If God is all-powerful, then he could create everything instantaneously. There's no need for him to make life evolve, because he could create everything already fully evolved from the start! So isn't it ridiculous to say that God needed billions of years to make the world?
Really, God wouldn't even need more than a day to make everything in the world!
And God isn't wasteful or lazy, so he wouldn't take any more time than he needs. This is why only atheists can support evolution.
2007-03-08 12:24:53 · 29 answers · asked by God, Not Gravity! 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Tribble Macher yes, I agree God made the world in seven days. But it's impossible for him to have made it over the course of billions of years, because why would he need to take that long! Seven days makes much more sense, just think about it.
2007-03-08 12:29:41 · update #1
God wouldn't need billions of years of work to create humans using evolution. He would only need one moment to set the laws of physics. After that he could set back and watch the universe and humanity evolve.
If you believe that God took seven days of labor to create the universe and humanity, then you DO believe that he would take more time than needed.
2007-03-08 12:37:04 · answer #1 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well let's see... Let's say that I'm God... I'm omnipotent, omniscient, and immortal. I'm going to live from Alpha to Omega. Why you might say I have all the time in the universe.
I want to create something, because I'm bored with nothing to do. So I think about it a while. Huummmm!!! If I create a single world with all the animals and plants and humans in place, I'm probably going to get bored again... and in a big hurry. What fun is it to watch one world that's already static.
Then another idea strikes Me... Why not create an infinite number of worlds? And why not start with very basic lifeforms such as slime molds and bacteria.. and let time take its course. WOW!! Now I have uncountless eons to visit and revisit My creations and watch as each one changes and progresses, each one different from the other. Why now I can probably keep myself from becoming bored for billions of years.
And that's what happened!! And I am not an athiest. But I don't believe in God. The word belief implies that some sort of faith is required accept that God lives. I have had several incidents happen in my life that has allowed me to have certain knowledge that God exists. I don't need useless religious faith and dogma to know this. I have solid, irrefutable proof that there is a God.. and that when we finally die, He is waiting for us, regardless of our acceptance or rejection of Him. God loves us all... not just Christians or Jews, or Muslims, or Buddahists, etc. EVEN athiests. So you keep your narrow minded concept of God. One day you too will know the truth.
2007-03-08 20:50:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God takes as long time as he needs. Whatever human storytellers say is just made up. From a pantheist view, God did take 14 billion years, or however long, because that's how long it take for him/universe to mature and reach a point of being able to nurture life. God does not work on human scales. Something that can create souls and incredibly complex organisms can also work very so slowly as to be ouside of our timeframe. One hour to him could be 100 years to us. Maybe he pauses time once in a while to observe or tweak. Human time is arbitrary. As an example of tricks time can play: Glass is a liquid, but it flows so slowly we cannot perceive it. But old very glass is slightly thicker at the bottom. God works the same way.
2007-03-08 20:48:35 · answer #3 · answered by d c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God can do it in one minute or one years or 1 billion years times is meaningless to someone who is inmortal and are not under the pressure of time. of course for people like us that only live 70 years we get desperate very quickly, that´s why we think everything need to be done hurry.
And by the way the bible doesn´t said that he creates everything in a 24 hour days, the word day in the bible have different length sometime one year, thousand years, or indefinite time could be million he is everlasting.
2007-03-08 20:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You, my friend, are a CLASS A IDIOT.
You said
"If God is all-powerful, then he could create everything instantaneously"
You said
"Really, God wouldn't even need more than a day to make everything in the world!"
Why did he take seven days then?!?!?!?
You said
"And God isn't wasteful or lazy, so he wouldn't take any more time than he needs"
Then, once more, for the laugh......
Why did he take seven days!!!!!
You have just defeated your own argument!!!
Then WHY WHY WHY did he "take SEVEN days"?!
2007-03-08 20:36:23 · answer #5 · answered by irishcharmer84 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
>So isn't it ridiculous to say that God needed billions of years to >make the world?
Yes it is ridiculous. Or at least it would be ridiculous if god had created the world. But god being an imaginary and fictitious entity he hasn't created the world.
2007-03-08 20:34:16 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen Dedalus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF god is all powerful he could of just raised Noah and all the animals above the water but instead he asked Noah to build a huge ark. IF he was all powerful he could of found a way for Jesus to spread his word without having him die. IF he was all powerful he wouldn't of killed all of Egypt's first born.
I suppose you're going to tell me that god works in mysterious ways or that he is god and he does whatever he wants. If that is so then perhaps he wanted to take billions of years to create life. But of course the key word in your question is IF.
2007-03-08 21:57:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An excellent argument against the Creation theory. Why would he take 6 days (even if they were symbolic days) to create the universe? If he exists outside of time, wouldn't he create it all instantaneously?
Just one of the contradiction berries in the religion pie...
2007-03-08 21:20:22 · answer #8 · answered by God Fears Me 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no im not an athiest but i believe in evolution. i dont think god created everything or for that matter even directly intended to create us. i believe god set a few events in motion then the rest did itself. i dont think god is all powerful either.
incidently if you dont believe both evolution and god can co exist then god has already been disproved because evolution is a known fact
2007-03-08 20:32:41 · answer #9 · answered by fiddich59 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
did you know that, in the original translation of the bible, the word for day is used over 400 some times? each and every time, it means 1, 24 hour day, why should genesis 1 be the exception? but nonliving matter deciding to live makes much more sense now doesnt it
2007-03-08 20:54:05 · answer #10 · answered by supratuner9 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋