RE: Atheists answer me
July 31, 2013 at 11:29 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2013 at 11:29 am by Mister Agenda.)
(July 28, 2013 at 6:29 am)iAisha Wrote: hi and hope all are fine
for those who dont believe in god i have a question
which type of evidences do you need to prove the existence of god
what i know it is not necessary to have evidence to prove existence of things
example 1:
suppose in the real world , i can see red color and they are many things have this color e.g blood
in contract the blind cant feel this color, cant see it
so if the blind people say give me an evidence to prove the existence of red color
what shall i say , do i have to make him touch the blood
if he touch it , is it enough ?
no
so do we believe the blind if he say i dont believe in red color
of course no.
believe in god is something out of our control
because a human is restricted in time and space
believe in god is like when a blind asks you to prove the existence of colors
I like the example of convincing a blind person that sighted people can see colors. There are reasons that people blind from birth believe sighted people have a sense that they don't: it's easily demonstrated. If they were skeptical about the color thing, various experiments could be attempted. For example, they could take a marker with 'green' written on it in braille, and draw a circle on the card. Then they could go to any sighted person and get a consistent reply that the card has a green circle on it. The blind person may not understand color, but they will have enough evidence to conclude that when sighted people refer to color, it's a real thing that they can perceive that the blind person can't.
A similar experiment can be conducted by atheists with religious people to see if they can perceive something we can't. We can ask a bunch of different religious people to describe God and see if their descriptions match up.
We've done this experiment. The descriptions don't match up. One's description of God seems to depend largely on things like what one's parents believe and what region of the world you were raised in.