RE: Evidence God Exists
November 11, 2011 at 10:20 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2011 at 10:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That assumes that "god" is something other than a character in all of these myths. Honestly, I don't see why any evidence has to be offered against god. Evidence needs to be offered for god(as an actual entity), until then the only thing that can be demonstrated is that god is a character in fairy tales.
As for you Tango, no one thought of rain gods as elements of nature? Those gods were precisely how they defined those elements of nature and their explanation of why it seemed so capricious or beneficient (depending on what angle they were approaching it from). Agricultural societies painted agricultural gods as their benefactors, nomadic societies preferred "transportation gods"(be they horses, or sea gods, or what have you) warrior cultures opted in for warrior gods. Some societies that developed into what we call "civilizations" incorporated all of these into their pantheons as they engaged in each activity(though their pantheons were still heavily weighted in favour of whatever they were primarily engaged in). The shared experience I'm referring to is again the mundane experience of everyone living on the same rock. Rain gods where it rains, Sun gods where the sun shines, on and on and on. The world we all share became the backdrop for myth, as these myths were our attempt to explain this experience. I don't have to invoke some long forgotten communal myth handed down by man and interpreted differently as we traversed the globe. How would this explain things like Mormonism, Scientology, or Cargo Cults? We're clearly capable of inventing myths whole cloth. Furthermore, man had already spread himself across the globe before we even begin to see traces of organised religious observance or structured myth. Long before near eastern culture and myth emerges. And how would we explain migratory populations that do not seem to have halted in the near east? How did they carry myths over distance and time that they were never privy to in the first place? At best we could say that man carried animism and a belief in the afterlife everywhere he went and then branched off wildly from that point along lines that are obviously parallel with his local environment and societal structure.
As for you Tango, no one thought of rain gods as elements of nature? Those gods were precisely how they defined those elements of nature and their explanation of why it seemed so capricious or beneficient (depending on what angle they were approaching it from). Agricultural societies painted agricultural gods as their benefactors, nomadic societies preferred "transportation gods"(be they horses, or sea gods, or what have you) warrior cultures opted in for warrior gods. Some societies that developed into what we call "civilizations" incorporated all of these into their pantheons as they engaged in each activity(though their pantheons were still heavily weighted in favour of whatever they were primarily engaged in). The shared experience I'm referring to is again the mundane experience of everyone living on the same rock. Rain gods where it rains, Sun gods where the sun shines, on and on and on. The world we all share became the backdrop for myth, as these myths were our attempt to explain this experience. I don't have to invoke some long forgotten communal myth handed down by man and interpreted differently as we traversed the globe. How would this explain things like Mormonism, Scientology, or Cargo Cults? We're clearly capable of inventing myths whole cloth. Furthermore, man had already spread himself across the globe before we even begin to see traces of organised religious observance or structured myth. Long before near eastern culture and myth emerges. And how would we explain migratory populations that do not seem to have halted in the near east? How did they carry myths over distance and time that they were never privy to in the first place? At best we could say that man carried animism and a belief in the afterlife everywhere he went and then branched off wildly from that point along lines that are obviously parallel with his local environment and societal structure.
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