In my ongoing discussion with people of different belief structures online, an atheist friend shared this article: After Year Of Atheism, Former Pastor: 'I Don't Think God Exists'.

He’s quoted as saying,

I've looked at the majority of the arguments that I've been able to find for the existence of God, and on the question of God's existence or not, I have to say I don't find there to be a convincing case, in my view.

The article goes on to say

One of his biggest lessons from the year is "that people very much value certainty and knowing and are uncomfortable saying that they don't know."

Now he thinks certainty is a bit overrated.

In the Facebook discussion, I commented,

I find these observations very interesting. To me, religion and a belief in God is tied to much greater uncertainty than a rational atheists focus on science. To me, science is the realm of the known, of what is certain. Religion is the realm of the unknowable and what is uncertain.

Belief in God is tied to divine or sacred mysteries, to things that cannot be explained by rational or scientific methods, things that go beyond human knowing. The things that we cannot know about, we must be uncertain about. To me, this is related to a collection of different ideas.

Isaiah 29:16

You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, "You did not make me"? Can the pot say to the potter, "You know nothing"?

It makes me think of the final point of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” and leads me to Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

For my friends interested in the technological singularity, Wikipedia, referring to Joseph Carvalko’s The Techno-human Shell-A Jump in the Evolutionary Gap suggests,

“Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be impossible for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is an occurrence beyond which events may become unpredictable or even unfathomable”

It raises an interesting question of whether humans would even know if a singularity happened.

Yet one thing remains: Uncertainty. As we start 2015, we can look at our horoscopes or other predictions for the coming year in the hopes of getting some useful forecast of the coming year, but it all remains uncertain.