what is an agnostic?

SharonL said:

The viable proof is everywhere - how does your heart beat - how can your eyes see - how does nature keep producing for thousands and thousands of years - with all the proof it would take more faith to not believe than to believe.

There is no answer to this question - a believer cannot understand how a person could not believe with all the evidence around us - where did it come from? A non believer will believe there is no proof. This is something they have to decide for themselves - whatever the belief does not change eternity - it will still be there one place or another.

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Ah! Argument from incredulity. Education answers many such questions.

I suspect that if I explain the physiology of the beating heart (electrical charge build up in the cells on the wall of the heart then a wave of discharge) you might ask how the charge build up occurs. I would answer and then you would ask how that works. I sense an infinite series of questions that would ultimately end up in "why is there something rather than nothing".

Many believers challenge atheists with that question. But I like to turn the tables and ask the question a different way. "Why is there a god rather than no god?" You see, the existence of a god is even more miraculous than the existence of a beating heart. If you can't imagine that a thing as complicated as the universe could come into existence from nothing how can you imagine that a thing as complicated as a god could come from nothing?

AL

Argy Lacedom said:

Many believers challenge atheists with that question. But I like to turn the tables and ask the question a different way. "Why is there a god rather than no god?" You see, the existence of a god is even more miraculous than the existence of a beating heart. If you can't imagine that a thing as complicated as the universe could come into existence from nothing how can you imagine that a thing as complicated as a god could come from nothing?

AL

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That's a really good question... one I plan on asking the big guy Himself and I hope that as many people are up there with me to share the answer.

Droobie said:

That's a really good question... one I plan on asking the big guy Himself and I hope that as many people are up there with me to share the answer.

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Actually, that opens up something else to ponder. It's possible that as we are part of the universe we will never be able to comprehend how it came into being (Goedel's theorum).

It follows that, if god exists, it is entirely possible that he has no idea how he came into existence.

AL