Gods and goddesses are fictional characters created by the human imagination. People have invented thousands of different deities throughout history - It's a common flaw in human nature, rather like the way we see optical illusions.
Science has shown us that all biological life - including the human species - is the product of unthinking, undirected natural processes. As part of our evolutionary 'toolkit' of survival strategies, we have a highly developed awareness of other entities in our environment - We often notice human faces in carpet patterns, rabbit-shaped clouds and so on. There is more survival value in seeing what really *is* there, and also seeing some things that *aren't* really there, than in missing things that really are there and going hungry, or worse, ending up as someone else's lunch.
The consequence of this undeniably true aspect of human nature is that we have a natural tendency to imagine entities behind natural phenomena and events in our own lives that aren't really there - i.e. gods and goddesses, demons, angels, spirits - a whole menagerie of supernatural characters. Society and culture binds up these characters with our wishes and fears, our desires for dominance and submission and shared identity, and we end up with religious belief and ritual and dogma, in thousands of different flavours, with the vast majority of people broadly following the religion of their upbringing.
Religion is a biological phenomenon, not a supernatural one.
2006-06-29 22:41:23
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answered by Anonymous
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Both!
Most of people are today either Christians, Muslims, or Jewish and that means they have a full developed notion about the creation. Which is that God creates us.
But when we take a look in the Greek mythology, we will meet an interesting theory, that the Greek created their Gods, and gave them their human form, then pretended that Gods created them as their forms!
This theory goes for some of the ancient religions, and it says that man created god, then convinced themselves that their God created them.
That goes for the religious thoughts that not directly connected to the Christianity or other connected religions.
Any way, there's a belief that the cosmos had a zero hour, and there was a great power gave it its start. Which means that man created god, and god created man at the same time.
I've found this, and it may help:
http://net.indra.com/~davide/God/God.html
2006-06-29 23:01:26
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answered by Anonymous
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The truthful fact? guy is conscious he got here from his mum and dad. guy is conscious he had a beginning yet do no longer have faith the Bible answer on a similar time as others do have faith in God that created him and the universe. If yet another being around greater useful than the God of the Bible the place is the info that he's greater useful than God? won't be able to he injury what the present God did? Or what if there is no different being greater beneficial than the God of the Bible that the Bible claims? And that the Bible speaks the reality. God continually replaced into and there is no different like him in any respect. Be nicely additionally.
2016-10-31 23:31:27
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answered by ? 4
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1.depending on who or what you call god/ do you mean gravity pulling together different organisms from across the galaxy/ evaluation and time/ then god would have to be gravity/ and time/ but that s like asking someones mother if her child gave birth to her/ so the right answer would have to be God created us
2. now if we made up God then we would be fooled in believing that the things we call the Blue sky and clouds would be haven and the lava under the earths core would be hell/
the stars in the sky would be angels not far distant plants shining from the suns light.
maybe in a dream after you read this you'll the answer yadadamean/
2006-06-29 22:24:56
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answered by Tha Light 2
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Everyone in the world that believes in god has a different vision of him/her. So it would follow that we all create our own god - it gives us comfort to believe that there is a higher power somewhere that is all seeing and knowing.
And as far as 'creation' goes - isn't it just possible that god allowed it to happen that way?
2006-06-30 00:08:49
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answered by PinkPansy 2
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Your question is logical.
When u ask who created us ? We answer God ? Why ?
We created God because we fear and still believe that there is someone (God) who is having some extra powers and can do anything if it wants. Only he can save no one else.
Fact is God is another name of Fear. If there is Fear there is God.
NO FEAR NO GOD.
FEAR created GOD.
2006-06-29 22:37:23
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answered by Anonymous
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People invent gods like kids invent imaginary friends or speak to their dolls and stuffed animals or believe in Santa Claus. When they grow up they realise that since the imaginary friend only has conceptual reality and not physical reality they are not real, they stop believing. Religious people refuse to do this and refuse to accept that nothing that only exists in imagination is real - they'll tell you that Santa Claus doesn't exist (which is a lie ;=) !) but still claim that God does exist, never realising that this is totally irrational. It's choosing to be irrational just so to ease their fear of death.
2006-06-29 22:27:51
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answered by Anonymous
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Vice versa. We start with ourselves because we believe in our present existence and also that of our father's great grand father sufficiently remote but presently acceptable.Just as proving binomial theorem by mathematical induction we can trace our lineage from Registrar's archived records. In all these endeavours we are unwittingly trying to seek justification to our present existence. Indeed likewise how many people and things we are aware of existing as at present? We try to think and comprehend with our minds in various philosophical disciplines scientifically as well as spiritually to seek the prime cause of everything.Out of successive methods of exhausion we try to find the roots of many phenomenal observations. So the pursuits continue and we a create a God in form or formless suitable to our comprehension and draw him out of machines to match to practical occasions. Studying the periodic table Mandelev had drawn up predicting existence of some elements before they were actually discovered and later filling the the relavent boxes confirming his exact predictions we reluctantly try to subdue our proud achievements through egoistic pursuits and accept the possibilty of something ,God or what you like, which could have created all these elements millions of years in existence before they were thought and caught up into the periodic table.
2006-06-29 23:26:06
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answered by sastry m 3
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God creates everything all the way dear.
2006-06-29 22:30:42
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answered by Anonymous
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people created god, like how people invented computers, and in a long run, computers do manage people, right? like how the beliefs conquered the minds of pitiful mankind. :(
2006-06-29 22:16:08
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answered by Anonymous
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