As an Anthropologist... I wanna know HOW can you think a god exists?

Question

Before you answer my question, I don't want any religious Zombies, preaching to me about how it's all faith, blah blah blah. I want a real answer, one that was thought out. The more and more we learn about science the less and less it seems likely a god exists. the more we learn about dinosaurs, evolution, space, the more zeolots seem to have to back track or denythe truth.

Who would you trust a preach dedicated to one truth or a scientest who tries to find truth? Evolution has real sensible backing, where as christianity has none, but demands simple blind faith. At one point christians bealeved us to be the center of the universe because we were "gods children and very important" and not to mention they fact they thought earth was created in 6 days. Whenever their wrong they either deney it or say it's beyond understanding. Is it so hard to beleave that mankind was looking for a simple answer, and created the idea of god. How long before we move past this?

Don't get me wrong. I don't claim to know if there is or isn't a god. I do not think people who beleave him are wrong, I just don't see how or why they do think there is a god. So many people go... "you don't beleave in god, so how do you prove this or this or that." Only 2000 years ago we couldn't prove the earth revolved around the sun. Now, we know it does. Just because you can't prove something, dosen't mean it isn't true (You can't prove a god exists, nor can you prove he doesn't.) God just seems like the simple answer. "Show me the missing link... you can't? thats because god made man!" Thats all I hear, Christians trying to prove why evolution DOES not exist, instead of trying to prove why they are right. Where as people who study evolution try to prove why IT exists, as apposed to disproving the opposition.

Explain to me, why do man and and ape seem so alike? Why when lighting strikes certain elements, the basic building blocks of life are formed?

Answer 1

as an athropologist, you should already know the answer to this question. and if you dont, i suggest asking your university for your tuition fees back.

Answer 2

When you can show a complete fossil record to demonstrate
scientific evidence of evolution you will have something other than blind faith to make an argument against God.

I do not discount the existance of dinosaurs because I can't explain or not explain when they existed and what killed them off.

I have however seen countless nature shows on television
in which some self appointed expert felt free to present speculation as fact with little more than blind faith in thier own hype as evidence for the theorys presented.

Not all scientist flee the possiblity of God, even when all the evidence points to it. Only the ones with a poor argument need to do that.
Every one can be blind to something but, a real truth seeker
scientific or otherwise has to be able to think outside their
own paradigm to find it.

In religion there have been plenty hoaxes that can be sighted
through the years. I admit that. It does not weaken
my case.Those things happen when people are seeking some thing other than truth.

But the scientific community has had no lack of hoaxes

Answer 3

It seems many people think a Christian is against science when I was just watching a 'Christian' program yesterday studying the earth's age, dinosaurs, & the flood. In layman's terms he showed these huge blocks of sandstone in a place where only a giant underwater mudflow would have carried them. A reference name, John Watson, found phosphate beds with all kinds of animals & dinosaurs and a footprint that the evolutionists said if man & dino can be proven together they'd be bankrupt. They tried to say it was sculpted but an x-ray showed perfect compression. There are renditions of the Exodus, models of the Ark of the Covenant, proof of the flood as well as Noah's Ark perched high in Mt. Ararat(honest shepherd's did view it close up). There is the Shroud of Turin that is so astounding with it's brutal portrayal of Jesus & His wounds & pollen of the place & days of Jesus on it. The negative imprint of Jesus pointing to His Risen state. Writers of His day noted Him, more than 2,000 prophesies are TRUE from the Bible, the world is setting the stage to receive a charismatic figure, the anti-christ who will already know the things you want to hear. PS Why really does a person back something so faulty as evolution-and deny a true God---independence maybe. That's why some will go down they denied Him.

Answer 4

I'm not an anthropologist, but anthropology was some of my favorite classwork in college. I belive God exists yet not the way nonthinking, faithful fundamentalist Christians, Muslims, Buddists or ________ (insert any religion) probably believe. Faith without science, research and rationality is just blind faith. Yet science without faith loses it's humanity and purpose. My belief is a result of a combination of inductive and deductive reasoning that concludes there is a Universal Inteligence that maintains order in the universe (i.e.- God).

With science, you start out with a premise and then try to disprove it. My premise is there is a Universal Intelligence / God. Most people that have faith in God don't even have a definition for what God or god is? I define it as intelligence, and a hallmark of intelligence is organization of matter. The Laws of Entropy state that all matter tends toward chaos, unless there is an external force interceding. At death, our bodies return to dust. It is that hard to define term "life" that keeps our bodies intact until death, or absence of life. The same is true with the universe, something other than chance set things into motion, and what keeps things in a natural order is intelligence.

And let's look at the mathmatics of creation vs. evolution, and my model of a divinely inspired evolution which does not assume that Darwinism and Creationism are at opposit poles but can co-exist. Scientists have seen life created in a test tube before artificial insemination and cloning. Examine the precursers to life, the chemicals on earth and the probabilities that simple elements would combine to form more complex molecules, then these molecules would combine again and again to forma simple one celled blue-green algae. Then multi-celled algaes would evolve, then fish, then land animals then humans. Darwin was right, life does evolve and the strongest do survive, but not at the exclusion of all else. The mathmatics don't make sense, from a pure mathmatical probabilities stand point, we would still only have simple marine life and a few land critters. You can say that humans can now create life, but they actually have stolen it from a process that was already rolling.

As with any argument, there is a left wing and a right wing and the truth lies somewhere in between.

Answer 5

He does NOT. There is no way that a magical guy that can do anything and lives in the sky exists. It sounds stupid even thinking about it. We can prove that science made life, we just have a book that says god exists. I don't care how old the bible is. So if I write a book and wait 500 years, then it is automaticaly fact? I don't think so. Religon is the worse thing that has happened in the human race-religon has caused more deaths in Holy Wars than ALL of the other wars put together. Take a look at the middle east and tell me I'm wrong. God doesn't exist and I wish people would stop believing in fiction made-up nonsense. I think that there is always some one who is dumb enough to fall for religon no matter how wild it is. Look at Scientology. It was made by a science fiction writer, at yet some gullible person is always ready to fall for it.

Answer 6

You say you are a man of science? What happens when you get to the end of provable science? Back to the beginning, back when science says the earth was shrouded by an toxic atmosphere of methane and ammonia? No life, just a toxic chemical wasteland. Do you really believe that lightening crashed into a pool of water with just the right chemical makeup and POOF life started? Is that reasonable? Not only did life start that way but science tells us it flourished grew and multiplied. That it evolved and became more complex. Doesn't science also say that if nature is left to it's self all substances move back toward their basic elemental structures? Why then would evolution favor the more complex instead of the more simple as time advanced? There ate too many holes for a a person of truly rational thought to believe that all we can see with our eyes is just a huge accident. This whole no God idea is just too far fetched to believe.. I haven't got that much faith... I am awed by your ability to believe such a story.... Jim

Answer 7

Thank you for this question.
This may well be why God included in His Word the following:

1Ti 6:20 -
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

I am afraid that there are many questions that science has failed to answer about Origins,
When was the last time you saw an ape turn into a man?
When was the last time you saw a 20 ton Dinosaur turn into a 10 oz. bird
You see it is easy to belittle another one belief, but it avails nothing. You use borrowed knowledge [schooling] to form your opinions. That is your right. Perhaps someday when you allow others the same rights, I will have a chance to show you what we believe the KJV Bible, and Yes God did create the world and all that is in it in just 6 days.
Now friend I will pray for you to soften that heart of yours and let the light shine in. I Have whole books on my shelf that shows the fraud that has come from people in your profession in their attempts to prove the impossible, please do not join hem, Prove all things



1Th 5:21 -
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

In the name of Jesus the Christ, there is still time, look up

Answer 8

I understand that your question, more than being an interrogative it is a flabbergasted state in which you (and I) cannot believe the massive insistence of the faithful in holding their beliefs instead of realizing how lucky we are to be able today of putting them to the TEST, especially when there are so many tools to help get answers. It´s FEAR my friend that is speaking, abject, sordid, unshakable, unreasonable denial. Some people are curious and go see what is behind the corner, others are perfectly content in believing a third party who tells them what is there, even if the latter has never gone past the corner anyway.
I heard a saying some time ago: "Man loves a good story even better than bread on his table." (approximation... I´m not sure of the exact words but the sense is quite clear).
I love a good story as the next guy, but I KNOW where reality lies, I don´t try superman´s cape an throw myself off the building for example. So, yes, these guys won´t accept the missing link even if it bit them in the a.s.s.

Answer 9

Hard to believe mankind was looking for a simple answer?

When men lived in caves there were no answers.

For instance, was Zeus not associated with lightning? Back then people did not know that air masses moving over land could gain a negative charge by picking up extra electrons and building in a storm front until it was unleashed in a spectacular bolt of lightning so people concluded that it was the gods.

At one time gods made the sun rise, the rain fall, crops grow, seasons change, or people get sick and die. Now we know that the Earth is round and orbits the sun, and the rotation of the Earth causes day and night, making it look like the sun rises and sets. We know water evaporates in the hot sun and forms clouds which condense and fall back to the ground as rain. We know seeds with water and sunlight will grow in nutrient rich soil. We know the tilt of the Earth determines seasons and that germs causes disease and lack of sanitation caused plagues to spread killing many people.

Its not a simple answer people looked for. They just didn't know better. Remember, knowledge is power.

Answer 10

first christians never believed earth was the center of the universe.the bible says we r not.
second evolution has holes in it. Science has proved that living matter cannot come from nonliving matter so if the earth was created by the big bang then there still would have been no life in it. nothing would evolve nothing would happen. and evolution says that we evolved and came out of the water. how did the water get there to begin with? how do u know that a god dosent exist? have u ever seen him? if u havent then how do u know he dosent exist?

Answer 11

If there were no god, why do ALL civilizations worship one? Why else would they all have ritualistic burial, temples, shamans, art and mythology with a central god-like figure? Either they are all wrongon the same points it's just a cosmic coincidence with an extremely low level of probabliity that their art and mythology have the same theme - worldwide throughout eons or human existence from cavemen to doomsday cults bucking for a ride on a comet or THERE IS A GOD!