for example the ONLY 2 ways something could have come into existence would be either a god, or the atheists beleifthat the universe came out of nothing. but either way it was the product of one of the two correct? can something come into existence any other way?
2007-03-23 18:43:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Everything had to be created. The debate is over how. Either an intelligent being (God) created us or some random occurrence (big bang) started the ball rolling & we "evolved" gradually. When I look at how beautiful nature is, I know that it had to be intelligent design. There's no way it was random. Something loved us & created us. Like an artist creates a work of art. I approach an empty canvas & bring life to it. Life can't get there on its own. A ball of gas can't create art. The big bang doesn't cut it for me. Unless the "Big Bang" is your pet name for God! Evolution doesn't make much sense either. How would you explain a platypus?! What would be the evolutionary purpose of that? There is such a wide variety of creatures that are extraordinarily beautiful & whose beauty doesn't serve any evolutionary purpose but is just a work of art. We were created in love & are meant to love.
How can anyone watch the sunrise (or sit by the ocean or walk in the woods or fall in love) & be an atheist?! How can you not appreciate the beauty & realize that something loved us & put us here?
2007-03-23 18:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all lies in the definition of the word "creation". If creating means "made from nothing", a concept that has no logic and cannot be understood with the human mind, there is no basis to reach any further logical conclusions. If creation means taking something that was and making it into something that now is, we can then reason that something always existed, thus the reasoning that God always existed and created the universe from himself/itself. Science says it this way. Everything is energy. Energy can neither be created or destroyed, therefore energy must have always been.
Logic would seem to say, the universe perhaps did not always exist as it is today, but existed in some other form.
2007-03-24 02:14:55 · answer #2 · answered by stedyedy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have always assumed that things had to be created. That is based on our experience. However. our experience is limited to what is not even a speck of dust in this vast expanse we call the universe. Do we dare impose our limited experience on everything that exists. We don't know everything that exists. Maybe there are other laws that we have not discovered yet. Maybe something can come from nothing. Maybe there is no such thing as nothing. Perhaps we say nothing because we cannot see it. but we couldn't see germs before the microscope.
Where do thoughts come from. We know they are the product of the synapse, but what creates them as cognizant thoughts? Perhaps we are mere thoughts in the mind of a greater being. Perhaps our galaxies and nebulae are mere momentary synapses which seems like billions of years to us.
Do things have to be created? Careful, remember what was truth a few decades ago is considered to be absurdity now. Can being who only use about one fifth of their mental capacities truly comprehend an answer? I think not.
2007-03-24 02:37:41 · answer #3 · answered by charleyit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with that kind of thinking is that it's guilty of the logical fallacy "false dichotomy," an illogical limiting of choices. Underlying it is your belief is that things "came into existence." You're assuming that things that exist at one time did not. That's awfully naive. A pot "comes into existence" when a potter shapes and fires the clay, but all that's happened is that the arrangement of the clay has been changed. Julius Caesar no longer exists, but assuming he was cremated, some of the carbon atoms in my body used to be his. We look out into space and see stars forming and stars exploding -- we see things changing form and arrangement. Why the elaborate assumption that all of this at one time didn't exist?
Historically, the Hebrews fleeing Egypt got into a "my God's better than your God" thing with the Canaanite's whose land they were invading. Their God created the world out of previously existing stuff, body of the defeated demon, whatever. Well, the Hebrew God created it out of NOTHING AT ALL.
Anyway, things don't have to have been created. They don't have to have come into existence as if from another room.
2007-03-24 02:43:14 · answer #4 · answered by Philo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we humans have the very special awareness and consciousness compared to other animal in biology. i think there is no size of brain in proportional ratio with the body that can evolve like the way we rationalize things. this is an evidence that we have something within us, a soul a spirit a conscience anything you call it. we are hardwired to find a god even in our early stage of our evolution. so for me this things are evidence that we really came from creation.
2007-03-27 23:00:15 · answer #5 · answered by tutero_k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Origin is some either far greater, or far smaller than human scope may be able to grasp. But I find that the knowledge we have now, and the progress we make today, is sufficial.
2007-03-24 13:49:40 · answer #6 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!
If it's a process it must be started, if it just is, it is God.
There is no nothing ... and we all know that ... cause we all exist , or you wouldn't be asking.
With love and understanding,
Jonnie
2007-03-24 02:07:04 · answer #7 · answered by Jonnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Origin is one of the imponderables. Origin goes back to infinity. Infinity is another imponderable.
2007-03-24 01:53:16 · answer #8 · answered by Tuna-San 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋