firstly welcome to sciforums.
Thank you.
nobody has said that your subjective mind cannot reason a god, but it cannnot do it in reality.
I am saying that reason alone cannot prove that God exists. Nothing can prove God's existense or non-existence; we can have evidence for or against, we can reason for or against, but nothing we have now can prove that He is real.
you cant have faith in atheism, faith is a religious thing. atheism is a totally lack of faith, in all baseless things.
Faith is the belief in something that cannot be proved; it is not limited to religious circles. If your friend tells you that he will come to visit you at a certain time, you do not KNOW that he will do it, but since you trust him, you have faith that he will come at the time he said he would. I always thought that Atheism was the belief that God does not exist...but if one takes your definition of a lack of faith, that is still faith. You are basically saying that no religion is worth believing in; thus you have faith that all religions are bunk.
sorry not so. you cant reason that a square is the same shapes as a circle, but your subjective mind maybe able to.
I do not understand your statement.
then please produce this evidence so we can all follow a god.
The evidence works for me. Just because I present it does not mean that it will convince you; it is not proof of God's existence. From all the physical, philosophical and ethical evidence for and against God's existence, there is enough evidence for me to confidently state that I believe that God exists and that He is interested in me.
For example, the basic question of how life began has only two possible answers to me: either it was created by a self-existent eternal life force, or it occured as a random event. One could say that one doesn't know how life begins; to me, that means that one doesn't want to make a decision between the two options. I believe that it is more reasonable to believe the first option instead of the second.
The existence of ethics also has a strong effect on my belief in God. If something is right or wrong, there must be some standard outside of that thing which determines it. To say that "everything is relative" is to make an absolute statement about everything; meaning that everything ISN'T relative. Since this absolute standard exists, I choose to call the source of that standard God.
These are admittedly simplistic, but it just serves as an example of my own beliefs; more time gives more discussion on this, I guess.
contradiction, and what evidence.
I do not understand your statement. What did I say that was contradictory?
not possible, I've found nothing, to say the he[C.S. Lewis] was an atheist, just the fact that he did'nt really follow his religion, this does not indicate he had no belief in a god.
Read the Wikipedia entry on C.S. Lewis's life (man, I don't know how I lived without that website I could spend all day there looking up random stuff). I post a quote from the "conversion to Christianity" section : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S._Lewis
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Although raised as a Christian, Lewis was an atheist for much of his youth. When he later wrote an account of his adult reconversion to Christianity, under the title Surprised by Joy, he said that he had been "very angry with God for not existing." Some interpret this to mean that he did not so much reject the existence of God as harbour anger at God for the unfairnesses in life. This interpretation appears to be contradicted by a letter to a friend, in which he said, "all religions, no, mythologies to give them their proper name, have no proof whatsoever!" The indifferent God is just as easily tested as the personal God of childhood, however, and in Lewis' considerations of an inadequate God within his own suffering, he began to believe in a deeper experience of some fundamentals of Western thought.
Influenced by arguments with his Oxford colleague and Roman Catholic friend J. R. R. Tolkien, and by G.K. Chesterton's book, The Everlasting Man, he slowly rediscovered Christianity. In 1929, he came to believe in the existence of God, later writing, "In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed," describing himself as "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
In 1931, after a lengthy discussion with Tolkien and another close friend, Hugo Dyson, he reconverted to Christianity and (to the regret of Tolkien) joined the Church of England. He noted, "I came into Christianity kicking and screaming."
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but cristian like to use this, as a proof? that atheist can change, but you are asking the impossible.that goes without saying where do you think atheist come from, from strict study of the bible qu'ran and vedas etc, and then the realisation it's all lies, and illogic.
you can fit a ball through a square hole if the diameter is right, but you can fit the same size square through a circular hole, in other words atheism is a one way street.
unless you get a bang on the head then anything could happen.