Why must there be something else?

Question

One of the most common reasons for beliving in God, Faires ect. is "there must be something else", can someone explain this to me.

Answer 1

Because there is this.
Understand? No?
Ok, I 'll explain.
This big ball and everything on it is too well designed for it just to have popped out of nowhere. Look in the mirror. You are a well designed machine. All your systems work properly, and with each other, you are a spirit, yet you can see out of physical eyes, ...now look out the window, look at all those systems, the clouds, the rain, the rivers... the seeds, the plants and trees, and how nature replants, and recreates itself forever without your help, just because God told it to once. Pretty amazing. Think like a scientist, about how the earth tilts and creates seasons, and why, without getting off its orbit, crashing into the sun, or flying off into outer space. Think about the magnetic poles, and what they are for? Think like an artist, look at the details of a tiny flower petal, a snowflake, a butterfly... Think like a doctor, about all the food that was originally placed on this earth that is healing to your body... Think about architecture, and how everything we needed to build houses, cars and such ... was left here too. Ok, you get it. And thats just the earth...He created so much more.
People buy into scientific theory. But even the scientist knows that without proof, his is just theory. Have you had any organisms (other than a crawfish) crawl up out of your ditch and knock on your door lately? Heard about any monkeys going into a cage, and a couple years later a man walks out? Me neither. Haven't heard of any universes "Banging" into existance, have you?
Scientist say that if you can't do enough experiments to prove your theory, it is just a hypothesis -- which means - a guess.
But we are.
And He is.
And He created us, so that He could fellowship with us. Ask Him, He will fellowship with you.

Answer 2

In the beginning of the 20th century amid an atmosphere of scientific revolution and discoveries, Albert Einstein fashioned his theory of general relativity. The basic tenet being that matter converts into energy and energy into matter (E=mc2). Relativity also proposed that gravity alters space and time; that the universe is decelerating; and that it is expanding. Deceleration and expansion implied an initial explosion of the universe, and indeed, a beginning. Einstein's Relativity completely uprooted Kant's science and philosophical notions. The universe is FINITE. Subsequent observations have continued to solidify the theory of relativity down to this very day. Roger Penrose, a leading astrophysicist of our day, declared in 1994 that Einstein's theory of general relativity was "the most accurately tested theory known to science." (This after confirming the theory to a precision of 99,999,999,999,999 parts in a hundred trillion.) Yet, Einstein's own theory bothered him as it bothered most scientists (and still does). The physics itself was not the problem but rather the philosophical implication of Einstein's findings. For, to have a beginning necessarily implies one who began it. To have a point in time which can be called "the first moment" in time and space and matter and energy means that before then there was nothing. The question then is: where did this come from? And how? and by who? The implication then is there must be a Supreme intelligence transcendental to space, matter, and time. The Big Bang implies God.

Answer 3

People's biggest fear is death.
Yet it is unavoidable.
So they come with some kind of unlikely theory just so that they don't have to die "for keeps".
"There must be something else" reasoning is just a manifestation of the perceived solution to the threat of death.

Answer 4

Man lives in an egocentric world. Anything outside of us is something else. Since man builds and creates, the simplist explantion for everything is that something other than man built or created it. It is a leap of consciousness that man includes himself in this scheme.

Answer 5

It is the way for people to hope for something better and to ignore their own lives and their power to control their lives. If they do not have satisfaction from something, then they create something else that has to be soooooooo much better and their life would be all set if they had it. Then, if they end up getting that, its not good enough. It is ignorance and neglect of something so they can feel sorry for themselves, or so they can dream, or so they can simply have an excuse for doing the things they do. it is all self created.

Answer 6

Some people need a sense of "protection" from a higher being, when you run out of people to blame, you need something fictional to step up.

Answer 7

No, I cannot. I wonder if people are so dissatisfied and unfulfilled in their own lives that they convince themselves: "My god, there must be something better that we just can't see or understand."

Answer 8

People leading insignificant lives often emotionally don't want to face the fact that they die, their bodies rot, and there's nothing more. So they invent a fairy tale.

Answer 9

It's the counterpart to "Why is there not nothing?"
Since there IS something, it leads to questions like yours.