2006-09-07 07:51:59 · 16 answers · asked by Big Blue 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't believe in either. You are putting forth what is called a strawman. Which is a dishonest debating tactic where you basically attempt to makeup a ridiculous claim and then pretend that your opponents are making it. In this case you are combining it with a false dichotomy. Which is another dishonest debating tactic where you pretend the ridiculous claim and your claim are the only two possibilities. Are you intentionally doing this? If so you are extremely dishonest.
I would ask which is easier to believe, Nature is based on (is)necessary mathematics, or based on a creator which sprang out of nothingness (your strawman here ).
Clearly it is easier to believe in mathematics than to believe in a magical infinitely complex creator which either popped out of nothingness ( your strawman not mine ) or just happened to exist.
No intelligent atheist who has reasoned these arguments out claims anything "sprang from nothing". "Nothing" simply does not exist. Reality is based on something. We just don't claim it to be your magical infinitely complex god, which you have no way of explaining how it got here.
2006-09-07 08:03:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What is nothingness? Even the Pope was scared that Stephen Hawking will prove that God doesn’t exist.
Hawking has done groundbreaking research on black holes and the origins of the universe. He proposes that space and time have no beginning and no end. On Thursday 15 June 2006, Stephen Hawking said that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God.
Hawking, who didn't say when the meeting was held, quoted the pope as saying, "It's OK to study the universe and where it began. But we should not enquire into the beginning itself because that was the moment of creation and the work of God." Hawking asked the Pope "Does it require a creator to decree how the universe began or is the initial state of the universe determined by a law of science?"
If the Pope genuinely believed that God created the universe, why was the Pope scared of science investigating the subject and proving that God existed. The truth is more likely that the Pope doesn’t believe in God and doesn’t want science to prove in fact that God doesn't exist.
The theory of God is nothingness.
2006-09-07 14:52:59 · answer #2 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In order to have a design, there has to be a designer. In order for there to be a creation, there has to be a Creator.
Think of various parts of your body. They all have a function, your ears, your eyes, your heart, your blood, and each part of our body depends upon another part. Just think for a few minutes about this, and expand on these thoughts.
Thinking about your body alone, not mentioning the universe and everything else which could be considered, it baffles me how people believe that life sprang from nothing!
2006-09-07 14:58:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be harder to believe that
life sprang out of nothingness,
But i believe in God and that he's the creator.
2006-09-07 14:56:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
More faith? On the outside, it seems like they would require an equal amount of faith. Neither seem to have a specific origin. There is no actual 100% fact-based evidence to prove which one is true. If you've been touched by God, you know in your heart that His existence is real. However, there is no hard evidence for you to show that to someone else. As far as I see it, they both require an equal amount of faith.
2006-09-07 14:59:50 · answer #5 · answered by southfloridamullets 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So? Who made the nothingness that life sprang from?
2006-09-07 14:54:10 · answer #6 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I find it interesting that some people claim that they don't believe in a Supreme Being, or anything.
Yet, they believe in the "brakes" on an automobile and "Green "lights" at an intersection, that traffic will stop for the opposite Red light, placing their life in that trust.
How many of us have that much faith in God?
2006-09-07 15:00:52 · answer #7 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who are you insinuating believes that life sprang from nothingness?
No non-theist believes life sprang from nothingness.
Another straw-man argument from an ignorant theist.
2006-09-07 14:58:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can't have faith in nothing so in a creator it actually takes faith to believe.
2006-09-07 14:56:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Consider the scientific complexity of a double helical dna half strand, then consider the chances of such a minute thing occuring in nature from random-nothing, then consider the possibility of two of them occurring, and then surviving and then forming male and female and then propogating. It is mathematically impossible, so science has disproved spontaneous emergence. Only an intelligent designer or God could have made it happen.
2006-09-07 14:58:19 · answer #10 · answered by Just David 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋