RE: Why do you not believe in God?
July 7, 2012 at 10:35 am
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2012 at 12:11 pm by Simon Moon.)
(July 7, 2012 at 2:40 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote: However, even if the Kalaam cosmological argument fails, and all others for God do too, all that would follow would be that we have no argument to prove God exists… not that we cannot know God exists or that he does not exist.
Kalam and all the other philosophical arguments for the existence of a god DO fail. There is no 'if'.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
