why are there still people who don't believe in the existence of god?

Question

I don't understand what they are thinking of, every day there are million of miracles happening just in front of them, especially those who believe that nothing comes from nothing, how can they explain their being on this earth? even those who don't beleive in coincidences, how can they explain that every thing is already programed, and by whom? how can a person die without any illness or accident? and most important how can they explain, how the sky is properly standing up by himself?

Answer 1

Well there are several reasons.

First, they are selfish in a sense and don't want to give God credit for what "they do"

Second, without God they can do just about anything without a certain punishment

Third, Rebellion against there parents. There are some people who have started off as believers but because they got in a bad group of friends started doing things against there parents, and there parents tell them that it is God they are agianst.

Answer 2

perhaps these words can helpu understand the head opf an agnostic
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.

Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.

So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.

As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.

Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.

You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.

While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.

Answer 3

There are no miracles. Show me one example that can't be written off to random chance that has been studied by science. When the experiment has a proper control group this is the type of thing that always happens: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html?ex=1301461200&en=4acf338be4900000&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

As to how we got here, no one is saying it came from nothing. Google M Theory if you want to know what I think. It includes a testable cause for the Big Bang and what was around before it. But even if we have no idea at all, that doesn't mean that it had to be magic. They used to think illness was evidence of demonic possession before we found germs. Same principle. You don't just make up a cause if you have no evidence. That has almost zero chance of being right since it is just a wild guess.

Everything is not programmed. Where do you get those weird ideas? If you can't show evidence of it, it isn't true.

People can die for a lot of reasons, just because it isn't an apparent one doesn't mean that it was magic.

"How the sky is properly standing up by himself" I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about. The sky is just gas that is held to Earth by gravity.

Answer 4

A person dies of old age when their cells run out of telemores. Telemores is a strand in the cells that halves every time the cells split. Well, when there is too little telemores left for the cells to split, they die, and in turn, the entire organism dies.

And these "miracles" that you see, are really just natural occurrences made out to be spectacular. It's nothing more than nature at work. (Yes, I know, it is amazing to watch, but all it is is nature)

Things were not already programmed. That's like saying the modern day computer came together by itself. It had to go through stages of development before it reached what it is today. Scientifically speaking, that process is called evolution.

As for the sky staying where it is, that's the simplest of all of them. In a cup of liquids, the most dense will sink to the bottom while the least dense will rise to the top. Well, air molecules work the same way. The most dense things (that would be us and the rest of the earth) sink to the bottom and compact. The least dense things (air) will above us, but remain as close to the earth as possible due to gravity. That's why the sky stays where it is.

Any more ridiculous questions?

Answer 5

Do you want to understand? Because God is man made. People die, because they cannot anymore with many reason. If you said that is without illness or accident, it is not true, there must be a scientific reason. The specialist doctor can always find out the reason. People die due to just simply used up, like any cars although you try to repair, when it is time to stop, then just simply stop. It cannot run anymore. So do human or animal or plants. It is an evolution.
It is easy to say what is happening in the life because of God's will. What it is written in any religion books are also man made.

Answer 6

You must be thoroughly programmed yourself. Try reading more literature about Earth science. Read more about the disasters that occur with frequent monotony, not just the headlines but the cost of lives and damaged people. Then go back to the Bible and compare what has been said that God said, or Jesus said on his behalf. It just doesn't add up.

Believe in God, that is your prerogative. Accept that others may have different beliefs.

Answer 7

The existence of god really doesn't answer any questions - it simply puts one more chain into the link. Sure, you can go ahead and say that god does all of these things and therefore nothing needs to be explained. But...then were did god come from? If it's possible for god to have simply existed as he needed to, then why isn't it possible for the universe to simply exist as it needs to without god?

Another way of looking at it - are the people that get these miracles really deserving of them? I'm a slacker college kid who drinks too much instead of studying and I'm a self proclaimed Agnostic, and I lucked out on a test and got an A on it instead of the C I deserved. Meanwhile, devout Christian single moms who pray everyday can barely afford to feed their children even while working two shifts a day.

Millions of children will die in Africa this year simply because...they were born in Africa instead of the USA. According to some sects of Christianity, they'll go to hell too, or at least purgatory, because the village they were born into doesn't believe in Christianity, which was once again...simply based on where they were born. People born into Iran and Pakistan will burn in hell because their parents drilled Islam into their heads. Pastors die unexpected deaths all the time, and people who have "seen the light of Christ" go out and bomb abortion clinics, killing innocent people walking by outside. In areas of East Africa, famine has riddled the population, leading to armed gangs which steal most of the food for themselves. Using the power they have through food, they routinely rape children as young as 12 - many of which are impregnated and will grow up to be single mothers because their Christian religion doesn't believe in abortions. Some miraculous world we have here, huh?

Clearly there are good things in the world as well, but if there is a god, he's either not handing out miracles or he's doing a really shitty job at it. To me, if he does exist, this means he probably either doesn't mind that people don't believe in him, or he doesn't deserve that belief in the first place.

Answer 8

I'm on earth because my Mom and Dad did the nasty thing and nine months later I was born.

I believe in coincidences. Prove that everyting is already programmed.

People die every day of a malady called old age.

The sky is not a person; it cannot be referred to as "himself".
The sky is space; it doesn't need to "stand up".

Answer 9

You explain everything you can't understand by saying "Well I guess god just made it that way. That doesn't work for me, see I need answers that have a little more substance a little more validity, the concept of god can't exxplain everything just because. There has to be evidence supporting it and I have not seen enough evidence to make me believe in god.

Answer 10

Fortunately many people don't have schizoid delusional mental disorder. For those that do, treatment is now available. Not everyone decides that all the things they don't understand come from an invisible friend in the sky that will send them in lakes of fire forever dear.