This is getting too much for me
, I always stop when I feel that I'm about to repeat myself.
Soleron said:
Use an MRI scanner. The electrical currents in the brain correspond to thoughts, emotions and feelings and can be predicted and interpreted.
Got anything else supposedly outside science's ability to observe?
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Nem already informed me. As I answered him, my point still stands, those thing existed with as all along before we could prove them. the claim that if we can't prove something exists then doesn't isn't true at all.
Soleron said:
OK, let's call that point God. How, then, do you know it has the properties usually ascribed to got - omniscience, omnipotence, goodness, that he cares about the life on Earth, that he wrote and delivered scriptures?
Even if God is outside science's reach, his actions (miracles, scripture) are very real things that can be tested.
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Personal belief really. I don't see how this could enrich the discussion but ... Looking around, I find this world was created with a lot of attention and care, I've read through scriptures (Quran mostly) and I found it very... godly (if that is a word), the amount of details mentioned is ... interesting to say at least.
Jay520 said: Except that's even more unexplainable than the universe just starting on its own. Not only are you suggesting that an entity started on its own, which is the notion you disagree with, you also make it worse by suggesting that that thing is a supernatural thing who knows all, is all powerful, etc. You're contradicting yourself.
You disagree with the universe starting on its own. Your reasoning is: Nothing can just start in its own. Then you go to say God just sprang into existence. However that very sentence contradicts with your reasoning. Basicly your saying that something cannot start on its own, however, something can definitely start on its own, and that thing is actually a spirit, and it has a conscious, and it knows everything, and it can do everything, oh and it can be everywhere at the same time, etc. Sure, there could be a God, I can understand that. And I can understand wanting there to be a God. (I want there to be a God too). But when an intelligent person such as yourself says he believes there is a God, it just leaves me paralyzed with confusion.
I think the universe just starting on its own is more plausible than something starting and then throwing supernatural abilities on it. At least we have evidence that suggests the Big Bang happened. There is nothing to suggest that someone started the Big Bang. If you don't believe the Big Bang started on its own, then fine. But you don't have to believe. Don't just assume things because you need to know an answer. And definitely don't make it worse by bring in the supernatural.
Just because we don't know something, doesn't mean we should immediately just throw the supernatural label on it. That would be close-minded. Humanity still has a lot of years left to figure it out. There's no reasson to just try to answer by saying it was God. Don't be close-minded and don't assume things. Just accept that we don't know yet.
And if there was a God, you wouldn't know anything about it other than its power and knowledge. How do you know it loves you? How do you know it cares for you? How do you know its a female God? How do you know there aren't multiple Gods? And why does it have to be a spirit/being? Maybe God is actually a powerful object that accidently started the universe when it brushed up against another powerful object? Etc. There are so many unanswered questions with that hypothesis and there are so many assumed answers as well.
Anyway, I just don't like when people try to explain the unexplainable by slapping God on it. Just accept that at the moment, it cannot be explained. There's a lot of things on this planet and further off in the universe that we don't / didn't understand. If we always just slapped the supernatural card on it, that would be close-minded AND it would only make the situation even more enigmatic that what it already is. |
The idea is simple, nothing can starts on its own within the law of nature, and that is the very idea of God; God is not bounded by the nature. The idea is that god created nature that we understand. I don't suggest god has some random supernatural abilities; god as a being is and has to be supernatural. without the supernaturality of god, the whole idea is flawed.
First, I don't see any logic by saying that the big bang just happened by its own, why are we ignoring the chain of cause & effect for something that is supposed to be natural ?!. Once again, If I believed for a second that science can understand and figure out everything in this world even in the distant future I wouldn't be religious at all. Will science prove me wrong ?, I hope so, I'm eager for more understanding. However, God is the answer for the thing that is beyond nature, it is not -as you put it- a shallow idea that we created to cover our ignorance, we are not ashamed or afraid of our lack of knowledge, we all live to learn.
It is -more or less- a personal belief. I see a world that was created with a lot of attention and care. You are asking questions about the minor details of God, I don't think that they should be asked before the acceptance of the idea. However, believing that god is supernatural, I can't reasonably answer because this is not something I can figure out. But religion (Quran) gives us such details. just one example "If there were therein gods beside Allah, then verily both (the heavens and the earth) had been disordered. Glorified be Allah, the Lord of the Throne, from all that they ascribe (unto Him).".
Nem said:
I guess the problem with us humans is that we have a hard time picturing infinites and making logic out of the illogical.
Its believed the Big bang was the result of the fight between matter and anti-matter due to the tremendous violence of the explosion. You can look at it as the battle between something and nothing. The cosmos is a place of chaos, it doesnt stay orderly neat, its always churning and transforming. Its a dificult concept to grasp when something comes out of nothing.
I dont understand why an entity like God would create such a thing, nor what his purpose would be.
Another point of view is to question your final question. If god created everything, who created god? Did he perhaps come out of nothing? Then perhaps "your" god, is the cosmos itself? Just a bunch of physics laws beeing bent and unbent, creating matter and anti-matter and sometimes some bi-products, like us. There really is no reason for a councious entity to do something like that, and it would always beckon the question of who created it? The laws that rule the universe dont have a will, they come into existance as the universe itself comes into existance from the battle of something and nothing and particles interact with each-other.
When faced with this logic i just cant see how an entity like the "humanoid all powerful, just and kind" god can exist or have a will, even if i wish it did.
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Your points are very similar to Jay's points, I gave my take on them just above this quote.
Netyaroze said:
We don't disagree. I don't know that. And you don't know it. Nobody knows, thats my point. Saying "I believe in god because there must be a point where it all started" is a weak argument. You guess you are right, thats it.
There is no logical reason to doubt an infinite row of universes. There is also no rule against having such a principle. Could be like in quantum physics. Even in empty space, where there is nothing, the room is full of virtual particles which are continously created from nothing (and later destroyed).
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I'm open for all kind of ideas , I love learning and productive discussion, don't judge me. I explained my point of view about God just above.
The chain of cause and effect is a natural law, the existence of a virtual particle is caused by the presence of other virtual particles, so the chain of cause and effect clearly apples here. Again, why are we ignoring the chain for something that is supposed to be natural !.
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I hope that I made my point clear that far