Friday, July 14, 2006

Atheists: convince me.

Listen up, you blogging atheists: you are being ridiculous when you tell Christians and other theists to prove the existence of God using the scientific method.

It makes no logical sense to attempt to prove the existence of something on a plane we can't (supposedly) see using only the things we can see.

If you can imagine for a moment a world that lives in one dimension--a line--and a point on that line asking another point to prove the existence of a cube, what would that proof look like? When the cube in question intersects the line, it only affects it in one dimension -- and there's nothing in that one-dimensional world to prove that it's a 3-D object. In fact, I think it's doubtful that those living in 1-D could even comprehend what a cube means. (Einstein postulated this first.)

Well, if a supreme being exists, there is no reason to think that the supreme being is confined to a dimensional world that we can understand. The powers and reasons of that supreme being possibly defy what we understand as science and logic. It's possible that we cannot even begin to concieve of what this being (if it's even a being) is like.
If you insist on demanding scientific proof, you must believe the following:

1) All that we perceive and can measure is all that there is.
2) We can measure and perceive everything there is.

Well, as for #1, I think that's pretty shortsighted, considering that technology continues to allow us to perceive and measure more every year. (Microscopes and telescopes come to mind.) And as for #2 -- well, we still can't know at any given time where an electron is and its velocity.

I think it would do atheists a lot of good if they stopped acting superior to thiests just because their highest authority is the findings of scientists. Yes, it's frustrating to try to prove a negative ("God doesn't exist"), and theists pull the Faith card when cornered. But that doesn't make you right and them wrong.

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