2006-10-17 23:17:23 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
SEARCH4TRUTH...I AM GETTING REALLY TIRED OF YOU SEARCHING FOR EVOLUTION QUESTIONS, AND THEN POSTING THE SAME LONG DRAWN OUT RESPONSE TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. EITHER SAY SOMETHING NEW, OR SHUT UP ALREADY.
2006-10-18 11:57:10 · update #1
Where there is a lack of science at least one god will always rise to take the place of it.
Look around the world and you will see a variety of gods and goddesses, demons and devils, deities and messiahs. All to explain the mystery of the world before science discovers the truth behind it.
This is proof alone that there is not one single god "to rule them all".
2006-10-17 23:27:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh yeah.
God. There are many things that point to the existence of some sort of higher being/s, but the existence of a God has yet to be proven. Unless you take the words of the eccentrics who have received stigmata and the likes. Either way, I think a lot of people need God to depend on because this world is too much for them alone. The Christian idea of a God is accomodating to society's insecurities and problems.
2006-10-18 06:29:51 · answer #2 · answered by Link 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I recently finished an interesting book on religious delusions in which the author put forward the notion that obedience to higher authority is hardwired into our genetic makeup. He argued that among mammals the survival of the young depends on their willingness to be guided by the greater experience of their elders. This actually makes a great deal of sense from an evolutionary standpoint.
He further argues that the invention of god was simply the natural extension of this need among adults. The child may grow up, but the problems persist, and therefore the desire for a higher authority to sort things out remains.
So, the answer to your question is -- yes -- apparently, if god didn't exist people would have had to invent god.
2006-10-18 06:27:36 · answer #3 · answered by Jack 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are right. Humans have been inventing gods since they themselves were created. When they were not satisfied with the existing power they found, they invented gods instead. Sometimes they idolized humans. See when a prophet or a ruler is exalted and sanctified till he is put in the position (place) of god, and instead of being a human, he is converted into Deity. We even have a recent example; the position of prohets for Muslims who see that prohets are invulnerable and flawless. And they always see that belief and faith in Mahammed are a precondition of the belief and faith in God. Also in Christianity, in the Holly Communion, most Christians believe that the bread and wine are converted into Jesus' flesh and blood and of course Jesus is God. In this way people make their own gods and this is due to their imaginative minds which sometimes feel insecure so they invent their mysterious powers which they call gods.
2006-10-18 07:06:38 · answer #4 · answered by rambahan_1953 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the sad truth...
Even if we managed to kill off all religion in the world and reach such a utopic state even for a short while... there are enough superstitious idiots around that it would crawl back up out of the cracks like a cockroach infestation and seek to re-establish itself in new and ever more absurd forms...
See what happened with the middle-eastern monotheistic religions:
Early on you just had Judaism... which was reasonably sensible and still is to this day, considering its a monotheistic religion.
Then Christianity, the world's biggest personality-cult, popped up... and started mutating and spreading its absurdity all over the known world... Admittedly by now that has become a bit more pacifistic than it used to be.
And now we have Islam as well... which has even more ridiculous customs, traditions and mumbo jumbo... and is currently in the "kill the heathens" phase of its development... completely irrational in every way.
Ideally they all need to be eliminated..... BUT... without religion, there would just be a lot of very confused idiots lingering around with nothing to believe in.
2006-10-18 06:23:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I get what you are saying, and the fact is that Man HAS created many many gods that are not the true God of the universe, even when they did not have to because there already was a true God. But if there was no God? then there would be no man so no one would be asking this question....
2006-10-18 06:33:33 · answer #6 · answered by skypiercer 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Not only agree, but that is what everybody has done. A beautiful creation.
Man was created because of Panspermia.
2006-10-18 06:18:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, because the reason people believe in God/Allah/etc. is because they want to believe there's something/someone better out there, who doesn't have to go through hell (aka, life on earth) and that there's a reason to live, there's a protector
2006-10-18 06:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by High On Life 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Then who would have created man in the first place?
2006-10-18 06:19:30 · answer #9 · answered by Kitt 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
did you heared about car exist without factory,did you hear some thing happened suddenly from it self without reasonor or doer.our presence and creation fromunlimited strength with unlimited wisdom because we created in best shap and creation.so no allah(lord) no presence for any thing.
2006-10-18 06:33:42 · answer #10 · answered by lostship 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋