2007-10-11 14:23:10 · 24 answers · asked by downdrain 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Agreed.
It's not obvious to me.
Someone wrote: You have to WANT to know God in order to believe in God.
Isn't that just a self-fulfilling delusion? If I really try hard to believe, I could convince myself of just about anything.
Ask David Berkowitz, a.k.a. Son of Sam. He believed that a dog told him to kill all those people.
2007-10-11 14:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by blooz 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it would be obvious to anyone who didn't have a predisposition that there was no God.
The complex DNA code found in every living organism is an obvious evidence that some being far more intelligent and sophisticated than us created life on this planet.
An archaeologist digs up a triangular stone made of flint or obsidian that appears to have regular markings on it and sharpened edges and he identifies it as an arrowhead made by a primitive human hunter to use with a bow.
He digs up a bone that has enough complex coded information in it to fill 1000 books, 500 pages thick with print so small you would need a microscope to read it and concludes that it must have resulted from chance mutations worked upon by natural selection.
Why is that?
Professor Richard Lewontin, a geneticist is one of the world’s leaders in evolutionary biology. He wrote this very revealing comment. It illustrates the implicit philosophical bias against Genesis creation—regardless of whether or not the facts support it.
‘We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
2007-10-11 14:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what god is. If he's the god of the Old Testament, well, he's showing up in bushes, flames, voices from the sky, etc. So, you could experience him directly.
If he's the god of the New Testament, then either you have visions like Paul and John or you just have to believe, which means the "totally blind" version of faith.
Paul tried to argue that the existence and magnificence of nature makes it obvious that there is god. If that were true, Paul would not have had to construct such an argument. Nature itself would be enough. Clearly it isn't.
If god talked with Adam, Eve, Cain, Moses, the Old Testament prophets, Mary, Joseph, Jesus, Paul and John, why wouldn't he talk directly to you. To claim he "talks" to you through a contradictory Bible is to insult god. To claim he talks to you in your "heart" is to make a mistake of anatomy and to assert that your feelings are the measure for everyone else.
There is no method to knowledge or source of knowledge that reveals a god. Nature, of which you are part, is a sufficient explanation of itself.
2007-10-11 14:33:23 · answer #3 · answered by Paul B 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Look around you. Isn't it obvious there Is a designer behind this intricate universe, this complex life, this amazing world?!??!
You are standing on a sphere that is spinning 1040 miles per hour. There is a massive fire ball 93 million miles away from us that is essential to our survival, without it we will surely perish. There is a layer of oxygen around the earth that is only 3mm thick that protects you from the deadly sun rays coming from this fireball! There are so many other stuff that if you just sit back and ponder about it, I you'll see just how amazing the universe is and the intelligence behind it.
Think about it.
2007-10-11 14:41:15 · answer #4 · answered by lollipop 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would say, think about the workings of the human body. Is it a machine? How is a thought fired off? Spiraling nebulae? The innocence and beauty of a child? These things speak volumes about the Power beyond the world of symbols. But that is just me.....
Peace
2007-10-11 17:49:02 · answer #5 · answered by Valerie C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you every listened to happy children? You know the ones that have not been taught all this psychobabble rap from all sides yet. They are just innately happy, why? is it necessary for life? Life is love...Love is God...Our universe reflects this quality everywhere.
2007-10-11 14:37:03 · answer #6 · answered by Old guy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is obvious there is a God, just look around you!
2007-10-11 15:14:07 · answer #7 · answered by debbiedeb 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Amen
2007-10-11 14:27:24 · answer #8 · answered by 1st Liberal 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's sure a good thing that My
Father has more patience than
I do...Because If I saw some
of these insulting and ignorant
answers, I would sure want
to send a new flood and wash
the earth clean again.
2007-10-11 15:24:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe so and I believe assuming so gets us (humanity), in a whole lot of trouble. No good has come religious sects claiming superiority.
2007-10-11 14:32:14 · answer #10 · answered by Yahoo Sucks 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋