Why? Couldn't you use those same reasons to believe in God?
2007-11-14 08:53:13 · 38 answers · asked by christian_me 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
PB Godess: so is God
2007-11-14 08:57:32 · update #1
Donna: Love cannot be scientifically proven
2007-11-14 08:58:52 · update #2
All these things you are decsribing, God can be seen that way too. I'm sure when I feel God's presence my brain waves register differently, my biochemistry changes...so what about that?
2007-11-14 09:01:53 · update #3
We can prove love exists... it is a biochemical process measureable by brain wave monitors, EEGs, pheremone and hormone production, and it can be stimulated and reproduced in a laboratory setting.
I'm talking love for family, children and mates in non-sexual ways.
2007-11-14 08:57:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Love is an emotion, a chemical reaction in the body. I'm sure if you had a person hooked up to the proper equipment at the moment they 'fell in love' you'd find definite chemical changes with the brain and body. There is no way to prove the existence of a mythical, magical being such as god.
2007-11-14 09:26:02 · answer #2 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.I can not prove "love" exists.But, I can prove the chemical and brain activity that result from the emotion and can prove that there is a real person, animal, place, or thing that the love is directed at.I can't prove that there is a God and so directing the chemical and brain activity toward something that can't be proved seems foolish to me.
Edit for your "details:
If you can not prove God exists then how can you prove that your love for God is returned other then what some book (Bible or other religious book) says?Anyone can direct their emotional state of mind to just about anything.But if it isn't something proved as real then there is a word for that- delusional.I could easily say that I "feel" the presence of my invisible friend "Chuck" and thus love him.But I can't prove he is real and to anyone who can't see him or study him or even have so much as a strand of his hair will obviously know that I am delusional if I actually think he exists outside my own belief.So, my love for him is not what can't be proved.His existence is what can't be proved and thus it would make me delusional to continue loving him in-spite of this knowledge.
2007-11-14 08:59:40 · answer #3 · answered by Demopublican 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sorry to burst the bubble here though I am not an atheist I do not see the logic in that statement.
Love is something that can be expressed and felt by others so why wouldn't an atheist know what love is and is not?
I lived in Eastern Europe, Germany just after the wall came down and they were almost ALL atheist by birth right and raising. This did not make them unloving or uncaring people. Just because they did not believe in god or gods does not mean they do not know what love is like and they experience it as much as anyone else has. I dated one for years, so I know she could experience love and was an atheist and I am not.
So I do not see the accuracy in your statement though i do see what you are trying to say it was just not the proper metaphor to use I think.
2007-11-14 09:05:02 · answer #4 · answered by Legend Gates Shotokan Karate 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, this is just a very sad question. I can prove love exists from my mother because of the type of person she is. I can prove love exists when people tell me so. I have to trust them in what they say and how they act.
As for god, I have yet to see anything that would prove love at the same level for all people coming from a singular being, it just doesn't exist (example, a baby starving and covered in flies in Calcutta and another baby in New York who is very well fit, cared for and adored).
If god is love, it is sick, twisted and completely selfish and has immense double-standards.
2007-11-14 09:07:11 · answer #5 · answered by fierce beard 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Same thing. Some people feel a euphoria and call it love. Some call it god.
You can't really prove happy or sad either, although we can discern between the different peptides our bodies produce when we have these feelings.
2007-11-14 09:00:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Vary Good.
Love is not human nature, procreation is.
All chemical reactions in the brain can be attributed to something, but what,..... we really do not know much on the subject.
God is love.
2007-11-14 09:14:57 · answer #7 · answered by bobalo9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Using that argument, you have to allow belief in the existence of Santa, the thousands of other gods devised throughout history, Ghosts, UFOs, Magnetic Therapy, ESP, etc
2007-11-14 09:02:37 · answer #8 · answered by Moo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually we can pinpoint and observe the exact chemical reactions that occur when a man is attracted, whether physically or emotionally, to the opposite sex.
Your God is not love, your God is a monster, they should not be mentioned in the same sentence.
2007-11-14 09:00:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes I believe in love. I'll even go so far as to say that if you've ever felt love, you've felt God.
Love is God manifest.
2007-11-14 09:04:01 · answer #10 · answered by David 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋