just wondering, i'd love an explination for either side
2007-04-26 14:11:31 · 20 answers · asked by bluesman1 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well, you can't prove a negative but I think it is high unlikely that there is a god. Things start with the simple and become more complex over time. That's evolutionary fact. If God has always existed, He/She would have to be an amazingly complex being far beyond our understanding, agreed? So, it doesn't any make since that He would be there before the beginning. That's just one convincing reason I've read lately. I've had strange things happen to me before too, but writing it off as "oh, God did it" ends any further investigation. That doesn't work for me. And I'm usually able to find a very reasonable explanation when I keep going, such as neurochemical biology.
I truely understand the comfort people get from a personal God, but I can't personally just believe in Him because I need Him. I prefer truth (which is NOT democratic) and reality. If that means not having the hope of going to a magical wonderful place when I die, then that's the price I agree to pay. It doesn't mean I'm immoral or treat others wrongfully.
Then again, there's Pascal's wager. If you believe in God and are wrong, you lose nothing. If you don't believe in God and are wrong, you lose everything. Still, not the right reason for me to believe in something.
2007-04-27 06:45:25 · answer #1 · answered by tritonetelephone 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe in God aka Higher Power
It would be more difficult for me to NOT believe in God.
Look at the grandeur of the earth, the complexity of one cell.
Think about the delicate balance of our atmosphere, if the carbon in our atmospher is off by a short bit, the earth would explode. It would take a creator to make sense of what we know as reality.
I can't even believe that we are just an accident. We are too complex
I like to give this example....take a jet plane 747 and crush it in to pieces so small that you would need a strong microscope to see the parts. Put those parts in a large wind tunnel. The let the wind blow for a hundred years or a hundred billion years then open up the wind tunnel.....what are the chances that anything would be created from those bits of pieces of those parts.......pretty slim even after a billion years
I can't imagine it being made in to anything. How can you believe in the random events of just pure evolution to make the earth that we know now.
2007-04-26 21:34:55 · answer #2 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope. The more interesting aspect is how anyone comes to such a belief.
A belief in gods is no different than the ancients who wondered at the world without any scientific knowledge and simply attributed things to mystical beings.
In any other case, believing in an invisible being would constitute mental illness.
Besides, everyone knows that it was Pink Pixie on Mars who created the universe.
2007-04-26 21:32:41 · answer #3 · answered by guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not, there is absolutely no hard evidence the "Gods" or "God" exists. Greeks made up Gods to explain the sun and what was happening weather-wise to them (key word). Every God since had been a fabrication of this original idea.
2007-04-26 21:23:22 · answer #4 · answered by Ninja 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not.
In ALL history, there has NEVER been ANY verifiable evidence to even suggest that god(s) exist.
Furthermore, in ALL history, there has NEVER been a worthy philosophical argument in favor of the existence of god(s).
And lastly, given all of the evil, misery, injustice, pain, and suffering that exist in the world... if god does exist, she's obviously evil.
2007-04-26 22:13:30 · answer #5 · answered by HarryTikos 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how anyone couldn't. And I am not trying to push "my God" down anyone's throat but,how can anyone believe that everything is just...there...for no reason? I find it much harder to believe that all life and science and evolution just kinda...happends. Someone or something has to be in charge. And whoever it is,I believe is God.I know there are people who think that is stupid but sometimes humility makes sense.
2007-04-27 01:35:03 · answer #6 · answered by nil_queen 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There was a long while I didn't, Then I read the logical arguments of Thomas Aquinas and believed again. I still do and always will because of St. Thomas only, not because of any pastor or priest. I am certainly not religious.
2007-04-26 22:03:39 · answer #7 · answered by Madmunk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think there could be a higher being. i am not yet convinced that it is the christian god. i am in favor of the idea of a higher being who probably created things but after that, let things run there course. if we screw up to bad, that being might interfere with life a little, but basically leaves things alone
2007-04-26 21:16:33 · answer #8 · answered by Bertine 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No,because I believe not one thing can change the way your day goes,your actions are what makes you do things,not this supposed god.
2007-04-26 21:19:02 · answer #9 · answered by Moo 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe in God but not the bible-WHY- I know why I don't believe in the bible but but god? I don't have answer at this point in time.
2007-04-26 22:15:04 · answer #10 · answered by oneofmillions 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋