If God is real, why are there atheists?

ooo burn
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Originally Posted by muordeeb

Nice you are in pysch, good luck in you quest, but where I'm from people call me Doc. Man I haven't studied the brain since I graduated, but there are some thing I retained in my long term memory. Just because you have never heard of percentage of brain usage doesn't mean it isn't true. See you do believe in god. Yourself. You're confused , the brain and spinal cord both are made of grey and white matter. The grey matter is the outer cortex which is unmyelinated and under the cortex is the white matter which is all mylelinated nerve tissue. And this is from my long term memory. I have no reason to cite my source, I already know, not believe, know that I'm correct.
If you want to know that's up to you.

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Well it is good to know were both intelligent people.

Psychology actually has a rate of 50% false positives in research findings. Eg. Half of what we â??discoverâ?� each year is considered false 10 years later.

I can see were your coming from quite a unique situation. I guess the facts have changed

No worries

I think this is the kind of question that only a long life's experience can tell you. I think I believe that when you find the meaning of life is the second before you die. And perhaps I think that is a good thing. I remain an agnostic.

Everyone has there own beliefs and most people push them around or compete them. smoking weed and thinking about my beliefs most definatly screws with my thoughts. I contradict everything I think and my mind goes nowhere and everywhere. So I dont mess with my religion while high. idk just me...

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Originally Posted by Oneironaut

The biggest problem with the God hypothesis, so far as I can tell, is accounting for the fact that there is absolutely no concrete evidence for God anywhere. My question is: what kind of God would set things up that way? Why would God create a universe in which it is possible to be an atheist, if he wants us to believe in him?

There are a four ways of explaining this that I can think of:

(1) There is a God, but he doesn't want anybody to believe in him.
(2) There is a God, but he doesn't care whether or not we believe in him, and doesn't care about the feelings of those who are desperately trying to find out for sure whether he is real.
(3) There is a God, and he wants us to believe in him, but for some reason he doesn't like people who can only be convinced by logic and evidence, preferring those who take things on blind faith.
(4) There is no God.

Of the four options, number 4 seems to me to be the most logical. I just can't fathom why a God would create the universe and humanity and everything, then fail to reveal himself, and sit idly by watching as people argue and kill each other over their various religious beliefs. God could easily settle the whole matter with one grand miracle, telling us which (if any) of the world's religions are correct, or at least giving us some kind of hint. If there is a God out there, he just doesn't seem to give a shit about what we think or do down here.

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God does not want us to belive in Him if
we have no chose, He wants us to belive because we chose to belive in Him
that is real love , if you want to be found, He will find you

god bileef is a wonurful ting everbodi shud do it

IF god were real the reason there are athiests is because there are people that belive that the earth is flat even tho science has proven it conclusivly to be round.
those are the same people i wish would prove to me that russian ruolette is safe.

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Originally Posted by Gatekeeper777

IF god were real the reason there are athiests is because there are people that belive that the earth is flat even tho science has proven it conclusivly to be round.
those are the same people i wish would prove to me that russian ruolette is safe.

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eh, wouldn't it be kinda the other way around.....since atheists use science to attempt to disprove god?

Anyways, I don't really care if a God does exist, Imma just do the best i may and live it up after i die.

I don't see the wind but i belive its there cuz I feel it sumtimes I don't see GOD but i believe in him cuz i could feel his presence and most of the logic and important things that i have asked God for I received them ......and why do people belive the newspaper and other non-fiction books but they don't believe in the bible wich was one of the first books in da world and has 66 books written all in different times from different people inspired by God and it all talks about the same thing and it makes sense

Thus, although God may have made man in his own image, the concept of God is made in man's own image. - Hume