Don't you think the universe is too damn well planned out to be a mere coincidence/accident? Don't you ever wonder that all that you behold in the world is too much of a pre-planned phenomenon to be just a blind twist of nature? I just don't understand your understanding of the world; it's very lifeless.
2006-11-26 16:36:13 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ronin: I didn't say "perfect", I said PLANNED OUT, there's a difference.
2006-11-26 16:44:04 · update #1
Music Girl: How very wrong you are..... it's too sad they way you think, as a matter of fact, it's too sad the way all of you think....
2006-11-26 16:47:56 · update #2
Michael: I can write a 100 page essay on how very wrong you are. You've just contradicted yourself, mate.
2006-11-26 16:53:44 · update #3
Ugh..... NO!!! It's not planned. Intelligent design has been declared in a court of law to be UNscientific and completely speculation. NOTHING MORE.
Complexity necessitates a designer?
Fine... then God must have been created. And no, you DON'T get to say that God is an exception. You don't get to definitively conclude that every other complex thing that has ever, does now, or will ever exist requires creation and then arbitrarily exclude your deity because it's just "above" or "beyond" or "the only eternal, non-designed complex thing".
No. That's against the rules.
If intelligent design proponents invoke an uncaused causer or deity to resolve this problem, they contradict a fundamental assumption of intelligent design that design requires a designer.
2006-11-26 16:40:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the universe is an accident. That's what your herder thinks that I think. I am sorry you are ignorant of science and don't think that science has logical natural explanations for the formation of universes, planets and life. The universe is designed...but from the bottom up..not from the top down. Everything you see today has come about gradually from the effects of natural laws. To posit that god made the natural laws begs the question..what made god..there is infinite regression no matter how you look at it..I claim that matter and/or energy has always existed(it has to be for no theory can account for a state of nothingness) and things change slowly over time(we see this all around).
To claim that an all-knowing,all-powerful and all-loving god planned such things as defecation and sudden infant death syndrome is absurd in it's own right.
Atheism is life affirming not lifeless. When you realize that this is the only life you have then you live it to it's fullest. If life last forever then it is cheap. Diamonds have value because they are rare and if life only lasts 80 years or so then it is of great value.
2006-11-27 00:47:39 · answer #2 · answered by AiW 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Stars are born from gaseous clouds, planets formed from the aggregation of matter by gravitational force, cataclysmic collisions of entire galaxy's occur in violent measure, light energy is sucked into black holes. So perfect is our universe that it continues to change moment to moment.
Life exists only on our planet as far as we have determined to date. Be we are infants in a universe that is timeless. This world is far from well-planned. Were it well planned it would never be struck by asteroids. (this occurs from time to time). Were it perfect the magnetic field that protects the earth would not shift(as it has). If this world were so well planned out there would be no starving nations, no wars, no poverty. This world and this universe are constantly evolving, into what or to where no one can say. We are just along for the ride.
I don't complain about the things I cannot change. But I do try to help humanity when I can. My world is not lifeless, it is very much alive with the joy of life. No matter how short a time this organic being walks this earth I will always be amazed at our constantly changing universe and our lovely home the earth. But, dear, one can experience joy in the fact that we EXIST.
2006-11-27 01:03:26 · answer #3 · answered by Troubled Troll 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I don't. And you;re not understanding is no proof of god's existence. It's not lifeless, but it's very non human-centered. I see lots of things wrong. Craters all over the place, coronal mass ejections, skin cancer just from being in the sun, volcanoes, earthquakes, avalanches, tsunamis, hurricanes. You know there are plenty of planets out there without so much activity. People keep thinking that this is the best of all possible worlds, you should read Candide some day.
The earth is slowly spinning into the sun, the rotation is slowing down, the moon is moving away, the magnetic poles are about to shift.
What's so perfect about it all?
2006-11-27 00:38:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Lifeless? Well, that would be because you don't understand it. At least you know that you don't understand it.
There's all sorts of possibilities my dear. But possibilities and likelihoods are two different things altogether. I hold that the likelihood of god's existence is so low as to be irrelevant. I also hold that in the unlikely event a god did exist, it wouldn't even matter whether we did believe or didn't.
It's too sad that you call yourself, "positive,"... the word should be, "arrogant," since you seem to think you have the patent on what's right and wrong.
2006-11-27 00:39:30 · answer #5 · answered by Snark 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think this Universe is 'well planned'?
As humans, we have a vestigial tail-bone and collar-bone. Cats have more developed eyes than us. Iguanas and geckos can regenerate limbs, while we'd die solely from the blood loss of a missing limb. Well planned?
Write a 100-page essay. Present it, and maybe you might have a point, depending on the essay. Until then, stop making ridiculous claims.
2006-11-27 00:42:01 · answer #6 · answered by Michael 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You obviously have not researched our universe or our culture as humans.....sounds to me like you are a drone. To believe that something is more in control of human kind is ignorance....The universe has better things to worry about or consider in regards to us. Life is energy....energy is everywhere humans through out our history have never learned to speak the same story exactly how it occurred. Humans are very stupid and easily fooled. I find your question quite the oxymoron....Your inability to understand is quite simple.....you are very naive you have never seen or been part of the darkest part of human kind. Sounds to me your the kinda of person that drives with there blinker on down the freeway with not a worry or care........your misguided faith is simply a scapegoat.......you want magic create it.....it is within you and only you have the key...
2006-11-27 00:48:57 · answer #7 · answered by wonderiswithin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Again, allow me to paste a previous answer I had, even though you probably will just sneer at it.
I look at bacteria and how it forms out of the elements that are in its environment. There are all types elements in space. Why couldn't the world have been created one cell at a time when something so small and insignificant as bacteria can create itself just as easily? Embyos of animals and people are created just the same way within a womb. And decomposition is the exact same thing, but completely opposite.
That is my belief and most people respect it because it does make sense to them, though they may not follow it. It doesn't make sense to me that God created the world with a word or two. It doesn't make sense to me that God can be so powerful that he created himself. My belief makes sense to me, and that's enough for me to live by.
2006-11-27 00:38:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm agnostic but I assure you that for most atheists the world is beautiful and exciting and filled with life! And there's nothing especially spiritual about the fact that the world is run by mathematical laws (and thus certain numbers and ratios repeat) though it is lovely!
2006-11-27 00:43:14 · answer #9 · answered by solaralley 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So, you'd rather believe that the Bearded Sky Daddy made everything? I just don't understand why so many people are so willing to abandon any attempt at understanding the world around them.
2006-11-27 00:44:33 · answer #10 · answered by Cosmic I 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋