How can people NOT believe in God? Just look at the intricate phenominon known as earth...no way it's chance..

Question

this is not meant to offend anyone, i simply would like to understand people's reasons

let me clarify...i don't believe in God simply because i am ignorant and have no other resort. i have done in depth studies on the theories out there...but no matter what, they always have contradictions. science has never satisfactorily answered the question about how our world originated. and there's proof everywhere for the existence of a God.

Answer 1

I know what you mean. I don't get it either. There's proof all around us. It's just up to the individual to accept or reject that there is a loving God who created everything.

Answer 2

Be careful when you say there's no chance. There are two things wrong or possibly misinterpreted by that phrase:

1. There is a chance. The odds may be 10000000000000000000:1, but there's always a small chance. If you were to arrange molecules in every random combination possible, at least 1 arrangement would result in our universe. The odds are low, but there's still a possibilty.

Think about it like this: I have a quarter. I flip it 10 times and it lands on heads each time. That could easily be explained without bringing God into the conversation, but the odds are 1,024:1 (assuming there is a 50% chance of heads each time).

2. The other problem is that you assume that we would not exist if there were a slight variation. Let's say that the universe was made in such a way that the Earth were half of its current size, but dense enough that gravity had the same force. There would be fewer countries in the world, but humans would still exist.

A good way to think about what I just rambled about: You were born when a sperm fertilized an egg. Millions of sperm are released at one time. The odds are low that the exact sperm that reached your mother's egg would be the fertilizing one. However, you would still exist even if another sperm fertilized your mother's egg. (You might have been a boy with lighter hair or darker eyes, but a person would be born.) Regardless of the low odds of a specific sperm fertilizing the egg, we can easily understand how it can be explained using the laws of nature and probability.

The next thing I want to say has some reasoning behind it, but it's only my opinion and I highly doubt you will agree with me:
When somebody explains something by saying, "God did it; end of story. There's no way other possible explanation comprehensible to humans," that person is just trying to find an answer without having to go through the trouble of thinking first. Take this true scenario for instance: Penicilin is a vital medicine. A scientist discovered it accidentally. He had an petri dish of bacteria, but it was contaminated. The man looked at the dish and said, "That's odd - there are some areas where the bacteria aren't growing." He could have simply said, "The bacteria aren't there because it is not the will of God." Instead, he analyzed the areas without bacteria and found a chemical that is now the active ingredient in Penicilin. Using God as an explanation for everything can be a satisfying answer, but it prevents deep thought.

Answer 3

People will always have the question as to why. They can not simply have faith in someone bigger than the ever present,I. Something one rarely reads about, there was a glimpse of another galaxy. Of course with the discovery of that goes the big bang. God in His ultimate wisdom made the earth and the fullness thereof. Don't go so far as the earth, but consider the human hand or mind. This is intricate. Jesus went to the highest heaven when He ascended. There is something to think about.

Answer 4

I don't exactly believe in god, but I don't not at the same time. For me anyway I feel that people give a god too much credit when the credit is due to them and not some supernatural being. Also I feel that people use god as an escapegoat when things go bad. I feel that alot of people don't accept responsiblity when they should then blame a god. Also when some natual disaster occures suddenly god was angry at a certian people when sin is everywhere and in every house regardless of what anyone wants to believe. So for me I would rather believe in myself that I make my own decisions and when someone dies or is saved it is not divine will, but the will of the person.

Answer 5

The ontological argument for the existence of God (i.e., your argument) was first put forth by the Catholic Saint, Thomas Aquinas. It is well known that it contains a fallacious argument.

But suppose that there is a God who created the universe. Doesn't your argument then apply to Him? Could such a complex being just be? If so -- then your argument that the universe could not just be falls apart -- because you feely admit that something even more complex could just be. If not, then there must have been someone who created God -- and you have a problem.

Answer 6

ERGGGHHHH! I get so frustrated when people say there is No proof of there being a God! Do you atheists know that there is no proof of evolution????? They say they can't see Him, so therefore He doesn't exist. Well, I can't see their brains, so therefore, they do not have a brain. Just thinking at their level of thinking. People just don't want to believe there is a God, because then that would mean that the Bible is true. If the Bible is true, then so are the Ten Commandments. And if the Ten Commandments are true, then Hey! They'd have to start obeying the Ten Commandments! But noooo, people wanna live their lives their own way; they don't wanna listen to anybody. So therefore, they say the Ten Commandments aren't true. If the Ten Commandments aren't true, then neither is any of the Bible. If the Bible isn't true, then God must not be either! People are SO messed up in their thinking, it's not even funny!

Answer 7

Why do you think it can't be chance. Think of it like this. The universe is (for all we know) infinite. There is an infinite number of worlds out there. So, what were the chances that not one of those worlds could be inhabited or with the physical condition that was necessary for human life to exist on it? So, I strongly disagree with you. In such a large universe, it was nearly impossible for human life not to come to existence on its own. So, God does not exist for me. Statistics did the trick.

Answer 8

Erm. I'm a scientist. That is by no definition a logical or convincing argument.

There is no evidence for the existence of God. Therefore I do not believe in him. It is that simple.

Intricate phenomena can arise from very simple conditions. Look into Chaos theory to see how...

Answer 9

This is what J.P Sartre said about the existence of God:
If God is almighty, Can God create a stone so heavy that even he will not be able to lift it?
If he can create that stone, then he wouldn't be able to lift it, so he's not almighty. If he can not create the stone, then he's not almighty.
This is why some people don't believe in God. Reason above faith.

Answer 10

Ahhh... you have just presented the quintessential example of the logical fallacy 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 11

People have seen what they have made and known they have created it for a purpose. Then they look around at the animals, plants, weather, etc, that are so useful to them or have such an important impact on their lives, and assume that those things were created by an intellengent designer for a purpose.

It's the oldest logical fallacy in the book (or at least one of the oldest).