Definition: "God explains what science does not adequately explain."
By this definition, does God exist?
If you think that science does not adequately explain everything then God exists.
If you think that science adequately explains everything, then God doesn't exist.
corollaries:
1. Since science adequately explains more things every year, the "power" of God diminishes as time passes.
2. If you think that science will never adequately explain everything, then God will always exist (He'll never die)
2007-11-06 04:24:18 · 16 answers · asked by I'm an Atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT! God can exist for one person and not exist for another...
It's like asking a difficult math problem... the solution might exist for a math professor and not exist for the layman!
2007-11-06 04:32:22 · update #1
You'd need to call it something other than "God" -- too much baggage associated with that word...
2007-11-06 04:28:30 · answer #1 · answered by The Reverend Soleil 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Definition: "God explains what science does not adequately explain."
Under this definition, god becomes the response to human ignorance, and probably ignorance that may well be only temporary, since science may find the answer temporarily provided by god, the nonanswer.
If one needs to invest the great imponderable issues (the meaning of the universe) with "meaning," then the concept of a god or gods can satisfy the need in some measure. But is it not possible to be satisfied with the acceptance of regions of perpetual ignorance and let it go? I do not see how an understanding of the meaning of life would in any way enhance the enjoyment of life itself.
2007-11-06 04:49:01 · answer #2 · answered by john s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
and people say that Christians do not think through what they say.
I could say, that I have never met you and therefore you do not exist- that would not make you any less real, because I chose to believe you do not exist. Science is part of this world, and in time, everything in this world will pass away, but the Word of God will last forever.
How can something exist for one person and not another- God is either real or imaginary- He cannot be both- He is real-I know that He is- what if He is real- and you are wrong? About the math thing- just because a laymen does not understand how the mathematician got the answer , that does not mean the answer does not exist or is wrong.
One day the power of God will be seen by everyone, and those who doubted will believe- because God is and always will be, even if you choose to deny that.
2007-11-06 04:56:04 · answer #3 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Your definition operates on the perception that a god can in no way certainly happen, be bodily cutting-edge, or maybe perhaps be understood and defined via technology. evaluate that many of the failings we do in many situations as we communicate could have been seen remarkable even a pair hundred years in the past... is it extremely life like to have self belief that if there does exist some god that it will continually be previous the define of technology? perhaps 1000 years from now, theology would be an extremely scientific field, describing the traits of countless gods nicely-known to exist, how they exert their skill, how they got here to be and how they arrive to die. or maybe no longer. the two way, despite the fact that, you look making assumptions approximately what technology can and can't understand that are greater desirable than slightly unwarranted, neh?
2016-10-15 06:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romans 1:22
2007-11-06 04:33:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
It sounds nice, but I get stuck on the part about ol' fuzzface explaining things that science doesn't.
I mean, which is right - parallel universes or wave/particle duality? Science is still debating it, and Ol' Fuzzface is keeping schtumm.
CD
2007-11-06 04:32:08 · answer #6 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You will not be able to come up with a definition that will please atheists if that definition involves god being real. If you want atheists to acknowledge god then you need to come up with some proof that god exists. Solid, definate proof. Nothing intangible.
2007-11-06 04:29:33 · answer #7 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's bordering on a form of pantheism, where God is defined as the mysterious nature of the universe.
2007-11-06 04:28:45 · answer #8 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was a time, though, when science didn't adequately explain what caused polio. Now, there's a cure.
The point is that it's all about progress.
2007-11-06 04:28:04 · answer #9 · answered by bamidélé 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
A gap in our knowledge does not require an invisible, intelligent being to fill it in.
I don't think theists will be happy with spiritual Spackle.
2007-11-06 04:29:27 · answer #10 · answered by Robin W 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if you know this or not but you can't use a word in its own definition. That is the whole point of a definition giving meaning to a word so it can't be in its own definition.
2007-11-06 04:39:01 · answer #11 · answered by neveroutnumbered 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋