We cant understand God's nature, so we are in agreement in this regard.
I do think, however, that the only one who can determine if god exists or not is humans.
Interesting.
Actually, there is plenty of evidence for an intelligent creator, most people simply choose to ignore it (which makes sense).
I agree. But the logic by which we assign the label "evidence" to it ends up being subjective. I.e., non-transferable. In all fairness and honesty, we can't even objectively validate it as such for ourselves.
In fact, most of human's history, the existence of godly creatures was a common ground.
Only these days, when science is advanced enough, we can change our thought and describe "god's way" in other words.
God then and now has always been the 'hidden motivation' within the natural realm. Science has not changed that, though it has forced us to recognize the abstraction of it.
Possibility has no value what so ever. Its probability that is important.
Without the former there is no latter.
There is nothing that is impossible.
We don't know what is or isn't possible. Which does kind of mean anything is possible
from our perspective, I guess.
The question is, how probable is it that there is a God.
Atheists think, it is very unlikely.
I think the reality of a God is hard for a lot of people to cognate. Which is why a lot of people's responses to that question are so ... unintelligible.
Agnostics simply don't really care.
As far as they are concerned, we are far back and cannot really determine the probability of god.
I say, God bless(ed) them, then.
Because we don't lack the evidence, rather the words to describe it.
Another interesting comment. I like the way your brain works!
Why do you choose to believe in god? (I don't really choose it, btw, I simply do).
Simply because it works for me. (I don't "believe in" God. I just choose to presume that a benevolent God exists because I can.)
I've met many people who don't really benefit anything from it. I've also met some who actually are very annoyed by the idea of god even though they believe it exists.
A lot of people 'do God' wrong, and so gain no benefit. It's unfortunate. But most do it well enough to get what they need or they wouldn't still be doing it.
When you stop looking for god as the answer, you start focusing on your self and what you can see.
The self is sometimes not going to be enough. Most people won't reach for a God until they come face to face with that realization. And why would they? But the fact is that a whole lot of people in this world have faced that realization, and so have reached out for that 'power greater than themselves'.
Later, I realized that this is exactly what god tells us. Its all us.
Not individually, though ... collectively. The divine with us can heal us and save us from ourselves. But the divine within us as a collective can heal and save the whole world.
It seems like you think people choose not believe in god.
This is not how it works.
You either believe, or you don't.
If you don't, it means there was nothing that convinced you it exists and not that you chose not to believe (those who claim that, are not really atheists
).
Only children are stuck with the ideals they've been taught ... by parents or by circumstance. Part of becoming an adult is facing those ideals and choosing to keep or discard them. My response to any adult that tells me they have no choice in what they 'believe' is to "grow up!".
If I told you I saw an alien... You either believe it or not. You can believe from different reasons... evidence, you trust my word, etc.
I don't need to believe anything. And I wouldn't. I can simply accept that you say so, and leave it at that.
Agnosticism is not the baseline.
The baseline is not knowing the idea of god at all.
Everyone is aware of the idea. It's the reality of it that we don't know. Just as I stated.