Religious Poll

[August]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I disagree, but only about the nature of the question versus your answer. Your observation is true if they "came to believe" that their deity didn't exist. Sammi79's question seems to me to be asking whether most believers would "come to belive" the nonexistence if proof could indeed be shown. I see these as two different things entirely.

I fit your category of one who "came to believe" in the non-existence of God, though "doubt" is the better word for me than "belief".

On the other hand, a great majority of believers have such great faith that even if some proof could be established, their reaction would be to not accept it and try to disprove it.

As would anyone when it comes to their long held and cherished beliefs. Imo it should be difficult to change those.

But "proof" means many things to many people. One person might point to, say a dinosaur fossil, as "proof" that the Bible is wrong about evolution and therefore that God does not exist.

I look at Bibles story of creation, indeed organized Religion itself, as an attempt to explain a concept that is way too advanced for most people to fully understand, especially during the age it was written. It's like how a child might be told that the stork brought their new baby sibling instead of getting into all the mechanics of conception and pregnancy which are too advanced for them to understand at their age.