ATHEISTS: How come when you say "I don't know" you are being brave and honest. But when a theist says "I...

Question

I don't know" you are being brave and honest. When a theist says "I don't know" they are being dishonest and are trying to dodge the question?
What do you have to say for yourselves now?
Therefore, God exists.

Answer 1

Your logic is just as twisted as your bible.

Usually, when theists say "I don't know" is is in response to a question such as,
"Why does God allow children to be kidnapped, torured, raped, and murdered?"
ANSWER: Our ways are not His, but his will is perfect and we must trust him.

or
"How did Noa fit BILLIONS of animals from elephants to ants on an Ark that was only 400 feet long?"
"How did he store so much food for all of them on the Ark for almost a year?"
"How did he care for those animals that require specific temperature and humidity values to stay alive?"
"How did Noah keep those animals which require special diets alive?"
"How did Noah round up animals such as Australian Marsupials, which have never been found anywhere near the Middle East, alive or fossilized?"
"How did Noah get them back to their native habitats with absolutely no evidence of them ever having migrated from the Ararat Mountains?"

ANSWER: I don't know, but anything is possible to God.

These "I don't knows" are just cop outs. I, on the other hand, DO know. None of these things ever really happened. They are just myths, invented by superstitious men, and believed by the same.

Imagine if you saw an amputee at the mall. Suddenly, someone walks up to him, places their hand on him, and you watch a leg regrow, right in front of your eyes. This kind of miracle is described as commonplace in your bible, but if you saw it performed, you wouldn't believe your eyes. You would assume you were hallucinating or that someone was performing an illusion, Sigfreid and Roy style, on you.

Why?
Because despite your self-convinced belief that God is real and can perform miracles, deep down, you know such things are impossible.

And they are impossible, because there is no God.

El Chistoso

Answer 2

Bit of a jump in that last bit.


The difference is that when the atheists say "I don't know" it means that they do not know yet. Generally they are pushing at the question as best they can trying to find an answer.

When the theists say "I don't know" generally they are saying "It is not for me to comprehend God" and walk away from the question.

Normally the theists do not respond "I don't know". More often it is "The Lord moves in mysterious ways" or some such trite equivalent.

By your level of logical conclusion, therefore God does not exist.

Answer 3

no one can know everything, the best thing is to say you know nothing, we know nothing of god except for the bible and blind followers. the difference between atheists and many of you is that we have researched it all before making a choice, most of you cling to the bible as a word of god when it was wrote by man, and give examples against science and evolution when these so called facts dont prove anything and are only there because the people that told them are themselves fearful of the truth and do not want to face it or they think they are a higher being then the rest of the animals on earth. which we are not, if history proves anything we are a plague, a virus on this planet.

Answer 4

OK Charles!

First off, I would be delighted to hear a theist say "I don`t know." They usually say "God did it."

And how did we get from talking about theists and atheist saying "I don't know" to "Therefore, God exists"
Wtf? The existence of God follows from I don't know?

Answer 5

I'm not an Atheist, but I find it to better for me to show them respect, and just simply say: I do not agree with you; but at the same time let them know they can be forgiven just as easily as any Christian was forgiven! Remember Saul? Saul persecuted Christians! He hated them! But what happened later? God had forgiven his sins! And he became "Paul!" and he became a great man of God! Mercy, love and forgiveness are powerful! Sin is sin! I mean those who are atheist are no different than anyone else who does not know God! But anyone can find him if they will search! Just because someone is an Atheist does not mean they have blasphemed God! That kind of accusation is the one only God himself can make!

Answer 6

Hey, you really are a troll, aren't you? Nobody could actually go from the first part to "Therefore, God exists." It simply does not work like that.

Answer 7

The word atheist comes from the Greek words α-θεος meaning non believer in god. If someone does not believe in god and says '' I don't know'' then he is an agnostic which means that he does not know for sure if god exists.
So it is two different terms and does not mean that your conclusion is valid.

Answer 8

But you see, by saying, "Therefore God exists," you are claiming you DO know. That is the difference. You make a poor argument.

Answer 9

Anyone who says "I don't know" is being honest.I would never say that they are trying to dodge the question.An example of them trying to dodge the question would go like this:

Christian: God created the world
Atheist: Really?How did he do it?
Christian: God works in mysterious ways

That is dodging the question.The Christian should have just said "I don't know".

There, I just proved your point is invalid and thus that God doesn't exist based on your point.

Answer 10

most christians follow one book, the bible. if you don't know what's in that one book and can't answer a question about it, you really don't pay much attention.

that's not the same when a christian asks a quantum theory/biochemistry/paleontology question to an atheist, and expects them to know every last detail that has been published in volumes upon volumes of primary research papers, and respond accordingly.

can you now see the difference???