RE: Why do you not believe in God?
July 6, 2012 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2012 at 1:28 pm by Mystic.)
(July 6, 2012 at 1:11 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote: 2. The universe began to exist (the big bang theory)
There are other theories then big bang but scientists are now saying all evidence is pointing to a beginning to the universe.
However a Powerful Creator =/= God. It's not a proof of God, just proof of an intelligent Creator whom can be evil. To prove God, you have to act on some intuition, even if it's for simple premises like "what defines reality must be simple/one as opposed to divisible/complex, as it's independent"....
All arguments make some use of intuition. Even the first premise "what begins to exist, must have a cause" is based on intuition, otherwise, people can believe that universe could've just came out of nothing. Although I agree this is illogical but it's a matter of intuition.
If people are willing to disregard all intuition, then there is no reason to believe in free-will, because there is no evidence or rational argument that we have free-will.
So knowledge that we have a soul or knowledge that a ultimate perfect being exists, is ultimately not in the realms of evidence without intuition.
There is arguments you can make, and I've made some, but they all make use of some intuition that is related to God.
Some people think intuition is totally unreliable because it's unreliable in some instance. But the same can be said about arguments. We rely on arguments that are sound and others that we think are sound, but are not. So should arguments be totally dismissed?

