I'll ask my other question once again. I asked this question like 3 minutes ago:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071128092223AAu6UZ6&r=w
Now, after reviewing the answers, the general consesus is "I don't know." So I will ask once again.
Doesn't it take a lot of faith to be an atheist, when you simply "don't know," and neither do any of us.
2007-11-28 04:31:53 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Interesting...
2007-11-28 04:32:36 · update #1
I think I should become a lawyer. I'm really good at arguing, and using people's own words against them.
2007-11-28 04:34:31 · update #2
Here is the defintion of faith for those that are associating the word with religon.
"To commit oneself to act based on sufficient evidence to warrant belief, but without absolute proof"
You can be atheist and have faith to. Seems like a lot of you have very strong faith, considering your on here right now.
2007-11-28 04:38:54 · update #3
Pretty much
no one "KNOWS" for sure if there is a God, or what happens when you die
You simply believe what you believe
2007-11-28 04:34:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Why does it take any faith to say "I do not know" ?
I would say that take zero faith and is absolutely honest.
It take a lot of faith to say "God Did It". Or to assume any answer when you have no evidence to support it.
There is significant evidence to support the big bang. From the background microwave radiation to the universal red-shift.
There is some evidence to support M-theory as a cause of the big bang.
the only thing supporting any religion is wishful thinking.
I am quite happy with a "I do not know" answer for the moment, but I take great interest in the minds that can think in 15 dimensions and have access to the big atom-smashers and are capable of producing credible theories and testing them.
2007-11-28 13:14:19 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you'd fail the bar exam.
It takes faith to believe you don't know something? What exactly do you define as faith? Everything you have ever thought about anything?
Atheists can have faith. Atheists can be spiritual. When it comes to absolute knowledge as to how the universe came into existence, most atheist are ok with waiting for the evidence and saying they don't know at this time. If you think this means they have faith and want to play "gotcha!", fine, that's your bag and apparently nobody can convince you otherwise. Hope you feel better. You certainly got us.
2007-11-28 12:36:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying that if scientist can not find a reason for the universe forming that there is no other explanation except that God created it?
I really do not understand the point of your argument. I think everyone that is sane on this planet will admit there is no way to know with certainty what occurred over 14 billion years ago.
2007-11-28 12:38:39 · answer #4 · answered by Small Victories 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is the absence of belief in gods. It is not the belief in the absence of gods, it is not the belief that the universe was created from nothing, and it is not whatever other straw man argument you care to think up.
How can the absence of an unsupported belief require faith?
Your definition makes it pretty obvious. "To commit oneself to act..." Atheism is not a commitment of any sort, it is nothing more or less than the absence of belief in gods. It doesn't even come close to fitting your definition.
2007-11-28 12:36:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Agnostics don't know. Based on what we (atheists) are given, we're pretty darn sure. It's just like the theory of gravity is technically just a 'theory', but you wouldn't argue with someone that it is false, would you? Kind of like how atheists deal with God. Sure, there's some extremely minute possibility in the realm of chance that there's a God and some afterlife, kind of like there's some extremely minute possibility in the realm of chance that gravity is a bunch of crap.
2007-11-28 13:01:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, atheists are fine with saying "I don't know."
None of them have to lock on to any certain belief or theory, they are comfortable with the fact that we are still learning. And those theories are tried and tested, based on logical deduction from evidence we have currently.
There's a big difference between theorizing and faith.
2007-11-28 12:36:13 · answer #7 · answered by Armless Joe, Bipedal Foe 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't take any faith at all to say, "I don't know" -- but it takes an enormous amount of hubris and arrogance to think that, out of a universe of a billion billion stars, that whether or not YOU PERSONALLY behave yourself is the primary concern of an infinitely powerful and intelligent being....
2007-11-28 12:36:02 · answer #8 · answered by The Reverend Soleil 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
On the contrary, I believe that most Atheists think they know without a doubt that we are without a God.
I just happen to disagree with them.
Blessings!
2007-11-28 12:43:12 · answer #9 · answered by Jaye16 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it takes faith to live....faith that you know that when you step out of your bed in the morning, the floor is gonna be there. faith that when you turn on the faucet in the bathroom, water will come out...They only believe in what they can examine with their 5 senses. They do not comprehend the faith it takes to believe in a Creator that they cannot see. God is like oxygen, you can't see it, but you cannot survive without it.
2007-11-28 12:38:04 · answer #10 · answered by loveChrist 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We will have a SCIENTIFIC answer someday that will be PROVEN and the model willl be replicated.
Fairytales are just that, fairy tales. Or do you believe an old woman lived in a shoe?
2007-11-28 12:38:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋