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Asked by ells8 to Kate, Mark U, Tess, Yue, Faye on 30 Apr 2012. This question was also asked by preshous333, samuel1299.
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Tess Newman answered on 30 Apr 2012:
Well… obviously how you approach this questions depends on your religious beliefs. From a scientific point of view, everything is just a theory until it is proven. So some people have as their theory that there is no God, whereas other people will have as their theory that there is a God. At the moment, and perhaps forever, there is no experiment that we can perform that can prove this one way or another. This proof would have to be verified and confirmed by many other people to ensure that it was true – one person’s opinion, no matter how respected they are, does not count. So we cannot say that there is one definite answer – it is just what people have as their theory, depending on what evidence they chose to believe
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Mark Uphill answered on 1 May 2012:
That’s a real “big” question but I’ll try and keep my response to it short! From a psychological perspective a range of factors influence individuals’ religious beliefs including parents and peers. Of course our beliefs can also be influenced by evidence (e.g., society’s beliefs about smoking tobacco have argubaly changed in recent decades). Lets assume for one minute that God did create the world (the hypothesis or belief). How would we “test” that, what evidence would we use, and could there be another explanation for the evidence? The “evidence” that individuals draw upon and how they interpret that evidence can differ, which is why in part scientists (just like other individuals) can vary in their beliefs.
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