Why do religious people constantly attribute everything they don't understand to God?
2006-10-11 09:39:04 · 21 answers · asked by trouthunter 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The vast majority of the scientific community does not believe in a personal God. They may "practice" religious rites with their family out of tradition, but most do not believe in a god.
2006-10-11 09:43:51 · update #1
Laziness, fear, arrogance.
2006-10-11 09:40:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That may have been one of the key dynamics for religion in the first place. You conjure up an explanation for everything - understood or not - along certain lines. If the hunt didn't go well you could explain it, and blame it on, the tribal chief's ineptitude. It there was an earthquake you could attribute it to a "Big Chief."
2006-10-11 16:45:18 · answer #2 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello not every religious people I attribute most unexplainable things to the law of the universe, I only say that God initiated the big bang, and everything else I just say that it is nature or evolution following it's law.
2006-10-11 16:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by Halal Pig Ok in Islam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you give us examples?
We currently can't understand exactly how malaria develops in the body, but no-one has attributed that to God.
We currently can't understand how to make large-scale fusion reactors, but no-one cites God on that one.
I personally can't understand how the English rugby coach has kept his job, but I'm fairly certain God didn't have a direct hand in it.
Perhaps a more pertinent question is: Why do people take small isolated incidents and extrapolate them to apply to a huge, and massively diverse, community.
Also, can you justify your assertion in additional details?
2006-10-11 16:52:14 · answer #4 · answered by thephantombatterpuddinghurler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In part because everything comes from God, even those natural processes and laws like gravity, magnatism, and biology. But we Christians do not just leave it there. When we find something unexplainable, we look for the explaination. That is why so many Christians are scientists, doctors, and researchers.
2006-10-11 16:41:26 · answer #5 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the fear of the unknown and unexplained. It makes small-minded people feel better to apply a "God" explanation (however ridiculous it may be) to everything rather than admit that we as humans are not capable of understanding these things.
2006-10-11 16:41:55 · answer #6 · answered by Turbo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
probably for the same reason some Atheist types would prefer 100 1:100,000,000,000 chance random combinations in a row, each requiring the previous in order to work, than believe in a concious force guiding it.
some religious types don't put enough effort in finding a "mundane" solution to things.
some anti-religious types put too much effort in avoiding a non-mundane solution.
in fact if I had to say, I'd figure that the anti-religious types are worse, willing to believe farmore improbable things, as long as they don't have to accept something beyond their scope of perception.
2006-10-11 16:45:49 · answer #7 · answered by RW 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do people believe that they have the answers to everything and don't need a God?
2006-10-11 16:40:48 · answer #8 · answered by zero 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its the easiest way to explain things....
Called the Either-Or Fallacy. Either it was this, or it was God. It cant be this, so it must be God. Personally, I call it ignorance.
2006-10-11 16:41:44 · answer #9 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Laziness.
2006-10-11 16:41:18 · answer #10 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because rather than try to understand it they just throw up their arms and say God did it. End of story.
2006-10-11 16:40:15 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋