Doesn't it take more faith to NOT believe in God than to BELIEVE in God?

Question

I personally think that to not believe in God you need way more faith than to actually believe in God. I mean, look around. Everything on this earth and even outside of this earth is so precisely designed that there HAS to be a Creator.

Michael, how can I not understand what I am looking at if the earth was 1 cm away from the sun we would freeze to death and if the earth was 1 cm closer to the sun we would fry?

Parrot, that is the result of evil in this world. Actually, I take that back. I don't believe in evil. Evil is merely the absence of God. So famine, death, etc. are because of Satan and humans.

Paul H, how do you explain the creation of this universe? This universe cannot be created out of nothing, if you truly do believe in science. The laws of physics prove that something cannot come out nothing. Please clear this up for me.

Morganaelf, I believe that if you TRULY have faith in God you can never lose it no matter what happens to you.

Michael, your statement has no scientific validity whatsoever. The Big Bang Theory is false because something cannot come out of nothing, as I said earlier. And the probability of life on Earth being a chance is 1 out of millions and trillions.

Answer 1

You are right.....so many things point to evidence of a creator. Such as how many ribs we have, men have one less rib than women do because God used one of Adam's ribs to make Eve. Although the disbelief in God I would not call it faith but rather denial or fear. People who do not believe in God are simply afraid that there is something else out there that holds all power in the palm of his hand. It is fear itself that drives people away from God even though it is obvious that God exists. Even the Romans said that when Jesus died the ground shook and that the sky rained down on the world. If a people who were so opposed to Christianity saw and heard the sadness of God, then God must be real.

Answer 2

No. For someone to believe there is some kind of supernatural "ghost" that created the unverse makes LESS sense than a series of NATURAL events resulted in the universe being created. There is a "creator" - its called "NATURE". As to the precision of everything in existence you need to study a little bit more biology - there are numerous cases of animals having body parts that do NOT make sense to have. Even nature is imperfect, but is probably the closest thing to it, short of pure mathematics, which really only exists in the abstract world. For me, the natural universe IS "God" - none of us could create the universe, so whether or not you believe in a supernatural "God" or not, the universe is still a miracle.

Answer 3

If you think everything is precisely designed, it's because you don't understand what you're looking at and you're incredibly naive. The fact that our planet has the temperate climate it does proves only that it is habitable for life. It makes sense then that life evolved on this planet. Of the millions of planets out there, having life on a temperate planet is not proof of a creator... it's probability. If life existed on an extremely hot or cold planet, where we lived in magical bubbles of temperate climate that science couldn't explain, then maybe you'd have a point.

The Universe was put into it's current state by the Big Bang, which came from a singularity of space and time. Mathematically, this does not require a creator, but this idea is so complex that you really need to spend a long amount of time studying it to understand it. This does not mean that everything came from nothing. Please, do not attempt to understand or refute this idea through me, as I am no expert. Please, please, please truthfully educate yourself on this subject. Search for at least three scientific sources (written by credible scientists in refereed journals) that offer an unbiased look. However, I'd like to point out three things. For one, just because science might not have the answer does not mean that your religious answer is true. For two, you are obviously uneducated in the sciences, and the theories we are discussing are so complex and require understanding from so many different fields that it is impossible for me to explain them in just a few sentences. Creationism may be explained in a few sentences, but science actually goes into detail and attempts to explain everything through observation and experimentation, instead of relying on a story. However, it is clear from your questions, and responses, that you do not understand the science that is involved (a lot of it has to do with space and time going to infinity, which is the opposite of 'nothing), and do not care to know. For three, no one was around the billions of years ago this occurred, so claiming to know the whole perfect truth (like Christians do) is ridiculous. Science only claims the facts it can prove with the scientific method, which requires evidence and proof (observation and experimentation).

However, to answer your initial question, faith is believing in something without evidence, proof, or reasoning. Therefore, it obviously takes more faith to believe in anything than it does not to believe in anything.

In retrospect, my point is proven by your last additional remark. That calculation for probability lacks so much precision that it is obvious that you do not know the actual number you are parroting. Therefore, you probably don't even know how that number was calculated. Anyways, just so you do know, it was done about 60 years ago, by a Christian scientist who didn't even know about DNA. It's amazing what we've learned in 60 years. Now we know that the numbers he used were way off for reasons he didn't understand, and that it's actually highly probable life started, given the conditions on this planet. We've even replicated it in a laboratory.

You're still avoiding the fact that even if science has an imperfect answer, it doesn't make religion true. Science arrives at knowledge through the scientific method, requiring observation and experimentation. All our scientific knowledge is verifiable, as opposed to the religious beliefs that can't even be justified.

Answer 4

My relatives are born again Holly Rollers. Wow, I think they are from outer space. My sister says she is a translator and can understand people speaking in tongues. They all believe that everyone else but them and their Christian buddies are going to hell. Most other religious groups believe the same thin - that they are they chosen ones to go to heaven.

I've never done anyone any harm and have done some Good so if by chance there is a heaven I may go. If not, hey, I love to play tennis in the heat.

Answer 5

Diseases? Famine? Extinct and endangered species? Natural disasters? You call this perfection?

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See, this is where you and I differ. I think it takes a lot more faith to believe that natural disasters are the work of some supernatural being like a Devil than it takes to believe that they're just normal and naturally occur on a planet that isn't being guided by any sort of "parental figure" like a God.

Answer 6

I agree that it seems that way, but it is hard for us of with faith in God to understand those who do not. My husband is an agnostic he used to be a very devout church of Christ member and then he lost faith. Lost faith in God, in people, in just about everything. When what he felt in his heart said one thing and what he was told completely contradicted that. So I believe that they have no faith in anything.

Answer 7

It take's great faith to belive in either a Divine Rule or a Scientific Rule.
However, niether of them really force the person to belive in it.
I find I belive in my God and Goddess naturally, sure at times, I may doubt thier existance, but I know in my heart that it's my path.

Answer 8

I think it takes about the same amount. If you don't believe in God, you are putting a lot of faith into some science or philosophy.

Answer 9

I think so. Believing in God costs me nothing. It wasn't a leap of faith into nothing, it was baby steps into the light.

Answer 10

Beautiful question.
Both directions are difficult: To go towards God, you have to struggle against yourself; to go away from God, you have to struggle against all sorts of beings in darkness.