Is athiesm a belief? What is "God?"

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pizzahut451 said:

Reasonable said:

pizzahut451 said:

mysticwolf said:

I just think the idea of God is unrational. There's no logic. There's no physical evidence of God.

There is evidence to support that life started long ago with volcanic eruptions underwater. The volcanoes released chemicals, and these certain chemicals reacted with elements on the surface of the earth, and the right conditions were made for bacteria to be created.

Here's an article:

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/October/26100603.asp

there is no phisical evidence of a human thought either...just sayin

Sure there is.  You ever see a brain scan or wonder how they can make a device capable of identifying certain brain patterns and using that to operate something?

Thought can be traced back to activity in the brain.

do you mind showing mee the picture of a human though? A brain scan doesnt really show an actuall human thought. Otherwise, people could read other peoples thoughts from it. I mean, my cousins brother is a neurosurgeon, he operates on ahuman brain and he never saw a human though.  

You can't see oxygen either but do you believe in that?  Thoughts are caused by the complex movements and interactions of a range of very, very small chemicals that aren't significantly larger that O2 molecules.  Never mind the limits of human vision and the practicalities of being able to see inside the head of a living person, the laws of physics would prohibit us from seeing/recognising them in any meaningful way.

We can however stick electrodes in peoples brains and evoke or invoke a wide range of thoughts and emotions.  We can give drugs to people, with known mechanisms of action, which can influence their thoughts and emotions.  Brain injury either traumatic or otherwise can result in people being unable to have or process certain kinds of thoughts, the list goes on and on.  Like it or not this is evidence of the physical nature of thought.  Better evidence is dependent one or two factors; significantly better technology than we currently have or a major shift in ethics which  renders experimentation on live human subjects once again acceptable.