do you think it is logical to think that the life on earth and especially humans in their complexity (over one billion amino acids in a specific order) could build themselves with no divine guidance?
Suppose that I put the springs and gears of a watch in a bag and shook it for billions of years is it rational that I would eventually get a watch perfectly assembled with the exact time out of pure luck?
2006-06-15 10:25:22 · 22 answers · asked by patrone006 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is it logical to say that life is to "too complex" to form by itself and then you explain the complexity of life through an even more complex living being that you call god?
You can't manage our complexity and yet want us to accept than an even more complex being came from nowhere and that he knows everything and has no begining and end? And you call that "logic"? The chances of such being existing, like the christian god, is like putting springs and gears of a watch in a bag, shook it for a couple of seconds and get a perfectly assembled time machine, with more pieces than what you originally put in the bag.
You have a problem with our universe's limited complexity and you think it's logical to explain such limited complexity with unlimited complexity that (apparently) needs no explanations. That's called "faith", not logic.
2006-06-15 10:39:57 · answer #1 · answered by Oedipus Schmoedipus 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"How can you not believe in God?"
It makes more sense not to believe in god.
"do you think it is logical to think that the life on earth and especially humans in their complexity (over one billion amino acids in a specific order) could build themselves with no divine guidance?"
Yes
"Suppose that I put the springs and gears of a watch in a bag and shook it for billions of years is it rational that I would eventually get a watch perfectly assembled with the exact time out of pure luck?"
No, and that's not what evolution is.
2006-06-15 10:32:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had my doubts in the past - but I'm personally convinced that there is "a greater power". You can call him God, Allah, Vishnu, The Great Spirit, The Creator or even Max (or Maxine). Those names were created by man to designate what they wish to call their specific religion's deity (deities) in order to give them some kind of comfort level.
I do believe in Science and all it entails, including theory of Evolution - but I also feel to think that all was created as some random accident without a greater power's intervention is naive and arrogant. I know there's such a thing as happenstance... but not in this case.
I also believe that Science/Logic and Faith (not religion - Faith - big big difference) can not only co-exist but compliment each other.
2006-06-15 10:35:18 · answer #3 · answered by RAllen1st 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noone is saying that humans sat around and shook each other to life for billions of years. However, there is this crazy theory about making a woman out of a rib. I tell you people will believe whatever they read.
2006-06-15 10:35:42 · answer #4 · answered by Justin K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are without excuse for not believing.
Romans 1:18-20 explains what happens:
"men...suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is know about God is evident to them. For since creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse."
Although the evidence from conscience, creation, and God's Word is irrefutable, men choose to resist and oppose God's truth by holding fast to their sin.
2006-06-15 10:33:15 · answer #5 · answered by Adamray 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invalid Analogy. The system that led to the development of the complexity of life is even more complex itself and is a property of matter, space and time.
QED
2006-06-15 10:29:07 · answer #6 · answered by eigelhorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not?? Mother nature are the most powerful and harmonic thing on earth I've ever known, the animals? How someone can believe in something is not real?? Is like believe in magic. We are the owners of our own life, with our minds we can create the world, and things, we' are gods!! Every one of us. We have to believe in ourself, that is real, we have to believe in our power, we have the freewill to create our own thoughts.
2006-06-15 10:34:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your simplistic example is not even relevant to the point. I guess that is typical of believers though...I don't understand something...it HAD to be god and that seems to pacify you. It is some how easier to beleive and accept in some sky daddy with magical powers?
2006-06-15 10:34:06 · answer #8 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with you! I'm so thankful that reputable scientists are investigating the "theory" of Intelligent Design. It makes much more sense than some "Big Bang" theory.
2006-06-15 10:33:16 · answer #9 · answered by Amie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do agree with you with bone in my body. I will never understand how people can actually think we as a human race cam about by the supposedly big bang theory.
2006-06-15 10:31:00 · answer #10 · answered by Andrea S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋