How can people believe in somthing ( or someone as the case may be) they can't prove existes?
92222
It doesn't make sense, does it?  I have been trying to figure that one out for quite a while....
348436
It's not really relevent, because people will believe what they want to believe.\n\nIF somehow someone managed to say they had scientific proof that god either existed or didn't exist, then I doubt that all that people would change their beliefs.
787411
They have to believe in something to explain their existence.
26228
It is impossible to prove either.  No proof is possible.   everyone should believe whatever they want.
385289
Like it or not, our lives are a defense of what we believe whether we know how to articulate it or not.  Our choices reflect our beliefs.  \n\nThe ability or inability of a person or group of people to defend their beliefs is not proof of the validity of the belief.  It simply speaks to their competence (or lack of it) as communicators.\n\nShould we be able to know and defend what we believe?  Sure.\n\nIs our ability the proof of the veracity of the belief?  No.
987313
People get comfort from believing there is a reason for existence, that it's not all accidental or the product of a statistical probability. \n\nLook at it this way: if you are a believer and you die and there is no God, what difference does it make.  If you are not a believer and you die and there is a God, BIG SURPRISE!
318450
Most people don't simply believe theories.........they just acknowledge them as a possible reason or explanation.\n\nIt's called having an open mind.
359535
some people have a large amount of "brain" and "logics"\nthey don't believe what they couldn't see, couldn't touch, couldn't feel.\n\nand some people thing that even some atheist doesn't believe in god, that people is blessed also.
70609
I think it is because everyone is skeptical.  We need to see with our own eyes as prove that something exists.  Today, with the many modern techniques, there are many ways to claim to be something you aren't and people just don't believe anymore.
1082940
The faithful don't believe without proof. They do not run out and buy every product they see advertised. They read Consumer Reports just like the rest of us. If I tried to sell a theist a "magic potion" that would turn him invisible, or told him that his wife was cheating on him, he would ask for proof.\n\nWe only extend our need for proof one step further. We don't see why proof is needed in every aspect of existence except one.
648386
There are a couple steps of atheism:  Mild atheism; where a person just doesn't believe in religion because there isn't any proof. If proof were offered, then they'd believe. Or perhaps they just think that there's too much to be known by people, which is technically called Agnostistism. \n\nThen there's true atheism, which denies the existance of everything non-tangable. When you die, you decay in the ground. Your soul disapears. And that's that.
672348
Believing and trusting in something you can't comprehend with any of the senses, or that can't be proven with any scientific methods.
2709
I think we must discern between believing in existance of someone and having faith in that person / being. If you don't believe in God (the fact that He exists), you consequently don't have to believe that Satan exists too, but if you accept God's words as true, then you will know Satan exists, because God said that he exists. What God tells us is not to trust Satan, even not to communicate with him under any circumstances. Those who are certain that Satan exists will either avoid him(as the result of knowing he is 'person' not to be trusted) or follow him because they reject God. In the end, I think that Satan is very pleased when people consider he doesn't exist, cause in that way he can fool them undercover.
34025
Good question, I think people is desperate to believe in something. The idea of not existance of a god must be to overwhelmingly for they.
859494
how can you believe in evolution when there is no proof?
432976
You are right. Inspite of the proofs--order in the universe, design in every living or non living things--some people choose not to believe. I really don't understand why. But I can only guess. Here are probable reasons:\n\n1. They were brainwashed into believing that big-bang theory. Just like putting metals into one big drum blowing them up with dynamite and presto you have a functioning car.\n\n2. These people just don't want to be governed by rules that don't fit their life styles.\n\n3. They just want to be different than the rest.\n\n   The Bible however gives us a perspective of their state of mind. "They say they are wise, but they are fools... Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds..." (Romans 1:22,28, Today's English Version )
93488
I believe it is because people feel the need to believe in something. They need answers to the unexplained. And they need to feel that if something happens to them it is a result of some eerie fate, and not just something that happened just because.