Science and God are not in opposition. In fact, if anyone dismisses the existence of God than that person is surly no scientist. A scientist would consider God to at least be an unproven theory.
To dismiss the existence of God one must first define God. Once you have defined God, if done so in a way that you are able to dismiss God as untrue, you can then dismiss only that definition of God. That says nothing for any other definition of God.
If you want to state that God of the Bible does not exist you must first become an expert on the Bible and be able to fully understand and explain every principle and resolve every conflict you find therein. A feat I am am sure none have fully accomplished and few have even claimed.
No, if you believe that God does not exist, then it is just that, a belief. It is your faith, a foolhardy one, but a faith none the less. So as someone with such a baseless faith, how hypocritical of you to judge other people of faith.
Let's say you don't know if God exists but insist that no one else can know whether or not God exists. To put it another way; you believe that all religion is man-made hoax or a convenient crutch. Here again it is a belief of yours about the beliefs of others and rather hubris of you to think you can know the mind of another.
So if you think about it, we all have beliefs, but you can also consider them personal scientific theories that we are engaged in proving or disproving to ourselves. Put these beliefs or theories all together and they make up our own theory of everything. Whether conscientiously or not, we are all have a theory of everything that we are continuously fine tuning.
Considering this in public discourse, as scientists, we would be wise to tolerate and listen to all theories if only for the benefit of gathering more information.
From the author of the upcoming book, A Unified Theory of Everything, Find Yours (working title.)
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
Atheists Do Not Exist!
Well, let me qualify, rational atheists do not exist, and I can prove it! First let us define the terms. By rational I mean able to reason. By atheist I mean one who denies the existence of God. By God lets just say a supreme being, for God is nearly as impossible to define in a single sentence as God is to prove (which can not be done.)
Now to get to it and it's simple really. How can any reasonable person expect to argue the none existence of something that can't even be defined. If you say that I am jumping the gun on God not being able to be defined than I say, define God and then say that that God does not exist. Fine, I will concede that the God of your limited definition may not exist assuming you have some proof, however, what of God of other's definitions. You can not possibly even know all possible definitions of God therefore could not even argue the non existence of all things you don't know about.
Therefore the statement of atheists that God does not exist is a statement of faith not a statement of what is reasoned. You may say as is any faith but what is more reasonable to have faith in something you can not prove or to have faith in the absence of something you can neither prove nor disprove.
So in conclusion if by my ramblings we have not made any more Christians, at least we now know atheists do not exist.
Merry Christmas!
Now to get to it and it's simple really. How can any reasonable person expect to argue the none existence of something that can't even be defined. If you say that I am jumping the gun on God not being able to be defined than I say, define God and then say that that God does not exist. Fine, I will concede that the God of your limited definition may not exist assuming you have some proof, however, what of God of other's definitions. You can not possibly even know all possible definitions of God therefore could not even argue the non existence of all things you don't know about.
Therefore the statement of atheists that God does not exist is a statement of faith not a statement of what is reasoned. You may say as is any faith but what is more reasonable to have faith in something you can not prove or to have faith in the absence of something you can neither prove nor disprove.
So in conclusion if by my ramblings we have not made any more Christians, at least we now know atheists do not exist.
Merry Christmas!
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