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Of course it explains a lot of things, people form a primitive era saw a complex universe with so many things unexplainable. So they said, "well lets explain everything! There's an invisible diety up in the sky that created the universe and all the rules therein", and with that simple assumption everything fits into that hypothesis.
Well... our explanations today are more ingenious, more mathematical, and yet explains nothing. For example, in the old days they could say a rock falls because its the Will of God that rocks fall. It doesnt explain much. Well, and today? We say that the Earth have mass, and it makes the space-time around it become curved, so the directest way for the rock in the space-time is to follow a falling path, so it falls. But we dont know why does matter curves the space, or why does the matter must follow the directest way in the space-time. So, we just change the place of the unknown things. Why does matter curves space, or matter follows the directest path? I know why... because thats the Will of God.
Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
Ah, but millions of people aren't having the same hallucination, they are having the same delusion. Big difference. And when those millions are conditioned from birth to believe in the delusion, and have those beliefs reinfoced by their community, the odds of them having the same delusion are 100% likely.
Besides, most people in Europe believed in Zeus, Poseidon, Oden, does their unified and long-standing belief validate the blacksmith and king of the gods? What about the indians believing in Ghanesh, or the Japanese believing for thousands of years that every rock has a soul. The Egyptians and Ra, the Native Americans and the deification of nature.
Well... i believe every people, from different cultures, can percieve the existence of some "superior being", or "energy", or whatever, that they identify as being one (or some) deities. The nature of this deities will vary with the people, for example, the japaneses, mystical by nature, will find "God" everywhere (even rocks). Yet the greeks, human-directed as they were, will find "God" in the acts of men, so their gods are so "human".
For me, there is "something" great, "out there", that we humans can percieve, each one in its own way, that i call "God". Another people can call it another names, but im sure we are talking about much the same thing.
Originally Posted by reaper666
It is not. General acceptance does not justify proof, the only way to prove that God is real is to observe God and confirm it's nature to be true to what religion teaches. I don't think this will ever happen. We can't say that God does not exist, but we can say that there is absolutely no proof of it's existence so far, it is purely conceptual.
Ok... what you would say its a proper observation of God? How much people claim they feel the presence of God? Only because a thing was not observed into a scientific laboratory under controlled conditions does not mean this thing does not exist...