I know many people do not believe that a greater being exist, but have never heard one explain LIFE. How is it possible that life can come from non-life. Why can't man create life in a labratory? I know scientist have created amino acids in the lab but this is only a building block of life, a far cry from life itself. PLEASE, I dont want Christians, Muslims and Jews weighing in on this. We all know what you believe. Just want to hear from the Atheist.
2006-10-02 12:01:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe "God" was an unfortunate choice of nouns. But I do believe there is a conciesness responsible. Life is an energy but what makes human life so amazing is that we are aware of self. Energy that is aware. I enjoy one aspect of the Christian belief of the afterlife: one day we will know what it's all about. I hope the Atheist are wrong but will never know in this life. But energy never ceases to exist, it only changes form. Best answer goes to the vote. Metazone has mine.
2006-10-02 17:32:03 · update #1
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2006-10-02 12:02:28 · answer #1 · answered by martin 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This doesn't prove any gods exist. Nothing else does either. Man will create life some day. There are many things that are hard to explain, but a logical person doesn't just say,"God did it", anytime he cannot fully explain something. That is no explanation at all. At least the scientist continues seeking a real answer, while the religious person is satisfied with pretenses of answers. Where did God come from? It is more logical to seek natural explanations than to invent a deity.
2006-10-02 12:10:52 · answer #2 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man cannot create life in a labratory because man doesn't have sufficient knowledge as of yet. Just as man in biblical times did not understand things such as the water cycle or the solar system, and so had to make stuff up. Life is proof that life exists; nothing more. It does not prove anything else.
To say, "We don't understand how life came about, so it must be from god" is the same as saying, "We don't understand how the rain falls from the sky, so it must be god opening some windows." Both answers are equally as absurd.
2006-10-02 12:07:21 · answer #3 · answered by digitalquirk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a time when we couldn't create fire. People assumed god made that.
We can create fire now.
There was a time when we couldn't fly. To do so could have only been called magic many years ago.
We fly all over the world now.
Consider applying a little patience and/or imagination when you talk about what man is capable of doing. Because we haven't done it yet, doesn't mean we won't do it eventually.
So no, life is not proof of anything, other than the fact that advanced chemical reactions do exist. (That would be us)
2006-10-05 10:50:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we follow that logic - that complexity of being and the universe mean that there has to be an intelligent creator - then the logic hits a brick wall: since god is so complex, what created god? If we then get rid of god, we're still left with the same problem: something always existing (process, potential, whatever). So ... we are left with a profound mystery -- that something always existed. Forget concepts, forget beliefs, forget god, forget science -- we're talking about something that is outside of the bounds of time, space, imagination (b/c all these things only have existence in this universe). To talk about this or to conceptualize it is to completely miss it -- god can't be worshipped, conceptualized, believed, talked about, described, etc. - how can we describe the mystery of Existence? So atheism and literalism both miss it -- to treat god, jesus, and all the other concepts as true is to completely miss it.
2006-10-02 12:13:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love this question.
I was raised a christian and I have moved on from that since, but I still have the fundamental belief that life was created from some higher power.
It is too complicated to have come from something unliving and cold. We are a warm live vibrant people (with our occastional misfits lol ) and we deserve to have come from something amazing. I think we were created for a purpose.
Great veiw.
And sorry I am not an atheist... I just read that last part of your question. My bad.
2006-10-02 12:04:35 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How does the existence of life lead to an inference of a God? Looking at simply the existence of life can only lead to the conclusion that life exists. You ask why man can't create life in a lab, and the only answer possible is that man hasn't learned how to create life in a lab. 100 years ago, man didn't know how to make a microwave, and 1000 years ago, man couldn't have dreamed of television. Concluding that there is a God simply because life exists and we don't know how to make it is simply throwing a "pat", unsubstantiated conclusion at the question.
2006-10-02 12:03:03 · answer #7 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
im not of any religion and my opinion is that there is a god but its not somethin im sure of, but how does god explain life, ive never heard some 1 that belives in god explain life either, and how did god come in2 existense like you said, how does existense come from non-existense
2006-10-02 12:06:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not atheist but if you you believe that then all supreme beings exist also.
2006-10-02 12:04:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is easy to explain, but what does EXIST mean?
2006-10-02 12:04:34 · answer #10 · answered by Perseus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
More than one God or Goddess could have created life.
Sorry, you didn't say no Pagans. ^_^ Besides, you usually vandalize my Q's. e_e
- 16 yo Pagan
2006-10-02 12:03:31 · answer #11 · answered by Lady Myrkr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋