IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?

I wanted to put this question out there to see how strongly everyone feels on this subject. Being that most of us trust in scientific fact and reasoning, I was wondering if everyone is absolutely, undeniably, 100% sure that a god doesn't exist.  I personally take into account that there is no proof of any cosmic creator so therefore I am about 99.9999% sure that there is no god. However we all agree that science is an ever evolving field and I don't think that there will ever be any proof to support the existence of a supreme being, but I can't be 100% sure until there is concrete proof against one. I would like to know what all of your thoughts on this.  

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Permalink Reply by AtheistTech on October 1, 2011 at 4:04am
I appreciate the modicum effort you put forth. I would like to say that my admitting I do not grasp what you are saying may not be my fault and that you need to better express yourself. Just a supposition.
Permalink Reply by MCT on October 1, 2011 at 4:11am
Sure.
Permalink Reply by TNT666 on October 1, 2011 at 2:12am
Science and religion have actually been inseparable for a millennia and a half. All educational and research institutions through these long centuries were at their core religious. This entanglement is generally the cause for most of the crap science (what gets called "true-then-false"). Had science not been entangled with religious motivations, our understanding of the natural world today would be much better than it is.  It is only in the very last century that science and religion have been parting ways. But it still has a long long way to go. Religious and political motivations have huge effects on what results get published or not. I look forward to the day (probably not in my living) where that changes.
Permalink Reply by AtheistTech on October 1, 2011 at 2:26am
The power religion has over the poor and uneducated is the reason science has not triumphed yet, but it will. In that I have faith. What is religion? Compare it to Philosophy. Both argue that certain things are true. Both use the same tools to win their arguments. And I for one do not trust the philosophers or the religious. As much as they say they control their emotions, it is not true. They ridicule the ones supposedly less educated than they are. They talk about inflated egos, but they do not admit that their egos are the ones inflated. IMHO, they are floating in deep water. Instead of helping one up to their level, they knock them down to a lower level in order to seem superior.
Permalink Reply by TNT666 on October 1, 2011 at 2:32am
at least they make a modicum of an effort to think about concepts, unlike at 80% of the activities (pro sports watchers and players) and employment (factories) which occupy our citizenry. I'll take a philosopher and a scientist over a the aforementioned any day.
Permalink Reply by AtheistTech on October 1, 2011 at 2:41am

I agree wholeheartedly. I did not say that philosophers, nor religious people, are stupid, though some might actually be, but I take offense when I am trying to understand something I have learned and am passing on and someone ridicules me. My ego is as big as I contend philosophers have.

 

Just because I have not studied philosophy, does not mean I cannot understand it.

Permalink Reply by George on October 1, 2011 at 2:37am

@Cane Kostovski:  For a millennia and a half or more, philosophy was the only tool against religion. Then science came. I contend that science is a much better tool than philosophy against religion.

 

Science has on an underlying philosophy, without which it would not exist.  Arguably science is a philosophy.

 

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

Permalink Reply by AtheistTech on October 1, 2011 at 3:39am
Sorry George, I'm with Richard Feynman.
Permalink Reply by George on October 1, 2011 at 3:41am

What do you mean?

 

Permalink Reply by AtheistTech on October 1, 2011 at 3:42am

Here is a quote from the page your link sent me:

Though scientists often contribute to the field, many prominent scientists have felt that the practical effect on their work is limited: “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds,” according to physicist Richard Feynman.

Permalink Reply by George on October 1, 2011 at 3:50am

The fact that Feynman said it doesn't make it so.

It's pretty ironic actually that he would say that.  Having watched some of his talks, I'd say he's actually very good at the philosophy of science.  

I assume that what he's objecting to is philosophers from outside the scientific field making comments.  But without specifics it's impossible to know, and a quote out of context is of limited value.

 

Furthermore: criticizing philosophy in general tends to be self refuting.  “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds” is itself a philosophical statement.

Permalink Reply by AtheistTech on October 1, 2011 at 3:58am
I do not dispute that there is a body of knowledge and a way of thought called Philosophy. I describe it as an art, not a science. And describing something as philosophical does not mean the philosophers are the only ones that can officially say anything about it. Enjoy!

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