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Originally Posted by adysav
Air is a substance that exists in the real world. Belief in it is not an issue.
God is something created in the minds of man to explain the unexplainable and shift responsibility. If, one day, it is discovered that there is such a 'being', your belief in it is coincidental as it currently has no real foundation.
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Ah, but that's JUST what people might have said before air was understood. Same for any number of scientific discoveries.
Who are you to say that God does not exist in the real world? Just because you can't touch it/Him, or don't understand it/Him? I don't understand quarks, gluons, and all of the myriad things that engender particle physics. These tiny particles don't have any effect on me that I can put my finger on and say, "oh! Quarks!" Yet I believe the scientists who tell me that they exist.
Our lack of understanding or disbelief in a subject does not disprove its existence. Granted, our belief in a subject does not prove existence, either. I think that part of our struggle in being human is trying to keep an open mind to those things that are untouchable, undetectable. This is called faith. People have faith in different matters -- some in God, some in science, some in double-entry accounting, some in the fact that one day, the Boston Red Sox would actually win the World Series (
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If, someday, God is discovered & proven scientifically, I do not concede that my current belief in it/Him was coincidental. I feel & see God's effects all around me; just as people felt the effects of the wind, even when they could not explain it.