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2007-12-14 10:07:25 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-12-14 10:14:46 · update #1
It isn't actually real either. We can think about it as an abstract idea. But that really doesn't imply that it is real.
2007-12-14 10:12:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
As an atheist, if I say something like "God is imaginary", I believe I am simply telling the truth, not actually trying to offend anyone. Let's move this statement to more neutral ground - Do Christians ever say things like "Zeus is imaginary" or "Ishtar is imaginary"? Well if they did, I would agree with them! I believe all those gods are imaginary too. As Richard Dawkins once said, everyone is an atheist when it comes to almost all gods - atheists just go one further. The arguments for believing in imaginary beings could be used to get people to believe ANYTHING, and is not just restricted to God-belief(s). UFOs, Big foot, etc could be supported with the same basic formula. The arguments almost always involve question begging, special pleading, bait-and-switch, smoke and mirrors or moving the goal posts or trying to keep their beliefs sheltered in a theological "safe zone", where reason cannot penetrate. Con-artists routinely use similar arguments to hood-wink people out of their money.
2016-05-23 23:52:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since it has recently come to my attention that I am an atheist, I'll answer this one:
'imaginary' numbers are only imaginary to people who can't imagine anything other than a one-dimensional number line. As soon as you move off the one-dimensional line into two- or three-dimensional space, the numbers become perfectly 'real'. Engineers use the far more practical term 'j-numbers' (only because i was already taken, but still). Or they use vectors or polar numbers: they're perfectly real too.
Now, I don't know what strictly rational atheists do with irrational numbers....
2007-12-14 12:35:01 · answer #3 · answered by Orpheus Rising 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An atheist is someone with no belief in gods. That's me. Some might extend a disbelief in gods to all imaginary things, some might not. I, the square root of -1, is a mathematical tool. It is not something you have a belief or non-belief in, it is something you use in certain calculations.
2007-12-14 10:16:43 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's a mathematical tool. For example, in devising an electronic filter, you use of equation with "i" throughout, but when you have the final filter, the physical elements are devoid of the imaginary component.
2007-12-14 10:47:13 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well you see, if you carry the 9 and subtract the remainder after the long division of f(x) and then you take the cosine and replace it with the tangency of the negative root of 7y, i dont give a sh*t
2007-12-14 10:28:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
by admitting the square root of negative one is imaginary.
2007-12-14 10:16:15 · answer #7 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not that we don't believe in imaginary things, we just know they're imaginary. After all, I can imagine, say, George W saying something intelligent - that doesn't mean it can really happen.
2007-12-14 10:14:49 · answer #8 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thats why its called an imaginary number.
2007-12-14 10:24:46 · answer #9 · answered by CanadianFundamentalist 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A. It is spelt as atheist.
B. What has square root of -1 got to do with imaginary thing?
2007-12-14 10:16:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Ouch, you struck me where it hurts, my irrational belief in imaginary numbers. :'(
I've never seen an imaginary distance, or number of things... I will from this point forward correct anyone's math I see using "i".
2007-12-14 10:19:36 · answer #11 · answered by yelxeH 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋