RE: Christians, what is your VERY BEST arguments for the existence of God?
December 30, 2009 at 9:34 am
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2009 at 9:35 am by Purple Rabbit.)
tackattack Wrote:What I've come to realize in my brief time here is that In trying to "see God" a lot of atheists rely only on tangible, objective and scientific proof for their "world view". Am I wrong? Is this any worse than accepting belief on blind faith? I don't think it is. Let's use another metaphor:Of course blind faith is far worse as a means for truth finding than evidence based opinion. But you don't have to believe me. You can research this yourself. There is a nice little A/B test for this with which you can do this:
You're told by 5 people that the twin towers have been blown up. You're skeptical, but after 100 people tell you and some of them were there, you want to see for yourself. You look in the news and internet for pictures and other "reliable evidence". You're still skeptical because the newspapers have an agenda and pictures can be doctored. You've determined to go "see it for yourself", which you can because it's a tangible place. You do and you believe. Long gone are the days when God takes people into the heavens and shows them true miracles. Maybe it's due to our skepticism, or lack of faith, idk. IMO heaven or the afterlife isn't a tangible place, but I believe it could exist and most likely does. If it does exist (which is unknowable) then I wouldn't need that much evidence to define what it really takes to get there. I can respect your search for truth and am perhaps the weaker for not struggling harder for proof. This is where we'll have to agree that without belief in the impossible we could never wholely agree. I'm sorry I couldn't provide the types of proof requested Void.
Go to a nearby road with heavy traffic and bring along with you a blindfold, earplugs, a thick rubber sheet, a pencil and a blank sheet of paper. We are gonna compare A - evidence based truth finding and B - faith based truth finding. Do the following experiments one after the other and repeat this say a hundred times to get a statistically significant sample.
A. Stand to the side of the road and use your senses to determine whether it is possible to cross it safely and act accordingly. Register the outcome of the experiment on a sheet of paper.
B. Stand to the side of the road again and put on the blindfold and earplugs and place yourself on the rubber sheet near to the road. Now determine whether it is possible to cross it safely on blind faith alone and act accordingly. You may take every time you need for this. Again, if possible, register the outcome of the experiment on a sheet of paper.
Now the registered results should clearly establish which method of truth finding works best for you.
Glad to have helped.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0