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What proof would it take for me to believe in god?
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RE: What proof would it take for me to believe in god?
I don't think there is any. Any "proof" that showed up for a god would be like "proof" that the world is flat and the center of the solar system. Clearly someone misunderstood something. Can we learn new things? Sure, and sometimes we learn a new thing that makes us rethink what we learned about an old thing. The general theory of relativity was a rethink of Newton's laws. But Newton wasn't "wrong", the universe really does function in accordance with Newton, his just wasn't the complete picture.

Since quantum mechanics is incompatible with relativity, it is clear there is more to learn. But when (if) we do, the things we have observed that led to the understandings of relativity and QM will not change, they will not be "un-learned". The depth of knowledge behind them will be deeper and more complete.

We are not going to unlearn that Jesus, Allah, Thor, Titan, Vishnu, etc. are mythologies created by human kind, we are not going to find an all knowing, all powerful, created-the-cosmos-from-outside-the-cosmos entity. Nothing is going to pop up where we all point and say, "God!"

"Proofs" to the contrary never arise, and never will arise. Still, bring me a "proof" and, most likely, I'll be polite and take a look. It never hurts to be kind so long as one has the time and I will, generally, not be the least bit interested in insulting you or depriving you of some belief or ideology you need to be happy. (So long as you don't use it as an excuse to hurt someone else or insist that everyone MUST be taught your mythology as "truth".) But even if your proof proves interesting, the chance is zero that I will see a god in it. At best I will find some new facet of our being in or understanding the cosmos that adds to what we already know. "God" however, is a childish thing already decided and set aside.
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RE: What proof would it take for me to believe in god? - by tjakey - September 17, 2014 at 2:29 pm

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