how can people study or even just admire the introcacies of creation, and not believe in the Creator God?

Answer 1

Your amazement illustrates a logical fallacy (a flaw in thinking) known as the "Argument From Incredulity"... which is a sub-category of the "Argument ad Ignorantiam" (Argument From Ignorance). It goes something like this: "I can't conceive of how this might have come to be; therefore, God did it."

That does not represent a limitation of nature... it represents a limitation of knowledge or intellect. Additionally, it is intellectually dishonest... it does not ACKNOWLEDGE the limitation of knowledge or intellect... it appeals to a fanciful, imaginary, supernatural entity to create the ILLUSION that your cognitive dissonance has been resolved. It substitutes 'faith' for fact, and 'belief' for knowledge. Neither faith nor belief are sufficient to sustain reason... they are only sufficient to sustain willful ignorance.

That is the epitome of self-delusion.

Answer 2

The claims are easily disputed by what I call the "law of necessity." Simply put, if something is necessary in order to reach a given state ... then you will never reach such a state otherwise.

If the universe and our world and our environment had not been how it was, then we would not be where we are now. Either our reality would be different, and we would examine it as being intricate in a different way ... or it would never have been reached, and we could not examine it at all.

Colin_F :

DuckPhup's assertion is valid. You claim "something cannot come from nothing". But "something" exists. Therefore, either something CAN come from nothing ... or something has always existed.

While this does not disallow the claim of a diety (the diety could be the "something" that always existed), it also does not support claim of a diety either.

There exists the distinct possibility the universe simply is ... always has existed ... always will exist. Given what we know from science (and science is open to change when evidence supports change) we can suppose "something" ... be it the universe or extra-universal entity ... has always existed, since we see no evidence to support a claim of "something" coming from "nothing".

Answer 3

This is somewhat in response to what Duck said:

The wonder and "incredulity" that people feel at the universe does not automatically imply a shutting down of reason. I think, and believe that many others think as well, that it is not only the complexity and beauty of the universe, in all its order and seeming disorder, that astound us, but also the fact that the universe came to be. The fact is that the material, physical universe could not have sprung into being from nothing. To say that believers in a God-created universe suffer from self delusion, and then believe that the universe just happened, shows a delusion of its own sorts. Something cannot create itself. Energy cannot be created. We know this. Science says this. Therefore, something must exist that resides outside this universe and above its laws.

Answer 4

psychological diseases used to be chalked up to demonic possession, natural disasters were brought by angry gods (or god). but through study and inquiry man has learned the true nature behind these and other 'mysteries'. the creation of the universe is just another mystery to be solved. to write it off as 'supernatural' or 'of god' is to deny the opportunity to gain new knowledge and make new discoveries. personally, i'll choose the uncertainty of science over the uncertainty of religion.

Answer 5

Because many people are brainwashed by the many lies that text books have in them. Many text books have pictures that are basically a dawing of a certaiin persons assumption and yet drilled into the students mind as fact and if the student argues against it they are considered an idiot. Very sad when it's just obvious this was all created....

Answer 6

easy. lots of us are self absorbed. nice to know how into yourself you are. i totally agree with you what a kick in the pants we are. the thing about needing a creator is the same as needing to understand our beginning. i'm still not convinced that we 'began' at some point. we may have 'NEVER' not been like this.

and then there's the outlandish notion that we may not be ALIVE at all. sure we have a very rich connection to lots and lots of everything else. it may be that our rich connectedness merely seems like 'aliveness'.

i certainly don't feel 'created' myself. i do feel connected in infinite depths and ways that are always difficult to wrap my brain around, though.

Answer 7

I don't know. I think they are ignorant because they feel it's easier not acknowledging the Lord. Little do they realize that in acknowledging Him, they would actually free themselves.

Although not impossible, I doubt that Duckphup is as intelligent as Einstein, who, by the way, believed in God after trying to disprove His existence.

Answer 8

I was going to add to the spoonerism's answer, but Spam -n- Ham did it on the next answer.

You have already found your solution and now you are trying to come up with questions that fit your answer.

Answer 9

You call it 'creation', because that's your preconception. You see order while ignoring the disorder. It's a form of prejudice, nothing more.

Answer 10

Duckphup (above) gave you the "best answer." It is correct, concise and in his own words.

And, I cannot add anything other than my agreement for what he said.



Despite lies to the contrary, Einstein was an atheist.