If you believe in your own existence....you also believe in a form of energy that brought you into existence.
You did not create yourself???
2007-03-31 22:41:54 · 9 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
eri: thank you for your well thought out answer.
2007-03-31 22:54:16 · update #1
Skippy: I am a Deist. (thank you)!
2007-03-31 22:56:20 · update #2
No, ALL atheists believe Deism to be incorrect, otherwise they wouldn't be atheists...
I believe the "energy" you are referring to is otherwise known as "nature," which does not require any notion of a "god" to exist.
2007-03-31 22:51:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
That "energy" that brought me into existence was called my parents. Follow the chain backwards to the first bacteria in the oceans billions of years ago. That formed from virus-like structures of complex organic compounds. Those formed from the chemicals in the sea which joined due to intense heat, such as that from a volcano or lightning strike. Do we really need to take this all the way back to the Big Bang?
The energy of the Big Bang came from nowhere, formed out of nothing. Both physics and skeptical philosophy agree that we have no proof that events require a cause. Particles form out of "nothing" all the time.
Such it was with the Universe.
And if you ever see one thing actually CAUSE another, let me know. All I see, and all anyone sees, is one event followed by another. We don't actually observe causation.
Oh, and there's nothing wrong with choosing to believe in Deism. As far as religions go, its not a bad one. We only differ in believing what the First Cause was and how Natural Laws came to be.
If you believe in Adam and Eve, or that God personally created us without the use of Evolution, then you aren't really a Deist.
2007-03-31 22:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by Skippy 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Deism is a rational belief in God.
Taking for granted that human came from the apes,where did the apes came from. Did they existed naturally as it is the belief of the atheists.
However, I don't care if they do not want to believe the truth about how human existed as a creation of God.
Maybe the Atheists created themselves by imagination. How powerful they are. the most powerful man on earth as they claimed.
When you say that you came from the sexual intercourse of your father and mother, from whom then the first woman and man came from to have sex creating another generation.It is a plain imagination that the first man and woman came from nature. foolish belief.
jtm
2007-03-31 23:01:48 · answer #3 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The form of energy that created me was sexual which in turn was created when my mother and father knocked boots (no pun intended).
No higher power was involved because none exists
2007-03-31 22:46:49 · answer #4 · answered by rosbif 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't believe in a 'form of energy that brought me into existance'. My parents had sex. I'm sorry your parents never told you this, but you have to learn some time.
2007-03-31 22:48:00 · answer #5 · answered by eri 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
They believe in one way,while for us,the practitioner of one common religion believe the other way.
2007-03-31 22:48:17 · answer #6 · answered by Chuong Seng Ly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brain...hurt.
2007-03-31 22:45:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they think they were born from pond scum and sunlight! Not very deep thinkers.
http://www.freedomcame.com/glory/
2007-03-31 22:46:23 · answer #8 · answered by bungyow 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
no more than did god create himself.
2007-03-31 22:46:38 · answer #9 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋