Seeing is believing?
If we do not see it, does it still exist? I mean those of us that believe in a heaven believe we will see loved ones that we have lost again once our lives are over, at the same time there are those that find this notion to be crazy.
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is the author of “The God Delusion“, in which the atheist scientist attacks God ‘in all his forms’ arguing that belief in a supernatural entity is irrational. I think it is very difficult to prove such things, on either side of the argument, but it also puts the accuser in a strange position as to whether it is right to come out with as bold a statement as that.
Religion has been around for a long time and the believe that many hold in whatever Lord they choose to believe in is generally a strong one. Yes there are times they are tested but most of the time it is ingrained into a believer’s thought process and something that is hard to convince of otherwise.
Don’t distract us from the real arguments by assuming that religion is an eccentric survival strategy or irrational form of explanation…Our culture is one that deeply praises science, so we assume because someone is a good scientist, they must be a good philosopher. My inner jury is out on that.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams
I think we have become a cynical society and with that comes a massive change in terms of holding onto a believe that will stand by us through rough times and good times. It is not easy for a lot of people to put faith in something like that because most other things that we put faith in we can see.
There will always be room for those who do believe and for those who don’t. In a way it is better that the like of Richard Dawkins are challenging perceptions because it’ll spark the something that may be needed the most: debate and interest.
Monday, October 15th, 2007 and is filed under GOD, Thoughts & Questions.
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eire Says:
Did he atom exist when we didn’t have the means to see it?
Creation itself attests to the existence of The Great Designer.
Why do we desire perfection in Love and Justice? – We must have known it in order to desire it.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Shannon Says:
Shannon says:
2 queries re above question and answer?
Why does God not reappear in human form and leave no doubt of his existence?
And if God want’s us to go to heaven,why do we have to first, live on earth?
March 30th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Noel Grainger Says:
Did the atom exist before we had the means to measure it?
Well yes of course since we now know it exists as qualified by the scientific methods and terms we use to measure and quantify such things.
A better question would be:
Before we discovered the existence of the atom did we have a dedicated organisation claiming it did based on the belief that it might and admonishing flocks of gullible people to live their lives according to the “wishes” of the atom and sailing along tax free and in many cases above the law?
Well no we didn’t and to allow such a scenario would have been the worst stupidly possible.
Of course it may only be an accident of history that some bunch of fanatics did not get hold of the theory, write a few books which later were taken up by other fanatics and turned into Atomism!
Claiming that something might exist is not the same as having evidence that it does.
If you want to claim a creator then you have to explain how the creator came to be created. When you do that you’re caught in a never ending backward spiral of pointless speculation and conjecture. Either way it does not justify the existence of an organisation based on what might have happened billions of years ago.
Did the atom exist before we had the means to measure it?
Well yes of course since we now know it exists as qualified by the scientific methods we use to measure and quantify such things.
Before we discovered the existence of the atom did we have a dedicated organisation claiming it did based on the belief that it might and admonishing flocks of gullible people to live their lives according to the “wishes” of the atom and sailing along tax free and in many cases above the law?
Well no we didn’t and to allow such a scenario would jave been the worst stupidy possible.
Of course it may only be an accident of history that some bunch of fanactics did not get hold of the theory, write a few books on the vague theory which later were taken up by other fanatics and turned into Atomism!
Claiming that something might exist is not the same as having evidence that it does.
If you want to claim a creator then you have to explain how the creator came to be created. When you do that you’re caught in a never ending backward spiral of pointless speculation and conjecture. Either way it does not justify the existence of an organisation based on what might have happened billions of years ago.
“God” is just another way of saying “Don’t Know”.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:40 pm