RE: The Problem with Christians
March 14, 2016 at 9:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2016 at 9:43 pm by AJW333.)
(March 14, 2016 at 9:00 pm)abaris Wrote:Picky picky. Definition of believe;(March 14, 2016 at 8:58 pm)AJW333 Wrote: And yet many respected physicists believe in the existence of other dimensions and the possibility of intelligent entities existing in those dimensions.
Believe? Consider the possibility more likely. And that makes your case how exactly?
"to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so." Dictionary.com
What it says is that the belief in God is not so far away from what many scientists are believing, ie that other dimensions exist and that intelligent entities may exist therein.
(March 14, 2016 at 9:17 pm)Kitan Wrote:(March 14, 2016 at 9:14 pm)AJW333 Wrote: Yep, that's why we call Christianity a faith.
Anything with a reliance upon faith has no true stance in reality.
Faith is simply "confidence or trust in a person or thing." You use it every day.
(March 14, 2016 at 9:17 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:(March 14, 2016 at 8:58 pm)AJW333 Wrote: And yet many respected physicists believe in the existence of other dimensions and the possibility of intelligent entities existing in those dimensions.
They may assume such, or want it to be true, or feel like it is the best explanation for unresolved scientific questions. They believe in the possibility of this hypothesis. I believe in the possibility of this hypothesis (mostly because I want it to be true). I doubt very much you'll find many, if any, who are as sure of it as you are of your hypothesis. My level of certainty regarding this hypothesis is zero.
The Yahweh hypothesis is still incalculably less likely than that. It is just about infinitely close to zero. The only thing less likely is the hypothesis that Yahweh was created by some yet greater being, which is a hypothesis I've never seen a Christian admit is possible.
So the possibility of there being an intelligent creator is zero but the possibility that the universe created itself from scratch is quite reasonable.
(March 14, 2016 at 9:21 pm)Kitan Wrote: There is no god.
The end.
I've no idea why you would want to go and shoot yourself in the foot like that. You've just made a grand statement with zero evidence and in the next breath, you mock those who say they believe that the universe has a creator (a statement for which there is much evidence.)