Is athiesm a belief? What is "God?"

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GameOver22 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

Most theologians are going to argue there is physical evidence for God. The best examples are inferring the existence of God from the rationality and orderliness of the universe. The main idea is that they look at some aspect of the universe and find God to be the best explanation for that characteristic. I think you might mean that God cannot be observed because God is generally described as non-physical. In this sense, there cannot be any direct physical evidence for God. Its always going to be inferential physical evidence.

As some other users mentioned though, this is not really a good route to take because there are many things of which we do not have direct physical evidence. Scientific laws are one example. You cannot point out the law of graivty, and say "there it is". The best we can do is infer the law of gravity from observation.

Yes but gravity can be measured and quantified. God cannot.