existence of further dimensions. Science merely POSTULATES the possibility that further dimensions exist. This however is a theory that has up to now proved untestable in scientific terms. It would be wrong to state AUTHORITATIVELY that other dimensions do not exist but what the f**k this has to do with the existence of a supreme being?

2007-08-05 04:02:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

I'm only Atheistic to god(s) nothing about the paranormal or anything like that...I sense things that are not of my original 5 sense, so that tells me that there is something else goin' on either in this dimension or some other dimension...but there's something up with it...maybe it's the dead that I'm sensing, or something else I don't know, but I just don't blieve in God.

2007-08-05 04:02:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I'm not quite sure you understand the concept of additional spatial dimensions. They are not "elsewhere." They are actually curled up dimensions that are orthogonal to the dimensions we can sense.

Additionally, they are smaller than a Planck length and so they wouldn't really be a good hiding place for supernatural phenomena.

If you want to understand how the 11-dimensional universe in M-theory works, I'd suggest reading Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos."

2007-08-05 03:54:11 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5 1

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