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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
This has bothered me overnight, so I am going to belabor a point I tried to make yesterday.
I don't understand how it is possible that god exists.
The "agnostic" (?) arguments in this thread seemed to be based on the supposition that:
1) There is no current evidence to prove the existence of god.
2) The universe is a big place, so although there is no evidence of god here, somewhere way out there there could be a god.
Therefore it would be shortsighted of us to discount the possibility of there being a god based on the vastness of the universe, and the knowledge that we understand so very little of it.
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This is only part of the theistic argument, and I would argue that it is but a small component. I have been attempting to make the point throughout this thread, that most theists simply do not arrive at and maintain their belief on the basis of philosophically rigorous canons of evidence. Religion thrives because of the circumstantial and anecdotal connections that people practically cannot help but draw between their experiences relative to "spiritual" phenomena. Because it is personal, emotive and primarily experiential, it will almost always trump reason and good experimentation.