Question:
Do you know everything? (serious question)?
Moira
2009-04-19 12:57:11 UTC
maybe you dont know everything....but could you at least know half of everything? if you know half of everything...could it be possible God exists of the half that you don't know?
38 answers:
tj
2009-04-19 13:01:24 UTC
I know enough to know how little I know.

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Passenger (wow widow)
2009-04-19 13:04:31 UTC
No, I don't know even close to half of everything. I couldn't even estimate how much I don't know but I'm sure it's a lot.



I don't claim that the possibility of a god is impossible. I just say that I don't believe such a being exists because there are reasonable explanations for nearly everything people claim as evidence of god and I don't feel that not understanding something yet is a good reason for assuming a god exists. I live my life working under the assumption there are no gods and I'm comfortable with that.
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:05:24 UTC
Of course I don't know everything, do you? I never said I was 100% sure god doesn't exist, that would be a ridiculously extreme, shutend assertion that is just as valid, improvable and illogical as asserting 100% that god does exist. How do you know if god DOES exist of the half of everything that you don't know? Could it be possible that he doesn't exist, but you just don't know it? How do you know if Zeus exists of the half that you don't know?



Know everthing? Even for a memory savant, it would be impossible to know even half of everything in Universe. If there was a human being on Earth who truely knew absolutely everything, even knowing the start of the Universe, and the origin of life forms on Earth, I would consider them more of a god than what any religion says about a "god".
Kimberly M
2009-04-19 13:01:19 UTC
I really don't understand the question. I don't think someone could know everything, or even half of everything. The best you could do is to be very well versed in a variety of things. I believe in God.
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:07:04 UTC
You are using the logical fallacy Argument from ignorance:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance



Just because we don't know about something doesn't mean we can believe whatever we want about it. You might as well say:



Could it be possible that Invisible Pink Unicorns exist of [sic] the half that you don't know?



You would be able to say that God existed if you could find any sort of real evidence. You have to realize that things that are real tend to have evidence that supports it existence.



Giz
chris d
2009-04-19 13:01:46 UTC
I don’t have time to debate religion it would go on forever so I am going to say no I don’t know everything and probably don’t know half of everything, for example I know nothing about quantum physics but In my heart I feel there is a god… that’s what the term “faith” means. Also do you know everything? could it be possible that god does not exsist on the part that you dnt know?
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:10:23 UTC
Yes its possible that God exists, even if nothing points to it. I don´t know everything but all people together maybe knows everything that has been observed even if they dont remeber all
gracefulS
2009-04-19 13:06:09 UTC
No one knows everything, especially us, since we're not dead. We know nothing else then what we know already, and we'll all continue to expand our experience and learn new things. But for people to force religion on other's claiming they know "God", is irrelevant to life and complete bull***, as they're never met "God". All they know is second hand bible quotes, posing as truth.

Anything can be said to be truth, if it's backed up by enough of an army.



And those who may thumbs down me, only prove, they think they know better then me, when no one knows everything.
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:02:03 UTC
I don't know anything. Even the smartest people on earth know precious little. The universe is too vast and complex.



I do believe, however, that God is real. In so far as I can be sure of anything, I am sure of the knowledge that God does exist.
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:01:48 UTC
The same damn thing can be said for christians. No one knows everything, therefore, in the christian mind, maybe the fact that god does not exist in in the part that they don't know.



See how if you reverse that it can go the other way? Not a good argument for the existence of god.
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:02:08 UTC
I'm kind of confused about your question. I know I don't know everything. I never will. Noone knows everything. Yes God does exist.
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:05:16 UTC
What you are stating is known as the argument of the "God of the gaps." Just because there are gaps in human knowledge, this doesn't mean that God fills those gaps. It just means that we always have more to learn.
cosmo
2009-04-19 13:04:41 UTC
We don't know how much there is to know, and certainly there is no single human who knows everything that humans know.



If God does exist, that knowledge certainly is among the stuff that we don't know.



If the Tooth Fairy exists, that knowledge is also among the stuff that we don't know.
frz5flm3
2009-04-19 13:10:30 UTC
NO, I don't know everything.

But, based on all the cases and observations in general I have seen: There is a God. He is out of our sight and control. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%20John%208:24;&version=65;
A Modest Proposal
2009-04-19 13:01:56 UTC
I don't know how much I don't know, or even know. I do know though that what I know now does not support the conclusion of God.





It is illogical to fill in the gaps just because you want to. You know what that fallacy is called? It's quite simple really - God of the Gaps.
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:04:27 UTC
Everyone knows that God exists. Christians are just smart enough to listen to that knowledge.
Rocket Lawnchair
2009-04-19 13:02:29 UTC
We know less than one percent of everything there is to know and I doubt we will ever know much more than that. There is too much out there for us to know.
The Lion and the Lamb
2009-04-19 13:03:22 UTC
Nope sure don't. I will be on this spiritual journey forever. Hungry for the word of the Lord always
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:00:09 UTC
There is extraordinarily little that we actually know. Anyone who would tell you he has all the answers is a liar and most likely is trying to sell you something.
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:01:33 UTC
well technically we know everything because we have God their for the answer. Just need to pray and ask.
Herodotus
2009-04-19 13:02:16 UTC
Nope, I don't. The key is, how do I go about learn things. I use reason as a filter. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33380_Video-_Open-Mindedness
.
2009-04-19 13:00:58 UTC
Sure.



It's also possible that Zeus exists in the "half that I don't know". Are you willing to admit that?
Mosa A
2009-04-19 13:36:15 UTC
yes

we can know every thing in one subject

But we can't know every thing in all subjects .

God the Holy Trinity only knows every thing in all things.

1Co 13:9-10

13:9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 13:10But when (God) that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Fool
2009-04-19 13:07:07 UTC
That's how the serpent tricked mankind to eat from the tree of knowledge.

The more we know, the more we know that we don't know
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:01:14 UTC
nope,I dont know everything and I think I never will...and yah,maybe I like it that way...
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:00:15 UTC
The only thing I know for certain, is that I know nothing.
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:00:45 UTC
there are 100 trillion trillion galaxies and there are probably a trillion trillion trillion trillion people in the Universe and you don't know anything about them.
?
2009-04-19 13:02:08 UTC
Of course not, I know everything

Fear me
KBC
2009-04-19 13:00:44 UTC
I don't know everything, but it doesn't mean I know nothing.
S K
2009-04-19 13:00:52 UTC
It might also be possible that Zeus exists. Seriously.
right is right, left is wrong
2009-04-19 13:02:17 UTC
No I don't know everything, but one thing I do know for sure..I am saved by the Blood of Jesus. No "ifs, ands, or buts". If anyone cares to know more, please read my sources. Thanks and have a great day!
Jimmy J
2009-04-19 13:01:18 UTC
it is completely imposable for someone to know "everything". god knows everything because he/she is the one who created us and earth. he created everything!
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:01:58 UTC
Not even close
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:00:14 UTC
the more I learn, the less I know!
Daken
2009-04-19 13:00:43 UTC
Show me any evidence for your deity and I will listen to you
anonymous
2009-04-19 13:01:07 UTC
the truth is, humans know nothing.
Gentlelamb
2009-04-19 13:01:51 UTC
POSSIBILITY....."Only a Fool thinks that he has nothing to learn."....(The book of Proverbs)
anonymous
2009-04-19 12:59:26 UTC
no but im still learning...


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