If God designed/created human beings, why did he have to make it so complicated?
And what's with all the useless vestigial organs and whatnot.....are they just there for fun?
And what about all the types of animals? Why would He create so many of them?
What is the purpose of like, squirrels or bears or squids?
And don't say because they all need eachother for the food chain or whatever, because there doesn't need to be SO MANY types of animals for that.
I only need ONE type of squirrel, not 32.
2007-03-12 11:29:17 · 26 answers · asked by midnitesky00 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm Agnostic.
I'm just wondering how anyone can believe "God" is responsible for..everything.
2007-03-12 11:33:35 · update #1
Maybe god messed up on the first 31 types of squirrels. But hey, number 32 squirrel is one h*ll of a squirrel!
2007-03-12 11:32:47 · answer #1 · answered by the guru 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why not ask Him? oh yeah... you ruled him out as a possibility!
Diversification keeps things exciting. Why have one if you can have many? Why not? The reason there are so many types of squirrels or foxes or salmon is adaptation.
I note you do not complain about the thousands of varieties of dogs man has bred from the wolf! Or the problem of choosing one tube of toothpaste from 549 varieties on the store shelf! I would rather have 3 toothpastes and 320 breeds of squirrel.
Why should you even care there are so many different everythings? Is it any sweat off your back? You sound as if you begrudge sharing oxygen with the animals of our planet. Greedy humans we are. Maybe I am assuming but you sound more sad than truly curious.
Life is wonderful in its many forms. Just enjoy it, celebrate diversity.
Instead of asking such questions and finding no answers why not go and sit quietly in a forest or by a lake and listen to what goes on around you. If you sit by a pond or a puddle, within moments you will see it is teeming with life. Instead of wondering WHY, just enjoy what IS and be grateful to live in such a world. That is how to be close to God. Just being one with nature and looking within.
Just be. Listen to the sounds and marvel at the divine interconnectedness of it all! You sound like you are another young person who has never stopped to appreciate the skill and beauty of a spider weaving her web. You have never watched a pair of robins build a nest. That drive, that life, the energy that runs through it all is the source of life, what I call God.
By the way, squirrels are pests yes. But how dull if they were all the same.
How dull if all people were the same! Or do you approve of the many races? Or, is only one race worth noting?
I think you need to get out more and embrace the enormous diversity of our planet before it is taken from us. You might be glad you did!
2007-03-12 12:05:05 · answer #2 · answered by Noor al Haqiqa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, what he did was make an environment for life to create itself some day. After millions of years, it finally happend. What happend? A Single Cell Animal. A tiny, microscopic germ. This germ grew larger and more complex as the world spun and spun for millions more years. Until finally every part of the globe was ripe with simple gooey creatures. In some places, the goo never left the water. In other places, the floods trapped other goo in lakes, like when you let the water out of the tub, there are lots and lots of little pockets of water "lakes" on your tub. Well, some of these lakes dry up and if they do dry up slowly enough, the goo in the lakes inbreed and inbreed and inbreed. Sooner or later a mutation will happen and the goo might delevop a wierd flap which will become a tail in another ten million years. Ok, so, now the goo with the flap happens to move a lot better than the goo that just sit there and gets to reach more gunk in the lake, thus, it multiplies more often than the no flap goo. Soon, the no flap goo just can't keep up with the flappers and die out, and never make it to the history books. The flappers now own the lake and millions of years later and more inbreeding and many mutations later as well, one particular mutation allows for one little gooey creature to rest on the surface of the lake without drying up, but only for 5 minutes at a time. while some flappers that cannot rest at the top develop predtory insticts and feed off of dead flappers. Blah blah blah, some flappers travel further and further out of the lake over millions more years and become more and more complex creatures (Squirrels). While on the other side of the earth a lake never dried up and those goo turned into reptiles. Different forests, different squirrels, different predators, different squirrels, different weather, different squirrels.
2007-03-12 11:47:09 · answer #3 · answered by InnoScentz 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Howbout this....
Humans created god. Humans wrote about how god created everything. Humans who wrote these stories aren't yet smart enough to see the shortcomings of the "god" they created and use the best explanation they can. When these stories were written, people didnt understand why things existed, the God concept was a good of answer as any, and allowed them to explain things without having to fully understand them. It gave people with no answers the comfort knowing that they were part of a bigger and better thing. The problem with this is that at the time, they didnt know better, now we do. To believe that god created everything in this manner is basically throwing your intellect out the window for the sake of pride, arrogance and ignorance.
The reason for 32 squirrels is easy, adaptation.
2007-03-12 12:03:52 · answer #4 · answered by Synaptix 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God enjoys variety and so do we as humans. How would you like to have oatmeal 3 times a day for the rest of your life? Chances are (unless you are Wilford Brimely) you woud not be in favor of that.
How about if you only had the choice between 3 dishes, would that be enough? How about 5? Even if offered 20, Im guessing you would still say no because you want to be able to eat whatever you want and try new things as you go. God is pretty much the same way!
2007-03-12 11:51:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You want reality is man made delusion?
The reality is a God didn't create a thing. All life has evolved and is evolving! There is no big plan just the cycle of life.
Vestigial organs are from earlier in our evolution process. It's no big mystery so long as you don't go off into the twilight zone of religious insanity!
2007-03-12 11:48:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The answer is known to the designer but itdoesn't prove anything. As I just suggested you can ask endless rhetorical questions Why didn't God make men with two anuses so they could eat faster and crap more efficienty. This only suggests people think they could do a better job than God. That would be hard to prove as these are rhetorical analogies.
2007-03-12 11:35:03 · answer #7 · answered by Edward J 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God created human beings not to be complicated. We made ourselves complicated. We made this world complicated. Adam and Eve had it easy, they could do anything and everything and had no complications. that was until they ate of the one tree God commanded not to. out of all the million beautiful fruitful trees in the garden they had to eat from that one God said not to. and in doing so they complicated life for the rest of time. you see, God didnt want life to be like this, he never wanted things to be so complicated. but we made it that way, its our own fault.
and about the different animals...
Genesis 1:25 25
God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.
you see, God made them "according to their kinds". he made them so they would be able to change and adapt to what surrounded them.
why create so many? for as large as the world is, there are hardly any to fill the empty space.
2007-03-12 11:41:12 · answer #8 · answered by Kenneth H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Exactly - GOD didn't create anything! There is no God!
It all started with a chemical reaction billions of years ago. That is how EVERYTHING came to be. Along the line, evolution (which is ultimately reaction after reaction) continues to change things - things are always changing due to 'THE WAY IT IS'. Not because the way someone wants it to be.
That is up until the stage where scientists started tampering with DNA and genetics etc..........
2007-03-12 11:37:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Things that are Made by People (poems, paintings etc.) show more about Who made them, then the Things its'self.
GOD Created all of This.
Isn't most of it Beautiful?
What does that Tell you about what is inside of the Creator (GOD)?
And the Amount of Them. Different Kinds!
HE is a Mighty GOD, and HE just Likes to do Stuff like That!
We do too, Don't We?
Don't worry bout' OverPopulation, of AnyThing.
Plenty of Planets out there we can use!
Hope this Helps.
Ditto..............
2007-03-12 11:36:04 · answer #10 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋