Why does "I don't know" equal "God did it"?

They are not equal.

"I don't know" is an honest, forward-looking response--meaning that perhaps in the future I may know the answer.

"Goddidit" is a cop out, backward- looking answer -- meaning "My mind is made up and I don't care what may be found out in the future."

To the god botherers:

"Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand.] If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem."Neil deGrasse Tyson

-If the Universe needs a creator, why doesn't god?

If god doesn't need a creator, why does the Universe ?-

Just because something is set on a natural course and runs autonomously doesn't mean it wasn't set in motion.

Why does "I can't prove He exists" equal "God doesn't exist."?

After all science isn't a conclusive, well, uh science. We can learn a lot from science but it has its limitations.

In my opinion, is that God exists. Not because I don't understand how the world works but because of prophets and the Bible. And although it may be a merely an inductive philosophy, it isn't necessarily wrong. I expect science to tell me how God did it. My God isn't at odds with science. My God used science to create the world. Someday I do believe that it will reveal God, but it doesn't have to.

It doesn't make God not real, either.

I never even open questions that start out with, "Atheists, how do you explain..." I wish Christians wouldn't ask those questions. I see no point in them. I could be wrong, but I just don't think that people attacking Christianity want God to exist and they don't want Jesus to be real so I don't see what good it does to address them other than to correct any misinformation they post about Christianity.

That is probably much better than pretending that you know. For (science) examples:

1) The universe is contacting. Oops, now it is expanding......

2) There was one ice age.....there were 4 ice ages.....Oops, now there are 30 or more ice ages

3) There were thought to be more than 300 vestigial organs in the human body(in the 1960's). Today, there are ZERO vestigial organs in the human body, because now we understand the ACTUAL PURPOSE for those organs. But, because we don't understand the purpose of something, we should NOT automatically claim that this is evidence that it is leftover from evolution. This is the SAME thing that you are complaining about.....arguing from IGNORANCE

Its a fundamental misunderstanding of the debate. Many people confuse the unexplained for the unexplainable. Also many fundamental Literalist confuse explaining the mechanisms of how things work such as cause and effect with a false premise that someone is trying to disprove their god(s), Atheism and science are not the same thing. You can be an atheist and a scientist, but those two terms are nor interchangeable. If your asking an atheist instead of a physicists how gravity works your asking the wrong person.

"God" does represent a reality which stands beyond the horizon of our rational capacity. In doing so, it is packed in the form of mythological symbol which means "center of Everything Existing". In that sense, "God" exists as an abstract concept which unites the meaning of life and everything around it as One.

Today scientists do the exact same thing as people who used the mythological language code. "Big Bang", "Black Hole", "Dark Matter" do not really mean that, right? The two have an idea of the constellation which builds what they contemplate and how it may affect them, but they are perfectly aware that there is so much that they do not know.

What is your evidence he is not real? Is it not common sense that creation must have a creator? By the way, insanity is mentioned in the Bible so do not say they did not know about mental illness. That shows your ignorance.

XTIAN LIE:

No Chance Without Jesus answered 1 min ago

God did do it all, and unless you can prove otherwise...that is the default

XTIAN LIE:

God says over and over to study nature

"I don't know" prompts a search for knowledge.

"God did it" inhibits that quest because it suggests that there is nothing to be learned.