To answer your question, yes arguments for/against the existence of God do influence me.
to answer your question ..
No - arguments for/against the existence of god do not influence me.
True, and then if they get sick, or as they arrive at old age, their faith makes a sudden recovery!I think a lot of people probably start out kind of believing as they go through Sunday school and church as children, and then reach a point where they are old enough to make their own decisions, and move towards agnosticism/atheism.
True, and then if they get sick, or as they arrive at old age, their faith makes a sudden recovery!
You probably want to add a poll to the thread.
I suspect most people aren't swayed by arguments and logic. You either believe or you don't, and you're unlikely to change your position. I think a lot of people probably start out kind of believing as they go through Sunday school and church as children, and then reach a point where they are old enough to make their own decisions, and move towards agnosticism/atheism.
But whilst the universe does exhibit order (in part) we cannot neccessarily make the leap from that to proof of a God.
Who put the universe there then?
Well, the universe :
1. May have caused itself.
2. Not everything needs a cause (quantum physics)
3. If you accept that God caused it, then what caused God?
4. We have no analogy to compare the universe to. We only know one universe, so comparisons to other "caused things" aren't analgous.
5. Why must it have been a single God, not a committee of Gods, or a God who has since died?
6. The universe exhibits no morality per se. Yet God is is supposedly a moral perfect being, how is this possible?
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