If no one believed in God, would God exist?
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Many people think that god is a psychological invention by humans.  Like self-esteem, it serves a purpose for survival.  Unlike other living beings, we have the ability to observe and reflect.  We can understand some basic phenomenom of our world, but we are often confronted with things that we cannot understand.  With our natural need to feel in control of our world (which is part of our survival drive), facing something that we cannot control or understand leaves us psychologically vulnerable and stressed.  So early man created the gods.  The gods were beings who we could control (through prayer and sacrifices), who would control the unknowns in our lives.  This helped alleviate the anxieties and fears we were feeling.  Every culture on the planet throughout history created a system of gods that controlled the unknowable aspects of life.\n\nAs time has progressed, we have learned quite a bit about our world.  We understand what causes the weather to change, and how diseases occur, etc.  That has taken a lot of the steam out of the world of religion.  It's no coincidence that Christianity is suffering such a demise these days.  But it's not from a lack of morality in mankind.  It's because education has made us less frightened about the unknown.\n\nSo in short, if no one believed in God, then it would no longer exist.
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If you are nothing, then God does not exist. but ... .
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Wow, I was talking with some friends from church recently about this. I also had this feeling deep inside, "what if God didnt exist?" We talked for hours, debating on facts. Our conclusion: Yes, God exists. I'll try to give you some insight on what we went over.\n\nOk, let's not get too complicated and just give an everyday example. Suppose you got home today, and there was this beautiful chocolate cake with icing and everything, on top of ur table. Now, we have 2 theories of where that cake came from:\n\n1) There was an HEB truck this afternoon going by ur house, and all of a sudden, a car hit it at 70mph, and the truck rolled over violently. There were eggs, flour, all sorts of stuff in the truck, and they all got mixed up in the crash, and the truck caught on fire, and the extreme heat baked all that stuff, and as the truck continued to roll on the street, the stuff flew through ur window and miraculously landed on ur table.\n\n2) Someone who knew how to bake a chocolate cake, went there and did it, and then put it on top of ur table for you.\n\nWhich one makes more sense? If you answered #2, good! Then God created the Earth and everything in it. If you prefer to believe in an absurd and very creative theory called "the big bang", in which somehow gases mixed up, just in the right proportion, and then everything exploded and the earth was formed ... my friend, you have a very creative mind. First of all, how were those gases there? Someone must have created it. God. Stuff doesn't just appear.\n\n=D Doesn't that make sense? Ok, now, let's get a lil more complicated.\n\nScientists say that man evolved from monkeys or whatever their creative mind came up with. Well, it has been proven that over time, living beings only lose genetic material, constantly. Therefore, evolution cannot be possible. The human body is so complex, there is no way it just "evolved" from something. A project called GENOMA, just recently finished their research. Their task: make a complete mapping of the human DNA. Many countries joined forces to complete this project, each taking a body part, like arm, leg, or whatever, and finding out the DNA code for it. Germany was in charge of the human eye. At the end of the project, they said that the human eye was so complex, that there was NO WAY it could have evolved from some other animal. It's a fact. Scientists researched and wrote it down. Aren't they contradicting themselves now? Ok, I believe I made a point on this one. Mankind did not evolve. God made man in His image.\n\nOk, now back to the big bang stuff. The NASA has been measuring the distance from the Earth to the moon, and it's a fact that every year the moon gets further and further away from the Earth. Fact. It's been proven. It's also a mathematical equation. So, if we take that mathematical equation, and do it backwards, we come up with how long since the earth and the moon we're almost touching. The calculations say something about 10 thousand years. It can't be more than that, otherwise the moon would have been rolling around on the earth.\n\nAlso, it's possible to calculate the rate of aging of the Earth. Every year, scientists calculate the rate at which the Earth is aging. It's roughly the same. If we then backtrack how long since the Earth was relatively "new", the calculations vary from 10 to 12 thousand years. It's fact.\n\nAlso, the population of the Earth. Today, we have roughly 6.5 billion people alive. Populations, increase in a mathematical progression. In other words, there will always be more people alive today, than there are people dead. Fact. It's not possible to have more people dead than alive. Draw a sketch of a simple family tree, and you'll stumble upon the same conclusion. So, if we backtrack how long since the beggining of population, the results say somewhere between 10 to 12 thousand years.\n\nEvery fact that we
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Actually, many Atheists agree with you and use this to claim with 100% certainty that no Gods exist. From this, they conclude that the definition of God is incoherent and has no definition. Something that cannot be defined cannot be claimed to exist as it has no conditional to be true or false.\n\nThis is called the Argument from Theological Noncognitivism.\n\nPersonally, I define a deity as being a supernatural, anthropomorphic entity that created the universe.
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As you can see God does not exist.  God only exists in the imaginations of people who still believe in Santa Claus.
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No, I don't automatically assume a person who asks about God believes in God. I assume this is a person who wants to know about God. The fact you ask at all, tells me you doubt there is no God, and are willing to explore there really is a God.\n\nI do believe in God, I always have and I always will. I look at life with all of its intricacies, diversity and complexity, and i just can not accept we came to be on Earth any other way than by the Hand of God. There are just to many "just happens to be" to say evolution, and not God's creativity put life on Earth.
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No one.  God has existed from all eternity!
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No.  There is no god.  There's no evidence pointing toward the existence of a god or gods, and no reason to suspect that such evidence just hasn't been found yet.
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No, once you start believing in a god, you stop being an atheist. Knowing that god doesn't exist is the definition of atheism. An atheist could still have a religion, though. Buddhists, for example. An atheist might believe in other supernatural things, besides god. Usually not, though. Atheists don't think that religion doesn't exist, if that's what you mean. That would be stupid. I'm perfectly aware of the existance of religion, I just find it pointless.
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First of all, I believe God does not exist.\nIf you want a reason then contact me.
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no...if it were possible there wouldn't be these fun debates on yahoo answers..gotta love some of these answers though lol..stuff exists..that means gods exists..nice!..and the ever popular..can you prove he doesn't....burden of proof is on the believer
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If it were obvious, everybody would agree about God's existence. Since not everybody agrees, it can't be called obvious.
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I think we must discern between believing in existance of someone and having faith in that person / being. If you don't believe in God (the fact that He exists), you consequently don't have to believe that Satan exists too, but if you accept God's words as true, then you will know Satan exists, because God said that he exists. What God tells us is not to trust Satan, even not to communicate with him under any circumstances. Those who are certain that Satan exists will either avoid him(as the result of knowing he is 'person' not to be trusted) or follow him because they reject God. In the end, I think that Satan is very pleased when people consider he doesn't exist, cause in that way he can fool them undercover.
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If God does not exist, how does that for one second make my life a lie?  If I found out that God did not exist, I would not feel stupid or tricked.  I would feel disappointed, but I think I'd be rather philosophical about it.  After all, I LIKE the life I lead.  It's not as though I suffer through it because I'm afraid of hell, and if I found out that God didn't exist, I don't think I would live all too much differently.  Unless you're suggesting that loving people and helping others has no merit?  You say that at least in hell you'd be surrounded by nice people, but try reading through your question again.  There's nothing nice in that.  Quite frankly, you're giving good atheists a bad name.
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As I have heard others say, "I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there wasn't a God, than to live my life as if there is no God, and find out there was a God."  Proof is all around you--if you look for it, and if you believe, you will see.  God does exist.
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It takes more faith to believe that there is no GOD then it does to believe that there is a GOD... If someone is reasonable they must admit there are only two ways that the universe could have came into existance. Either it was all created by an all powerful, all knowing GOD, or it just created itself for nothing and by nothing... I'm no math wizard but I do know that nothing + nothing = nothing and GOD + nothing = everything...
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Yes, based upon these laws of physics you just described.  No one has ever been able to prove that God existed in this manner.  But, that doesn't mean he/she doesn't exist.  It just means we have yet to figure out how to prove it.  I saw Jesus once, but then I realized that was just his nickname, he was actually Chris Furgeson.