Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Can you prove that God exists?
One basic proof that has been around for quite some time is what's called the cosmological argument. The basic idea is that something couldn't have come from nothing. Everything in the world is caused by something and those causes need to be caused by something too. Eventually, you are left with an infinite regression of caused causes. This of course is impossible because infinity does not exist in nature and modern day science tells us that time had a beginning. Because of these factors, there must be one initial uncaused cause. This cause must be outside of the universe and outside of time. This uncaused cause is God.
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basically what you have described is the point beyond our understanding and in an attempt to put a name on this gap in our knowledge you have used the same tool that man has used since records began and that is calling what we do not understand GOD - primitive people called many things that they did not understand GOD they would have sun god, moon god, mountain god etc etc etc today our knowledge is considerable and most things can be explained until we get to the origins of the universe
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ReplyDeleteYou appear to be getting hung-up on the name "God." God is merely a title, and in the above example we simply give the name "God" to refer to the uncaused cause. A "mountain God" is not the same as the uncaused cause. God is not simply a powerful being; God is the term we give to to a creator that is eternal, omnipotent and capable of creatio ex nihilo. Theists do not simply jump to the idea of God becasue they cannot explain something scientifically... I can't explain Zeno's paradoxes, but that doesn't mean I attribute them to a type of "God." God is the name given to a neccessary logical link to explain the origins of life.