(May 31, 2015 at 5:57 pm)ronedee Wrote: Because most of you said "no" ... you've made your minds up already.Yeah, I kind of thought that's where this was leading. Theists want to pretend that atheists have rejected a god that they "know" exist so that they can dismiss any reasoning or questions regarding the existence of god. Asking such an ambiguous question and demanding a yes/no answer isn't an honest attempt at dialogue as much as a desire to try and close the issue. I don't see why you would find this satisfying, though.
ronedee Wrote:To clarify my question, for those who don't understand it:Presumably, you are referring to Yahweh, the god of the Bible, and not a different god.
IF you met your maker, the one who created YOU in HIS image, would you accept Him unconditionally [without question] in every way?
Will you Love Him? Or would you deny Him your love based on His absence in this life?
If Yahweh turned out to be real, I would acknowledge that he was real. I would then beg him to end my existence as soon as possible, because the god described in the Bible is simply terrifying. He cannot be stopped and his every whim becomes reality, and we know that he has no moral obligations, because his every action is "good" by default. The idea of spending eternity existing in a universe where the most arbitrary and capricious and utterly unpredictable personality is also the supreme and unstoppable power fills me with dread. Why would you want such a scenario to be real? And why do you think you can boil my assessment down to a yes/no answer, as if those concerns were of no import?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould