Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “What gives you certainty in your belief?”, Leave a Reply below!
Because I am still alive. Being told you are cancer free 2+ years after being told you have lung cancer, stage 3B. Surviving pulmonary emboli. Being given someone to love you unconditionally. Giving birth, and having raised them to be people I not just love, but truly like, and am proud of. These are the things that have proven to me that God exists, and that He loves me more than my small mind can comprehend.
look around u .. sure this world and all what us have a creator… it must be ultimate in every thing
I saw this on another post and it made me smile
When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane and going the wrong way.
My belief is the best answer I have been able to come up with! Certainty for now: but the future may challenge this certainty, for sure.
\Absolutely nothing.
In the next 3 minutes something might be discovered somewhere which would serve to absolutely obliterate my present understanding of the universe. I think it’s pretty unlikely (and less likely as time progresses), but it is always an irritating possibility, to be sure. I don’t think saying that is particularly controversial or revealing, though.
As a science-based thinker existing in a universe which, so far, appears to be structured according to some basic “rules”, one must always entertain the possibility that what they thought was THIS was actually THAT because they didn’t clearly understand the nature of THE OTHER or because they have evidently just discovered a new “rule”. Any understanding is always going to be just a snapshot in an incomplete mosaic. Until we discover that the universe is indeed arbitrary in some fashion (by which means the scientific method fails to ever be useful in detecting any underlying mechanism), this methodology is flawed but it’s simply the best we can do so far. It doesn’t appear to me that “certainty” of the kind I think you’re driving at can ever apply under these circumstances.
Ultimately, to me science amounts to nothing more than being reasonable, and if you absolutely cannot ever change your way of thinking, you’re probably not being reasonable. In THIS universe, anyway.
Why am I certain about my beliefs? My leprechaun speaks to me, of course…. just kidding
Beliefs must be tested in reality (not just in your mind) to know if they are true. Things that exist only in your mind cannot be shown to have a presence outside of you. The things that I believe in do exist in reality.
An interesting way to phrase the question. Being certain means you refuse to learn anything new. I am not ‘certain’ that I am completely (p=1) correct in my thinking on any particular subject.
I don’t consider it a faith and I wouldn’t consider myself certain about it, but my atheistic, scientific based beliefs are the most reasonable explanation I have heard. I do not believe in a god (at least not an omnipotant, all powerful creator), I do not believe that a god as could reasonably exsist with the state of things would demand to be worshipped as religions state, and I do not believe that there is any specific meaning to life.
I believe that which has the most logical facts and data and recreatable results to prove it’s point. That for me is evolution based on natural selection, no higher power directing our lives and desicions, and no soul or afterlife to either slave away durring life for or fear.
Knowing that there is existence and a reality that is undeniable. Looking at reality for the truths.
The evidence of my senses and of scientific inquiry. A skeptical attitude that will accept nothing less than the truth.
the believers of religions, evidence on my part, no evidence on their part, and the world around me all point to no god, no supernatural, only science. why can’t people just appreciate the universe without having to believe that a strange omnipotent creature is behind it all.