Some believe that all of this is an accident. I believe that "everything I have seen teaches me to believe in a Creator that I have not seen."Look at the balance, the symetry of things that are, barring human destruction of course. Plants make our air, we animals and humans create their air. The law of supply and demand? Our very ability to create and to question life and creation. Animals live based on instinct, for better or worse man choose his reactions. Of all the possibilities why this planet, of all the life forms why man? Of all the egg and sperm that could have joined why you and I? Do you not see the beauty? The work of art? Does it not point to an Artist?
Peace Be With You,
Debra
2006-08-15 01:07:05 · 13 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The pollution, the war, the death and destruction you mention are of mans making. Much of our diseases come from our 'creations' and mistakes.
2006-08-15 01:24:06 · update #1
I see the beauty of it all but I don't think it HAD to be made by someone or some thing. My very ability to question and create has led me to make things using various instuments...am I the Creator then? No.
The ingredients were all already in the universe and on the Earth, it took many, many years to put them all into a bowl and get them mixed. For those of you who think our world is "harmonious"...do you not watch the news, or read a newspaper? There are wars going on, polluted oceans, air and Earth, people dying on the streets, homeless children...that's what you call harmony? Please! Don't make me laugh!
While I see the beauty of my children, and I love them...I'm also a realist. There is no fairy tale here, no one will come to rescue us. We need to make the best of it for ourselves and our children.
2006-08-15 01:21:14 · answer #1 · answered by bitto luv 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the problem with the watchmaker argument is that it looks backwards. It starts at the result and then defines the process.
We have a nose with two nostrils situated between our mouth and our two eyes. To us, due to our lifetime of experiences, that is beautiful. If we had happened to have three nostril instead of two, we would still breathe effectively, and we would find three nostrils beautiful.
Objectively, is the way we are really so balanced and beautiful? There's no way to answer this, because we _aren't_ objective. This is the only 'way things are' that we know.
Some watchmaker-supporters point to statistics. Apparently, there's a one in a million billion trillion quadzillion chance that life could form naturally the way it is. But there's fault there again. I mean, think like this: walk outside your house and find the nearest rock. It's millions of years old and could have been formed anywhere in the world. What are the chances, statistically, that that very rock could be there in front of your house (and not any other rock or any other house)? In fact, abysmally small. But (1) there it is, and (2) it's hard to imagine that there is any divine 'purpose' or reason for that rock being there. It just is.
As for the symmetry that exists in natures - the delicate balance of ecosystems - I think that points _to_ the stabilising processes of natural selection. Behind the fact that 'a microbe is eaten by a small fish which is eaten by a bigger fish which is eaten by a bird which dies and is eventually eaten by a microbe' lies all kinds of what we might call 'trial and error' - other species that _could have been_ in that ecosystem but were pushed out by the species that are there; other species that _could have thrived_ but just weren't well enough adapted there...
It's a bit of a cruel game, but the strange fact - and the biggest mystery - is that uglly things like the struggle for life and the competition for food can be agents to bring about the beauty that we call our universe.
That, to me, is beautiful.
2006-08-15 08:25:21 · answer #2 · answered by XYZ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This very moment we are in is the foundation of all that will exist from this moment forward for us. There is so much beauty and perfection in each atom that is within your very view, right now. Try to Love each atom within you awareness, right here, right now, and realize that it is God's Love that is not only holding the atoms together, but created the concept, in the first place. Just think about the responsibility of God to keep it all in place, and to continue to pour out His love no matter how amiss his favorite creation becomes. His Love is so profound that He won't stop loving YOU no matter what . So you have gotten off target a little. He says just ask and He is anxious to forgive you so you can come back to the Love and share the output with Him.Not only will he forget the error, but He will put it in forgetful seas never to be remembered again. If you are not focused yet, in the moment just stop reading for a second nd think about the NOW. In the middle of the "O" is where God lives. It is always Now in His World and He is inviting you to come into the "O" and join Him. The more quiet that you get, and the more still you become in your mind, the closer to Him you Get. He is not out there someplace hiding from you, He is right here right now, waiting on His Love, YOU. "Be still and know that I AM God." Once you have joined Him in the garden you will never have doubts again.
2006-08-15 08:41:22 · answer #3 · answered by happylife22842 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi Deb, me again- There is a special name for your argument of the existence of god but I forgot what it is.
Look at the Black Widow Spider in all it's symmetry and it's ability to kill anything it wants with one bite including me and you. Look at the duckbilled platypus, evidence some believe of the creators sense of humor.
Of all the known species on earth Deb. 1/4 of them are beetles. Not insects, beetles. You could make a case that beetles are gods favorite creature, he/she/it sure made so d**n many of them
Every mammal has 7 bones in it's neck, you me, the tree shrew, and the giraffe. Ever see a giraffe bent to take a drink, spread it's legs in that comical manner. More of God's sense of humor I guess.
"Of all the egg and sperm that could have joined why you and I?"
Yeah. Why couldn't I have been taller? My father is 6 feet tall. He had some better sperm in there I know it. We could have come out different and never know it. We had no special destiny to be born just the way we were. I don't know about you but I haven't come up with any unified field theory lately.
My cousin has Downs Syndrome. There's a bad choice of eggs and sperm. Of all the ones to pick why the one that were going to misfire?
If there is a god and heshe it is and Artist hesheit is a surrealist.
2006-08-15 08:38:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you mean by "a freak accident". If by it you mean that it just all suddenly popped into place out of thin air, then, no, it wasn't just a freak accident. However, if you mean a series of causes that could have culminated in any other type of universe besides this particular one, then, yes, it is a freak accident. Though, I would question your use of the term "freak", because any such universe that happened would have the same freakish probability of happening just as it did. However, the chance of a universe happening at all might have much less freakish odds.
2006-08-15 08:21:24 · answer #5 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree Debra. What we see is not just a freak accident as some tend to believe. Everything was created by a higher power and for that we should be thanking and praying to God everyday. God is totally the Artist of this work and I think it is fabulous. One thing that is hard for me is to get some points across to those who are not believers and think just because they cannot see God or touch Him that he doesn't exist. My heart breaks for those who call themselves Atheists and others religions that think other ways. There is only 1 God and 1 son of God and for those who do not come to know Him, unfortunately they are lost souls. It is our job as Christians to educate those lost souls and pray that they come to see the way.
2006-08-15 09:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here is a very ordinary part of creation that we take for granted (I agree with you, by the way): the human eye. How could that have evolved from a blob? Furthemore, look up online or in an encyclopedia the structure of the six muscles that work the eyeball. One grows sort of looped through a special shaped section of bone inside the eye socket, so that it's able to move at just the right angle as you try to look in different directions.
Thank you, God, for all that You put into creating the world, and for our ability even to be aware of these things and to thank you.
Every day, thank Him for something ordinary but great -- such as the fact that we can see colors, with all that that means in our lives.
2006-08-15 08:16:21 · answer #7 · answered by catintrepid 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
You have reached what I call the illusion of perfection. Everything you say can be reversed, for we have two hands. Right now you are looking in one direction, and are not seeing both ways. I have or had fallen in the opposite direction of what you are experiencing.
May you never realize that life and God have two faces.
2006-08-15 08:15:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
With simple facts such as these you'll never convince anyone, sadly.
But you're right, you're absolutely right!
There's no way an accident, or evolution could have made a world like this, that works in harmony.
2006-08-15 08:13:10 · answer #9 · answered by Ashton Kage 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
All of this had to be planned. How could multiple "accidents" really lead to anything but death, if somehow life could have accidentally formed?
2006-08-15 08:13:06 · answer #10 · answered by RB 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋