Category God

Belief Is Not a Choice

Belief can make people do the strangest things. At one level, it provides a moral framework, sets preferences and steers relationships. On another, it can be devastating. Belief can manifest itself as prejudice or persuade someone to blow up themselves and others in the name of a political cause.

PASCAL’S WAGER ABOUT GOD

Blaise Pascal offers a pragmatic reason for believing in God: even under the assumption that God’s existence is unlikely, the potential benefits of believing are so vast as to make betting on theism rational.

Why Science Does Not Disprove God?

A number of recent books and articles would have you believe that—somehow—science has now disproved the existence of God. We know so much about how the universe works, their authors claim, that God is simply unnecessary: we can explain all the workings of the universe without the need for a Creator.

Prophet Mohammed Has Not Introduced New God

People who criticize Islam for being violent do not understand that the source of that violence is often the Torah.

Am I still considered an atheist if I am ready to accept God with irrefutable evidence?

I am not sure how honest it is for an atheist to say “scientific evidence would change my mind”. Here is why.

How can atheists be so sure that gods don’t exist?

Because gods are an exception to the rule that humans aren’t completely stupid. Wait, let me explain that!

God exists. Can you prove me wrong?

Two most popular answers to this question at divineatheist.quora.com from a theist's and an atheist's perspective:

Is it not possible that there is a God?

Since we never be absolutely sure there is no God, is it not possible that there is a God? And if it is possible that God exists, then can you think of any reason that would keep you from wanting to look at the evidence?

Can Science Rule Out God?

Most researchers assume that science and religion are completely separate fields—or, in the phrase coined by evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, “nonoverlapping magisteria.” But as physicists investigate the most fundamental characteristics of nature, they’re tackling issues that have long been the province of philosophers and theologians:

“Then who created God?” is not a meaningful question.

Once you assume the existence of God you assume the existence of an entity that was not created and has always existed

Am I still considered an atheist if I am ready to accept God with irrefutable evidence?

I am not sure how honest it is for an atheist to say “scientific evidence would change my mind”. Here is why.

What if atheists are wrong? What if one day we wake up before the Christian god, Allah, or any other god? Would atheists mind eternal torture?

If we are here to be tested why would God be so crazy about the fact that His subjects must believe in Him, all while He is apparently hiding Himself so well.