why don't people believe in god just look how everything is in order?

Question

look how the human body operates and look at the distance of this planet from the sun and all, and just look how everything works in this universe dose anybody agree?

Answer 1

Because "God" is defined by ones religion, and while all religions that I am aware of believe in a higher being, there is still a huge variety and no one religion seems to have any more proof that they are "right" than the others.

Answer 2

First: Which god?

Second: So what?

The human body evolved the way it has; that's why we have vestigial organs, like the appendix, which does nothing except kill us. Nice design there.

You're basically arguing the anthropic principle:

Does the Anthropic Principle indicate a Creator?

The term “Anthropic Principle” was coined by a theoretical physicist named Brandon Carter in 1973.

It basically claims that the conditions of the Universe as it was unfolding from the Big Bang were so “finely tuned” that if anything was just a slight bit different along the way then our universe would have turned out in such a way that we wouldn’t be here.

Some with a theistic bent use this sort of thinking to claim that the universe unvailing the way it did was so improbable that a Creator must surely be at the controls.

The problem with this sort of thinking (in the context of probabilities of conditions) is that it assumes that we we are *supposed* to be here.

Why is this wrong?

Because in universes where semi-intelligent people (not talking about truck drivers) don’t arise, there is no one there to speculate on their good fortune. It could be that a tremendous amount of universes have arisen and ours happened to be, by chance one where intelligent life could arise.

Here is an analogy: Suppose someone was dazzling you with the odds against your parents conceiving a child with your exact genetic makeup? Because of the number of possible arrangements of genes, the odds are staggering, probably trillions to one against you existing, yet here you are reading this article today.

Does this mean that you were destined to be here? No. If the car hadn’t run out of gas that night or if the liquor cabinet had been empty or if a number of variables had been a little different, then someone else might have been conceived to speculate on their good fortune.

Back to the Creator argument: In order to calculate probabilities, you have to know how many samples you have in a set. The theist asserting that AP supports a creator would likely assert a very low number for the number of universes and most likely they would assert just 1, but we have no idea of how many universes there are or have ever been, so we can’t say. The number is somewhere between 1 and infinity. If you don’t know how many universes there are and if universes unfold in at least somewhat random ways, you can’t calculate the probability of a given universe unfolding a certain way.

Answer 3

Why does it have to be God? Seriously. Why can I just say I don't know?

Personally I would rather look for practical, testable, scientific explainations than posit a deity as the explaination.

You have to realize that the only reason you are asking this question is because everyone generations over has been spoon fed (brain-washed) into believing in God without actually questioning it.

Religion (God) is a tool devised by man for man to control people. If you look at all of silly rules in many religions (and the fact that there are many religions) it is obvious that the religion is not some higher powers communication with us.

I promise you, there is no heaven and no hell...make the most of your life, your family and your friends. Treat each other the way you would like to be treated. If you need to posit God to answer some of the unknown pieces of our existance - than so be it, but it is not necessary.

Answer 4

Because the would rather not be accountable for what they do in this life. They wish to go about doing whatever they please not fearing that God will judge them someday.(this is my opinion)

They believe in Evolution:
Here is one of the most acclaimed arguments for evolution~

1) The human body evolved the way it has; that's why we have vestigial organs, like the appendix, which does nothing except kill us. Nice design there.

We know that the appendix serves as a type of lymphatic tissue in the first few months of life to fight disease. It is no more a useless feature than one of your lungs is useless just because you can survive with only one lung.

The acceptance of the idea that some parts of the human body are useless leftovers has had very tragic consequences. Based on the misguided concept that the human colon was a vestige of the past, Sir William Land and dozens of other surgeons stripped the colons from thousands of patients in order to "cure" a variety of symptoms. Many died. As late as the 1960's many people had their tonsils removed. This practice was again fueled by the mistaken belief that the tonsils were a useless leftover feature from our past. It is now known that they serve as an important disease fighting function and should not be removed.

There are true vestigial features as the blind eyes of cave salamanders. Blind salamanders have non-functional eyes because they live their entire lives in total darkness. At sometime in the past, normal salamanders found a niche in dark caves and apparently only those who mutated to blindness had a need to stay in the total darkness where they could compete for existence without blindness being a disadvantage. However, these salamanders are still salamanders, a mutation to blindness is hardly an upward improvement in complexity, and no new information has been added to the DNA of the salamander.

As to the question of the human tailbone, anatomists tell us that the tailbone serves a very important function in the human physiology. The coccyx (tailbone) is the point of insertion of several muscles and ligaments including the one which allows man to walk completely upright. Without a tailbone, people could not walk in a completely upright manner, dance a ballet, perform gymnastics, or stroll down the street with their arm around their spouse. Hardly a useless, leftover, vestigial feature! The human body is designed for maximum versatility. It is far more versatile than the body of any other creature. What other animal can perform the range of movement required for activities as diverse as ice-skating, pearl diving, skiing, and gymnastics. This range of movement would be impossible without the tailbone.

In summary, evolution predicts that there should be leftover features as one organism turns into another. Creation predicts that although some life forms have degenerated and lost use of an original function, every part of an organism was designed to serve some useful primary or backup purpose. As we learn more about the biology of living organisms, including ourselves, it is readily apparent which theory fits the data.

Yeah nice design there huh?

Answer 5

Not everything is in order, and other planets are the same distance from a star as ours, the body isn't perfect, need I say more?

Answer 6

Jumping to conclusions is not proof of God's existence. Order does not logically lead the existence of God. It is a philosophical point, not a scientific or logical point. That's why that argument is not convincing of the existence of God.

I believe in God.

Answer 7

And all of these can be explained by natural processes discovered by human beings through the scientific investigation of empirical data.

Science does not need supernatural assistance and has no interest in religious matters of faith.

Answer 8

If you come upon a huge pile of bricks with one or two pebbles on top, will you conclude the pebbles are "proof of God"?

Bricks are very simple structures. Each river-worn pebble would require advanced calculus to accurately describe its shape.

If you believe in god, how do you explain cancer?

Answer 9

Of course not but then I've studied anatomy, genetics and other sciences.

Order?

We look as if we were designed by a moron or evolution.

Which would you rather believe in? Luckily only one requires faith. The other asks you to look at the facts. Somehow I doubt you have the intellectual honesty to do so.

Answer 10

Yes, it is that simple, but people cannot see when they don't want to see.
If the acceptance of the One True God was simple and easy, we would not have an ever-advancing civilization. God bestows on human beings the rational sense, in order that believers and no-believers pose all sorts of questions and try our best to solve them, that bring all of us to a level higher than all other creatures. So, we must be patient and tolerant with each other for a collective new step to the global civilization.