If there is no God how could we possibly have come to be?

Question

When you consider the incredible complexity of the human body, the world we live in, and all living creatures, how could the world and all its creatures / wonders have possibly have been created by chance? How can there be any other explanation but God? Where else could everything have possibly come from?

I am not struggling with my own beliefs but am suprised to read all the comments out there from atheists and the like. I am curious to learn what some of your thoughts are and am sure I will be following up with more questions on the topic.

I just can't my mind around the idea that we just happened - I don't see that as possible.

Thanks for the input.

For the science arguments I've received - We can't even fully understand our bodies or our universe yet you naively assume that humans possess the intellect to comprehend creation or God?
God has always been and will always be - that is something that we cannot use science to prove or disprove nor can we even start to understand.

Answer 1

evolution
the earth will disappear in 4.5 billion years
everything on earth will go back into gas
another planet will be born, and start from scratch

Answer 2

Cause you don't exist. I mean, in general you don't exist. Okay you do right now, but for the most part you don't exist. So I believe you exist but that is only temporary.
As for God, God is more complex than all the things you mentioned -- do you say he just came to be without being created? God just happened? You trying to sell me a funny story?
You think all the design and complexity attest to the existence of a God? Also the birth defects and genetic diseases, do they attest to the existence of a God as well? One that knows what he's doing?
If he knows what he's doing then he did the birth defects and genetic diseases on purpose. And why do rudimentary hind limbs appear briefly in the embryos of whales and dolphins? What was God thinking there?

You need some science classes.

Again I ask you, are you asking me to believe that God just happened? Just happened?? Do you deny that there is a really huge God that created the God you're talking about? Already you are starting down the horrid slide into atheism.

Answer 3

That's what I've been trying to say. This is how I portray it:
We have a Heavenly Father and Mother, and Jesus is our Elder Brother.
They may have been created by other spirtual beings, perhaps their Heavenly Father and Mother...I have been inquiring of this and hopely have even more answers soon.
Everyone progresses. That's why we came to Earth. God created us in what is called the pre-existence...which was our life in Heaven. Everyone was created spiritually and then physically. God wanted us to progress as He did, and as we progress so does He. God is over the Universe, and Jesus is over the Earth. I could very well be wrong, but one of the things I've been pondering lately is that perhaps God once lived as man, and Jesus was His child then.
God laid out His plan and told us about it and what all would happen. He also told us that a Savior would be sent to save us. Satan said that he would come and make sure that we all would return to God and that no one would stray. He would take away our free will and cause us to have no choice but to follow God, and he would want the glory for it. However, Jesus said that He would come and save us and lead us to God, as many as would obey and that glory would be unto God the Father. Jesus pleased Him and was perfectly willing to go through with God's plan. He knew that the only way for us to progress would be to have free will and make the choice between good and evil. So God made the choice to send Jesus. That's why Satan rebelled and was cast out.

I had to include all that for those who wondered why we believe in God and whether or not we believe God just happened. Eternity is a very complex thing, just as everything else is. You are very right in saying that there's no way that any of this could be without a Creator. Everything is far too complex and unique to have just come about otherwise.
For those who believe in the Big Bang theory, I have a question for you: Where did all the gases come from in order for them to have cause the massive explosion and create the world?
I have taken science classes, and I've heard all of the argumentative theories. I've even heard astrologists say that we believe God created everything and are thus taking away from the beauty of it all, but I think that that adds to the beauty of it to know that someone created a beautiful universe and everything in it than to think that everything just happened because of an explosion. Plus, I also think that it's more logical. Houses don't just burst into existence all of a sudden. They have to be built. A person doesn't just all of a sudden have a new working organ in place of a failing one. Someone has to donate the organ, and then another has to perform the surgery. The same holds true for the universe. Nothing can just be here. It had to have been created.
Also, how could the Word of God be if it weren't true? It was comprised by so many people over vast periods of times...yet all of it links together. All of the old books which prophesied of the coming of Christ led to the books which told of His Coming. It happened just as it was foretold to. Also, if God doesn't exist, how else could all of the things foretold of in Revelation be coming to pass just as it said (the attacks on Israel, the wars, the famines, the diseases, hurricanes and earthquakes and other natural disasters, etc.)?
It seems to me that everything proves the existence of God. It doesn't deny it.

Answer 4

Whos to say there isnt a God? The problem with religion is religion. SOME people have there own interpetaion of what you should believe and they force that on you. Just try to be a good
person and hopefully it will rub off onto someone else. And
you begin a pattern. I personally think there is a force at work.
We are to complicated to not have something influincing that.

Answer 5

The Creator’s “invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that [opposers of truth] are inexcusable.” (Romans 1:20) Yes, “the heavens are declaring the glory of God,” and “the earth is full of [his] productions.” (Psalm 19:1; 104:24)

But what if a person is unwilling to consider the evidence? The psalmist David said: “The wicked one according to his superciliousness [“arrogant as he is,” The New English Bible] makes no search; all his ideas are: ‘There is no God.’” (Psalm 10:4; 14:1)

Answer 6

And that is the purpose of science-to shed some light and come up with the answers. Perhaps it might even prove the existence of God which is something religion doesn't even try to do.

Answer 7

You have the argument backwards. We are far too complex to have been the result of intelligent design. You're not thinking carefully about this. Just look around you.

And no-one says it was "created by chance". Don't believe the creationist propagandists.

Answer 8

We're not as complex as you think we are.

I'd think it's quite reasonable to say that it took over 4,000,000,000 years to create a human of the modern day.

You marvel at our complexity, I marvel at our simplicity

"I believe in god, only I spell it nature" ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Answer 9

If the universe is so complex that a god is necessary in creating it, then that god must be more complex than the universe. Who created God?

Answer 10

There are actually scientists trying to prove Darwin's theory of evolution wrong! They believe in the "intelligent designer", and they work with protiens and DNA to find anything wrong with the theory of evolution. It really interesting!