Everyday I read about a scientist, researcher, or doctor discovering forms of life, species, galaxies, ect they've never known about. Also, all forms of life such as animals, insects, people, ect is created with exact precision and purpose, from our eyebrows and ears, to gravity, seasons, or just the migration of birds. There is no way all of this could have just came about by chance. There had to have been a designer of it all with wisdom, imagination, and power. A God. I can understand people who do not subscribe to a specific religion, but how can anyone deny there is not a creator of some sort? This is a serious question. If you believe in God tell me why, if you don't please tell me why, and how you explain everything around us. Thanks
2006-12-07
13:41:58
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I really would like to hear from someone who does NOT believe in God, who can offer reasons why they feel that way, other than stating the world has been around a long time and anything can happen with time. If that is the only reason for NOT believing in God, I just don't understand, and I'm very open minded, and want to hear both sides of the coin.
2006-12-07
14:00:02 ·
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Odindmar everything you've mentioned is something that came about from things that already existed. Car accidents, are caused from people in cars, a monkey on a laptop...a laptop was invented by man, from resources in the world. That does not explain how creation came about from NOTHING. Wouldn't there have to be a power greater than anything we can imagine?
2006-12-07
14:03:00 ·
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It's simple, I don't explain everything around us. I make an effort to try to understand all that I can but I do not have the answers, no one does. I couldn't just pretend I knew. How do you gather the gumption to presume a creator?
Edit: I am someone who "does NOT" believe in God. I do not deny the small possibility that a creator exists, sure it's possible. But that does not make sense to me. It seems more likely that people fear what they do not understand and want a God to make their fears go away. You make the claim that a creator must exist with all the wisdom and precision in the universe. But wisdom and precision are just concepts. We are merely animals gaining a usable understanding of our world. Just because we are unable to explain something does not require a god to exist.
I don't see things that necessitate a creator. When someone says a creator must exist I can't help but think that they want one too. I think their need for a creator is blocking the ability to really consider it. I believe that religions started as a way to control people. Voltaire said "The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool." And this idea makes sense to me. In the ocean the big fish eat the little fish you know, and I think all life on earth is about the same. Religion was invented for the clever men to take advantage of the masses.
I believe that the universe has always existed, and that maybe there is no reason. If it did have a beginning that wouldn't necessitate a creator either. I couldn't know, and it would be dishonest to pretend to. This is honestly what I think, maybe it's wrong. I would really like to argue it. So if something I said is false e-mail me. I would really like to discuss it. One of us is wrong.
2006-12-07 13:47:39
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answered by Anonymous
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If you hand a monkey a lap top, he will eventually pound out the works of Shakespear. The universe has been around for a long time. a VERY long time. it is possible that through a series of coincidences, that life came to be.
How many people that have been in car wreck describe it as an accident? A fluke of nature. An unforeseeable thing. From that point, you life is changed. Insurance rates go up. Mechanic bills and Doctor bills need to be paid. That was over the course of a few seconds. This few seconds of " Accident " will affect you for the rest of your life in one way or another.
Now let's take this logic over the course of a few trillion years. A few gasses get together. Get cooked by a sun. A few more get together..... you get the idea. The rational here is fairly sound.
Of course, it doesn't answer how it all started..... Best wishes.
2006-12-07 13:53:17
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answered by Odindmar 5
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There does not have to be a creator. We don't know if time is Finite or Infinite. If it is infinite then all things can happen by chance. % Possibility * INFINITE time = 100% chance for anything to happen. I would argue that a intelligence being would/could speed up and increase the possibility of something to occur. I am agnostic, I believe its possible that a god exists, but I have not been given the proper evidence that one exists.
2006-12-07 13:50:09
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answered by Magus 4
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to wrap our minds around or draw close what God did/does or instructions human beings to do, is a lot previous our purposes...... I even have theory bearing directly to the same issues you at the instant are.... sure God knew what Noah might do, and additionally what has and could happen all the way by using time.... There are issues you will evaluate while examining the Bible, time, place, human beings, what became into happening, and so on..... remembering thoughs issues helps to comprehend a brilliant number of the Biblical thoughts, whether, it additionally takes time and age, understanding. !!!!! as for the flood, properly, if became into not basically a little while element, while it got here time human beings have been given the possibility to pass into the Ark, yet they does not have confidence, so then Noah closed the door, and the possibility became into long gone.... and that i think of God gave the rainbow as a demonstration because of the fact he knew the soreness and suffering the human race went by using on the palms of the variety of loss of existence, it became into not an elementary loss of existence for anybody !! sure, the international has evil, yet i don't have confidence that's as wicked now as then... bear in mind back then, human beings, many human beings purely walked around killing, throwing babies into fires, taking on international places at a whim, and so on.... it does happen on the instant, yet not on the dimensions it did then..... and as for because of the fact the earthquakes, pestilence, plaques, and wars which will come, they a minimum of provide human beings the time and possibility to alter....... i don't declare that one and all I even have mentioned is the forged information or truths in accordance to God...... some issues are basically a secret to us human beings.... I purely come to a call each and daily to have *faith* and enable God do his stuff, his way, on his time......... pass in peace....... God bless
2016-10-17 23:21:30
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answered by ? 4
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Again with the stupid assumption that the big bang and evolution are based on chance. Maybe a bit more research would help you.
2006-12-07 13:46:46
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answered by Alucard 4
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We are creatures of light before we are creature of flesh.
All is analogy.
To understand our world, all that is in it, fills us with wonder.
The ingenuity of our minds are limited by our finiteness.
To say everyday: "I believe in all that is seen and unseen" is the most marvelous statement that man can make.
2006-12-07 13:49:58
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answered by Shinigami 7
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Everybody believes in God ,you would have to be a nitwit not to believe in a creator for all this creation
2006-12-07 13:46:00
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answered by Terry S 5
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