Is there a GOD?

Question

In this modern day I find that believing in a GOD is more damaging
that good, GODs were created by primitive and ignorant humans that did not understand their surroundings and a lot of whys. If we
would let go of GOD and realise that we are no different than anything else that lives on this planet, maybe man would survive?

The bottom line! We must treat every man woman and child the same way we want to be treated our selves wheather we believe in a GOD or NOT.

Answer 1

Is there really a God? How would you answer?
Far from being a blind faith, Christianity can be logically defended.
by Ken Ham

In our everyday experience, just about everything seems to have a beginning. In fact, the laws of science show that even things which look the same through our lifetime, like the sun and other stars, are running down. The sun is using up its fuel at millions of tonnes each second—since, therefore, it cannot last forever, it had to have a beginning. The same can be shown to be true for the entire universe.

So when Christians claim that the God of the Bible created the entire universe, some will ask what seems a logical question, namely ‘Where did God come from?’

The Bible makes it clear in many places that God is outside of time. He is eternal, with no beginning or end—He is infinite! He also knows all things, being infinitely intelligent.1

Is this logical? Can modern science allow for such a notion? And how could you recognize the evidence for an intelligent Creator?

Recognizing intelligence
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Scientists get excited about finding stone tools in a cave because these speak of intelligence—a tool maker. They could not have designed themselves. Neither would anyone believe that the carved Presidents’ heads on Mt Rushmore were the product of millions of years of chance erosion. We can recognize design—the evidence of the outworkings of intelligence—in the man-made objects all around us.

Similarly, in William Paley’s famous argument, a watch implies a watchmaker.2 Today, however, a large proportion of people, including many leading scientists, believe that all plants and animals, including the incredibly complex brains of the people who make watches, motor cars, etc., were not designed by an intelligent God but rather came from an unintelligent evolutionary process. But is this a defensible position?

Design in living things
Molecular biologist Dr Michael Denton, writing as an agnostic, concluded:

‘Alongside the level of ingenuity and complexity exhibited by the molecular machinery of life, even our most advanced [twentieth century technology appears] clumsy … . It would be an illusion to think that what we are aware of at present is any more than a fraction of the full extent of biological design. In practically every field of fundamental biological research ever-increasing levels of design and complexity are being revealed at an ever-accelerating rate.’3

The world-renowned crusader for Darwinism and atheism, Prof. Richard Dawkins, states:

‘We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully “designed” to have come into existence by chance.’4

Thus, even the most ardent atheist concedes that design is all around us. To a Christian, the design we see all around us is totally consistent with the Bible’s explanation that God created all.

However, evolutionists like Dawkins reject the idea of a Designer. He comments (emphasis added):

‘All appearance to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way. A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with future purpose in his mind’s eye. Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind … . It has no mind … . It does not plan for the future … it is the blind watchmaker.’5

Selection and design
Life is built on information, contained in that molecule of heredity, DNA. Dawkins believes that natural selection6 and mutations (blind, purposeless copying mistakes in this DNA) together provide the mechanism for producing the vast amounts of information responsible for the design in living things.7

Natural selection is a logical process that can be observed. However, selection can only operate on the information already contained in genes—it does not produce new information.8 Actually, this is consistent with the Bible’s account of origins; God created distinct kinds of animals and plants, each to reproduce after its own kind.

One can observe great variation in a kind, and see the results of natural selection. For instance, dingoes, wolves, and coyotes have developed over time as a result of natural selection operating on the information in the genes of the wolf/dog kind.

But no new information was produced—these varieties have resulted from rearrangement, and sorting out, of the information in the original dog kind. One kind has never been observed to change into a totally different kind with new information that previously did not exist!

Without a way to increase information, natural selection will not work as a mechanism for evolution. Evolutionists agree with this, but they believe that mutations somehow provide the new information for natural selection to act upon.

Can mutations produce new information?
Actually, it is now clear that the answer is no! Dr Lee Spetner, a highly qualified scientist who taught information and communication theory at Johns Hopkins University, makes this abundantly clear in his recent book:

‘In this chapter I’ll bring several examples of evolution, [i.e., instances alleged to be examples of evolution] particularly mutations, and show that information is not increased … But in all the reading I’ve done in the life-sciences literature, I’ve never found a mutation that added information.9

‘All point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and not to increase it.10

‘The NDT [neo-Darwinian theory] is supposed to explain how the information of life has been built up by evolution. The essential biological difference between a human and a bacterium is in the information they contain. All other biological differences follow from that. The human genome has much more information than does the bacterial genome. Information cannot be built up by mutations that lose it. A business can’t make money by losing it a little at a time.’11

Evolutionary scientists have no way around the conclusions that many scientists, including Dr Spetner, have come to. Mutations do not work as a mechanism to fuel the evolutionary process.

More problems!
Scientists have found that within the cell, there are thousands of what can be called ‘biochemical machines.’ All of their parts have to be in place simultaneously or the cell can’t function. Things which were thought to be simple mechanisms, such as being able to sense light and turn it into electrical impulses, are in fact highly complicated.

Since life is built on these ‘machines,’ the idea that natural processes could have made a living system is untenable. Biochemist Dr Michael Behe (see The mousetrap man) uses the term ‘irreducible complexity’ in describing such biochemical ‘machines.’

‘… systems of horrendous, irreducible complexity inhabit the cell. The resulting realization that life was designed by an intelligence is a shock to us in the twentieth century who have gotten used to thinking of life as the result of simple natural laws. But other centuries have had their shocks, and there is no reason to suppose that we should escape them.’12

Richard Dawkins recognizes this problem of needing ‘machinery’ to start with when he states:

‘The theory of the blind watchmaker is extremely powerful given that we are allowed to assume replication and hence cumulative selection. But if replication needs complex machinery, since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection, we have a problem.’13

A problem indeed! The more we look into the workings of life, the more complicated it gets, and the more we see that life could not arise by itself. Not only is a source of information needed, but the complex ‘machines’ of the chemistry of life need to be in existence right from the start!

A greater problem still!
Some still try to insist that the machinery of the first cell could have arisen by pure chance. For instance, they say, by randomly drawing alphabet letters in sequence from a hat, sometimes you will get a simple word like ‘BAT.’14 So given long time periods, why couldn’t even more complex information arise by chance?

However, what would the word ‘BAT’ mean to a German or Chinese speaker? The point is that an order of letters is meaningless unless there is a language convention and a translation system in place which makes it meaningful!

In a cell, there is such a system (other molecules) that makes the order on the DNA meaningful. DNA without the language/translation system is meaningless, and these systems without the DNA wouldn’t work either.

The other complication is that the translation machinery which reads the order of the ‘letters’ in the DNA is itself specified by the DNA! This is another one of those ‘machines’ that needs to be fully-formed or life won’t work.

Can information arise from non-information?
Dr Werner Gitt, Director and Professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, makes it clear that one of the things we know absolutely for sure from science, is that information cannot arise from disorder by chance. It always takes (greater) information to produce information, and ultimately information is the result of intelligence:

‘A code system is always the result of a mental process (it requires an intelligent origin or inventor) … It should be emphasized that matter as such is unable to generate any code. All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will, cognition, and creativity, is required.15

‘There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this.’16

What is the source of the information?
We can therefore deduce that the huge amount of information in living things must originally have come from an intelligence, which had to have been far superior to ours, as scientists are revealing every day. But then, some will say that such a source would have to be caused by something with even greater information/intelligence.

However, if they reason like this, one could ask where this greater information/intelligence came from? And then where did that one come from … one could extrapolate to infinity, for ever, unless …

Unless there was a source of infinite intelligence, beyond our finite understanding. But isn’t this what the Bible indicates when we read, ‘In the beginning God …’? The God of the Bible is an infinite being not bound by limitations of time, space, knowledge, or anything else.

So which is the logically defensible position?—that matter eternally existed (or came into existence by itself for no reason), and then by itself arranged itself into information systems against everything observed in real science? Or that a being with infinite intelligence,17 created information systems for life to exist, agreeing with real science?

The answer seems obvious, so why don’t all intelligent scientists accept this? Michael Behe answers:

‘Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don’t want there to be anything beyond nature. They don’t want a supernatural being to affect nature, no matter how brief or constructive the interaction may have been. In other words … they bring an a priori philosophical commitment to their science that restricts what kinds of explanations they will accept about the physical world. Sometimes this leads to rather odd behavior.’18

The crux of the matter is this: If one accepts there is a God who created us, then that God also owns us. He thus has a right to set the rules by which we must live. In the Bible, He has revealed to us that we are in rebellion against our Creator. Because of this rebellion called sin, our physical bodies are sentenced to death—but we will live on, either with God, or without Him in a place of judgment.

But the good news is that our Creator provided, through the cross of Jesus Christ, a means of deliverance for our sin of rebellion, so that those who come to Him in faith, in repentance for their sin, can receive the forgiveness of a Holy God and spend forever with their Lord.

So who created God?
By definition, an infinite, eternal being has always existed—no one created God. He is the self-existing one—the great ‘I am’ of the Bible.19 He is outside of time—in fact, He created time.

You might say, ‘But that means I have to accept this by faith, as I can’t understand it.’

We read in the book of Hebrews, ‘But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him’ (Hebrews 11:6).

But this is not blind faith, as some think. In fact, the evolutionists who deny God have a blind faith—they have to believe something that is against real science—namely, that information can arise from disorder by chance.

The Christian faith is not a blind faith—it is a logically defensible faith. This is why the Bible makes it clear that anyone who does not believe in God is without excuse:

‘For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse’ (Romans 1:20).

Answer 2

If you let go of God, then what is the purpose for living? What meaning is there to life? If there is no God, why argue? Reason, morals, art, music, science and most everything else that happens for the good in our society would not have ever happened. Judging by the slaughter of the world wars and the genocide at the hands of communist dictators, I would say that our race would not have survived if it were not for the presence of God. Why he created this world and allows evil to exist here is someting I can't understand. But I have to embrace God because nothing else makes sense. Hitler started a world war because he bought Nietzche's view that God was dead, and that the thing for man to do was to create a super race through the process of survival of the fittest.

You can sing John Lennon songs if you want but the thing that man really wants more than anything else is for his life to have meaning. Take away God, and there is little left to live for.

Answer 3

Well, believing in a "big bang" theory sure takes a lot to believe.
How did we get here? Because we had a Creator who created
everything and humans. He wrote it all down in a book (Bible) for
us to know how it all happened, and what will happen, and so
far, things are happening just like this Good Book says it will.
Humans did not create God (pure nonsense), rather God created
humans. He really does bless those who believe in Him....I'm one
of those He keeps on blessing. Those who steal, rob, murder,
commit adultery and go against His commandments seem to
live a horrible life in and out of jails, sneaking around, going broke
which proves God does not Bless a mess and a life that follows
the paths of the devil.

Answer 4

Everyone knows there is a God! Wow, you really have it all wrong their really is no other better way to survive than to have the greatest force to back you up! If your not for God than your against God, why would you want to be stuck on the weak side? May you be blessed by the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth..
(Psalm 115:15) <><

You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that. And they tremble!
James 2:19

Answer 5

There are many Gods, and you are quite right that man has had the tendency throughout history to degrade himself by 'constructing' Gods - images.

Humans though, are created in 'The Creator's' image. If we applied his intsructions in our life, then the world would be a 'better' place.
What you see on the earth is 'religion' filled with great hypocrisy - religion that so often does NOT 'apply' the things that the true God has taught.
If we use a computer to wash our dishes, then yes the computer begins to appear to be quite a useless/ even hazardous tool.
If you use God's teaching for mankind's benefit, then what we have is pure gold. God is not the bad one here. People who use religion for selfish purposes, such as justifying war, power, extortion, these are the bad ones - not God.

Answer 6

His name is Louie, some albino on my block that collects cans

Seriously, I whole heartedly agree & have been making the same argument in some of my questions, all I'm sure of is that we're not the only ones and we have to actually have rational, real life national forums together with those left who are not already severely brainwashed sociologically. Also, most religious folk assume I believe myself [or humans in general] as "the pinnacle", but thats normal of their kind to throw out any frivolous notions that support their own religion. They fail to LISTEN or even ask if I believe in a higher/lower power, and jump to the conclusion, since I deny their god, that I think there are no metaphysical/spiritual forces out there [I do]. With the bottom of their heart they just think, "what? you dont accept the lord as your savior, well then ur just gonna burn in a lake of fire for all eternity buddy, no matter how much you've helped earth". Yeah, like thats a healthy outlook for fellow humankind, but thats the way they're made to think. I'm with you, peace.

Answer 7

PROOF OF GOD through example

a nokia mobile phone which is majorly made of silicon and plastic, where silicon is made through sand and plastic is made from oil.
now as some one says that oil and sand is in gulf states like Saudia Arabia, UAE etc, and then how mobile phone is created, then he will reply, WELL.... sudenly the sand storm came automatically, and there was a harsh and sewear earthquake, then the earth automatically exploded and oil came to surface, then rocks feel from sky and formed sand, then the chemical reaction occured and hence Nokia Mobile Phone was created in different models in a desert. And most of mobile phones are found in desearts...
What will be your answer to this foolish statement.
Your answer to it will be NO, this is false and imposible and even stupid in this age of Science.

Now tell me how a beautifull earth, universe, human beings which are more complicated then so called mobile phone were created.
Dont you see the sun rising every day in morning, and is doing from centuries without any delay or error,
Similarly like mobile phone that is created by nodia manufacturer, the universe is also created by SOMEONE that is ALLAH, who created the universe , you and me and all of us, and gave us a mannual through which we have to live our life, that manual is AL QURAN, and Allah send a last Prophet Muhammed (pbuh),

That SOMEONE is ALLAH.
He is the only one,
There is no one like Him,
HE IS ALL MIGHTY ALLAH.

ALLAH IS EVERY WHERE AND HE IS MOST MERCIFULL.

Answer 8

Don't judge God based on religion. I think that a lot of modern denominations have become self serving and tainted. However, I believe that God is not endorsing modern religions. I also believe there is more than one 'path' to God. (I personally am Christian, but I do not think that makes Buddhists or Muslims or others automatically "wrong"...how conceited would THAT be?)

God is most certainly there, and I don't personally think she/he's a non-caring entity, but a real, caring creator. What people do in God's name is what creates issues on earth....but that's not God. Don't judge him/her based on the 'witness' you've seen by people.

Answer 9

God is the source of all life. and I knwo that we ALL are primitive and ignorant, but if everyone knew everything, It would be kinda boring, don't you think? the belief and love of God can help strenthen our lives, and make us better people. To say that there is no GOD, si saying that we can do eveything on our own, and that is just impossible. Sometimes it take a power that is greater than us to accomplish things in this miserable life. Afterall, HE holds all the power! I believe in GOD, and I LOVE HIM.

Answer 10

There were and still are primative and ignorant people that don't believe in god. ignorance is something that prevades the human race no matter what. and still does. look at how the theory of evolution is used as a means to promote the idea that blacks are less evolved than whites and so forth. Look you can blame god for all the stupid people but even without god there would be stupid people.

Answer 11

yes there is GOD! ppl are suffering in the presence of God is because of their past actions done over the previous lives and births. As u sow u reap! actually we are different from other animals we have the capability and knowledge to understand who our supreme father or GOD is. Science can fail you... but if u have the faith and devotion toward the lord who is Christ, Allah , Krishna ,Yeddah (all of them are one) the Lord will never fail you.

Ps note ... science thought world was flat, atom can no be furhter divided and many more wrong stuff