...Well, not exactly. There is "probably" no true answers in math, but like most everything else, that's open to debate. Life is a matter of perspective.
I was away yesterday, so I just read a little bit of what seems to be the most popular diary from yesterday: There is No God (And You Know It). I couldn't go through all of the almost 1,000 comments, but one passage from the original story in the Huffington Post caught my attention...
...Only the atheist recognizes the boundless narcissism and self-deceit of the saved. Only the atheist realizes how morally objectionable it is for survivors of a catastrophe to believe themselves spared by a loving God, while this same God drowned infants in their cribs. Because he refuses to cloak the reality of the world's suffering in a cloying fantasy of eternal life, the atheist feels in his bones just how precious life is -- and, indeed, how unfortunate it is that millions of human beings suffer the most harrowing abridgements of their happiness for no good reason at all.
I don't know whether there is a God, or there isn't. My faith is something that I've struggled with. I've seen suffering & misery that makes me question, and I've seen beauty & majesty that have given me pause. However, I've always found it just as sickening for someone to force down my throat that I
MUST accept there is no God, as it is for right-wing Christians who must have everyone believe in "their" God.
What if the first sentence of the passage above read this way?
...Only the [Christian] recognizes the boundless narcissism and self-deceit of the [Atheist].
People around here would tear that statement apart as a right-wing diatribe. I personally believe that there are always possibilities. Most people who believe in a
"secular" universe, embrace science & randomness. It is through science we will find the answers to the questions of our existence. Well, maybe.
A lot of science operates on theories (Theory Of Relativity, Chaos Theory, String Theory, Theory Of Evolution, etc.). These notions have been formed, tested, and have gained acceptance because of their reliability in scientific testing. However, none of them have been proven as a scientific law. This doesn't mean that these theories aren't true, it just might be that we don't totally understand everything about the underlying science. The theories might be incomplete. Newton's Law of Gravity was found to be inaccurate when applied to extremely large masses or velocities. Don't worry, Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is able to compensate for it.
God to some people seems unknowable, but any absolutely true notions of science might be unknowable too. Yes, science is based on testing & reason, where spirituality is based on faith in something that is inherently unreasonable, but look at it this way: Our perspectives in science is based on trying to make reasonable assumptions about things we may NEVER understand. Pi has been contemplated since antiquity. It is both simple & infinite. However, there are things about the number that Mathmeticians still don't understand after more than 2,000 years of recorded history.
In Quantum Mechanics, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that we can never know absolutely everything about the characteristics in a random system. All calculations are only approximations & probabilities. There is no exact. We can make the probability of an answer being right high, but we can never eliminate doubt. If there is no God directing things, then the entire Universe is just one big random system, of which we are a part of. That might mean that no matter how technologically or scientifically advanced the Human race becomes, we may never be able to have an absolute answer to the nature of things.
I'm not saying don't believe in science, anymore than I would come on this site & tell everyone to believe in a certain God. I'm just posting that this is all about perspectives about how we look at things that seem unknowable. Both Science & Religion are different approaches for Humans to find understanding with their lives. For some people, faith fills in the gaps that science leaves. If it gives someone peace to believe in somthing that might be a fairy tale, I'm not going to take that away from them. If you feel the need to do so, in Decemeber when you go to the mall, why not go tell some kids standing in line to see Santa Claus, that he doesn't exist either...