How can God not exist?

Please explain Your reasoning

Published on February 23, 2004 By TARSIER In Religion

It seems so obvious to me. What are people's arguments that God does not exist? I would really like to hear them.

Please Respond.

Comments (Page 2)

BigDreamer415

on Mar 04, 2004

"Why? I am not content to shrug and say, "I guess that's just how it is." Just because you have no sense of curiosity and healthy skepticism doesn't mean the rest of us should be content to accept a myth, one that you just admitted is "crazy.""

I resent your comment. I think I have a healthy sense of curiousity and healthy skepticism, but that doesn't mean I can't accept things the way they are. I admitted that it's crazy simply because it is crazy to think about... not crazy in and of itself. There are some things that our minds can't quite fathom. It's almost like we're not programmed to understand them.

You know what another crazy thought is, is trying to think up a new color. It's completely and utterly impossible, but it seems as though we should be able to have more colors.

BulbousHead

on Mar 05, 2004

that doesn't mean I can't accept things the way they are

I didn't say it's wrong to accept things as they are; I mean, gravity pulls things down. There's nothing I can do about that. I have to live with that and deal with that. But that doesn't mean I can't wonder why or how.

There are some things that our minds can't quite fathom.

I don't believe that.

It's almost like we're not programmed to understand them.

I think that we can understand anything with enough time, patience, thought, and effort (and NSF funding...).

You know what another crazy thought is, is trying to think up a new color. It's completely and utterly impossible, but it seems as though we should be able to have more colors.

If you understood the scientific basis for the origin of color, you would understand why there can be no more colors.

BigDreamer415

on Mar 05, 2004

"There are some things that our minds can't quite fathom."

"I don't believe that."

Would you care to explain to me, quite clearly, how the human race came into existence, how the earth was formed? Or haven't you spent enough time, had enough patience, and put enough thought and effort into it to know?

BulbousHead

on Mar 06, 2004

Would you care to explain to me, quite clearly, how the human race came into existence, how the earth was formed? Or haven't you spent enough time, had enough patience, and put enough thought and effort into it to know?

I didn't say that I know everything or that the human race collectively knows everything; I just don't think there is anything that is intrinsically, fundamentally "unknowable."

The Solar System formed from the gravitational collapse of a nebula. The Earth in particular is one agglomeration of many that resulted from irregularities in the density of the protostellar disk. The human race, like all species (except the first), came into existence after billions of years of evolution via natural selection.

As for anything else that we don't already understand, yes, it's purely the result of not enough time, patience, thought, and effort contributed as of yet.

TARSIER

on Apr 05, 2004

Bulbous, please explain to me how the Big Bang reached the exact critical mass needed to create a universe without going to high or to low. I believe Hawking said that if the critical mass was some extremely small number different we wouldn't be alive. Did anyone else see that?

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