RE: Will a sign from God will convince us of his existence?
March 24, 2014 at 9:14 am
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2014 at 9:16 am by LostLocke.)
For this 'experiment' there isn't really enough information by itself to make me believe. At least not without further research.
I mean, granted, praying for a plate of food, and then having that plate of food appear out of nowhere would be a unique and unusual event. It would definitely warrant consideration and further study.
But, some other things I would also consider right off the bat:
- I'm hallucinating the food. Yes, I see it, feel it, even might be 'eating' it, but serious hallucinations are that real to the people hallucinating them.
- My own mind/brain holds the power to generate that food out of nothing. I have some type of ESP/super power.
- If it's food that I normally cook and eat, maybe I cooked this dish one year from now, and my home was hit with a massive dose of electromagnetic energy that caused this plate to time shift back to today.
- Mean spirited aliens are having fun with me.
As ridiculous as some of these sound, there's no specific reason why they can't be any more possible than a deity answering my prayer. And will the possibility that it was a god doing this enter my mind? Of course. But I'm not going to go right to that as "the answer" while rejecting everything else. Until I have more info, I have to allow for all possibilities. And if I never get any more info, then I just have to live with the fact that 'I don't know' what happened.
I mean, granted, praying for a plate of food, and then having that plate of food appear out of nowhere would be a unique and unusual event. It would definitely warrant consideration and further study.
But, some other things I would also consider right off the bat:
- I'm hallucinating the food. Yes, I see it, feel it, even might be 'eating' it, but serious hallucinations are that real to the people hallucinating them.
- My own mind/brain holds the power to generate that food out of nothing. I have some type of ESP/super power.
- If it's food that I normally cook and eat, maybe I cooked this dish one year from now, and my home was hit with a massive dose of electromagnetic energy that caused this plate to time shift back to today.
- Mean spirited aliens are having fun with me.
As ridiculous as some of these sound, there's no specific reason why they can't be any more possible than a deity answering my prayer. And will the possibility that it was a god doing this enter my mind? Of course. But I'm not going to go right to that as "the answer" while rejecting everything else. Until I have more info, I have to allow for all possibilities. And if I never get any more info, then I just have to live with the fact that 'I don't know' what happened.
