Comments on: A Plausible God http://www.thulasidas.com/2009-08/a-plausible-god.htm Perception and Physics. Science and Spirituality. Life and Work. Money and Quantitative Finance. Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:08:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: amer http://www.thulasidas.com/2009-08/a-plausible-god.htm/comment-page-1#comment-626 amer Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:09:45 +0000 http://www.thulasidas.com/?p=1435#comment-626 Hi Manoj, You can use this as a place holder for my response if you decide to post it from the email I sent you. rgds, amer Hi Manoj,

You can use this as a place holder for my response if you decide to post it from the email I sent you. rgds, amer

]]> By: amer http://www.thulasidas.com/2009-08/a-plausible-god.htm/comment-page-1#comment-619 amer Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:45:45 +0000 http://www.thulasidas.com/?p=1435#comment-619 Hi Manoj, BTW - good effort in setting up your blog. I had attempted to post a reply to 'A Plausible God'. It was rather long so I think it may have been rejected. Is there a word number limit to the posts? rgds, Amer Hi Manoj,

BTW – good effort in setting up your blog. I had attempted to post a reply to ‘A Plausible God’. It was rather long so I think it may have been rejected. Is there a word number limit to the posts? rgds, Amer

]]> By: Gavin http://www.thulasidas.com/2009-08/a-plausible-god.htm/comment-page-1#comment-570 Gavin Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:07:22 +0000 http://www.thulasidas.com/?p=1435#comment-570 You raise some stellar points. We don't know it all. Even evolution is a theory, especially when you consider that scientists still don't know exactly how the world began. There's a theory that lightning and gases blew up, but exactly what gases, and even whether that's possible, is still a theory. So at the end of the day, you have to have faith that there is a God, or faith that the Big Bang theory is true and an explosion did create the world as we know it. While dark matter is an interesting debate, it's hard to explain how someone who is 80 suddenly starts believing in God, or someone who has followed God for a long time suddenly stops. If they've always felt that dark matter, why start or stop believing suddenly? I think it's more than a perception of dark matter, it's just straight faith. I believe in God, and one of the things that got me putting my trust in God was thinking about how in the world an explosion ever created anything. Looking at the complex life forms and that really makes me wonder how there isn't a Creator. You raise some stellar points. We don’t know it all.
Even evolution is a theory, especially when you consider that scientists still don’t know exactly how the world began. There’s a theory that lightning and gases blew up, but exactly what gases, and even whether that’s possible, is still a theory.
So at the end of the day, you have to have faith that there is a God, or faith that the Big Bang theory is true and an explosion did create the world as we know it.
While dark matter is an interesting debate, it’s hard to explain how someone who is 80 suddenly starts believing in God, or someone who has followed God for a long time suddenly stops. If they’ve always felt that dark matter, why start or stop believing suddenly? I think it’s more than a perception of dark matter, it’s just straight faith.
I believe in God, and one of the things that got me putting my trust in God was thinking about how in the world an explosion ever created anything. Looking at the complex life forms and that really makes me wonder how there isn’t a Creator.

]]> By: Manoj http://www.thulasidas.com/2009-08/a-plausible-god.htm/comment-page-1#comment-500 Manoj Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:41:02 +0000 http://www.thulasidas.com/?p=1435#comment-500 Hi Jitesh, Thanks for your comment. You may be right, I may not be an atheist -- by (some) definition. It doesn't bother me what label gets attached to my line of thinking -- could be atheist, agnostic, free-thinking, nihilist, religious or whatever. I just happen to think the way I do, regardless of what it is called. What may be more important is to see beyond the labels. For instance, when we talk about concepts learned through education, and misconceptions planted in us from childhood, what exactly is the difference between them, other than the connotation of the words? I wrote a column on connotations some time ago. <a href="http://www.thulasidas.com/2010-07/reading-between-the-lines.htm" rel="nofollow">Here it is</a>. Hi Jitesh,

Thanks for your comment.

You may be right, I may not be an atheist — by (some) definition. It doesn’t bother me what label gets attached to my line of thinking — could be atheist, agnostic, free-thinking, nihilist, religious or whatever. I just happen to think the way I do, regardless of what it is called.

What may be more important is to see beyond the labels. For instance, when we talk about concepts learned through education, and misconceptions planted in us from childhood, what exactly is the difference between them, other than the connotation of the words? I wrote a column on connotations some time ago. Here it is.

]]> By: Jitesh Kumar http://www.thulasidas.com/2009-08/a-plausible-god.htm/comment-page-1#comment-499 Jitesh Kumar Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:04:05 +0000 http://www.thulasidas.com/?p=1435#comment-499 Dude, You clearly are not an atheist... you're an agnostic. And you clearly are confused. I know saying that 'my limited knowledge as a human being prevents me from knowing for sure if there is a GOD" seems to be something that intelligent, tolerat people might do, but we have to take the evidence that we have, and come to conclusions for the era that we live in. Aristotle sure made a mistake y saying all mater was made of water, earth, fire, and air, but that in NO WAY means that he shlouldn't have attempted to explain matter, because he wasn't well equipped to. Moreover, I think you've read Dawkins' God Delusion the wrong way. He has a problem with 'Religion' as a potential Pandora's box. And surely, when someone in India says "You shall be punished by God if you do this, and hence you shouldn't do it" is surely DELUSIONAL. The way I see it is, you've so deeply been infested with religion (And God) like most of us are, through mindless 'teaching' since our childhood, that when you hear something against GOD, the deep recesses of your mind shout out to you - "This can't be right! There's something wrong with this!!" It's a tragedy of sorts that educated people like us still can't shed the minconceptions seeded into us from childhood. It's like we let this fungus grow around us, and then try to get out of it for the rest of our lives. And by definition... You are not an atheist! Dude,

You clearly are not an atheist… you’re an agnostic. And you clearly are confused. I know saying that ‘my limited knowledge as a human being prevents me from knowing for sure if there is a GOD” seems to be something that intelligent, tolerat people might do, but we have to take the evidence that we have, and come to conclusions for the era that we live in. Aristotle sure made a mistake y saying all mater was made of water, earth, fire, and air, but that in NO WAY means that he shlouldn’t have attempted to explain matter, because he wasn’t well equipped to.

Moreover, I think you’ve read Dawkins’ God Delusion the wrong way. He has a problem with ‘Religion’ as a potential Pandora’s box. And surely, when someone in India says “You shall be punished by God if you do this, and hence you shouldn’t do it” is surely DELUSIONAL.

The way I see it is, you’ve so deeply been infested with religion (And God) like most of us are, through mindless ‘teaching’ since our childhood, that when you hear something against GOD, the deep recesses of your mind shout out to you – “This can’t be right! There’s something wrong with this!!”

It’s a tragedy of sorts that educated people like us still can’t shed the minconceptions seeded into us from childhood. It’s like we let this fungus grow around us, and then try to get out of it for the rest of our lives.

And by definition… You are not an atheist!

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