I believe in God, and I believe in a creator. I am not saying I believe in some story about God creating things that came from a book. I want you to remove God from religion for a moment and evaluate that God. Tell me how we got here. Tell me how we are sitting on a ball in the middle of space orbiting an even bigger ball of fire. Some people say believing in God is ridiculous. These people say this while sitting on a planet that is floating in the middle of nothing and yet they fail to see the irony. Believing in God is ridiculous but the fact that we are standing on a spinning ball is not?
2007-01-28 09:57:29 · 27 answers · asked by Immortal Cordova 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In response to an answer: The evidence does not tell us there is no one up there, if anything the evidence tells us that if there is something up there it may not be the being pushed by organized religion.
2007-01-28 10:06:56 · update #1
The fact that we are "standing on a spinning ball" is just that...fact. Proven fact. The existence of God is not. The "truly rational mind" does not invent a deity and use that deity to explain everything that is not understood.
2007-01-28 10:03:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sure, it is ridiculous. But the science regarding the big bang, the anthropic principal, and evolution can be observed, recorded, and have the scientific method applied to it. There is a mountain of observable evidence to lead us to the conclusions reached in those ideas.
No one knows how existence began. But believing in a creator God begs the question: Who created the creator? If the creator always existed as some claim how do we know this? If the evidence of a creator is so clear, why do only 33% of the world's population buy into the Judeo-Christian version of a creator? I'm not saying the majority is always right, but clear and conlcusive evidence of a Creator should sway a larger portion of the other 67% of Earth's populace.
In short, if you are really are interested in examining the evidence that suggests that God does not exist, you will not find it here and I suggsest you read some science based books.
Do the reading, compare it to what you were taught, draw your own conclusions and think for yourself!
2007-01-28 18:14:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Tell me how we got here. Tell me how we are sitting on a ball in the middle of space orbiting an even bigger ball of fire."
I don't know how we got here.
If I believed in God, I still wouldn't know how we got here.
You seem to think that "God" somehow answers questions like that. It does not. You're critiquing others' beliefs without paying any attention at all to the even larger problems with your own beliefs. "God" explains nothing. That's why we tell you that there's no evidence for the existence of gods. Why do you ignore that fact?
Atheism requires a certain amount of humility - the ability to recognize that we do not know all of the answers, as well as to recognize that really wonderful things can happen without being the product of some person (or "super-person-***-god"). I think that the fundamental problem with creationists is as much their arrogance as it is their ignorance.
That arrogance is multiplied by their eager dishonesty in these bizarre, obviously false accusations that it is the atheists who are arrogant.
2007-01-28 18:12:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
everything in the universe can be proven to have existed without gods interfearance right up to the big bang. this has two major implications that both link together
if god didnt individualy create every object in the universe, what is the need for a 'ultimate' intelligence? if all that is needed of god is to kick start the universe into existance wouldent it make so much more sence for a simple scientific event to do that rather than a god that, if you belive in him, you have to get into a huge argument on where he came from, how did he become so smart, so on.
it just dosent make sence to belive in him when the whole univers can be explained so much more simpily (even is creation) with sciance
2007-01-28 18:08:02 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) The fact that we are here does not need an explanation to be true. That's the nature of empirical evidence, which any claim about a god is lacking.
2) If I were to contemplate the possibility of a god removed from religion, what should I contemplate his/her/its nature to be. After all, the nature of all of the supposed gods I am aware of are defined by the religion positing them. Tell me more specifically what you believe and i will comment. Otherwise, you ask me to make up qualities to attribute to your "god".
2007-01-28 18:04:24 · answer #5 · answered by neil s 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. There are many claims for sky pixies of various sorts with various powers and the ability to contravene the laws of physics but absolutely no evidence that they exist. Gods are as real as Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the invisible pink unicorn that lives under the mulberry tree in my garden.
If you are interested in reading about your question, read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
2007-01-28 18:12:50 · answer #6 · answered by tentofield 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe all those answers above and none of them even understood the ridiculously easy and plain example.
It is incredible how such big minds can think so small. I agree with you that sitting on a little blue planet in the middle of one universe among tens of thousands of other universes seems to be more outlandish to believe that it just happened by chance than to have a belief that it was indeed created by a wonderfully intelligent Creator.
2007-01-28 18:21:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You don't seem to realize there is a difference between knowing something and believing something. A belief is what you feel, in order to know something, it has to be proven. You believe in god, you have faith even though you can't prove it. Others don't believe in god, they have faith that he doesn't exist, even though they can't disprove it. Everyone, even people of the same religion are still going to have different belief systems. It's the way we are made, and it's called free will.
2007-01-28 18:03:24 · answer #8 · answered by dancin thru life 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is why I'm an agnostic, not an atheist or a believer. I just cant be sure whether there is a higher power or not. I dont pretend to know how the universe came about, or how god came about if there is one, and even if I knew there was a god, I still wouldn't know how they made the universe, because it's REALLY big and complicated. Some things we cant answer.
2007-01-28 18:05:32 · answer #9 · answered by dave_eee 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We are not floating in the middle of nothing at all. As for standing on the spinning ball, ever heard of gravity?
I work on probabilities, and based on the evidence, there is a very low probability that god exists.
2007-01-28 18:03:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋