why do so many people belive in a god that there is no proof of.?
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These answers are silly.\n\nJust admit that you belive in God because it makes you feel good.\n\nAs for people claiming proof...\n-The Bible is no more proof than the Chronicales of Narnia.\n\n-The complexity of everything is not proof because if a complex object requires a creator, than the complex creator requires a creator.\n\n-The rarity of live on earth is the oppsite of proof for diety.  If god created the universe for us it would encourage human life.  The universe is a blackhole creating machine.  In no way does it encourage life.\n\n-The need for proof does not fall on the non-beliver, it falls on the beliver.  If I told you I have an invisable car could you prove I dont?  Exactly!\n\n-Darwin opened a line of questioning that most of it is proven.  We can now trace our history back nearly 2 mil. years an over several genetic changes.  People saying evolution is false are just lieing!
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That's more a question for the Philosophy section.  In the Religion section, you're speaking to people who believe... and are therefore not likely to believe God is anything but Truth.\n\nBut to answer the question more directly, we have no way of knowing.  There's no palpable proof of God, but no one knows if there's a God or not.  Maybe so, maybe no.  We'll either find out or blink out, eventually.  My guess is that we'll sort of be non-sentient energy that eventually goes back into something living.  But you might get to be part of a star first, or churn through a volcano.\n\nBut no one knows.  People have faith and believe they know, but no one knows for sure one way or the other.  :)
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The question should be: "Do you think that you have ever personally experienced proof that there is a god?" Everybody thinks, nobody knows.
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Youre right, you cant prove it. But thats fine for most people, cause if you keep telling yourself thats something exist, its gonna exist. So you dont need a proof. If you keep telling yourself that theres God, God will exist. If you dont, then he wont. It simple. And about the Bible, I could write a book right now about a new God, bury it in the earth and then about 1000 years later someone's gonna find it, and there will be a new religion, and everybody will believe in my God. You know what im saying? So you cant prove anything, its just whether believe in it or not. If you do you'll see it.
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You cant see God therefore not many people believe in him. It is hard to believe a supernatural being made all of us.
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Every atheist is different, but it probably stems from the fact that most people simply can't 'believe' that another person can't BELIEVE in something.  After all, they've been trained/ taught/ conditioned since childhood to believe in god or some kind of creator.  To not believe kind of boggles their mind.  So they pre-judge others on their on observations.
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at the point in time it is truly impossible to say if god is real, a myth or man made. I believe that he is real but his word has been passed down and wrote and rewrote so many times that nobody can truly prove what is real and what isn't
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God has existed forever. He doesn't have a beginning and will never have an ending. I know it's impossible for us as humans to comprehend, but we have to believe it by faith. Our minds just can't comprehend it. \n\nI know that alot of people won't agree with what I just said, but can they come up with a better explanation? I don't think so.
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No one can prove it - zero, one, or many.  Gods, for some reason, choose to leave no evidence of their existence.\n\nFunny, isn't it.\n\nA
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Of course I do, don't you?\nJust because you haven't seen something yourself, does not mean that it does'nt exist. Remember there are many things out there that people thought were ficticous until they were proved wrong.\n\nP.S. It doesn't hurt anyone to just believe, sceptics seem to be such sad people.
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None. \n\nTHERE IS NO PROOF THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST.  \n\nBut there is evidence EVERYWHERE that He DOES exist. \nWe see God in all that there is. There is evidence of him in all cultures. Some differ on who and what He his. But throughout history man of all ages and all cultures acknowledge a god. \n\nOne may not agree with all the natural things that point to God, all the history that points to God, all the people that point to God.....yet, and still, there is at least SOME evidence in these things to ANYONE that there is a god.\n\nWhen you weigh both sides, it  takes a fool to not believe in God.\n\nVirtually all our great leaders and presidents alike acknowleged God.  Our forefathers and foremothers, even the immediate fathers and mothers of of those that don't even believe in God; they believe(d) in God. \n\nConsider all the religeous scholars throughout the ages even unto this day, all the songs and hymns that have been written concerning God, etc. We could go on and on.  They don't all agree on many principles, but, they ALL agree that He is.  Somehow, all of these people are nuts and a few dim souls with enough free time to float around on Yahoo for several hours a day think they KNOW that God does not exist! I THINK NOT.  \n\nOne thing is for sure, some of them, before they die will come crawling to the God they denied;  the others will die wishing they had.\n\nIf we that believe in God are fools; then let it  be known that their ancestors, even mothers and fathers where even bigger fools.  Many of those that lived and died before us where fools.  Because they also believed.  But praise be unto God; they where not.\n\n"believe there's no proof"  . vs.  "believe the written testamonies and evidence everywhere"\n\nIt's a persons choice, but it takes a BONAFIDE FOOL to side with "no proof".\n\nThere is no "burden of proof" on anyone that believes in God to prove it to ones that do not believe in Him. The belief in God is ones OWN burden. Everyone only has their own burden to decide to believe or not to believe. \n\nI have no responsibility to prove Gods existence to anyone. Neither does anyone else have that responsibility.\n\n\nPeace
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God won't be mocked. Even the most faithful who believe in God have not seen him, and just because you can't see him does not mean he doesn't exist. \nYou want proof of his existance but can you prove that he doesn't?\nLook around you, his proof is in all the beauty that you see in his creations. There also are many quiet miracles to behold. I know science would have us all believe that we were developed in a test tube, along with every animal,plant,bug or living thing. That is not the case. Besides the bigger question is WHY? There has to be a purpose for all this madness.
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Proof of god is purely personal.  That's why theists say you need faith.  I learned a while ago that it's useless to ask for proof.  You either accept faith as enough reason or don't.
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Where most religious people think to see "proof" of God, an objective person will only see something that usually can be explained by smthg else. The point is that the average human is not much aware of modern science (like cutting edge cosmology, quantum physics, abiogenesis, and the like) and just ignore the many possibilities for other explanations alternative to "God". \n\nThere is no such thing as "scientific proof" of the existence of God. No matter what religious people say.\nWe don´t really need the "God theory" to explain things in this universe. They can be explained by more conventional means. \n\nThe problem is that science is just too young compared to culture and tradition. \nMankind, my friend, is still at its childhood, and it still loves fairytales when going to bed.
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Because people cannot think for themselves. They need to have a set of "guidelines" made to follow. Other people can't believe in themselves because they see believing in gods as a bigger cause, so to speak.
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Sometimes to see you have to believe first and at other times you have to see to believe.  I think just like everything else, both have their place in life.  I also think that's it's up to each individual when these principals are applicable.  Why do many believe who don't have proof, but depend on heresay?  Well, I believe (as I see it in people over and over again, including myself) that each of us are born with the spirit to know and understand God/Jesus and divine purpose.  When this proclivity is not correctly harvested and harnessed, we go with what "sounds" right or makes "sense".  I read somewhere, "if you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything."  This is probably what you're referring to.  I don't know......
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You can just add details to your question, so people can see what you're talking about.\n\nAnd also, as I said in my other post, if you can believe that god came from nothing why can't others believe that something else has just always been?