All academics say the same thing: To be in acadamia means to split hairs, to test and retest. Books are constantly being updated, old facts are replaced by newer ones, and peer review keeps information structured. In the past 100 years we have seen everything we used to think about the world go out the window, which is a good thing.
But in all reality, do you honestly believe you will find an answer to the creation of the universe? Do you think man has the forsight to explain how everything was formed and why? Now, I am a firm believer of knowledge and seeking the truth. In fact, the Lord wants us to. That is why I can honestly say to myself that this answer will NEVER be found.
It is beyond all logic and understanding. Something of that magnitude can only be explained by something we will never truly understand. As seekers of truth, that undeniable fact must be accepted. Do you agree? Logically speaking, it can not be done.
2007-11-07 04:45:41 · 18 answers · asked by modrealist 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow...where did I say to stop seeking knowledge? I just have the COMMON SENSE to know that this question will never be answered. Naive? No, I'm just being realistic. How can you study something that cannot be traced in the first place? I have not given up, and if research can prove something then I am all for it. But to deny the option that maybe a creator does exist is just as bad.
2007-11-07 05:10:09 · update #1
Are you saying that since YOU assume we'll never "find all the answers", we should just sit back and proclaim "God did it" and be done with it?
2007-11-07 04:52:21 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree that we may never know EVERYTHING regarding the origins and nature of everything. However, does this mean that we should then just abandon our quest for knowledge and understanding and fall back on dogmas of faith. I think not. This would be moving backwards to a time when people created mythologies to explain things they didn't understand. Modern day religion is no different that the mythologies of yesteryear. It is the tendancy to use stories and faith explain what is not understood. In the past people used the Gods to explain floods, disease, pestilence, famine, war...just about everything really. Science has now answered most of these things that were once explained purely by mythos. Today most religion is pretty much the same. They hold up the banner that since science cannot (yet) explain certain things that either they are "unknowable" or that this is no explaination. I call this primeval naiveté.
2007-11-07 04:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by Rance D 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand how you can come to the conclusion that an answer to the creation of the universe can't be found. You don't bring a single argument why it is illogical (beyond implying it's too complicated).
If you'd asked somebody a bare 100 years ago if it's possible to transplant a kidney to save somebodies life, they wouldn't have believed you. You don't know how far you can get unless you try it.
Maybe it's indeed too complicated to understand. Maybe too much time has passed since then. But maybe not. I don't see a reason why it has to be impossible.
Also I would not give up on walking because I won't ever win the olympics.
2007-11-07 05:05:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a logical fallacy to assume that because something is beyond our current understanding it will always be so. To accept that fact would also be an acknowledgement that the quest for the answer is not that important since it has no end.
Also as seekers of truth, acknowledging that some things cannot be explained is not related to any particular faith or lack of. Why is this directed to Atheists?
2007-11-07 04:51:07 · answer #4 · answered by tabby90 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
How everything was formed and WHY? There is no "WHY."
As a Christian, by definition, you claim that you know how and why the universe was created, yet then you go on to say of answering that question "logically speaking, it cannot be done." The point made above (by Mr. TT) that you must consider yourself an agnostic, not a Christian, is spot-on.
Blue - the scientific community makes no effort to prove God doesn't exist. You claim he exists, so the burdon of proof is on you.... another person with little or no grasp of logic.
2007-11-07 04:56:09 · answer #5 · answered by Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no (non-religious) record of the creation of the Earth, no one was there to wittiness it, so we don't know for sure, and we never will unless we can prove it using our 5 senses.
My Civilization teacher recently brought something up yesterday, he told us that the earth was a cube. He challenges us to how we new it for a fact, who we believe what we believe and why we believe it.
Everyone in class said they believed the scientists who told us that the earth was "round", Astronauts who have seen it, but why are they credible sources, have they said anything that we can prove them as credible? We as average humans have never seen the earth from a distance, so how do we know for sure. Yeah there are pictures, but in film, we can create whatever we want. For centuries, the average human believed anything they were told. Their scientists told them that the earth was flat, that the earth was the center and that everything rotates around it. There is always room to learn, and room to be proven wrong.
2007-11-07 04:51:47 · answer #6 · answered by tightest embrace 0:) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1898 the director of the US Patent Office told the President to close the office since EVERYTHING that could be invented had been invented. Was that a relation of yours. Why do you think we have today all of the knowledge that there can EVER exist in the human sphere.
2007-11-07 06:10:10 · answer #7 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Based on history, the LEAST logical conclusion states that an answer is impossible to find.
If you were to follow the history of scientific discovery, you would find people declaring that all knowledge is now known, or that no one can build a computer smaller, faster, lighter, more powerful, etc. Discoveries and developments following the publication of these conclusions only proved to show their authors as short-sighted.
The only reasonable answer to the question, "Does science know how the universe came to be?" is "Not yet!"
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2007-11-07 04:48:57 · answer #8 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
You religious idiots say that everything had to be created by an intelligent being and with out him nothing could exist. SO WHO OR WHAT CREATED YOUR SO CALLED GOD. He could not just have always existed because THAT is your flaw in the creation of the universe & everything else. Nothing would exist with out a creator that includes your so called God.
2007-11-07 05:01:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, the Uncertainty Principle agrees that we will never know anything for absolute certain. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't learn as much as we can. Saying "well, we'll never know so why try?" certainly accomplishes nothing, whereas science has accomplished quite a lot as by-products of the never-ending quest for knowledge.
2007-11-07 04:51:46 · answer #10 · answered by Bob C 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
enable me get this at as quickly as,you're asking questions of atheists and complaining after we answer? could a while not be extra applicable spent complaining with regards to the non secular not answering once you ask questions of them? faith is backwards. i think of eighteen is your lot extra or much less
2017-01-05 02:34:26 · answer #11 · answered by satya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋