Are Athesists bias?

Question

Atheists do not believe in God because they cannot see him/Heaven/etc. But you have never seen the big bang but you believe in it. How is that not bias?

At least with religion their is witnesses, their were 0 scientists who actually witnessed the big bang.

Geezah

That is a bad comparison. If I want to see a part of a world I go there and visit to prove it's existence. The big bang has no proof, except questionable theories.

x_vampire_x_kis

Hence the ? at the end of my answer. If I thought all atheists were bias, my question would have been "All atheists are bias!"

Snark!

No evidence of God?! The bible & quran & torah. Look at the sky & sun, scientists cannot make these, only make theories. (Guesses)

ben_of_marlow

Evidence would have disappeared by now if the big bang did happen. This is even what scientists say themselves. Eveidence cannot be preserved from hundreds of millions years ago.

JapAmerican

Thank you. If you are an atheist who is stone cold to accept God then it will be hard to belief. But if you are an atheist who listens with an open mind, hopefully God will guide that person.

If I have offended any atheists I apologise.

Answer 1

I try to stay away from being biased. If I am presented with undeniable proof that the Bible is true than I will have no choice but to believe.

At this point no one has definite proof of either, but in the big bang's case, there were some leftovers which makes it more believable than a god with absolute force creating the universe out of nowhere.

I'm an atheist, but I'm open to new ideas.

Answer 2

"Evidence would have disappeared by now if the big bang did happen. This is even what scientists say themselves. Eveidence cannot be preserved from hundreds of millions years ago."

wrongo. this is not a general principle, it is just a fact about conditions on earth, where there are usually several processes that destroy most types of evidence (notably, not much interferes with radioactive decay, allowing radiometric dating). in the universe at large it does not apply, since there is so much empty space, nothing interferes with light that has been in transit for billions of years. i have never seen the cosmic microwave background radiation (rather direct evidence of the big bang) up close, although i know where to look for it and i'm told that it accounts for some significant fraction of the static on a clear television channel. it is not a totally pure signal though, i understand there are some corrections made to the CMB for the motion of the solar system through space and other perturbing factors.

this versus no evidence at all for the existence of a god, let alone your god. hmm, tough choice...

"If I have offended any atheists I apologise."

i'm more offended that you seem to be taking refutation of your points as evidence that atheists have been offended, so that you can bow out of the argument.

Answer 3

"Athesists bias"?

There are detectives and courtrooms who convict or release thousands of criminal suspects every day, even though the judge and jury "never were there to witness" the crime. How do they arrive at their conclusions? By studying the evidence. Is there always the chance that the court makes an incorrect decision, and that the suspect was framed? Yes. But as new evidence comes in, it becomes more and more clear what really happened.

If you actually take the time to read a book on cosmology, you'd find that there is indeed a lot of evidence supporting the Big Bang. When it comes to God, all we have to go on are personal anecdotes and unrepeatable personal "revelations".

Oh, and guess what? The original idea of the Big Bang was first proposed by a scientist who additionally was a Catholic priest. So much for this being an "either/or" thing.

I'm sure you haven't opened up your head and have seen your brain. But you know it's there. Even though your post might make others have doubts.

Answer 4

Who exactly was around when Adam and Eve were created? Definitely not the writer of Genesis. If I remember correctly, biblical researchers aren't even sure, but they attribute it to Abraham most of the time, don't they? I'm pretty sure Abraham wasn't there (your "witness", not mine). Yet you believe it with arguably any more evidence than a big bang.

Scientists aren't entirely convinced that the Big Bang is even the correct theory. There are others, besides for the classic Big Bang you learned about in school. That's why it's a theory--no one can be absolutely sure, but most of the evidence fits the explanation.

Answer 5

Religion events have no witnesses either.
The Torah is an oral history of the Jews and of the places that they lived.
The bible also has not witness accounts the books john,mark Luke etc were written by others not the disciples long after the deaths of the named individuals
The Koran was written by a Jew, for the followers of Mohammad and he was not a witness to the events described within.
Science has a process for extrapolating information and checking and verifying and even to go back to the beginning and starting over.
Religion states that A is true and you must believe it and have faith that it is true, there is no testing.
Science states I think A is true then tries to see if after testing and peer review if it really is true or not http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_scientific_method.shtml

Answer 6

You should practice asking people why they hold a view point, rather than assuming you know why.

There is no evidence for any god.

Evidence is not limited to that which can be seen. There is evidence for the Big Bang.

You seem to be confused.

Edit - Looking at the sky is only evidence that there is a sky. It is not evidence of a god.

The texts you mentioned are deeply flawed and often ridiculous... and even if they weren't, they would not be evidence of a god any more than The Lord of the Rings would be evidence for the existence of elves.

Even if there were evidence that a being of some sort created or began the universe, there is no reason to assume that being to be a god. It could just as easily be aliens in neighboring universe or dimension... and any number of other things besides a god.

Sadly, there's still no evidence of any such being... and certainly none for any god.

You no longer seem confused. You now seem willfully ignorant.

Answer 7

Evidence is out there that can be seen with telescopes and worked out with mathematics for the Big Bang. How do you think they came up with the theory?

I don't believe in God because there is absolutely no evidence FOR him. Jesus was not God. God was his father...supposedly. He prayed to his father. He sure wasn't praying to himself. He even asked to be let out of the whole dying deal...then acquiesced and said he'd go along with it.

Luke 22:41-42
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Since I don't believe that the Bible is divinely inspired or even factual...what evidence is there for God without using the Bible? If he was real...he would be making himself known to his believers. There would be evidence somewhere that he existed.

atheist

Answer 8

Atheists are biased. So are Christians, muslims, hindus, buddhists, Taoists, black people, white people, asian people, people from alabama, people from russia, people with freckles, people with kids, bald people ... lets see, anyone else?

Everyone is biased. The whole world is biased, we all see things from a certain perspective (namely, our own), and through the filter of our experiences and expectations. This is commonly known as "being human".

Nobody is without bias. People who say that they are not biased, are the most biased people of all.

Answer 9

The Big Bang theory is based on a observable cellestial movement. Heaven is based on wishful thinking.

Answer 10

i'd rather believe in the Big Bang, than being made from dirt, and being damned b/c some girl ate an apple.