When people say that life is complex, therefore it needed a creator, atheists respond by saying that the creator (god) is also complex, so then who created god?
The point is that if you can believe that GOD didn't need a creator, then why not believe that LIFE didn't need a creator?
But what theists say is that God is not complex, they say that he is simple. But how can you say that?
God is far from simple. This is a higher power that designs universes, raises from the dead, wreaks miracles, cares about your welfare and simultaneously monitors the thoughts of all his creatures and answers all of their prayers!
That doesn't sound "simple" to me. That sounds highly complex.
2007-04-30 05:21:02 · 8 answers · asked by DanCorb 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Intelligence is so complex they often default to an intelligence to explain it....Similarly to the way they invoke an existing being to "explain" existence.
2007-04-30 05:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"This is a higher power that designs universes, raises from the dead, wreaks miracles, cares about your welfare and simultaneously monitors the thoughts of all his creatures and answers all of their prayers!"
None of these actions make God complex- at least not in "substance", and that is the relevant property that we are talking about when we say that God is "simple".
Furthermore, you are comparing apples to oranges. What we know and learn about physical objects comes from our ability to study them. Since we can't study spiritual objects, we have no way of knowing what, if any, properties they share with them. So just because complexity in physical objects indicates creation doesn't mean the same is true for non-physical "objects", if there are any.
2007-04-30 13:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As a Christian, I am humble enough and honest enough to tell you what I really think: You have an excellent point there. I have never thought of that before and I applaud your intelligence. Although, do consider that whether you are trying to prove what is eternal or prove the beginning existance of anything, is something that I would venture to say, may not be possible for people to imagine. That's why people have so many theories and beliefs. Also, if one believes in G-d one knows that all sin is the same to Him. None greater than another because it all separates us from eachother and we from Him. The most complex idea or object in the universe is so simple to G-d it's like baby games or something. And what is very simple to people is so beyond simplicity to G-d that it is unimaginable for us. So, to G-d it's all the same.
"Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine."
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
2007-04-30 13:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is Simplicity in the heart of Complexity
God is the sum of all things great or small, Good AND Evil.
God neither destroys nor creates
God neither interferes or ignores creation
God is the space that contains him/her
God is the substance that exists in that space
As such God is not Complex but Simple because...
God just is....
2007-04-30 12:29:14 · answer #4 · answered by Tenzin 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Every truth is simple. God, life, etc. are all simple.
We make them complex...unnecessarily.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-04-30 12:31:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Read the dictionary backwards and look for hidden messages.
2007-04-30 12:24:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In paradox lies the truth ;-)
Maybe it's simple, but so sublime it seems complicated.
2007-04-30 12:28:51 · answer #7 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no god.
2007-04-30 12:24:57 · answer #8 · answered by tartu2222 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋