Of all possible explainations for us, isn't "God" a pretty big stretch?

Question

And oddly specific. Not God with antlers, not God who's almost perfect, not God who love us like a favorite uncle...

Answer 1

I find interesting the use of probability to explain god. I mean, they use well known (and limited) data to explain how unlikely (even if possible) it is for life to start as a mere accident. Even though, these people seem to forget to apply the same logic and known data to explain god, if the experiment is a fair experiment, that is, using known data in both experiments, the probability that a being like god actually exists is 0. ZERO probability.

Answer 2

I don't think so, and I don't think that God is the only area where we do this. Most things either have a scientific explanation or a magical (or sinister) explanation it seems.

And while I don't subscribe to the white haired old gentleman constructing people and writing their life story, making storns and causing wars, idea - I do think that there is something at work in this existence that no science can understand, at least not yet. And there are many sciences created for just this reason! Some think the secret to what makes us go is in the brain and so there is psychiatry, brain surgery, etc.. some think it is in the heart, some think it must be in the water or some geological phenomenon. Some think it is in the heavens and so we search the sky and universe.

If you think about it, this puzzle has inspired so much of what we do - it is one of the driving concepts that push us further to bigger and better things - and we are still no closer to scientifically discovering the answers.

No, I've been around and around this issue for over 20 years and I think that there must be some kind of energy, something "magical" that we can't see. Maybe this is not our natural state. Maybe this is a form we take to learn or something (if we were energy beings we could not experience physical sensation or independent relationships in the same way as we could here). I am not saying this is the answer, but I am saying it is at least plausible.

When all is said and done we will find that we have spent a lot of our lives trying to figure out the answer to a problem that we will know the answer to, the moment we die - fascinating.

Answer 3

yes. At least, the God that is portrayed in Christianity today. The God who created Adam and Eve, etc. I think, however, if you really think about it, it's hard not to believe in a higher power. I mean why was ANY of this created. That is what makes me believe there is someone/something bigger out there.

Some scientists are thinking that it might be part of peoples genes to believe in God/a higher power. There is a book about it called "The God Gene : How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes" it is by Dean H. Hamer, and you can buy the book on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385500580/104-6545850-3522341?v=glance&n=283155

I do think that evolution is real. I think that you would have to have some outstanding evidence to prove it's not, and if you are still denying it then maybe you are holding onto your religion to hard, and not opening your mind. I think if there WAS a greater power that created things, then it probably created the ball of extreme energy that exploded as the Big Bang. I think that everything after that was just the natural order of things.

The only problem with the "higher power" theory that I hold, is how. How did the "higher power" create everything? Is he what we would classify as "magic"? What is it that would be done to create a universe?

Another thing to think about is:
Where did that "higher power" come from? Another higher power? Then, where did that one come from? At some point in the chain there must have been something that was always there. I think....

I guess we will all know as soon as we die...maybe. Or then again, maybe we won't. Maybe we don't ever get to find out what that higher power is. Everyone always assumes that we will find out when we die, but maybe we won't.

Answer 4

Here's a thought, say the universe did just appear from absolutely nothing and there was a big bang and evolution finally produced an ultimate being at the end of time. (Which would be the ultimate end of evolution of course). At that point in history, when one becomes the ultimate being, what is one to do with oneself? Well, why not create another universe and be God?

Just a thought, no less plausible than any other theory IMHO...

Answer 5

If you want it to be a big stretch, then it will be.
IF you take the time to study something called the "coagulation cascade", it takes ALL of those factors to do one simple thing, stop a bleed. THAT is a big stretch mi amigo, that ALL those factors can occur more than ONCE in your lifetime is not just amazing, but quite astounding. How many times have you split the top layers of skin to disrupt the flow of blood? It requires all the parts of the "cascade" for stop the loss of blood.
Arrogance is more a challenge to accept than the concept of a Higher Being.
KEEP LEARNING.

Answer 6

That depends on which God you are talking about.

If it is the God of creation he has done a lot of stretching.

He stretched out the heavens (universe).

He stretched out his likeness over a structure of bone and muscle.

He stretched out his ultimate emissary on a wooden frame of torture and death.

He has stretched out the existence of man for who knows how long.

He stretched the waters of the earth over the land not once but at least twice and maybe three times, according to scientific evidence.

Yup, you can say he is a pretty big stretch.

G'day mate,

Answer 7

The likelyhood of us "evolving" from matter is according to scientific theory and molecular biologists is 1 in 10 to 100,000,000,000 th power... Even if all the matter in the universe were converted into the buildding blocks of life (amino acids, and nucleotides), and assembly of these blocks were attempted every microsecond for 17 billion years (the approx. age of the universe). the probablility would still be 10 to the 84th power which is 10 with like 5 hundred zeros behind it! You tell me whats a bigger stretch...

Answer 8

It's called Faith. I don't believe in a one true God though. That's just way too much for my practical mind to handle. I do believe that there's some sort of higher power. I'd like to think that there's more to this life than what could be perceived by the senses.

Answer 9

Perhaps. But here's a cool thing to think about, no matter what you believe-- how likely is it that a fluke series of chemical reactions would become self-aware? Even if you don't believe in God, you'd have to admit that we, in our way, are the universe being aware of itself. If all other chemical reactions out there are blind and random, then we have beaten the odds with our sentience.

Either way, that's miraculous. i just happen to believe we had help.

Answer 10

"god" is a nonanswer. It's a way of attempting to make question moot without actually answering them. If I ask "how did we get here", and someone answers "god did it", that sidesteps the question, because the question is "how", not "who".

To say god created us still does not address the question of how he created us. It's simply presumed that once you throw things into god domain, they are incomprehensible and so no further questioning is allowed.