Does intuition favor God's existence?

[odeon]

I have never felt the need to convince others that god does not exist, yet the people who do believe think it is vitally important that I do to.  Why is that?

Easy. Just as there are atheists who do, there are theists/deists who do. Doesn't mean that every atheist/theist/deist does it.

Did I say "every"?  That sounds like a strawman argument there 

Erm, almost. "The people who believe" does seem to refer to everyone believing.

[midlifeaspie]

I have never felt the need to convince others that god does not exist, yet the people who do believe think it is vitally important that I do to.  Why is that?

Easy. Just as there are atheists who do, there are theists/deists who do. Doesn't mean that every atheist/theist/deist does it.

Did I say "every"?  That sounds like a strawman argument there 

Erm, almost. "The people who believe" does seem to refer to everyone believing.

I said the people who believe think, not the people who believe do 

[odeon]

 

I have trouble seeing that statement as anything else.

[midlifeaspie]

I have trouble seeing that statement as anything else.

I guess you have to make an assumption as to what he meant by "does it".  I never said anyone "did" anything, I said they thought something.

Am I running off into semantics?  Probably.

[odeon]

"The people who do believe" sounds like the entire group, though.

I love semantics.

[midlifeaspie]

"The people who do believe" sounds like the entire group, though.

I love semantics.

Me too.  I am retaking the LSAT in December.  If I score as well as I did 7 years ago I am applying to a new private law school that is opening in my city this year.  What has prevented me up to this point is the nearest one is 300 miles away from the source of my income.  I had gauranteed admission to that one as they had never rejected an applicant with my LSAT scores and GPA, I only hope this new one has similar admissions guidelines.

Arguing language all day for money is like a dream 

Of course, that makes my MBA classes worthless, but at least I have that to fall back on if I don't get in.

[odeon]

Good luck with it.

I sort of work with semantics for a living. If I could start all over, I'd study languages and do that, but now, markup languages ave to do.

[Yuri Bezmenov]

No, quite the opposite.

[odeon]

Define intuition.

[Jack]

Not sure why Calavera changed the title of this thread. It makes for an interesting question. Believe as long as man has existed, he has looked to the sky for answers to the unknowable, so yes, intuition favors God's existence.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

Believe as long as man has existed, he has looked to the sky for answers to the unknowable, so yes, intuition favors God's existence.

For most of the time that humans have existed, there have been no rational scientific explanations for many things. It was natural to see conscious intent and great power behind things like the sun, the wind, life itself, and so on.

"The unknowable" is shrinking as science advances. God Of The Gaps is finding less gaps on which to stake his claim for existence. Is it ignorance or intuition that favours belief in God?

[Yuri Bezmenov]

^ and just what rock did you crawl out from under??

[odeon]

Not sure why Calavera changed the title of this thread. It makes for an interesting question. Believe as long as man has existed, he has looked to the sky for answers to the unknowable, so yes, intuition favors God's existence.

Define intuition.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

^ and just what rock did you crawl out from under??

Thanks for the friendly welcome dude. 

[DirtDawg]

No, welcoming you is a fairly formal thing that must be accomplished.




Welcoming willl be up to others.