(January 25, 2010 at 3:14 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(January 24, 2010 at 8:55 pm)theVOID Wrote: No evidence for God ≠ No reason to believe ≠ God does not exist.
One modification further. There never has been evidence and people believe understanding this. So that there is no evidence is no reason for disbelief. People believe because there is no evidence. If there were evidence there'd be no reason to believe & faith would cease to exist along with Christianity.
1) When their is no evidence in support of a given proposition the only rational position is to withhold judgement. Believing something without evidence is irrational.
2) Withholding judgement on God makes you an Atheist by definition as you are presently "without God(s)"
3) If there were evidence for God there would be more reason to believe, not less. This argument you make that Evidence for God = Disbelief is shocking illogic.
4) Faith alone is not a good thing, it is admitting that you can find no rational reason for your belief. If however, God were conclusively proven to exist, you would still be required to have faith in his actions and hope that these natural disasters and disease that kill so many are actually necessary evil when you would have no evidence that these lives must have been taken rather than say, believe god just did it for shits-and-giggles, so it is also illogical to posit that Evidence for his existence will destroy Faith completely.
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