Occasionally,
not often lately, I meet a person whose argument against belief in God is, “I
only believe in what I can see.” I seriously doubt they give much thought to that
claim. I give them more credit than to accept that they really believe that.
Why?
Most
people today have carbon monoxide alarms in their homes. Why? Because we humans
cannot see, smell or taste it AND carbon monoxide has killed people. Another
danger: If it weren't for the power companies putting a foul scent in natural
gas, that also could easily be another killer, right in a person’s home. We
cannot see it and in its natural state it is odorless and tasteless. This
news article covers other naturally occurring, common things that we humans
have no sense of and yet they can be fatal. (For those readers prone to
discount Fox News, at least accept that this article documents well-known
dangers that are easily verified.)
But the
point of my article here is that claiming to believe only in what one sees
ignores common sense and common knowledge. So now that we’ve established that
we can confidently and intelligently believe in things we cannot see or sense
at all, the next step is to ask what is the real reason people do not believe
in God? When people really start to seriously ponder the question, they may
come up with items such as:
1.
Evolution
has disproven God.
2.
Religion
and the clergy have acted so corruptly.
3.
This
modern world’s ethics and moral standards are so poor—if there were a God, he
should have acted to clean it up by now.
If you are
sincerely searching for answers to such questions, consider the following
linked articles:
