Why are there so many atheists these days... (srs)(warning dear diary)
How can anyone be sure...
With all the new developments particularly in physics how can any one know with any certainty that what they interpret is really what is happening in the real world and not clouded by biological perception.
When particles can be in multiple places at once (google: double slit experiment); when simply viewing an atom changes how it acts during experimentation (google: measurement problem); when all previously known laws of conventional physics are regularly being broken suggesting other dimensions (google: faster than light neutrino) and when it is thought that these rules may apply to Biology (google: Quantum Biology) what makes anyone so sure to proclaim without a shadow of a doubt that there is no God?
So much it seems is distorted by having a physical body capable of only interpreting things in a biological context constrained by the 4 dimensions of time, length, width and height. Everything is a product of your brain and it's chemical processing of external events which can only detect that which it is programmed to and which gives you information 7 seconds after it has been processed (youtube: neuroscience of freewill). Given these facts how can anyone therefore have complete confidence in any decision they make?
How can the possibility of the existence of God be ruled out by claiming it as being irrational when some of the most important ideas of science came out of acts of pure creative mathematical genus and when much of what we are learning in psychology, neuroscience and physics breaks all held notions of what is ''rationally possible.''
Why is it that all people ponder the existence of a God, if only when faced with their own death? Why is it that Jesus said 'you are in the father and the father in you' and why do monks feel that all life is connected? Why do physicists say that all matter and energy is entangled and sprawled across the universe? Why is it that when particles are separated by thousands of miles can applying a force on one still affect the other despite there being no known connection between the two? (google: quantum entanglement)
What if we don't know ****, what if rational and logic thinking have killed true thought and we have been left with a population of general know it all idiots too arrogant to even acknowledge the existence of a possible God? What if everyone decided to deny personal enquiry and instead listened to pseudo scientists like Dawkins never thinking for themselves?
For your time
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Edit - Still don't get it? Still not used to thinking for yourself? Read this...
[QUOTE=Margzz;784344773]The way this thread has gone is a perfect illustration of one of the greatest flaws of humanity. We decide what side of the fence we are on by making our own logical deductions through our personal belief and our experience of the world around us, and then we shut up shop and remain intensely steadfast on defending our original position regardless of any logical inconsistencies we may run into that challenges said position.
The OP didn't even mention religion, yet somehow it has one again stemmed into a atheist vs. religion debate of sorts. Most mainstream religions, and the most common one discussed in this thread being Christianity, are dependent on God's existence, however the existence of a creator of sorts is not dependent on say what is written in the bible being true.
The OP's point was that with each passing day we learn more information about the universe that shakes and breaks down our conceived laws of the universe. His extension of that point was if our supposed "laws of the universe" can be proven false, then how can we be so sure there that some sort of divine being does not exist?
The point is, we can't. So it is a logical fallacy to refer to a Creator's existence in absolutes, because we ultimately have no proof to confirm or deny his existence.[/QUOTE]
my faith has been restored, thanks to Margzz..