how do u not beleive in anything? i mean yea u think about the scientific explanation and the big bang theory and how every one evolved from other anilmals..but how did the animals and planets get here? do u realize how big the universe is? it is never-ending and we havent even come close to dicovering all the galxies and planets yet. so how did all that get here? and even if there was no planets there would still be space. and space is still something, becuase if it was nothing, it would not exist.
2006-11-06 09:37:40 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
to jane l: what do u mean unlike me and people unlike me, you understand it...do u realize how many people believe in SOMETHING? and if you understand it i want you to explain so i can too go ahead...and some of you say that matter could have just always existed...but how? it just doesnt make sense...it had to get here SOME WAY, which why there is religion...and im not saying anything bad about any other religions so dont take offense, BUT christians will understand: there is actually historical proof that jesus and the virgin mary existed...and it, TO ME, is really the only logical understadning i can comprehend.
2006-11-06 09:47:34 · update #1
and to CToioioi: that was one of the most disrepectful comments about religion ive ever herd, y dont u go *** yourself, and die and burn in hell then if u dont belive in any religion...and there is historical backround on jesus and the virgin mary, and if there is nowhere u go when u doe, then wat was it that made the universe?
2006-11-07 07:35:44 · update #2
Adding a god as an explanation to things you don't understand does nothing.
Where did the Universe come from? God. This just leads to where did God come from. He was always here you say? Well you could have saved yourself the extra step and said the Universe was always here.
The same holds for any little part. How did man get here? God put him here. Well...OK how did God get here? How did life start? God did it. Well....Ok how did he do it and how did God start?
The problem is that you are adding a step with no (and I mean absolutely no, not even a little) measurable evidence to back it up. And on top of that you answered nothing, merely delayed the question a step. That type of reasoning flawed. You have to give supporting evidence to add a step that doesn't explain any thing, but just makes the situation more complicated.
2006-11-06 09:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by Alex 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe in a creator god (or any god for that matter) for the simple reason that it's an absurd concept that a spirit on a higher plane could create all of this, especially in the way explained.
In the millions (and billions) of years the universe and this planet has been in existence, the amount of time between the beginning and now could have allowed an almost infinite amount of things to happen, progress, die and happen again. In that time, dinosaurs evolved into what they were from some weird form, died out and then we spawned from what was left over from their extinction.
Yet, you would believe that we were created from dirt and that women were created from the rib of a man? Doesn't that sound stupid to you?
And if god created us, why create the universe? All of those planets and stars? Why? What's the point?
Whatever the means were that we came to be, it's a much more acceptable concept than being a descendent of some couple who were tempted by a snake in some tropical garden in the middle of a desert somewhere in the Middle East.
2006-11-06 17:50:43 · answer #2 · answered by umwut? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So, the infinite size of the universe is now an argument for His existence?? Your argument lacks any logic.
How do we not beleive in anything? Watch: I DONT BELEIVE IN ANYTHING. Its that simple. Ask yourself - how can you beleive in something that you have absolutely no proof of?? Seems much more difficult to me to beleive in a fairy tale than to simply admit that science may not have all the answers....
As for creation, you need to understand something - if the world, life and universe is so complicated as to have required a creator, then this would logically mean that the creator is also highly complex and complicated - and would thus also require a creator. So, who created the creator? Of course, this logic will most likely be lost on you.... Lets take it a step further. I assume, for the sake of argument, that God is the Creator of the universe and everything in it. My question now becomes WHICH GOD do I assume created it all? Why does the Christian God corner the market on creation? What about Baal, Thor, Zeus?
2006-11-06 17:44:46 · answer #3 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the existence of the universe is not sufficient proof of the existence of a creator. The universe could exist just fine without one.
Look up 'inflaton', 'inflationary era', and 'vacuum energy'.
The basic idea is that it is impossible for nothing, true nothing, to exist -- this would be perfectly deterministic and a violation of heisenburg's indeterminancy principle. Inflation begins as a quantum fluctuation within the quantum vacuum, and if the fluctation is of sufficient parameters, it expands drastically enough that what WAS an immeasurably small twitch grows superluminally until the new false vacuum collapses back into a stable state -- in our, case, our visible universe.
Under this calculation, our universe is spawning nearly an infinite number of universes all the time, none of them visible to us because to us they are smaller than the smallest measurable distance (the planck distance), but internally, the inhabitants of such a universe could never observe ours because our universe exists behind the inflationary horizon, that is, behind a wall of superluminal effects which disrupts causality.
Weird things happen at the sub-planck level, but they're still just math.
2006-11-06 17:40:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
Athiests do not believe in nothing. They do not believe in deities. Some believe in impersonal science, and some believe in more abstract spiritual concepts.
For example, I am a Taoist. I believe in an energy referred to as the Tao, which is a living spiritual force but not a personified deity. Even though I have spiritual beliefs, I am technically an athiest because I don't believe in humanoids with superpowers floating around pulling strings.
See? You're right, the universe is a very complex place ;-)
2006-11-06 17:44:02 · answer #5 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We believe in plenty, but we operate by the requirement that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof - science is constantly putting forth theories that are exhaustively tested before accepted as fact - and, a true scientist will change their mind when concrete counter proof is presented. None of this is done by religion, on the contrary, with religion, you are embraced by what you believe, but ostracized by what you know.
If someone is going to require me to live by a set of rules outlined by a fictional ancient text, then they'd better present some persuasion other than blind faith.
2006-11-06 17:50:39 · answer #6 · answered by Da Vinci's Code 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't feel like a need to believe in some absolute truth about the origin of life and the universe. Regardless of how we came to be, we are, with real minds and real problems. And I think we should be focused on here and now matters of fact before focusing on matters of faith. Perhaps I am different from most people, but religion just doesn't seem important to me. I prefer to believe in people.
2006-11-06 17:56:00 · answer #7 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
thereThey don't believe because they is always some sort of explanation for every thing. They also haven't seen any god like things and there is nothing to prove that he is real. So they think,"Why believe in something if there is proof that this person is real? Why pray or do anything to waste my time with? Why believe if there could be nothing there?
2006-11-06 17:45:27 · answer #8 · answered by Sperminator 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
athiesm isnt not believing in anything. its not believing in god. its quite easy. how can you know something is there if theres no proof? religion is just something people made up and forced themselves to believe to make them not afraid of death. if they werent afraid of death, why would they make a big reassuring philosophy of what happens after they die? religion is like a comforting thought for people but too often people dont realize that it cant be proven.
2006-11-07 10:44:30 · answer #9 · answered by person 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One things start and end the other are beginning and end less, so one cannot state there is nothing in there as there is something and as long as something is there we cannot rule anything out. S
Still believing in NOTHING u name the fact of nothing making it SOMETHING cause if it did not exist than u would not know about it and would not call it NOTHING
So u atheists still believe in nothong
And u are even bigger BELIEVERS cause you BELIEVE that God doesnt exist so U do BELIVE in something THE FACT THE CREATOR IS NOT THERE
HAVE A GOOD NIGHT
2006-11-06 17:53:27 · answer #10 · answered by aga m 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋