RE: What is "FAITH"
July 11, 2013 at 10:27 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2013 at 10:29 pm by Consilius.)
(July 11, 2013 at 10:04 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote:Bad is the absence of good. What you are saying is that there are points in time and space where good is absent, like dips on a plain.(July 11, 2013 at 9:44 pm)Consilius Wrote: There is good in the world, hence, the world is characteristically good.
By train of the thought, the world is also characteristically bad. Do you see what I mean?
(July 11, 2013 at 9:44 pm)Consilius Wrote: We have a finite universe that came into being at a single point in time. Whatever caused this coming into existence would need to exist outside of time to cause it.
Space came into existence at this point in time. Space must come from outside of space. Something that is not limited by space.
And we go on.
And how do you know that? I know you can't fathom something coming from nothing, but if there is a creator, and if this creator is your god, and if he can't make something from nothing, then your God also can't come from nothing, which means he has a creator, and so on and so on. Does your god worship his creator? You can't possibly know these things, so then why do you accept them as fact?
(July 11, 2013 at 9:44 pm)Consilius Wrote: Is there anything that science can't do?
How can anyone possibly know the answer to that question? We know so much, but it's also possible that we've only scratched the surface of what there is to know of science.
What I am suggesting is that there has always been an immaterial entity that has always had the power to create the physical from itself.
(July 11, 2013 at 10:07 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:So there is chance that science can and can not find an atheistic answer?(July 11, 2013 at 9:58 pm)Consilius Wrote: What reason have you to believe that the discovery of the origin of the universe outside of God is among the things that science cannot do?
I do not recall stating that science could not one day do such a thing.