How can you honestly say there is not a WHY?

Question

When theirs a quetion about creation or how things came to be;non-believers will always explain HOW the science works and how all the materials interact.But if there was nothing to start with then there is a WHY to the question cuase it doesnt make sense to have HOW if you dont have a WHY.
Come on,we dont make chairs without purpose,we dont make tables without purpose.How do you honestly say the universe has no purpose when you know any&everything has a reason for being made?
How come ya'll cant explain where the materials to create the universe came from?

Faith has answer for this question;the answer is cuase there is a WHY.

Can you without violating your concience say there is not a WHY to the HOW?
It's one thing to not know the answer to WHY;but its another to say there's not one when you know whole heatedly everything has a reason WHY?
Again,Can you without violating your concience say there is not a WHY to the HOW?

Answer 1

Because..... there..... isn't.

I know, I know, it's very tempting to think about the use of a chair and then apply that logic to the vast expanses of the cosmos, to think to yourself "if this chair was designed then OBVIOUSLY each supernova and black hole and solar system had to've been created as well".

The existence of nonexistence of a why has nothing to do with the twinges that my conscience might feel. My FEELINGS have no bearing on objective reality and neither do yours.

Faith doesn't have answers. Faith provides more feelings. People certainly FEEL that their faith is truth, but no one else need operate under the same assumption of truth that you so cherish. That's not how "truth" works.

Answer 2

Why is alpha centauri?

Why did a dice roll to a 3 instead of 4?

Why does a particular river have nine tributaries instead of seven?

Things don't need a "why". That's part of the reason parents start getting frustrated with children who constantly ask "why"?

Things that simply "are" don't need a "why". Look at gravity.... with the explanation of "how", the "why" becomes irrelevant. Things fall BECAUSE gravity acts upon them, and this is both the "how" and the "why".

In your question though, you imply that a "why" involves a designer to have made it so, and this is the reason for your example of a chair.

Atheists do not deny a "why", but only answer that when you understand "how", the "why" is known and self evident.

It's becoming easier to explain the origins of the universe through science, without the necessity of attributing the "why" to a supernatural being. Science is able to witness particles springing into being spontaneously without violating any laws of physics. With the how explained, the why is not necessary.

We have round tires on automobiles. Round tires maintain an axle a specific distance above the ground because a circle has a constant radius. That's how a wheel can roll down a road and keep the car a constant distance above the ground. What use is "why"? Because someone made it that way? That's silly, as no other shape would suffice.

Why isn't always a necessary question. Why implies motivation and external control which ins't, in standard physics, part of the equation. Quantum physics changes things a bit, but not to the point of suggesting that a God made it all.

Answer 3

People that need faith also need an answer. The problem is that the same questions apply to the creator. If the a chair needs a chair maker, then the universe needs a creator (using your logic). Then the creator needs a creator, that creator needs a creator, so on and so forth, and it becomes a never ending, useless waste of time. The fact is that I don't know how everything got started. If I knew how, I could probably figure out why. Does that make me a believer in a god or creator? No. Those things make absolutely no logical sense. I'm just comfortable without knowing the very first moment in time. I'd love to know the answer, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

Answer 4

Absolutely, without any hestitation I can say that there is not a great WHY.

Most people look at things from the end-point and interpret backwards. While that approach makes sense in certain circumstances, it doesn't apply to everything.

Think of nature. It rained today because of interactions under certain atmospheric conditions. The rain was good for the plants, but that's not why it rained.

The universe and life as we know it can into being because of a long serious of interactions and conditions. There is no underlying why, it just IS.

We're still working on explanations as to where the 'materials' came from (it's probably more about energy than materials), but c'mon, that's pretty advanced astrochemistry. Give us a few more years before you harsh on us for not having figured that one out.

In the meantime, maybe consider that your answer isn't necessarily right. Or the only one. It's only fair to listen honestly and accurately to other viewpoints.

Answer 5

A baseball is on your living room floor. The window has a hole in it and glass is also on the floor. How did this happen? You look outside and see boys running away with bats and gloves. Now you know how it happened and why it happened. The boys were playing baseball and someone hit it into your living room. Now you want to find out who. You recognize one of the boys and to make a long story short, you catch the kid and his parents pay for your new window.
The reaction of a ball through your window was caused by the action of a batter hitting the ball. The batter was Billy. Billy learned that for every one of his actions there is a consequence. Break a neighbor's window and his allowance will be deducted for a year or until his Dad cools down.

So for every reaction, there is an action and for every action there is a who that causes the action in the first place. That's just fundamental common sense. So I definitely can decry the lack of intellectual honesty among atheists, but I can just as easily decry the same lack of intellectual honesty I find in religionists. All causative factors point to a God. There is no getting away from that. We either deny it, or we accept it but live in rebellion against it, or we accept it and fail miserably trying to live up to our interpretation of what God wants of us. But, where ever we are in this, we cannot deny that behind the reaction is an action, and behind the action is a who. If someone wants to argue a what instead of a who, just look at the universe, at the Swiss watch like precision you see there and your what becomes an intelligent who, with phenomenal creative ability.

Answer 6

Why science works: because that's how the universe is, and all we did was work out the doings of it. We think the universe was made just so for our benefit, but the reality is that we evolved to fit the way the universe is, just as a puddle gets its shape from the hole it's in, rather than the hole being dug the right way to suit the puddle.

Your argument is a version of the Anthropic principle (links below)

Answer 7

Yes I can. Lots of things can happen for no reason at all. Why not the big bang?

There is absolutely no way of knowing where the material to create the universe came from. One theory is that it has been expanding then contracting and then expanding again for an infinite time.

Answer 8

First of all, HOW did we get the WHY? You can go on like that forever. The bottom line is, nobody knows how you get something from nothing. At least atheists aren't afraid to admit they don't know this.

Second, the universe isn't like a table or chair as far as we know. You're anthropomorphising the creation of the universe.

Answer 9

So WHY does there HAVE to be a WHY? It is nonsensical. I cannot, in all honesty, see why there HAS to be a WHY.

You talk of making things. That, obviously, assumes a causation, like your god. Which, as you rightly say, is pure faith.

Where did god get his materials from? Just created them? But how? Something from nothing? You would say that is impossible, so explain it.

See? We are not that different. Except, I do not think the answers have been found yet, you believe they have.

Answer 10

I am really surprised how we use our brains. we are not using it solemnly to create a chair and find a way to sell it. we are using it also to ask ourselves things like: why did I create this chair and what is the meaning of reality and why is nobody paying me for asking stuff like that? seriously, the question is obsolete because the answer is always right in your face. there is no why, because the why never comes to an end. it is an illusion and the sooner you overcome your questioning for the why the sooner you will use your energy for something that benefits all living beings.