I am a former agnostic, turned believer in God. It just struck me that i do not believe that i could have the ability to think, if that which created me did not have the same ability. So to the non-believers, what created you, how did we come about? If you are going to say evolution/big bang then i ask, why did that happen and where did the matter/energy come from?
2007-03-23 08:41:43 · 24 answers · asked by shea 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You're quite right that there's no explanation (in science) for what caused the "Big Bang." Your question assumes the universe was "created," then asks what did it. Is there any good reason to make that assumption? Astronomer Fred Hoyle postulated a steady state universe with no beginning or end. Other religions have held similar views. Asking where the matter/energy "came from" makes the same assumption. It's here. Why must you assume it came from somethere else?
One translation of the Tao Te Ching goes like this:
Life on its way returns into the mist.
Its quickness is its quietness again.
Existence of this world of things and men
Renews their never needing to exist.
2007-03-23 09:26:23 · answer #1 · answered by Philo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look you are saying -- is that God created the universe, but then who created God?
You will say "God always existed", so let's cut out the middle-man and just say "matter and energy has always existed". See for example: [1].
Now why did evolution happen? Because species evolve to adopt to environment, and that naturally created humans.
Why on earth? It just happened to be one in a BILLIONS of planets that had right conditions.
As for your argument that "i do not believe that i could have the ability to think, if that which created me did not have the same ability" This makes no sense -- children often surpass their parents. For example you do not have to have both parent as geniuses to be a genius.
2007-03-23 09:48:02 · answer #2 · answered by hq3 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All things are possible and all things are energy. Energy has always existed and I have no explanition for it beyond that. I believe that's one question that may be bigger than human ideology can grasp. There can be no thing without it's opposite. From this you'll find the answer apparent. This is a world of thought and perspective. It's a virtual impossibility that you'll touch reality in the first person for your have a brain and senses to translate your outerworld with. Thus the world is what you see it as and nothing more. This is our place as humans. Always remember we were made without limits. You can create your own destiny if you so choose.
2007-03-23 12:16:07 · answer #3 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! This question was only asked 1 hour ago in this exact same forum! In fact, it's still visible on the page!!
Here's what I answered to THAT question:
The predominate belief is that we simply don't know. That doesn't mean we need to fall back on a "god of the gaps" that has no beginning either.
We have known about the "big bang" for about 70 years or fewer. We tried to explain disease for THOUSANDS of years before coming up with bacteria and viruses. All I have to say is that I'm glad that 200 years ago, they all didn't throw their hands up and say "Well, this is too hard, I say it's magic, how about you guys? Let's get a beer:"
2007-03-23 08:47:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me that, as a former agnostic turned godhead, you're looking to bring down your past beliefs to overcome some newfound doubts about your present beliefs.
God, the Big Bang, the Flying Spaghetti Monster... life is short. Believe whatever makes you the happiest. But your beliefs are yours, they're personal. Why you have come to believe what you believe is your own business. You mind your business, and let others to theirs. If you feel the need to question beliefs, begin with your own. Why do you believe what you believe? Asking others, especially strangers at random, seems absurd. There are billions of people on this planet, and you'll likely get just as many answers.
I don't intend this to sound short or antagonistic. I just think this argument has gone on long enough for thinking people to realize that there is no solution to it - other than to acknowledge the age-old addage: "to each his own".
2007-03-23 09:10:22 · answer #5 · answered by crackerhammermike 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is a funny joke. Very cute. To those who do not believe in a god, and therefore do not believe that a who or a what created the world, who or what do you believe created the world? Very funny.
2007-03-23 08:55:59 · answer #6 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clearly, whatever created God created the Universe as well.
2007-03-23 08:51:34 · answer #7 · answered by Luey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life and the universe is a mere fluke of chemistry. The chemicals must be properly combined to create life. You can actual recreate it life in the lab.
Whether these chemicals combined because of the will of some devine being or whether we are mere accidents of science that we never meant to be. . . . Does it matter????
2007-03-23 08:50:12 · answer #8 · answered by AthenaGenesis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the big bang created the universe everything came from that single point i believe this is what a non religious person would believe
2007-03-23 09:48:16 · answer #9 · answered by bboybazza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but what created God?
Humans have used myth to explain the unexplainable since cave paintings. I am afraid we will have destroyed the earth before humans will ever, through science, understand how the universe came to be.
2007-03-23 08:53:21 · answer #10 · answered by crct2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋