Kasz216 said:
Soleron said:
Jackson50 said:
Soleron said:
No, and no. Faith is irrational, and religion is an artifact of human culture and evolution (for an great explanation of this, read Richard Dawkins' 'The God Delusion' - despite the name it is a very reasoned and informative book).
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I would not recommend The God Delusion. It offers nothing new in this debate. If you have heard the arguments for why God does and does not exist, then there is no point in reading his book. This whole debate on whether or not God exists will never find a resolution. At best, no one knows.
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You can't have understood his book then. His book is NOT primarily about arguing that God does not exist. He first argues that the rational position is not agnosticism ("no one knows") but atheism ("probably no God, with scientific conviction")*, and then, for two-thirds of the book, explains where religion comes from, why it is bad regardless of its truth and how we can solve the real underlying problem of irrationality.
*His main point is that, just because something can't be decided either way, that doesn't imply a 50% probability of it being true. You don't believe in fairies, but there isn't a 50% chance of fairies existing.
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Seems like an illogical hypothisis from a scientific standard.
I mean... look at how scientists approach things.
They see something they don't understand and ask a question.
"Why"
Then they come up with a hypothisis for why... and keep with that hypothisis believing in it and expiermenting with it until they prove or disprove it.
It's not a matter of "Do pink faeries exist." or "Does god exist"
It's a question of "Why does everything exist."
God is simply the hypothisis to that answer.
Just how something like Dark Energy was the hypothisis to why the universe is expanding, despite the fact there was no actual proof for such a thing. Or Ether... which was a hypothsis for... I forget what it was a hypothisis for now... something with why light travels "slower" in some areas?
Until
A) Another hyptohisis is proven.
or
B) Your hypothisis is disproven.
It's just as likely as any other outcome scientifically.
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The existence or non-exisetence of God are not scientific hypotheses as it is impossible to test using the scientific method.
It seems highly likely that in the future we will be able to find out whether dark matter really exists, it even seems somewhat likely that we will be able to test things like M-Theory, the existence of God however can never be disproven by experiment and as such can never be considered scientific.
For the second part of your post, many people (including me) think that as long as there is no need for a God to explain the universe why should we make things more complex by having one?
