Comments for Do Atheists Reject Without Understanding? at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 09:56:46 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/do-atheists-reject-without-understanding.html#comment-171 Point A: you can''t get to God via the scientific method. The existence of God is a metaphysical question, not a physical one. St. Thomas Aquinas did not propose hypotheses to explain phenomena. He reasoned to the truth demonstratively. Point B: The true reason few people are taken in by atheists is that everyone innately grasps that a first, uncaused cause is required in order to explain the existence of everything. As St. Thomas explains, this cause is what we mean by the name "God." - James the Least Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:21:52 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/do-atheists-reject-without-understanding.html#comment-170 This is one of the most eloquent descriptions of the concept of God I have ever read, but I feel you stop short of acknowledging the possibility that it is organized religion itself; the mythical and ritualized structure of it, that leads directly to the concept of God as a tangible entity that can be defined, explained, and contacted conversationally. It is these beliefs that result in the scientific approach of finding God that always inevitably fails. - z Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:37:18 +0100