KingEbukasBlog:


Christianity possesses an irrefutable knowledge of God's existence and power , have you guys disproven that 'claim' ?

Lol, Ebuka don carry come o.

Irrefutable you say? You best look up that word before using it.

Anyways, it's a claim and we all know what that means. Your claims have been 'disproven' countless times though.

Mindfulness:


Sorry? Stigma? Evident? Where? In the West or in Africa?

One of my dearest mentors, a natural scientist, who retired two years ago, said that his profession didn't make him believe less in a supreme form of intelligence but the more. The more he understood how beautifully and perfectly designed the universe is, the deeper his faith became. This man lives in a country where atheism is en vogue. This is an isolated case but there are plenty of scientists who share his view and those who don't, definitely don't hide them due to some imaginary stigma.

Science and religion are not mutually exclusive.

Not until a mob descend on a person before
you know there is stigma.
corporate workers, contractors and job seekers who have experienced subtle
but destructive stigmas can explain better to you.

About your mentor, he is simply "researching for faith", religion
proponent are so smart to have placed a burden of association
on their members so that whenever they come across any conflicting
information instead of asking more relevant question they choose to
side with their faith.

That is why you will see someone who just discovered how complex
the brain is suddenly shout : "Glory be to god who created this".

Just ask them what is the correlation between brain being complex and
god and they answer with "did you create yourself"

Your last point sound comical;
how can you say evidence and "lack of evidence" are not mutually exclusive ?

Finally, I understand why a no-believe life may sound terrifying to you, it
is known that the most difficult thing to do is change one's believe
even though there is no evidence supporting it.

AmakaDNBStories:
Religion is limiting. Period.

Exactly. It's a my way or the high way thingy. That's why many of these scientists have to put aside their religion and deal with science in the real sense of it and at the end of the day majority of them don't even have enough convincing reason to go back to it.

EnlightenedSoul:


Religion is chock full of gaps even the unseasoned layman is wont to challenge and dismantle with ease. It should come as no surprise to observe that the intelligent, scientific elite are lacking in 'faith' (which is, in essence, belief without cause and/or evidence, and thus goes against the very nature of science and the principles of the scientific mind). I would go so far as to posit that the figure of scientists said to believe in a deity in the OP (40%) are entirely blown up relative to reality due to the still evident stigma of professing complete and utter atheism.

Totally on point. Religion as we know it emphasizes the principle of "faith" because that is the only way any sane individual can toe such a line of belief. Religion forbids questions, critical thinking and analysis lest it's n.akedness be brought to the fore. Little wonder those who work based on evidence have little or no use for it. It's embraced fully by those who are too lazy to use their brains.

Science is all about observing, experimenting and stating facts based on verifiable proofs.

Religion is all about make-beliefs; about what ought to be.

Science and religion will never be compatible.

True scientists and even the seemingly theistic ones know in their heart of hearts, that the idea of a biblical God is mythical.

Einstein? He was always an atheist or should I say an agnostic whose agnosticism, which had its roots in his jewish lineage, bordered on atheism.

the religion as we know it limits asking question.. All u have to do is attribute every good strange thing to god and every bad one to the enemy.. And also believe that when you die,u'd have to go somewhere.. But that's not the way science works,science ask question and try to answer them through various research methods.. Religion and science are two unlike terms..

God is God, and God alone!
Some people question that IS THERE GOD? HOW CAN I BELIEVE WHAT OR WHO I CAN'T SEE?
Imagine your younger one did something wrong and you corrected him. If he asks you how did you know what he or she did is wrong, you tell him or her maybe your brain told you.

He or she will further on that how can he believe you are right since he can't see your brain, feel or even touch it! And in the real sense, that's how it's meant to be. You can't say anything to win the child more than saying you just have to BELIEVE... or have FAITH.. or common sense has to tell him that!

That's exactly God! You can't see, you can even feel God, you can't touch and what joins you to him is YOUR FAITH.

God is God and he is God alone. Your creator, your lover, he doesn't want you to perish that's why he wants you to come back to him. There's a great difference between zeal and passion! God wants you to grow from one with ordinary zeal to one with crazy passion.

If he leaves your life for a minute, you're dead for uncountable years.

Jesus loves you, please accept him today!

-Temitope Daniel Abimbola.
www.temitopedaniel.com
#NoSoulMustBeLost

I personally believes dat impossible is nothing, it’s the mata of arrogance, arrogance dat some1 cud be better dan dem!
Impossibility is not D Reason of Disbelief
A disbeliever would say…is it possible that one talks to Angels or make command 2 Jin or hear his lord or gets revelations etc.
But we can make phone calls 2 places, America, Europe, Asia etc… its so possible 2 believe fields, waves, electrons, photons….nd subatomic particles …but not d Creator of it.
We av reached d moon, Astronomers can see far as 1,000,000,000 light years & know wots going on in our galaxy and oda galaxies…why do they find it strange that someone can do a bit mo dan dis and some1 created all dis?
If we compare d level scientist have reached, it’s very possible dat some1 can reach further
Any sane person believes dat impossible is nothing, it’s the mata of arrogance, arrogance dat some1 cud be better dan dem
They just believe dat some1 can reach d moon but reaching higher&seening the Angels & talk 2 his Lord is impossible (Prophet).
They don’t want 2 be followers of any1 even if it was a Prophet, they don’t want2 imagine dat they will be judged by any1 even dat 1 is God!
So disbelief is not due2 impossibility, anything can happen nowadays, discovering mo tins is very common and normal but believing some1 greater than them is not normal….

Truth be told. It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God's existence.

omonnakoda:


Irrefutable? No one needs to disprove anything.Christianity needs to prove its claims. Logic requires claims to be proven and NOT disproven.
Otherwise I can wake up and say you are a Boko Haram member and invite you to disprove it
Sadly many so called Christians have not read their bible or inquired into where it came from.They choose to satisfy themselves with the myths they were spoonfed that it was written by men "inspired by God" even though the Bible makes no such claims.
Whether or not there is God is not advanced by Christianity which is essentially a European fabrication based on Jewish recorded folk tales no different or better than folk tales found around the world in different cultures

freecocoa:
Lol, Ebuka don carry come o.

Irrefutable you say? You best look up that word before using it.

Anyways, it's a claim and we all know what that means. Your claims have been 'disproven' countless times though.

Lolz freecocoa .. off course I do .

Really ? Ummm ... I i errrmm ... I've actually not come across any of those rebuttals

@ omonnakoda

Religion does not really/actually equate to the existence of God . Proving that religion is/was a man-made concept does not mean God does not exist . Try again . Make it worth paying attention to

I person believes dat impossible is nothing, it’s the mata of arrogance, arrogance dat some1 cud be better dan dem!
Impossibility is not D Reason of Disbelief
A disbeliever would say…is it possible that one talks to Angels or make command 2 Jin or hear his lord or gets revelations etc.
But we can make phone calls 2 places, America, Europe, Asia etc… its so possible 2 believe fields, waves, electrons, photons….nd subatomic particles …but not d Creator of it.
We av reached d moon, Astronomers can see far as 1,000,000,000 light years & know wots going on in our galaxy and oda galaxies…why do they find it strange that someone can do a bit mo dan dis and some1 created all dis?
If we compare d level scientist have reached, it’s very possible dat some1 can reach further
Any sane person believes dat impossible is nothing, it’s the mata of arrogance, arrogance dat some1 cud be better dan dem
They just believe dat some1 can reach d moon but reaching higher&seening the Angels & talk 2 his Lord is impossible (Prophets).
They don’t want 2 be followers of any1 even if it was a Prophet, they don’t want2 imagine dat they will be judged by any1 even dat 1 is God!
So disbelief is not due2 impossibility, anything can happen nowadays, discovering mo tins is very common and normal but believing some1 greater than them is not normal….

KingEbukasBlog:




Lolz freecocoa .. off course I do .

Really ? Ummm ... I i errrmm ... I've actually have not come across any of those rebuttals

@ omonnakoda

Religion does not really/actually equate to the existence of God . Proving that religion is/was a man-made concept does not mean God does not exist . Try again . Make it worth paying attention to

who is a liar? Ebuka is.

Anyways, my argument is that you can't say god exists based on "faith" which is what your religion posits.

[b]I'm sorry to say but the op is completely uninformed and has presented irrelevant facts and therefore they must be treated as trash. i am an athiest and a physics enthusiast. but i didn't become an atheist because i loved something more, i became an atheist because it was illogical to believe something that cannot be seen or measured. Faith as it is called is completely stupid. it's like saying "the sun is a cube" even when all evidence clearly points to the fact that the sun is a sphere.

Quoting Neil deGrasse," if your personal convictions cause you to deny what is objectionable about the world then they are more appropriately called personal delusions"

christianity wants me to believe the world is 6000, years old even when all evidence points towards the other direction, christianity wants me to believe that God created human beings, even though darwin's theory of evolution points towards the other direction

scientists believe in evidence and proof and if you have no evidence that a god created the universe we live in, you might as well shut the Bleep up, and go sit in a corner [/b]

FAITH vs. REASON !

Alan Turing was also tortured to suicide by christians.
Also please what's the source for this article?

freecocoa:
who is a liar? Ebuka is.

Lol ... those rebuttals have been tossed to where they belong , the trash can .

Anyways, my argument is that you can't say god exists based on "faith" which is what your religion posits.

Ive never really said one need's faith to believe in the existence of God

AnnieOakley:
In 1997, the science journal Nature reported that 40 percent of scientists in the U.S. believed in a personal God—the same amount as had believed eighty years prior. However, when those results were filtered to include only members of the National Academy of Sciences, the number dropped to 10 percent. A Pew survey taken in 2009 records that 33 percent of scientists believe in God and another 18 percent in a higher power, compared to 94 percent of the general public. On the list of long-ago scientists who believed in God are Galileo, Descartes, Pascal, and Newton; more modern names have been added, such as Lord Kelvin, Max Planck, and Francis Collins.

So, to say that scientists don't believe in God is a gross generalization. However, it is true that there are fewer believers in God among professionals in the scientific community than among the general public. Why?

For some scientists, atheism is a matter of faith, not of evidence. Hungarian biologist George Klein wrote to a Christian colleague, "I am indeed an atheist. My attitude is not based on science but rather on faith, just as you have your faith. The absence of a creator, the nonexistence of God is my childhood faith, my adult belief, unshakable and holy."

Other scientists deny God's existence because of a commitment to materialism. Francis Crick, a molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, was a materialist to the core. Materialism teaches that there is nothing in the cosmos besides matter and energy. The supernatural does not exist, and there is no such thing as thought, consciousness, or the soul. Crick even went so far as to predict that science would one day find that the act of prayer changes a neurotransmitter in the brain and induces a positive effect on the person praying.

Some scientists reject faith because of personal experiences. Marie Curie, the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in two different science categories, became an atheist or agnostic after the deaths of her mother and sister. It's possible that this loss influenced her theological beliefs. Alan Turing, a mathematician and groundbreaking computer scientist, lost faith in God after the death of his first love. Refusing to believe a loving God would allow her death, Turing embraced materialism.

Some scientists simply see no use for God. Paul Dirac was a forefather of quantum mechanics. He believed science was well on its way to describing the universe in detail, and he saw religion as a political tool. String-theorist Brian Greene says, "Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it."

Some atheistic scientists come from a religious background and purposefully reject it. Richard Leakey, a paleontologist and conservationist from Kenya, is the grandson of missionaries but was disillusioned with any kind of faith in God.

Some scientists see faith and science as mutually exclusive. James Watson, who with Francis Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, thought belief in God would preclude his love of science. He loved science more than God.

There are scientists who simply don't bother thinking about God. Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Prize laureate for his work in particle physics, said, "The experience of being a scientist makes religion seem fairly irrelevant. Most scientists I know simply don't think about it very much. They don't think about religion enough to qualify as practicing atheists."

Some scientists are religious but deny any reality beyond tradition and ritual. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist portrayed by Robin Williams in the movie Awakenings, loves religion and feels comfortable in both Orthodox Jewish and Catholic settings. He explains that "nature itself seems so wonderful that I don't feel a hunger for any concept beyond it."

In short, scientists reject faith in God for the same reasons anyone else does. Their atheism is built on some foundational choices:

1) They choose to worship "created things rather than the Creator" (Romans 1:25 NIV).
2) They choose to embrace "opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge" (1 Timothy 6:20 NIV).
3) They choose to retain their sin instead of repenting (John 3:19).
4) They choose to limit their definition of truth to what can be empirically discovered. Unfortunately, the truth of God cannot be discovered via the scientific method. "The world through its wisdom did not know him" (1 Corinthians 1:21 NIV).
5) They choose pride over humility (James 4:6).

One other reason for their rejection of God has to do with the enemy of their souls. "The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers" (2 Corinthians 4:4). We must never forget that we are involved in a spiritual battle. The human intellect, no matter how lofty, must be redeemed by Christ.

God gives grace to the humble. "For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards … But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise" (1 Corinthians 1:26-27).

Of course, not all scientists reject God. Dr. Francis S. Collins is the former head of the National Human Genome Research Institute. As a young man, Collins was well on his way to atheism when a woman dying of heart disease confronted him about his beliefs. He realized that none of his scientific work answered the bigger questions in life. Later, a minister gave him C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. Something about the irrefutability of natural moral law resonated with him, and he became a Christian.

you forgot to mention that

*scientists don't believe god exists as a result of lack of any concrete evidence

in carl sagan's voice " extra-ordinary claims require extraordinary proofs"

They don't Because of The weakness of religious arguments, explanations, and apologetics and The fact that Religion runs in families. Religion only successful enslaved our mind and thought which scientist call CURIOSITY. Curiosity aid idea, creativity and development

KingEbukasBlog:




Lol ... those rebuttals have been tossed to where they belong , the trash can .




Ive never really said one need's faith to believe in the existence of God

So what's your argument?

EnlightenedSoul:
To say that the vast majority of great scientists do not believe in a personal god is not a gross generalization, but an overwhelming truth.

According to a meta-analysis on the subject in a 2002 Mensa article (Mensa is the society of individuals with high IQs) that acutely piqued my interest to the extent that I held onto it, among others. The author, Bell, wrote:

"...Of 43 studies carried out since 1927 on the relationship between religious belief and one's intelligence and/or educational level, all but four found an inverse connection. That is, the higher one's intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious or hold "beliefs" of any kind."

Religion is chock full of gaps even the unseasoned layman is wont to challenge and dismantle with ease. It should come as no surprise to observe that the intelligent, scientific elite are lacking in 'faith' (which is, in essence, belief without cause and/or evidence, and thus goes against the very nature of science and the principles of the scientific mind). I would go so far as to posit that the figure of scientists said to believe in a deity in the OP (40%) are entirely blown up relative to reality due to the still evident stigma of professing complete and utter atheism.

are u a writer?
D way u coordinate words is jut epic... U chop book finally! Choi
One chilled shot of vodka for u

Joshuabase:
[b]I'm sorry to say but the op is completely uninformed and has presented irrelevant facts and therefore they must be treated as trash. i am an athiest and a physics enthusiast. but i didn't become an atheist because i loved something more, i became an atheist because it was illogical to believe something that cannot be seen or measured. Faith as it is called is completely stupid. it's like saying "the sun is a cube" even when all evidence clearly points to the fact that the sun is a sphere.

Quoting Neil deGrasse," if your personal convictions cause you to deny what is objectionable about the world then they are more appropriately called personal delusions"

christianity wants me to believe the world is 6000, years old even when all evidence points towards the other direction, christianity wants me to believe that God created human beings, even though darwin's theory of evolution points towards the other direction

scientists believe in evidence and proof and if you have no evidence that a god created the universe we live in, you might as well shut the Bleep up, and go sit in a corner [/b]

ode darwin theory should have prove to us where actually that life started from....walahi you should take a deep breath and ask your self where exactly am I coming from,science will always have lies to back up the theory they dont understand.

I think it is because Science has evolved to the extent that scientist can predict,invent most of the things attributed to God, but as a christian I believe this doesn't mean there is no God,in fact it is a proof that there is God afterall he created us in his own image and according to John 14:12 he said we will do great greater things than him

There's NO God!!!

That I can state with certainty.

KingEbukasBlog:




Lolz freecocoa .. off course I do .

Really ? Ummm ... I i errrmm ... I've actually not come across any of those rebuttals

@ omonnakoda

Religion does not really/actually equate to the existence of God . Proving that religion is/was a man-made concept does not mean God does not exist . Try again . Make it worth paying attention to

I responded to EXACTLY what you wrote have another read of it and stop the diversionary tactics
These are YOUR WORDS again

KingEbukasBlog:


Christianity possesses an irrefutable knowledge of God's existence and power , have you guys disproven that 'claim' ?

YOU have elevated Christianity to a level which you are now denying or contradicting yourself

Joshuabase:


christianity wants me to believe the world is 6000, years old even when all evidence points towards the other direction, christianity wants me to believe that God created human beings, even though darwin's theory of evolution points towards the other direction.

1. I am a christian and the earth is not six thousand years old . LMAO

2. There are atheists who are scientists or love science and dont see the theory of evolution as a plausible theory

scientists believe in evidence and proof and if you have no evidence that a god created the universe we live in, you might as well shut the Bleep up, and go sit in a corner

What proof ?

1. That life came from the non living without supernatural intervention- a hypothesis or has been replicated in the labs through experiments ?

2. Making up a theory that denies the first cause . No mentioned initial conditions .

Go to sleep Joshua , you've made no point

omonnakoda:

I responded to EXACTLY what you wrote have another read of it and stop the diversionary tactics

Joshuabase:
[b]I'm sorry to say but the op is completely uninformed and has presented irrelevant facts and therefore they must be treated as trash. i am an athiest and a physics enthusiast. but i didn't become an atheist because i loved something more, i became an atheist because it was illogical to believe something that cannot be seen or measured. Faith as it is called is completely stupid. it's like saying "the sun is a cube" even when all evidence clearly points to the fact that the sun is a sphere.

Quoting Neil deGrasse," if your personal convictions cause you to deny what is objectionable about the world then they are more appropriately called personal delusions"

christianity wants me to believe the world is 6000, years old even when all evidence points towards the other direction, christianity wants me to believe that God created human beings, even though darwin's theory of evolution points towards the other direction

scientists believe in evidence and proof and if you have no evidence that a god created the universe we live in, you might as well shut the Bleep up, and go sit in a corner [/b]

personally believes dat impossible is nothing, it’s the mata of arrogance, arrogance dat some1 cud be better dan dem!
Impossibility is not D Reason of Disbelief
A disbeliever would say…is it possible that one talks to Angels or make command 2 Jin or hear his lord or gets revelations etc.
But we can make phone calls 2 places, America, Europe, Asia etc… its so possible 2 believe fields, waves, electrons, photons….nd subatomic particles …but not d Creator of it.
We av reached d moon, Astronomers can see far as 1,000,000,000 light years & know wots going on in our galaxy and oda galaxies…why do they find it strange that someone can do a bit mo dan dis and some1 created all dis?
If we compare d level scientist have reached, it’s very possible dat some1 can reach further
Any sane person believes dat impossible is nothing, it’s the mata of arrogance, arrogance dat some1 cud be better dan dem
They just believe dat some1 can reach d moon but reaching higher&seening the Angels & talk 2 his Lord is impossible (Prophet).
They don’t want 2 be followers of any1 even if it was a Prophet, they don’t want2 imagine dat they will be judged by any1 even dat 1 is God!
So disbelief is not due2 impossibility, anything can happen nowadays, discovering mo tins is very common and normal but believing some1 greater than them is not normal….

freecocoa:
So what's your argument?

There's none actually seeing that I know no christian needs faith to believe in God .

KingEbukasBlog:

Did you write this?

KingEbukasBlog:


Christianity possesses an irrefutable knowledge of God's existence and power , have you guys disproven that 'claim' ?

AnnieOakley:


Your opinion

You asked for it.

I doubt you wrote the first few passages of your artiçle yourself, it was making sense, until you started quoting bible passages that contribute nothing sensible to the meaningful op. So sad, how religion clogs an intelligent mind.

adahib:


Totally on point. Religion as we know it emphasizes the principle of "faith" because that is the only way any sane individual can toe such a line of belief. Religion forbids questions, critical thinking and analysis lest it's n.akedness be brought to the fore. Little wonder those who work based on evidence have little or no use for it. It's embraced fully by those who are too lazy to use their brains.

@the pic And the SUPERNATURAL - defies natural laws- could not hasten the movements of those birds ?

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by Blaise Pascal

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by Chapman Cohen

“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”
by Christopher Hitchens

“I do not believe in God because I do not believe in the Tooth Fairy.”
by Clarence Darrow

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by Dave Barry

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by Doug McLeod

“The meaning of life is that it stops”
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“Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.”
by Frater Ravus

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by George Bernard Shaw

“Atheism: A non-prophet organization.”
by George Carlin

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by Giulian Buzila

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“Religion is like a virus that affects the behavior of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.”
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“A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.”
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