How can God not exist?

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1. How can we,the world, originate from nothing? It is impossible for nothing to create something. If it were possible, does that not classify as a supernatural phenomenon, anyway? How can the creation of the universe be explained without supernatural interference?

2. If the universe is eternal, why is it complying with the laws of thermodynamics? Thermodynamics shows us the sun is losing energy, earth's atmosphere is weakening, we die and the degenerative list goes on.

3.If evolution is true, then evolution is still active. It has no reason to suddenly stop. Humans have been on earth for thousands of years in our present form. Why haven't we evolved again?
How long does it take for a species to evolve into another?

4. We have limits as to how high we can jump and how fast we can run. Knowing that we have limits, why is it hard to imagine that our mind can't grasp God, who is limitless.

5.God is morality. If there is no God, how can really any true law exist

Answer 1

3. Ok First off We haven't stopped Evolving and EVOLUTION DOESNT JUST HAPPEN OVER THE COURSE OF A FEW THOUSAND YEARS!!!! think about it this way then ....Dark ages....to now.....one minute we don't know how to cure disease the next thousand years we can go into outer space...if that isn't evolution I don't know what is!

Answer 2

1. The earth originated from stellar matter. As for the universe, there are cosmological theories, the front runner being the big bang theory. Scientist have never claimed to know for certian, because it's pretty hard to collect evidence, but there are observations about the universe that was the basis for the theories currently being considered. The fact of the matter is that no one knows how the universe began, because no one was there. Some people can't accept that, so they make up stories to explain what they don't know, i.e. god.

2. Who ever said that the universe was eternal. I know that scientists have found evidence that it is expanding, but I don't remember anyone ever saying that the universe is eternal. It certainly is old, though, and the age of the universe has been estimated at around 12-14 billion years old. Again, we as humans cannot know for sure, but that is know reason to create stories to fill in the gaps. Why does it make people so uncomfortable to admit that they don't know?

3. Well, if you studied evolution at all, you would know that evolution can take millenia, and it is a slow, incramental process. We continue to evolve on a small scale every generation. There is about 150 years of data supporting the theory of evolution (and remember, when I use the term theory, I mean a scientific theory, which is a set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena). There are plenty of signs of evolution in our own bodies, such as vestigial organs. There are plenty of really good books on the subject, and I would encourage you to read more about it.

4. We know that if there were a being such as god, we know that we wouldn't be able to wrap our minds around it, because it would be so fundamentally different than us. It would be arrogant of us to assume that a being so far beyond us would interfere or even pay attention to our day to day affairs.

5. I assume that by true law, you mean absolute morality. There is no absolute morality, morality is dictated by society, and it evolves along with society. An example of this in the US is slavery. There was a time when slavery was perfectly fine. Slavery is even in the bible, and in fact the bible was used by early Americans to defend slavery. There are many other examples, but you should try reading more about ethics and morality, and their historical origins.

Answer 3

1. The world did not originate from "nothing." Lookup the term, "Nebula"

2. According to a majority of the physicists on the planet, the universe is not eternal. The current theory suggest that the universe is expanding rapidly, and may eventually contract. Theories also suggest that the universe (as we know it) had a definite 'start' point, and will eventually have an 'end' point.

3. Evolution typically takes millions of years, and its external environmental factors that forces these changes. The advancement of technology over the centuries has lessened the harsh environmental impacts on our species. For proof of evolution and/or mutation, look no further than the effects of radiation to human genes.

4. The physical limitations you listed are the effects of gravity. If you go to the moon, you will realize that we are able to jump much higher than we can on earth. Don't confuse physical science with faith.

5. I don't understand the statement. What, in your definition, is a "true law"?

Think about the following:

If God is omnipotent, then how is it possible that man has free will?

Answer 4

Hooray!!! Another pseudo scientific question from someone who doesn't understand what he's asking about!!!!

1. Sciense makes no claim to understanding everything. We didn't understand the sun in the year 200 B.C....that didn't make the sun a God. The Big Bang theory seems to explain a lot of what you're asking. You can always trace it back to the ultimate...well...how did THAT start. Because we don't know everything doesn't justify faith. Nothing can prove or disprove faith...It's a belief.

2. Who said the universe is eternal? I don't remember reading that in intro-physics. I thought only the religious believed in eternity.

3. Humans are in a constant state of evolution. All life is. You don't suddenly wake up and you're something else. The human pinky foot is atrophying. We've grown taller. The appendix no longer serves a purpose when once it did. Wisdom teeth not coming in. All of this is evolution.

We have seen evolution occur in many instances...like moths in London becoming black after the industrial revolution. Black moths survived better against the darker pollution in the new London. They evolved. In a very brief period of time.

4. This question has nothing to do with the existence or non-existence of God.

5. There have been many systems of morality before Christianity and since Christianity that had NOTHING to do with christianity. Secular humanism is a system of morality. Just not one based on God. What exactly do you refer to as "true" law? Have you read any post-Hegelian philosophy? There is no true law that can;t be challenged as a matter of perspective.

Answer 5

1. How can a non-natural phenomenon affect nature? A supernatural god can not influence nature. What force does he bring to bear to create or change anything? On the other hand, nature constantly creates and destroys matter and energy. While our universe may seem immense to us, it may be a mere vacuum fluctuation in the greater scheme of things.

2. It isn't eternal. It will eventually collapse or go cold. If god created it, why are things breaking down? Pretty poor design if you ask me.

3. Evolution can take hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, potentially. Furthermore, not all species evolve into something else - some just go extinct (e.g. trilobites) , others that have found a productive niche don't change much (e.g. sharks).

4. The same way our minds can grasp infinity. Besides, how do you know god is limitless. The bible constantly speaks of beginnings and ends, alphas and omegas, not infinities.

5. Law comes from what is best for the species, the tribe, and the individual. The non-religious laws of the first version of the ten commandments duplicate laws written down by Hammurabi which themselves merely encode what people had known for millennia before. Don't lie, cheat, or steal. It's not rocket science. As far as god, how can someone who has cruelly murdered untold millions of people in sadistic and horrible ways be called moral? For the Black Death alone god would burn in hell. If there was a god. If there was a hell.

Answer 6

1.Nothing? There were planets, matter and etc looong before there were any humans. The creation of the universe is again, from matter.
2. Yes the universe is enternal. Not the sun, not us, not the earth. The universe is.
3. It didn't stop and it depends. It can take 2 years for a species to evolve or 10,000 years. We are currently evolving. There is an appendix, vestigial organ, remember? You can study just the basics of the theory of Darwin, it explains what exactly evolution is.
4.No it is not hard to imagine. But it is imagination nonetheless. I am imagining a pink pig on the moon right now.
5.There are plenty moral people that don't believe in God. And there are plenty of immoral people that believe in God. The laws are first of all imposed by the government. And second of all, people that don't believe in God still have morals and conscience.

Answer 7

1. Your argument can be turned back on christianity as well. What existed before god? You can't answer that one.

2. What problem do you have with thermodynamics? Do you really know that thermodynamics is? It makes perfect sense that the sun is losing mass/energy. The sun is not eternal. How is that proof of creation?

3. Evolution did not suddenly stop. It works on a very slow scale. It is like a glacier. It is moving. It is moving so slow you cannot see it move, but it is moving. Besides, there are differences between humans of today and humans of 100 years ago that are not dependent on medical technology. We are on average taller for one thing.

4. How is knowing that I can only jump so high supposed to make me believe in god?

5. So, lets say that iron-clad proof come in tomorrow that god does not exist, would you go on a murderous rampage? Ask your average christian why they should not kill. The answer will generally be "it is breaking a commandment and you will go to hell." Ask an atheist why you should not kill and the answer will be more like "because it is wrong to kill". All atheists I have known have that same feeling. So who has more respect for human life?


Your arguments are weak. Very weak. You do not offer proof of anything. You just point at whatever random thing you can find and say "Hey, that is proof of god!"

Answer 8

1. Not even Big Bang / Inflation theory posits 'something from nothing'. Look up 'inflaton' as one possible explanation.

2. The visible universe is subject to entropy. However, the quantum fields upon which it is based are not. Degeneration is not a concern at the quantum level.

3. We are still changing. Growing numbers of humans no longer have wisdom teeth naturally, there is a muscle in the human leg that is required for quadrupedal movement that over a third of humanity does not have ... but still has the anchor points on the bone. The average size of the appendix decreases with each generation.

By the definition that a species is a sexually isolated group, a species can evolve just within a few generations of separation by mating behaviors changing in one portion of the group.

You must understand that man's classifications of 'species' are entirely arbitrary for the sake of documentation. You are literally a continuation of the whole chemical reaction that is life, not an independant portion of it. The descrete unit of 'you' was begun with chemistry that pre-existed in your mother and father. This lineage of chemistry can be traced all the way back to the beginning of life.

We aren't unique -- we're that 'sludge' that spawned the first life. We are not the pinnacle, we are just one branch of billions.

4. The very fact you describe him as limitless makes him entirely illogical. To be limitless is to include contradictions. Anything that of necessity includes logicalal contradictions is itself false.

5. Evolution provided the only two absolutes of morality, not a creator. Those two are empathy and altruism. Consciously and logically interpreted, these are the foundation of the golden rule. The fact these instincts, and morality, are found in other social mammals discounts the deific source hypothesis.

Answer 9

Yahoo won't let me submit the whole thing I want to enter about how the universe originated. So here is the very last segment.

Preceding the zero point, chance variations in the workspace led to one particular virtual particle dropping into a lower energy trough – the sudden excess of energy is released as an explosive uncoiling. One by one, dimensions inflate until the new universe is expanding outwards in four dimensions, with it’s outer surface swelling outwards into a fifth.

Within the new universe, the quantum vacuum energy in which the progenitor particle ended up in as set the benchmark for all the laws of physics for that universe. The barrier to quantum tunneling, coulomb energy, speed of light, all of these are now set.
The initially high internal energy prevents the strings intersecting the brane from entangling – but as the volume of the universe increases allowing it to cool, the strings have time to interact before latent energy pulls them apart.
First, sub-atomic particles form. Quarks of all kinds. Then electrons, positrons, protons and anti-protons. Many of the early particles annihilate one another as they encounter their opposite, returning to the energy from whence they came. But as the universe continues to inflate, more and more particles are instead encountering matter that is not their mirror image. The first atom forms – hydrogen.
And this is the way it will remain for a very long time. Just hydrogen.

In time, quantum effects will draw the hydrogen into a web of filaments. Localized pockets will appear – there will be enough mass to bring gravity into play – gas clouds will coalesce, stars will form.
And thusly, the universe we know shapes itself.

Answer 10

1. I think the world was created by something superior, but i'm not sure if it was God or what.... They say it happened thanx to the big Bang, but how did the Big Bang happen? Huh? God or something superior must have done that....
2.I think the world is full of mutation.... So not everything is eternal.... God is though... He makes the universe change....
3.I think our species will evolve... And if you think about it we are evolving.... We've achieved so many things.... 20 years ago Yahoo didn't exist, and it was difficult to communicate from one place of the world to another.....
4.We have limits, the sky has no limits...... God is like the sky..... Can you reach the sky? You can try, but you cant get there, you cant reach the end of the sky.... Just like you cant reach God in person, even if you can try really hard.....
5.You're right... We exist....But why? Big Bang? Yeah, but how did that happen... God did that........

bye,

*Bella

Answer 11

Wow! I am surprised that there are still Christians in this world! I agree with you. God is morality...where did we get our ideas about morals...from the Bible. Our constitution is based on the moral code from the Bible. How would we know it is wrong to murder someone if we had never read the Bible? People forget that.

As far as evolution goes; in my opinion, the "proof" of evolution does not PROVE that God does not exist. Even if people could convince me beyond a doubt that evolution is real; it doesn't mean that I would not believe in God. Who says that God didn't make us that way? There is NO ONE who can prove that whatever is fact in this world was not God's doing.

Even if the Big Bang Theory was true, where did the matter or molecules come from to make them? There had to be a Creator...how else could we possibly exist?

Good Question!!!!!!