You say often Fisternis that just because 85% of the world’s population believes in God does not make it His existence so. However, you are missing the logic that there is enough to support God’s existence to make 85% of the World’s population believe.
Argumentum ad numerum
You seem to think people in general own the scientific knowledge and method to understand such complex thing. 1 000 years, even if the earth was proven to be a sphere (quasi), most people were thinking it was still flat… You are using very poor argument my friend. There’s no evidence of god, i ask a question at the first post that you are unable, with your “logical evidence”, to answer.
In essence one person or 85% of the world (it’s all the same once you invoke argumentum ad numerum) having experienced God or having the impetus towards faith is not evidence (regardless of the numbers)? Simply because this experience is not quantifyable by you? A person tells me they experience crushing chest pain, do i tell them that it’s all in their head? (Maybe, if they are malingering).
This is straight from you Fisternis, no one here believes this.
Christian do not believe in a personnal god ? Then christian are not theist.
Now FinsterniS, you know that Butt was making reference to your comment :We are human; so the creator must look like human. We are (were) a society dominated by male; so god must be male
We don’t all necessarily believe that the creator must “look” human but rather blessed us with a spiritual aspect (breathing a soul into us). We don’t believe that God must be male simply because of society. I think you made this up or took it from your limited experience with people of faith.
You’re pretending there is a circular argument were there is none.
The only argument you’ve made exept the empirical one were circular… And that’s the only one i heard about.
again, he’s referencing your statement that we believe the circular idea that “god exists because god exists”. None of us purport that (but we believe that God exists because of many other reasons), although you suggest that we do, therefore we argue with a complete lack of logic.
If God does not exist, what exactly is the point of life? To procreate? To have as much pleasure as possible? To watch TV? What?
I am sure my answer will make you happy; i don’t know.
When man does’nt know, he create myth. I don’t know. I see a species that make everything (sometime not the right way…) to survive.
How do you know that? How do you know that all the myths generated over thousands of years are simply “filling in the blanks”? You really have NO idea (and neither do i).
You are just adding some fancy pants logic to gloss over the real reason you not just disagree with the existence of God, but are vehemently oppossed to the existence of anyone who believes differently.
OIt is because it makes you uncomfortable. Plain and simple.
Argumentum ad hominem.
You attack me because you cannot attack my argument. And that is not “fancy pants logic”. I have only one certitude; god does’nt exist. Empiricism, rationalism, lamarckisme, darwinisme… i have no camp, but not on religion. You are making every move possible butt to use ignorance & to dodge argument i am making, discussion with you is useless.
I think that you might be being a little unfair to Butt. Obviously we do not all speak the same language. You have demonstrated mastery in your skills of philosophical reasoning and mathematical logic - a language that Butt (nor I) have yet to study. You also seem to assume that this language (as you have learned it) is the only path to enlightment and if one strays from this path then we must be made to ridicule. Consider that there are things outside of your ideology that bear consideration, despite the fact that some of us have difficulty articulating it properly. If i talk in physics, biology, or chemistry metaphors with a person with limited knowledge of these areas and hold them up to ridicule for not knowing the language (despite their adeptness at music, poetry etc.) then i am doing themselves (and myself) an injustice.
Again, your hatred of Religion (seperate from your disbelief in God) is a very irrational and emotional aspect, the kind of thing you like to critisiz in other people
You are surely omnipotent to know such thing… no seriously that is first a rational reasonning, and people like you, that make me hate religion. Just look at your argumentation, that is empty, how can i not, as a scientist, be angry about this mayhem of logic ? You are using a lot of argumention i am sure will convince a lot of people, but using such logic will always get you problem with scientist or people with a minimum of logic.
You do seem quite emotional about this. Science is not all about logic. Certainly it is a valuable tool, however “chance favors the prepared mind”, and i have garnered several papers by listening to the muse of whimsy. There are other ways of understanding the world then through logic and critical thinking - Butt and you seem to have trouble relating to the way each other understands it.
You’re simply trying to replace your natural yearn for God with a new god, science. In april I was working at a camp for sixth graders. Before we ate, we sang a song of thankfulness, it was baisically a protestant grace except “the Lord” was replaced with “the Earth” They had simply moved from worshipping God to nature. When people stop turning to God they make “new gods” to turn to, science, nature, sex, drugs, violence, etc.
Everyone in this earth is not like you, i do not need religion, i do not need stable belief, stable ethic. I do not need religion, i do not need any personnal god. I have a fascination for science and math that cannot be
assimilate to any religious feeling. Theist stating X is a religion is a good way not to face directly the subject. Science is not my “god”, you are making a big & dangerous projection, like you are projecting your “essence” in your god.
Actually, my limited experience in psychology suggests that Butt isn’t far off on this one. You have a fanatical zeal for “your way of thinking” that i wish i had for my Lord.
I must say your aggressivity is far beyond mine. You could at least dream that your all-loving almighty god will send me in hell for my “crime”.
You really seem to get off on this belief that Christians want you to go to hell. It may not be a bad idea to consider that the hell you are speaking of is one that may be yours of your own making - purposely pushing your way as far from God as possible, that you would never be reconcilled to him.