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Atheists: If there's no God, then where did the word "God" come from?

paarsurrey

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Humans could neither create an atom nor a word both are work of God , in real sense.
Regards

P.S.
atom (n.)
late 15c., as a hypothetical indivisible body, the building block of the universe, from Latin atomus (especially in Lucretius) "indivisible particle," from Greekatomos "uncut, unhewn; indivisible," from a- "not" + tomos "a cutting," from temnein "to cut" (see tome). An ancient term of philosophical speculation (in Leucippus, Democritus), revived 1805 by British chemist John Dalton. In late classical and medieval use also a unit of time, 22,560 to the hour. Atom bomb is from 1945 as both a noun and a verb; compare atomic.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=atom

Science has borrowed it lately from language as it has no language of its own.
 
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George-ananda

George-ananda

Advaita Vedanta, Theosophy, Spiritualism
Premium Member
paarsurrey said:
Humans could neither create an atom nor a word both are work of God , in real sense.
Regards
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Physical things (like humans) can't create ex-nihilo (out of nothing). It does argue that something not what we understand as physical must exist.
 
George-ananda

George-ananda

Advaita Vedanta, Theosophy, Spiritualism
Premium Member
Atheists: If there's no God, then where did the word "God" come from?


Paarsurrey, you have outdone yourself once again with that argument.

(my first post was only after reading the OP text (and the title hadn't registered)).
 
beenherebeforeagain

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
paarsurrey said:
Humans could neither create an atom nor a word both are work of God , in real sense.
Regards

P.S.
atom (n.)
late 15c., as a hypothetical indivisible body, the building block of the universe, from Latin atomus (especially in Lucretius) "indivisible particle," from Greekatomos "uncut, unhewn; indivisible," from a- "not" + tomos "a cutting," from temnein "to cut" (see tome). An ancient term of philosophical speculation (in Leucippus, Democritus), revived 1805 by British chemist John Dalton. In late classical and medieval use also a unit of time, 22,560 to the hour. Atom bomb is from 1945 as both a noun and a verb; compare atomic.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=atom

Science has borrowed it lately from language as it has no language of its own.
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Yep, the sciences and technology and engineering and mathematics have borrowed lots of words from Latin, and Greek, and even Arabic. So has the legal field, and medicine. In fact, most languages have borrowed lots of words from other languages, sometimes because the languages don't have the right word of their own, and sometimes because people have learned multiple languages and start using terms. For example, when Alexander Graham Bell invented a device to transmit voices through electrical wires, someone (Not God) INVENTED the word "telephone" because no language on Earth had to identify that particular object before. They could as easily created a new word and called it a "smick" if they had wanted to.

English is a mixing of words from at least seven or eight languages, and nations such as France have forbidden the use of new and imported words in their languages. And sometimes people just make up new words, "creating" them. The word Quark, for example, or many of the words in nonsense poems, such as Jabberwocky... "Twas brillig, and the slithey toves did gyre and gimbol in the wabe...
 
N

Nietzsche

The Last Prussian
Premium Member
paarsurrey said:
Humans could neither create an atom nor a word both are work of God , in real sense.
Regards

P.S.
atom (n.)
late 15c., as a hypothetical indivisible body, the building block of the universe, from Latin atomus (especially in Lucretius) "indivisible particle," from Greekatomos "uncut, unhewn; indivisible," from a- "not" + tomos "a cutting," from temnein "to cut" (see tome). An ancient term of philosophical speculation (in Leucippus, Democritus), revived 1805 by British chemist John Dalton. In late classical and medieval use also a unit of time, 22,560 to the hour. Atom bomb is from 1945 as both a noun and a verb; compare atomic.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=atom

Science has borrowed it lately from language as it has no language of its own.
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As someone who studies language, I am trying to hate you to death. You are no longer allowed to discuss language. No more. None. You've lost your privilege.

The word "God" is derived from the word "Gott" which is derived from the Germanic tribes of Gutars, Goths and Geats, themselves derived from proto-Germanic "Gudan", which itself also become "Wodan", "Woden", "Wotan", "Oden", "Odin", ect.

You go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.
 
C

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
paarsurrey said:
Humans could neither create an atom nor a word both are work of God , in real sense.
Regards
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Did you mean to discuss the word itself, or did you mean to ask, "Where did the concept of God come from?"
The question as asked doesn't make much sense. People invent words for abstract concepts all the time. Some exist and some are purely fictional.
Tom
 
U

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
paarsurrey said:
Humans could neither create an atom nor a word both are work of God , in real sense.
Regards

P.S.
atom (n.)
late 15c., as a hypothetical indivisible body, the building block of the universe, from Latin atomus (especially in Lucretius) "indivisible particle," from Greekatomos "uncut, unhewn; indivisible," from a- "not" + tomos "a cutting," from temnein "to cut" (see tome). An ancient term of philosophical speculation (in Leucippus, Democritus), revived 1805 by British chemist John Dalton. In late classical and medieval use also a unit of time, 22,560 to the hour. Atom bomb is from 1945 as both a noun and a verb; compare atomic.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=atom

Science has borrowed it lately from language as it has no language of its own.
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That's an odd title. If there is no unicorn, then where did the word unicorn come from? (Reminds me of fiction books where words are not based on what's already exists. It's fiction)

It all comes from culture, etc and how we, as communities in each country use the same words to communicate a concept between each other. It's just like the word cat. A set of individuals used the same sounds and that sound became popular. Written correlation tot hat word developed, and ah ha.. the feline we see in front of us that has no name in and of itself now has a title.

"God" is the same way. We are not in the works of god. God is in the works of us. Take away people, does god exist? If so, how do you know outside your experiences and interpretations of what you define under the "god" label is actually god? What is this god like a part from how we see it?

Describe god from an objective point of view.
 
Mycroft

Mycroft

Ministry of Serendipity
There's a bit of debate about it really. It either comes from the proto-Germanic guthan or from PIE which is ghut.
 
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