It's true. Every civilization ever uncovered there has been some form of a center of worship. So does this get your gears turning to actually think that there actually may be a God out there...even those who believe in A-biogenesis had to admit there had to be a creator to create the first cell or whatever it was in order for it to happen...
2006-12-12 04:54:25 · 10 answers · asked by WINGS 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All that says is that humans have a driving desire to make some kind of sense of the universe around them.
If they cannot explain how something happens, they will invent spirits, goblins, fairies, trolls and gods as explanations.
If every civilization ever unearthed all had evidence of having worshipped the same god or gods, then I'd more inclined to look at any single religion with a favourable eye. But instead, we get a huge variety of pantheons and beliefs, from eye-plucking warrior kings astride eight-legged steeds to lightning hurling, randy mountain dwellers who will mate with anything that moves, to six-headed, eight-armed peacock riding lords, let alone jaguar gods, crab gods, snake gods, fertility goddesses, jackal-headed underworld guardians, animistic bamboo spirits and however many other 'gods'.
As our knowledge of science and the scientific method increases, we find more and more rational, evidentiary reasons as to why things happen, and are able to use those explanations to expand on why other things happen.
While I think it's entirely possible that there is some 'god' or supernatural force behind the universe, the chances that he'll bear any resemblance to anything out of a storybook written thousands of years ago is virtually zero.
2006-12-12 05:06:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
>> Every civilization ever uncovered there has been some form of a center of worship.
Yes, because they didn't have the scieintific tools that we do. They thought that god "pulled the sun and the moon across the sky" and "god created rain, thunder and lightning." Notice how we don't have any religions like that anymore - the observation that we don't, means that we know all those people who believed it with all their hearts, were absolutely, and utterly wrong. Does that make *you* stop and think?
>> even those who believe in A-biogenesis had to admit there had to be a creator to create the first cell or whatever it was in order for it to happen...
I hate to tell you, but scientists created organic compounds from gases back in 1953. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment ) No god required!
2006-12-12 04:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I just seen a video answering to the first part of your question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxV56mEdxrQ&eurl=
It is around halfway through...too long for me to type out.
For the second part. There didn't have to be a creator for the first cell..and even if there was you don't escape the problem because then you have to decide who created whoever it was that created the first cell ad infintum...
Infinte regress will happen no matter how you look at things. I contend that matter and/or energy has always existed and things change over time...no gods required.
2006-12-12 04:59:53 · answer #3 · answered by AiW 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This only goes to show how strong the basic human need to have a meaning in life is. God would have started in these civilizations as a means of explaining the unknown natural phenomena. Like Hindu mythology, or Norse Mythology, or Greek mythology.
2006-12-12 05:13:10 · answer #4 · answered by Bhagwad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before, during and after the dawn of civilisation i.e several thousand years ago people were primitive and invented explanations for things they could not understand. Some of these primitive ideas have died out, some have (unfortunately) managed to propagate to the 21st century. The fact that they are all different and reflect the needs of the culture they are part of shows they are an invention of humanity.
2016-05-22 23:59:07 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, abiogenesis in fact specifically states that there was no deity involved, that it is possible to have a cell without intelligent involvement.
Gods are convienant ways to explain the unexplainable and maintain a powerbase. That's why they are found in all civilizations -- they're useful by the people who have unanswerable questions and by the people who wish to rule.
There are no gods.
2006-12-12 05:03:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It tells me that people want answers to what they don't understand. If they can't find those answers, they will make them up.
In addition, the creator could not have created the first cell as the creator him/herself would be comprised of the first cells and could not have created him/herself.
2006-12-12 05:05:57 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. That is interesting but doesn't prove anything. Lots of them have dragon stories too, but we don't believe in dragons.
In short, just because a lot of people believe something doesn't make it so (good example, the earth is flat). Try again!
2006-12-12 05:00:52 · answer #8 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sure, the idea of a deity or deities is one of the greatest human creations, we are the first form of life who can invent nonexistent beings to satisfy our need for an ordered world. or maybe dolphins can imagine gods too?
2006-12-12 05:03:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People always make up gods to eplain things they don't understand.
2006-12-12 05:00:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋