Yes, but I'm saying that it isn't always as simple as 'I don't know this - therefore God'.
"Simple people like simple answers".
Why are religious people religious? Simple - because they haven't been taught science or they had religion bashed into them. Complex - because some people have an idiopathic sense, even conviction, that there is something beyond science, logic, rationality, beyond what is straight-forward, beyond what is provable or disprovable. To some people it simply IS.
I'll quote Gandhi,
"There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything. I feel it, though I do not see it. It is this unseen Power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It transcends the senses. But it is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.
I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever-dying, there is underlying all that change a Living Power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates. That informing Power or Spirit is God. And since nothing else I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is."
Look I've had this exact same concept, even recently on an atheist forum! I honestly thought I'd be laughed at.
The answer was that we should not go to the end and say some magical energy exists so how can I now prove it. What we need to do is start at the start with facts and known understandings and then build on that.
IF that leads to a unknown energy source then all good, but we have to get there first.
We start with facts.
I know, I thought it was sad too, but I agreed with this strategy.
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Yes, but I'm saying that it isn't always as simple as 'I don't know this - therefore God'.
"Simple people like simple answers".
Why are religious people religious? Simple - because they haven't been taught science or they had religion bashed into them. Complex - because some people have an idiopathic sense, even conviction, that there is something beyond science, logic, rationality, beyond what is straight-forward, beyond what is provable or disprovable. To some people it simply IS.
I'll quote Gandhi,
"There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything. I feel it, though I do not see it. It is this unseen Power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It transcends the senses. But it is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.
I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever-dying, there is underlying all that change a Living Power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates. That informing Power or Spirit is God. And since nothing else I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is."
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Look I've had this exact same concept, even recently on an atheist forum! I honestly thought I'd be laughed at.
The answer was that we should not go to the end and say some magical energy exists so how can I now prove it. What we need to do is start at the start with facts and known understandings and then build on that.
IF that leads to a unknown energy source then all good, but we have to get there first.
We start with facts.
I know, I thought it was sad too, but I agreed with this strategy.