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Atheists are so funny...

You sneer at religious folk who base their world view on ‘faith’.

Let us examine, if you dare, this “reason” you rely upon. Your rock. Your precious.

Your “scientific method” is tremendously helpful in getting right down to the bits we don’t understand. Most of you will complete the previous sentence with “yet”. Perhaps you’re right. Maybe one day we’ll fully understand why probability waves collapse, whether the future exists, free will, what life is, why we find rainbows so beautiful (don’t tell me that’s adaptive). On the other hand, perhaps there will always be “uncertainty”. In fact, quantum theory tells us uncertainty is one of the fundamental building blocks of our universe.

Point being that when you get right down to it, your entire world view is also based on faith. Think about that for a second.

Now think about this. What if we were to call all that, “Uncertainty” I don’t know.... God!

You guys are funny. You’ve proved God exists and don’t even realize it. Yet.

Ambafrog, reddit 87 Comments [6/11/2012 11:07:09 AM]
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#1412310
Pule Thamex

God is the epitome of uncertainty. God is uncertainty personified. God is a vague, poorly defined cloud lounger. God hovers over wherever rank stupidity and self-hatred hold sway. God's uncertainty makes Him completely invisible and totally non-existent. God's uncertainty makes for a brilliant money making scheme. God's uncertainty is the perfect engine to power gullible droolers.

At least atheists can get somethings right.

6/12/2012 2:00:52 AM

#1412323
shykid

This is one of those times when the "WTF?!" voting option matches my response. This is so asinine it speaks for itself.

6/12/2012 2:43:27 AM

#1412326
Swede

*How nice that we procure you with a bit of humour.
*People are free to base their world-view on what they want. It's when people want to impose their world view on others that I start complaining.
*Of course I would complete the sentece with a "yet". We know more today than we did fifty years ago, we even know more now than we did five years ago. By the time we know about today's uncertainties, though, we will have found new uncertainties.
*I base my world-view on the tangible reality, what we can see, touch, smell and hear. How is that "faith"?
*We can also call all that "uncertainty", I don't know... "challenge".

See, no deities needed anywhere. You're the funny ones, stupid.

6/12/2012 2:59:51 AM

#1412332
michael3ov

Ahhhh the essence of your belief.

God exists in our lack of knowledge.

6/12/2012 3:47:26 AM

#1412338
Table Rock

As others have said, this is a version of "God of the Gaps" argument, and a piss poor one at that.

6/12/2012 4:00:20 AM

#1412342
Nowonmai

I don't sneer at religious folk.. I pity them.

6/12/2012 4:09:22 AM

#1412365


"The Uncertainty Principle is a thing, therefore you're just as faithful as I am"

Wat? I think you missed a step in your logic there.

Okay, so you call a principle of nature God. You might as well call the wind God (and many have), or gravity, or nuclear fusion (again, many have). Knock yourself out, and I won't deny that this definition of god exists.

It's just a crap definition, and when I call myself an atheist, I refer more to a supernatural, sentient being like the one the Christian god is supposed to be. That one definitely doesn't exist.

6/12/2012 6:26:24 AM

#1412369
Horsefeathers

"Now think about this. What if we were to call all that, 'Uncertainty' I don’t know.... God!"

And why would we do that over calling it some other deity, or even just Larry? You haven't shown any reason that "uncertainty" is anything but just that, and you certainly haven't shown why it should be anthropomorphized.

"You guys are funny. You’ve proved God exists and don’t even realize it. Yet."

Are you familiar with the God of the Gaps? You should be.

6/12/2012 6:34:57 AM

#1412378
Doubting Thomas

You’ve proved God exists and don’t even realize it.

Sorry, but a bunch of mumbo-jumbo doesn't prove God's existence. "We don't know, therefore God" is just a god of the gaps argument.

6/12/2012 7:01:23 AM

#1412428
Canuovea

Classic God of the Gaps summed up right here.

6/12/2012 9:45:50 AM

#1412435
farpadokly

I don't understand quantum theory or Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and neither do you. And at least I admit it.
But I know this much about it. It has nothing to do with the existence or non-existence of God.

6/12/2012 10:13:42 AM

#1412438
Nagol

Another fundie trying to lower science to the level of religion. We don't call that uncertainty god because there's no evidence that would suggest that any god exists, no matter how bad you want one to. This is just another spin on the flawed "god of the gaps" argument. I find it amusing that you thought this was clever. All you did was show everyone that you are an ignorant, pompous douche.

6/12/2012 10:20:42 AM

#1412464
\m/>_<\m/

and here i thoughtit wasn't called uncertainty but entropy... you should post youtube vids: mind=blown... oh wait, no it ain't

6/12/2012 11:14:43 AM

#1412499
Jeff Weskamp

My personal name for Uncertainty is "Bibblefart."

6/12/2012 2:59:48 PM

#1412500
JSS

{What if we were to call all that, “Uncertainty” I don’t know.... God!}

If 'God' is uncertainty then he can be defeated with knowledge...

...which means he's not all powerful
...which means he's not 'God'

6/12/2012 3:02:19 PM

#1412504
Alkonium

Even if we've proven a god exists (which we haven't), we haven't proven that it's your god.

6/12/2012 3:27:53 PM

#1412518


I've a better idea. Let's call it "Loki's Butt."

6/12/2012 5:18:16 PM

#1412520
Anon

I quote Carl Sagan:

"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."

And anyone claiming "God makes wavefunctions collapse" had better accept a God whose workings are entirely indistinguishable from random chance.

6/12/2012 5:30:27 PM

#1412531
moose

"maybe one day we'll fully understand....whether the future exists".
Yep, maybe tomorrow I will know.

6/12/2012 7:07:52 PM

#1412533
Deepshock


6/12/2012 7:34:40 PM

#1412549
Tolpuddle Martyr

Okaaaaaay? *backs away slowly*

6/12/2012 9:53:38 PM

#1412579


It's not god blowing the winds.
It's not god sending the rain.
It's not god moving the planets.
So it must obviously be god collapsing probability waves.

6/13/2012 4:00:21 AM

#1412630
mikek44224

I didn't know God could fit in a gap the size of the de Broglie wavelength.

6/13/2012 9:45:45 AM

#1412640
John_in_Oz

If so, then you've proven your God did not dictate the Bible- he's merely uncertainty.
You stole that argument from SMBC:


Check it out, Zach Weiner is awesome.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/

6/13/2012 10:19:05 AM

#1412641
Ludd

-10 Not believing that the future exist.

-10 Thinking there's a magical reason for rainbows being beautiful. (Which is completely subjective, by the way.)

-10 Quantum woo.

-10 for not understanding the concept of evidence based belief

-1000000 for the God IS the gaps arguement.

YOU FAIL.

6/13/2012 10:24:52 AM
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