Don't these things prove God made everything?

Question

Why is the sky blue? I mean if life happened by chance why is not the sky and ugly color? Just so happen its a pretty blue shade?

Why are planets round? Why not some ugly shapes if it happened by chance?

Why do people look good? Why are not we ugly if it is all chance?

Why does nothing ever happen to the Sun? Billions of year without a hitch? All my stuff I own breaks all the time.

Why does the Earth just happen to stay in orbit all the time? Nothing ever goes wrong with its orbit. More luck?

Why doesn't the Earth get hit by a giant asteroid? Nothing every happens that wipes us all out.

Why are trees animals and plants beautiful? Why not ugly color grass like a black color? Why not a beast looking animal with 5 heads?

Im just trying to show that it seems since I was a kid that someone is in control here and made it all.
Comments?

My point is being overlooked here.

If God did not make everything, what are the odds of all these things I mentioned happening by shear chance?

The odds I would think are against it. It shows me that God is the most likley explanation.

How come I can see this so clearly and others don't see it at all?

Not one person who is atheist will talk about all of these things happening by chance and the odds of it.

Answer 1

I'm a Christian, so I'm not arguing with you here, but there are better arguments FOR God creating the universe than you're making.

Everything you're saying is subjective;
For instance, maybe all animals think we're ugly. And there are lots of people that WE think are ugly, etc.
Plenty of ugly animals. Slugs, for instance. Some bats, worms, bacteria, fish, oh, I could go on forever... there are animals that look literally like monsters.
There HAS been asteriods hit the earth before, and wipe out species. It just happens we weren't one of them.
Things happen to the sun all the time. It's just HUGE, so it would take something even larger to throw it out of whack, that's all.
And there are logical answers to why things are round, but I don't have the space for a physics lecture here...

Answer 2

- If a person looks good to you, it is because society and your own opinion has formed an idea of what good looking is. If all humans had five heads (including you), you would be attracted to them because that would be normal, and society and your own opinion would create the idea of what a good looking five headed human is.

Also, there is a process which you might not believe due to your religion, called sexual selection. Sexual selection is part of evolution. Not all humans look the same. Some are better looking than others, and the most humans have a somewhat similar (not always) idea of what good looking is. People prefer to reproduce with better looking partners, therefore giving birth to more "good looking" humans.

This happens with every species. For example, some male peacocks have very long, colorful tales. Females prefer to mate with peacocks who have these tales over the ones who don't. This is why peacocks have long tales.

-There is a simple answer for why the earth stays in orbit. GRAVITY. The sun's gravity pulls the earth into orbit, while the earth does the same to the moon. This clearly shows that you do not have a scientific education.

Answer 3

Don't get me wrong here... I believe in God too, but I have some comments about your comments. :-)

You say we aren't ugly... if none of us were attracted to another human, we wouldn't have reproduced and would have died out long ago. And look around... there are actually ugly people... nothing wrong or Devilish about that!

The earth getting hit by an asteroid?... well, we are only alive for a very short time in the great scheme of things and 50 000 years from now, we may very well be hit by an asteroid. Who knows. We won't.

About the animals and plants being beautiful... I'm sure if it was normal to have 5 heads, we would find a 5-headed puppy cute as anything! It's just that a 5-headed animal is very far removed from normal and screams genetic abnormality or radiation poisoning. As for the sky being such a pretty colour, I can name several people who think pink would have been an awesome colour for it... my point is just that a "pretty colour" is very subjective.

You are right though... there are plenty of reasons to believe God exists... like the fact that the world is the way it is (ie. can support life), and not 10 degrees colder or warmer in which case we probably wouldn't even exist. Evidence of goodness in the world, such as organ donors, charity/social workers, doctors, mothers, babies, friendships, sacrifices, etc.... shows me there is a benevolent force working.
Have a great weekend!

Answer 4

1. Refraction

2. Gravity

3. 50% Social teachings, 50% Natural instinct

4. Self-sustaining fusion reactor, fueled by such massive quantities of hydrogen and helium that it will continue to burn for millions more years (and by the way - if God made the sun, why is it not only a few thousand years old?)

5. The Earth has been hit by numerous large asteroids. See: Large craters everywhere (BTW - it was a large asteroid that decimated the dinosaurs)

6. Nature is naturally beautiful - It is the visual appeal of plants and animals that keeps the reproductive cycle going (pretty flowers attract bees, pretty peacocks attract other peacocks, etc)

Granted, all of this seems pretty convenient for all of the carbon-based, oxygen breathing beings of this Earth, but the fact remains that we are only by-products of the results of this convenience, and this whole gimmick would be far less beautiful and convenient to a life form unable to survive in this very specific environment....

Answer 5

I really think that none of these things prove God's existence. Individually, all your answers have either a naturalistic answer (planets with sufficient mass are round because of gravity), or are subjective (people would not look "good" to dogs or aliens).

If you are interested in arguments for God's existence, you could read Aquinas's "Summa Theologiae" which expresses your "Argument from Design" (as it is called) with more sophistication. Also, you should know that argument has been many times disposed of, notably in the dysteleological argument, or argument from poor design. The most famous example of the argument from poor design is Stephen Jay Gould's "The Panda's Thumb," which attempted to show that the Panda's thumb-like radial sesamoid appendage suggests evolution and not a Designer.

Answer 6

You're obviously extremely young, aren't you?
You evidently have given very, very little thought to these questions.
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder: it's appreciation or designation is accorded by the viewer not divine intervention for which there is NO evidence other than the interpretation of the beholder.
ANY of the examples you provide could equally be seen to be ugly by anyone with a mind to do so.
What constitutes beauty is often a socially taught and learned response through constant repetition.

Answer 7

These are pretty much all explained by middle and high school science.

1. Life did not happen by chance--it's the result of millions upon millions of years of molding and shaping through natural selection. Why the sky is blue is scientifically explainable:
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/sky_blue.html

2. Scientifically explainable:
http://www.sciencetheatre.org/ask_st/031198.html

3. Beauty is subjective. Symmetry is, to most, beauty, and human symmetry is scientifically explainable:
http://www.livescience.com/othernews/051221_symmetry_nature.html

4. The sun is a star, which has a much longer lifespan than your Ipod. It will eventually burn out:
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar97/853714295.Ph.r.html

5. Scientifically explainable:
http://library.thinkquest.org/10401/astro.html

6. It gets hit by tiny ones daily. It has and can be hit by a big one, but the chances are so slim of it happening in your lifetime that you may think it will never happen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid

7. Again, beauty is subjective. A five-headed beast would have to be viable in terms of natural selection.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Well, most of your questions are objective... and can be explained by science.... such as "why are planets round"..... the roundness comes from centrifugal force and gravity..... as for your questions about beauty....... we think that the animals and plants that we see every day are beautiful, but that is a subjective opinion....... someone from another planet might find our world ugly and offensive. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I do believe in a "higher power" but I'm also a scientist and I believe in the big bang theory and evolution. Creatures on this planet evolved and continue to evolve and some are quite beautiful but then some are in my opinion very "ugly"...... for example...... the giant squid.... not a pretty creature.

Answer 10

To say that the various organisms and nature of the universe is proof of god is using CAVE MAN LOGIC.

In the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy,” a native in the Kalahari Desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. I found this to be very amusing, but I also began to see parallels between his thought process, and that of the modern day Theist. Both are using CAVEMAN LOGIC to explain their world. I fail to see the difference between “hmm, bottle fall from sky, must be gods” and “hmm, trees and butterflies prove the existence of god.”

In both of these cases, someone is simply replacing one unknown for another unknown, but proving nothing!

Not only can God not be proven, but I will also go so far as to say that God can be disproved. It is impossible for something to be all knowing and all good. If you are aware that something bad is going to happen, and you allow it to happen anyway, then you cannot be all good. If God created everything, then he also created evil. It is also impossible to be all-powerful; can God create a rock that even he himself cannot move?

I would have thought that as man became more knowledgeable and logical that he would have pushed aside his CAVEMAN beliefs, but it seems to be just the opposite.