2007-09-12 04:08:24 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Considering the complete lack of evidence supporting the God Hypothesis, I'd have to go with "B"....
2007-09-12 04:15:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The great French probability theorist Pascal asked this question and came up with the wager named after him. See link below. Synopsis as follows. Say you believed God exists and therefore lead a good life, but when you die you find He does not exist -- cost to you is the wild life you could have enjoyed. On the other hand, say you did not believe God exists and therefore lead the life of a rake, cheat, liar, etc., and to your unspeakable horror you discover you are standing before Him after you die! The punishments are eternal! So Pascal said -- no choice if you are a rational gambler. I leave it to the link below to spell out where the wager does not settle this issue.
There is a third way -- "I don't know, and it is impossible to know". That is the way of the agnostics. Buddhists are agnostics of the most pragmatic kind -- "It is irrelevant".
2007-09-12 11:22:41 · answer #2 · answered by Norm 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, if He always "wasn't", then He wouldn't be much of a God, would He.
2007-09-12 11:14:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is doubtful that the multi-dimensional reality field we are embedded in - that appears responsive to human consciousness (and people like to believe in as deity) - always existed. Whether the big bang happened or the present universe evolved out of multiple 'membrane' crashes, that field couldn't be said to have always been stable or always consistent. The movement of light shows us its state of tension (Holistic Physics) but the evolution of particles out of the field remain at the level of conjecture and theory for now. It is only the evolution of our massive thinking brain and consciousness that allow us to make conjectures and even affect reality through the fields we generate in this non-material medium. If one reads theology as a description of the intersection of psychology and physics, then most people believe in this field of reality (space) as always existent. But, consistent in all respects? I personally doubt it.
2007-09-12 11:34:18 · answer #4 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God always is.
2007-09-12 11:11:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good question.
I think that if God always was, he would have left some form of evidence which supports his existence.
2007-09-12 11:13:29 · answer #6 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Given the evidence or lack thereof, god was never here.
2007-09-12 11:11:29 · answer #7 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
God alswys wasnt
2007-09-12 11:11:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
How about, God isn't?
2007-09-12 11:11:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
How bout a definitive, "Don't know, don't care, don't believe without evidence"?
2007-09-12 11:12:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋