Why is it that modern Theists never provide any real answers to the meaning of existence? They just point at..

Question

They just point at the gaps where science has yet to investigate (and will) and say 'God did it'.
All of Creationism, and, to borrow a phrase - 'creationism in a cheap tuxedo' - known as 'Intelligent Design' are both non-theories. They have no proof, evidence or anything resembling solid research. It is simply 'If science hasn't solved it, then god must have done it.'
The problem with these theories is that they won't last. They have no real drive to substantiate themselves. They exist only to try and prove science wrong. And they are doing a rather pathetic job of it.

So the question is - What does Theism answer other than rehashing what's in the bible? What answers does it provide? If God is on their side why does he never (EVER) provide more insightful answers? Why does science beat 'Creationism' hands down in this regard?

REPEAT - WHAT DOES THEISM PROVIDE AS AN ANSWER TO THE MEANING OF EXISTENCE OTHER THAN 'GOD DID IT'? Why did GOD DO IT? When will it ever get deeper that GOD DID IT?

Answer 1

Science hasn't/can't disprove Creationism, never has and never will. It hasn't proved evolution "theory" either and never will be able too.

Answer 2

Theism as a faith choice provides no answer to scientific questions simply because it is not sought in response to lack of knowledge about the universe but in response to a lack of meaning in the universe. That purpose it fills in a way that science cannot because it is not science's intent to do so.

IOW, the error that some modern Theists make is asking faith to be science. Or history. It is niether; it is faith.

Answer 3

Actually, if you read books like Francis Schaeffer's The God Who Is There, and He Is There and He Is Not Silent, you will hear a convincing arguement that Christian theism is in fact the only belief system that logically answers for the world as it is.

Answer 4

thank you for an marvelous element. even with the indisputable fact that, you seem to take it in the incorrect direction. i've got faith that human language and thought are inadequate to describe the ineffable elegance of God's nature. subsequently, in approximating God using human language, we are compelled to place self belief in human thought-varieties, metaphors, and stereotypes. "Vengeance" in the Biblical experience is in all threat a linguistic approximation to a concept of divine justice that we could probable spend 1000's of pages elaborating on while not having any closer to totally describing it particularly is nature. "keen the international into existence" is likewise a linguistic approximation. The assessment of the Divine Will to a human will is mere metaphor. do no longer reject the religion solely on the muse of human language's insufficiency to place across it. attempt to think of what it would actual mean. they're purely intellectually unsatisfying in case you're so closed-minded as to think of metaphor to be reality.

Answer 5

Good question. With "god of the gaps" the need for a magical answer continues to fade over time. Pascals wager is flawed. Satan doesn't give us an illness, leeches don't fix a cold. As the reason to believe gets more and more absurd over time, people will become more afraid and pound their fists louder to insist that god does exist.

It kinda reminds me of the lion in the wizard of oz... "I do believe in spooks..."

Answer 6

Theists shouldn't give real answers to unbelieving sinners and anti theists because they would be throwing their pearls to the swine. Some are here just to get points not answer you sincerely if you thought otherwise then you have really fooled yourself asininely. You don't won't answers from them anyway. You just want people to agree with you. Good luck with that!

Shalom

Answer 7

Without God there would be NOTHING. God created the planets, the plants and animals and then humans, and then evolution occurred as animals and humans and plants populated the world. So God created evolution too.

Answer 8

" I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life; no man can come to the Father except through me". -- Jesus Christ

Plenty of evidence AGAINST EVOLUTION:.
First, the 'Cambrian explosion'; the millions of fossil types in Cambrian rock (oldest fossil bearing rocks) appear suddenly and fully formed and without any previous forms...IOW, there are no transitional forms.

Most well educated evolutionists when forced to ...will admit it, but very unwillingly, and even then they always want to seem to make new excuses for it. Usually they just don't say anything about it and hope noone finds out.

"From the beginning of the Creation God made them male and female..."-- Jesus (Mk. 10:6)

" By the Word of the Lord were the heavens created, and all the host by the breath of His mouth. For HE SPAKE AND IT WAS DONE; HE COMMANDED AND IT STOOD FAST". (psalm 33:9)

Answer 9

There's really no point in asking that on a site like this. In 20 odd years of studying theolgy and philosophy I have yet to find a theist argument that holds water at all, every single one of them falls back on faith thereby killing rational discussion stone dead.

Answer 10

No one knows the meaning of existance