[QUOTE="Bane_09"][QUOTE="kuraimen"] It's perfectly logical that something might exist without having access to evidence. And you said it yourself religion is based on faith. The only thing a religious person has to do to make sense of their faith is to not make a very stupid argument that contradicts some scientific facts or something, otherwise their faith can justify the existence of God and little can an atheist said to them to change their mind unless they somehow find evidence that God can't possibly be real which is probably as impossible as finding evidence in favor of it.kuraimen
Well any basic knowledge on logical arguments will tell you that the argument lack of evidence is not evidence of absence is an appeal to ignorance and a logical fallacy. And yes something could exist without having evidence for it, but that in no way proves that that something does exist.
Faith is not logical nor is it supposed to be. You can't use faith as evidence for anything. I'm not about to tell someone they can't have faith in something like God, just don't try to use that said faith as evidence because it doesn't work like that.
I'm not using faith as evidence why would a religious person care to prove God's existence scientifically? it shouldn't be their job to do it. The only thing he can do to lower the atheist criticisms is just making his faithful believe not conflict with scientific knowledge. That way the atheist has less arguments against them. A logical fallacy is not such a good argument considering it doesn't support the atheist argument either since he can't proof God doesn't exist in the same way the religious can't proof he does. There are many scientists out there that manage to accommodate their faith and their scientific work in such a way and for me there's little people can do to strongly argument against such position considering how little we know about the universe or everything that exists.I agree with Einstein.
"About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws".
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text."
"The fanatical atheists," Einstein said in correspondence, "are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the 'opium of the masses'—cannot hear the music of the spheres."
"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
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