How is God a reasonable theory?

Question

Reading the Bible presents impossible things.

We re told that God takes a rib from Adam (what, 3oz or so?), then creates a fully grown woman named Eve (maybe 120? 140? lbs)

You cannot get something from nothing. It reads like a fairy tale. The common explanation is, well, God can do anything.

This seems no different to me than saying Zeus or any other mythological God can throw lightning bolts, & do anything as well.

How is it even "common" sense, when it just isn't logical because of the impossibilities?

How does impossible become "logically true", or "the only explanation that makes sense".

I don't get it! It does NOT make sense to me to say you can take 1 small rib & make something thousands of times its weight out of it.

Next, they will try to prove that because we do actually have a sun shining over our heads, Ra the Egyptian sun God actually exists? Hey, PART of that story is true, cause you can "see" the "evidence" can't you?

Please tell me how all this mess is "logical"

Ms. Q&A, sperm to baby?

That is NOT something from nothing.
It is something from something.

Stop feeding your baby & see!!!
The energy for it comes from food! That's something.

Answer 1

It isn't.

"To see by faith, one must close the eye of reason." Ben Franklin

Answer 2

Ex nihilo....nihilum
Out of nothing, nothing comes.
That is exactly why God is a reasonable theory. How did infinite mass and energy arise out of absolutely nothing at the moment of the Big Bang? How is it that multiple dimensions are curled around in hyperspace, vibrating like a stringed symphony? How is it that your body is mostly space and yet it feels like solid matter? What is a tesseract? Why is it that time slows down as it approaches the speed of light? Why does quantum theory break down at the sub atomic level? All of these questions lead to fantastical explanations.

Watson and Crick (DNA fame) found that human life was statistically so unlikely that they put forth the theory of "panspermia" that life on Earth was created by..."aliens"...How exactly is that a reasonable theory? And yet it is in my kid's biology textbook. Well, where did the aliens come from? I guess other aliens....and aliens all the way down.

The bottom line is this: there is more than meets the eye, and we would be fools to limit the universe. The idea that human beings are the greatest intelligence in an infinite universe is the most unreasonable theory I have ever heard, and yet it is the dominant belief of secularists.

Answer 3

how is God plausible?
1. scientists (and every other rational person) believes time started, and for time to start, something or someone outside of time had to initiate it
2. the big bang had nothing to trigger it, as by science, nothing comes from nothing, and nothing starts without an initial cause
3. then there's scientific accuracies and prophesies within the Bible

-genetic manipulation is possible with us, why not with someone else?
-Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: nothing comes from nothing. God's in eternity, so He has no need for a beginning. What was everything created from? no one can explain that. you can't say "the big bang" because the energy singularity came from nothing.
-what impossibilities? you can clone a sheep with an extract of fleece. the nucleus determines the general potential weight of an organism, not the size of the dna sample. this makes perfect sense.

I fail to see how your "weight of the rib" arguement disproves God, or any of your "evidence" really.

Answer 4

Perhaps god had a really cool cloning lab and only needed a few cells.
While I agree with your general premise, your example is weak ( and I don't mean becuase of my tounge in cheek explanaiton) much better example are the many direct contradictions or and the logical impossibilities ( like a just god having a hell for example.)

Answer 5

The Bible tells you that God did something. It does not tell you how he did it. Did he take the DNA from Adam's rib and modify it to make Eve? Is the Genesis account of creating animals "after their kind" referring to genetic engineering?

Does the Bible refer to water under the surface of oceans when it says that the fountains of the deep were opened during the account of Noah?

Again you assume mumbo-jumbo, when the truth could have been beyond our scientific understanding.

Answer 6

It's not a theory you're talking about, it's a proposition. And God is an irrational proposition, on account of the fact that, if you accept the definitions, God is beyond the capacity of the mind to comprehend. So is the universe, but the universe exists. Or is it one of several parallel universes?
You see, it all depends on the definitions. If you rely only on the Bible and the proposition of monotheism, God will never make sense. But this still doesn't mean that divinity doesn't exist.
(Absence of proof is not the same thing as proof of absence.)

Answer 7

First, you need to separate your concept of God from Christianity's concept of God. It is possible for God to be completely real but Christianity completely false. I agree with you that the Biblical God and creation story are impossible. That has nothing to do with whether a deity or deities actually exist.

Second, the fact that there are myths surrounding a concept does not disprove it. Myths may not be literally true, but there still may be a grain of truth within them. Ancient peoples created myths to explain things like gravity and reproduction. Those myths are fiction, of course - but that doesn't mean gravity and reproduction are.

Answer 8

Well I can believe in God without really tuning into those things. God proves Himself to those who trust Him. That's what He did with me.

You see, from MY perspective it would be illogical NOT to believe Him. I've had dreams and vision after I met Him, was faith healed for a minor breathing problem, and have stuck to trusting Him for over 20 years. He keeps proving Himself trustworthy as time goes on.

So it would be illogical if I was to NOT trust Him. I've had to many edifying things occur that solidifies the theme-- God is trustworthy.

Answer 9

There is one word I have to say to you.....FAITH. God can do anything. There are a lot of things in the bible that may not make sense to us, but we are only human. Faith is believing in something that you cannot prove.

Answer 10

The greatest things in life arent logical.
signed,
Leonard Nimoy

Answer 11

Is it really that hard to believe...?
When you were born, you were a sperm in an egg... weren't you? How did you go from a sperm to a baby? did you mutate? You don't see to believe. You see what you believe