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we really KNOW anything? Another complicated question brought to your doorstep from somebody who didn't send a picture.
Hi Bob, Thought I'd share my views on God with you. 1. I do not know whether God exists but I do not preclude that such knowledge can be obtained. 2. Knowledge is a related but separate issue from belief. 3. My belief that God DOES NOT exist is based on FAITH and not on having absolute, incontrovertible KNOWLEDGE. Respond if it pleases you Ben Vardy 
Ben, I'll offer it to you like this; Do you have faith or do you know that there is no such thing as the tooth fairy? I cannot prove to you that the tooth fairy does not exist but that doesn't mean that it's one of several plausible theories as to how that half dollar got under your pillow. Or how about I put it like this; If I told you that there was a giant yellow bunny living in a planet sized Easter basket located just outside of the end of the universe would you know that it wasn't true or would you simply have faith that it wasn't true? Finally I am going to put it to you like this; There is a book that says an all powerful super being encompasses the whole universe, every moment in time and it is mostly composed of love, miracles and bright lighting. In that same book it also tells how a rainbow is a promise from this super being that He will never flood our entire planet again. I know.
Hi Bob, Thanks for the response. I'd just like to say that I do not believe that God exists, and I'd also like to reinforce that by belief is not based on knowledge, because I think the concept of god is currently unknowable. So, I don't BELIEVE he exists but I suspend judgement over whether he does or not, as I do not yet know. Secondly, I realise that the tooth fairy and yellow rabbit could be disproved beyond reasonable doubt, but the god that I have no incontrovertible evidence for or against is not a miraculous, loving or an all knowing kind of guy, but merely some form of non-intervening, initial creative force that is currently beyond our understanding. I guess the word god has so many bad associations that people assume I'm referring to the plump, bearded man sitting on the cloud. So Bob, do you think it is right to say that hard-line god-could-never-exist atheists are just as presumptuous as theists? Remember, agnosticism isn't not believing, it is not not knowing. Yours,
PS. Don't worry I'm not a christian, and your site brings me endless fun. Agnosticism is wishy washy fence sitting. Once you conclude that every idea of God has been conjured up in the human head (with no evidence beyond that), atheism becomes an extremely safe bet. Then raise the stakes to something we should worship? The bunny is no more outrageous. Bob |
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