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"Faith" often gets bad-mouthed, but you have just as much faith as me. Someone without faith wouldn't be able to function normally. For instance, you have faith that Dan Barker wrote those sentences.
Faith is the belief in the supernatural, and to a lesser extent, the belief in someone or something without proof or evidence pointing towards the conclusion you reach. Maybe you need faith to be normal according to Judeo-Christian values, but the growing secular world doesn't feel the same way.
I am a person of faith but that does not make me weak or stop me from thinking. Some of the greatest contributions to the world have been made by people of faith.
I am a person of faith but that does not make me weak or stop me from thinking. Some of the greatest contributions to the world have been made by people of faith.
Faith and/or belief in god does not "cancel out" intellect or the capacity for brilliance. If anything, I think one might just have the capacity to enhance/augment the other. They aren't mutally exclusive.
Hi bloggers: I was scanning and scrolling looking for "my area of interest" and came across this subject....religion etc. How about this quote, my own. "Yes, God may or may not be, a fifty per cent chance He exists." Why would you take that bet?" Some one said, " Whenever there is disagreement over God and man, I , always, side with God, He is apt to remember."
Hi bloggers: I was scanning and scrolling looking for "my area of interest" and came across this subject....religion etc. How about this quote, my own. "Yes, God may or may not be, a fifty per cent chance He exists." Why would you take that bet?" Some one said, " Whenever there is disagreement over God and man, I , always, side with God, He is apt to remember."
Which God? Considering there are roughly over 5000 Gods in human history, it seems like the odds are approximately 1 in 5,000 for the believer, no? That's assuming the correct deity has been portrayed in some form of text or religious format already. So, it seems to me like your argument is one of (and forgive me for making the assumption you are Christian)
"Whenever there is disagreement over the Christian God and man, I, always, side with the Christian God, He is apt to remember."
This begs the question that you posed:
What if you're wrong and a God does exist but it's not your particular 'brand'? Aren't you up the same proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle as I?
Most of us are Atheists for the same reason you are. We just take it one God further.
Psum: You gotta be kidding? Man created God???? How do you explain the beauty of the human body, all those working parts, functioning, a baby? a flower? the stars?the sun, the moon...did man do all those too? My degrees are from UMass, a public university. One of my professor's asked, one day, if anyone knew what the Cambrian Explosion or Permian Extinction were all about. No seeing any other raised hand, I raised mine and said. "The Cambrian Explosion is that day in time when life first proliferated all over the planet and the Permian Extinction was thd period of time when 75% of life disappeared due to a water phenonomen." Correct, said the Professor. I raised my hand one more time. "Professor, does that leave room for God?" His answer, in a public classroom? "Yes, it certainly does."
Psum: You gotta be kidding? Man created God???? How do you explain the beauty of the human body, all those working parts, functioning, a baby? a flower? the stars?the sun, the moon...did man do all those too? My degrees are from UMass, a public university. One of my professor's asked, one day, if anyone knew what the Cambrian Explosion or Permian Extinction were all about. No seeing any other raised hand, I raised mine and said. "The Cambrian Explosion is that day in time when life first proliferated all over the planet and the Permian Extinction was thd period of time when 75% of life disappeared due to a water phenonomen." Correct, said the Professor. I raised my hand one more time. "Professor, does that leave room for God?" His answer, in a public classroom? "Yes, it certainly does."
Although it might leave room for God, perhaps you should study the Argument from Incredulity. Just because you "Can't believe it happened without divine interference" doesn't make it true. There are natural explanations for just about everything, and science works on the answers to questions we don't currently know. Invoking deistic interference into something you just don't understand doesn't help matters much.
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