Why do you question Gods existence?

Question

Even if you don't believe in the current religions. What started it all. Evolution the Big Bang they don't explain how life actually started from no life. Most Scientists themselves believe in a form of God. Why does anyone not believe.

Does God really have to fulfill all your desires the creation of life is not enough.
Does God really have to reward you after you die.
Does God have to show him self.
Heres a thought maybe he gave up his godhood when he created life. At least you could start with the big bang theory and still use evolution. Any Thoughts?

Thanks for your replies. There is some good stuff here. I like how on answers I can get a feel of what the world thinks.

Answer 1

Why not question? Inquisitive minds want to know. We also want to know how to do things quicker, better and with less effort. We question lots of things like how to build a better computer chip. I know that it is comfortable to not question and that is why we have authoritarian institutions in society; they keep the droolers in line and moderate the pace of change, conserving the past in the face of an increasingly fast pace of change obtained by science.
Some question, some drool.

Answer 2

"Evolution the Big Bang they don't explain how life actually started from no life. "

--- That is true. The big bang only explain how the universe might have formed. Evolution says nothing about the origins of life.

"Most Scientists themselves believe in a form of God."

--- My professional and educational life causes me to interact with dozens of scientists from a myriad of disciplines almost daily. I know of only two who believe in god, and their "god" is an unconscious form of energy.

What one person believes, no matter how credible or respected that person is, is completely irrelevant if they have no evidence to support their claim.


To answer your other questions, god, if it exists, doesn't have to do anything. Just like I don't have to entertain your question.

I do not believe in god because there is no evidence which suggests a magical being is responsible for existence over the process of natural phenomenon.

I haven't even heard a single logical argument for the existence or necessity of god. Almost all fall back on some form of logical fallacy.

Answer 3

Those are some interesting ideas. Here's a good free e-book to read. It's called "God's Debris" it's really interesting and poses some intresting ideas. It's purely fictional (it was written by the creator of Dilbert, oddly enough) but it is well written and makes you think. The link can be found in sources.

One of the points kind of relates to what you said about God giving up his "godhood" when he created life. It reminded me of the book because one of the thoughts posed was that if God were onimpotent (meaning he can do anything and everything) eventually he would get bored with existence altogether so what would be left for him to do but try to simply not exist. In other words if God committed suicide essentailly what would happen? And that's what God's Debris is...it is all of us - pieces of God trying to reassemble himself from his non-existence.

Really, I didn't do the story justice and that's not the only thing that really makes you think in the book but I think you might find it a good read.


EDIT: I just wanted to add a note that I encourage everyone to read this e-book. Whether you believe in God or not isn't really relevant since this book is considered a "thought experiment". It isn't about religion or anything but about God's possible existence and more about the reality we face.

Answer 4

How can you NOT question something that is so unreasonable, irrational, and unlikely. Of course, it can still be true. Why DON'T you question God's existence? That's a better question.

It's like if I said to you Zeus is real. Would you question this or believe it unconditionally with no evidence because everyone else did it? I would hope that you would question because there is no proof. That's all that is happening here.

And if God does exist and does read this, maybe He will make the idea of His existence a bit more plausible for us common sense, rational people.

Answer 5

Why god in the first place? Why believe anything without evidence?

You could take away all of science and i still wouldn't believe in gods.

And most real scientists do not believe in a god.

"A recent survey of members of the National Academy of Sciences showed that 72% are outright atheists, 21% are agnostic and only 7% admit to belief in a personal God." - Nature 23 July 98

Answer 6

I believe that any rational person knows even without thinking that objects in this world, such as TV sets, cars, houses, the very computer they're reading this on, and any such man-made creations did not happen by themselves but were thought of, designed and built by intelligent beings. If intelligent design is behind these relatively mundane things, can something like this universe with all the wide variety of life forms on this planet be something that happened by accident all by itself?

I feel like that it takes more faith to believe that the spark of life appeared by chance out of nowhere than to believe in a Creator who designed it all.

Since it seems very reasonable to me that there is such a Creator, doesn't it seem wise to want to know more about Him?

Answer 7

We have been attributing almost every gap in science to "god did it" from thunder and now to life coming from non-life. I see no reason in believing in a deity that can't be tested or proven at all. If we came from a god, what made that god? Why couldn't we come without a god? Complexity? What about that god's complexity?

I don't know if most scientists believe in god, and honestly that doesn't prove anything. If most scientists believe there isn't a god, doesn't prove the opposite either.

Answer 8

What I don't understand is Who Cares? If scientists has nothing better to do all day than try to figure out the big bang theory vs. evolution let them, who is paying them for this? I my self have many more things to think about, and it does not suit my ego to think that my Great..........Great Grandfather was a monkey, I wouldn't think anyone would.

Answer 9

Lack of proof. You are essentially asserting the deist position -- something had to wind up the universe.

There are numerous cosmological hypotheses that depend on an eternally existing set of conditions, and what we view as 'the beginning' is merely one event in a massive cycle. In this case, you don't need a deity to even wind up the universe -- so why bother with the a priori assumption when it's possible it's not even needed?

Answer 10

Evolution doesn't explain everything, but everything it DOES explain, it gives enough proof of.

Creationists DO explain everything, but there is not a shred of proof (other than the bible, with is not scientifically reliable evidence, anyway) for what they say.

Who would YOU believe?

And BTW, why do you need all the answers, now? God or no god, you're going to work tomorrow. The sun will rise from the east, and set on the west.

And a second BTW, God doesn't have to do anything for me. I don't need anything from him, even supposing (which I don't) that there was a god, to begin with.