If people think God doesn't exsist, then how do you explain the abundant life on Earth?

Question

I know I believe in God and Jesus Christ, but I read some of these answers and then I look out my window at the sun and the trees and the flowers and I wonder if they see what I see. If so where did all this come from and why are we so inteligent that we can think to ask all these questions?

I want to thank everyone who has answered so far. I have to laugh because I have not been a Christian in the strict sense my whole life and at different times in my life I could have made all of your arguments. I have come to believe and have had a spiritual awakening that was so profound that I have no doubt about a creator. I do however have respect for science and I believe my creator, created science. I still get blown away at how many forms of life we have, animals( which I love), flowers and yes trees which I think are beautiful even in the winter, even insects. The best of all us humans who are so diverse and beautiful, each in our own way. The ugly is the evil in the world and this comes about with free will and a lot of abuse which begets abuse. The only antedote is love ( Jesus Christ). Science has a hard time with the spiritual but many scientists and great thinkers are believers.

Answer 1

The problem with all the other answers that deny God is they forget to explain how anything got here to evolve in the first place. God is the only way anything could be here. Any other view and your denying overwhelming evidence that God exists.

Answer 2

oh dear. it's all about GOD. He made it all. You know WATER? yeah, the thing we drink...it's ATOMS are so precise that it has so many characteristics that are unimaginable. Imagine a LAKE ON A WINTER TIME. The top of the lake would freeze (that's why you have ice ponds where you can skate, right) but the bottom would NOT to support the fishes in the bottom.because of the water's unique and precise ATOMS that work in sync with other molecules. MY POINT IS, water is PRECISE. It's precision, was it just a chance? Did water just exploded from somewhere in the galaxy? THE HUMAN BODY??? Every single cell is so complex...do you actually believe that all those complexities were just EVOLUTIONARY...that some monkey evolved and became a human? And how can science fully explain the galaxies??? MUCH AS ATHEISTS AND WACKY SCIENTISTS refute the POWER OF GOD its the same QUESTION we throw on them. HOW CAN THESE CLAIMS DISPROVE GOD? And so comes the key answer. FAITH. I mean, I'd rather believe that a God made me instead of evolving from what? monkey? so yeah. GOD IS GREAT.

Answer 3

You have two choices:

1. Base your decision on the EMOTION of the things you feel when you look out your window and remain ignorant (by the way, do you feel the same way about God if you see a little girl being raped out your window, or if you only see a barren desert with no life around? What if your window was on Mars, or Jupiter, or the moon? You'd have a different emotion then.

2. Read any of thousands of verified scientific accounts of why life exists on earth, how consciousness could have been attained. That the reason why life on earth exists is because this is the perfect place for life to exists. No one on Pluto asks why there is no life on Pluto because Pluto can't supply life in the first place to ask the question.

Science has answered most of these questions, and have excellent theories on others. The emotion you feel on a sunny day looking at a chipmunk in a tree shouldn't dictate your understanding of the world, you study of it should.

Answer 4

It is entirely possible (but unlikely) that life as we know it can exist simply through chance. All you need is the right combination of acids, bases, electricity, water, carbon.....and a bunch of other chemicals, but it is possible. I once compared the odds of it happening to the equivalent of a tornado picking up a trailer park and forming it into a perfect replica of Buckingham Palace.
But it is possible.......

As for the "I look out my window at the sun and the trees and the flowers...". I've heard people say God must exist because these things could not exist without Him. Well I got news for you. Flowers aren't that complex......I could probably genetically engineer one in my basement with the right tools and that doesn't make me God. Besides, just because something exists doesn't mean a certain person created it. For example: The Mona Lisa painting exists.......therefore I must have created it. That logic is the same as, "Flowers exist......therefore God must have created them."

Yes, I believe in God. I just don't think flowers are an accurate description of His existence.

Answer 5

I see the living nature of all things.....Yet the earth is so very much older than what strict scriptural referencing would have us believe... The geological record shows so much more that took place on earth before Man arrived on the scene.... God is real in my heart...but human need for defining perspective in view of how we got here is skewed do to "the brain in park ideal, where the scriptures teach us everything according to the pastors authority BS speech..."
Who can say with a clear certainty that god didn't use the gene pool to make this all happen and wait to see what we did with it... Or, perhaps nothing but the random splashing on the oceans edge combined the chemicals needed and that we are the results 8-10 billion years later.....
regard the seed of any plant, with a bit of soil water and sun it grows. and that growth can be watched with amazement if you care to look.... So much beauty is disregarded by science and so much reality in fact is pushed aside by the faithful.....The facts may reside on both sides of this debate.... and we all may be just a bit of the fool when we look at this in the final knowing, when it is all revealed one day, either by Man or by God...

Answer 6

i also believe in God but at the same time the make-up of our planet the water and distance from the sun is what enables this life to exist...i also think nature is a very beautiful thing that far too many people take for granted sometimes i can look outside and see every single leaf on a tree and everything is so clear i often wonder why people turned out so horribly while nature has blossomed so...and it's so easy for us to destroy it without regret...it's a shame...also...think about what would happen on a global scale if there was no God...if we found out that he did not exist there would be mass chaos...we are too insecure as human being to think that there is not a 'daddy' (if you will) somewhere watching us... babies dying is a result of people who have no business getting pregnant...these babies dying from starvation in 3rd world countries it makes you think...why the hell are these people still having sex?? why are they still getting pregnant?? c'mon it's not God's fault (if he does exist) it's our fault...we want only to satisfy our own personal needs and desires instead of our planted and it's people as a whole...sad

Answer 7

While I would like to give you a long answer about why your question is condescending, and provide some scientific foundation by way of explanation, I am just not in the mood. So I will leave you with this instead. If there is a god why do babies die. By the way I do believe in god, but I also believe in science. The 2 do not have to be mutually exclusive.

Answer 8

Evolution, which is now established as fundamentally correct. By "established", I mean that the theory makes correct predictions, which are relied upon by workers in the appropriate fields. Read Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale for an understanable account of how it probably happened.

Answer 9

Why are we so messed up that we have to ask these questions. The rest of life doesn't care about god and gets on fine, evolving better suited forms or not and dieing out as changes happen.

Answer 10

no one knows... science havent proved it yet, but no one has PROVED god either... how could something be created out of nothing by some person who was something? its not possible because there had to be something... now theres something to think about... you just have to be open minded to other peoples beleifs... i respect that other people beleive in different things, because i cant prove that any of it doesnt exist.. .so i think that you should too

(as far as the bible goes, i dont buy that... sorry, but i dont... people have the capasity to lie now, why didnt they then? the bible was written by ordinary men... Jesus was just a disiple, a medicin man or his time, a story teller even. ... perhaps people over glorified him? (sorry that that wasnt about this question))

Answer 11

God is not a solution to humanities questions, it is a cheap way out.

The only way to really know about our existence, how we came to be, and where we are going, is through scientific research and skeptical inquiry.

Our best explanation for life's diversity is evolution. Our best explanation for the planet and stars is through stellar-planetary formation. And our best explanation for the universe is the big-bang.

Research these items and you will not need to substitute god for everything you don't know.