http://www.illustramedia.com/tppinfo.htm
this is a very interesting movie. At the bottom of this page you can view a clip that shows some reasons why I believe in a creator.
2007-05-06 10:26:41 · 21 answers · asked by Jeanmarie 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The clip was enjoyable. I did not learn anything new, but then I have believed this for years.
Judging by most answers, we see that evolutionist will even scoff at scientist.
2007-05-06 10:50:04 · answer #1 · answered by johnnywalker 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The movie looks at things in the wrong way. I agree, it is hard to believe that the Earth is set up just right for life to live on this planet. But there are several things to consider.
1. For millions of years the Earth could not support life and in the future that will be the case too. Nothing lasts forever. So the fact that we can live here on Earth is a temporary thing. So in the greater scheme of things and in the long term, the Earth is NOT set up for life.
2. Probability.....If you buy a lottery ticket, your chance of winning the first prize is say 200 million to 1. But someone has to win it. If that person is you, then do you conclude that it is miraculous and that god must have done it ?
In the same way, there are say 200 billion planets in the universe and we are on the planet where life exists. Are we here due to probability or did god do it?
3. The fact is that life has adapted to the conditions and environment on Earth, not the other way round. That is, god did not decide on oxygen-breathing humans and therefore create an atmosphere with the right amount of atmosphere in it.
4. The Earth was not built originally as it is today. The atmosphere millions of years ago was different than today and at that time, life was also different. Humans could not have survived on Earth in the distant past.
So in short, the Earth was not bulit miraculously for humans to live here.
2007-05-06 17:54:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jeanmarie, I get the idea that the skeptics on here that don't want to believe in God will never be convinced.
While I have not seen the video clip, what I find amazing is that they just believe it was pure coincidence. I once heard a pastor preach that scientists have theorized that the subatomic particles at the minute level are sound waves. So, if that is true, could the world have been created by someone who spoke the world into existence?
Just some food for thought.
2007-05-07 11:10:25 · answer #3 · answered by Searcher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter how improbable life might be (personally I don't believe it's all that improbable) - the Universe is infinite with more stars than there are grains of sand on this planet... when you're talking about those sorts of numbers even the improbable becomes possible.
Remember it only had to happen once (and again I believe that there is plenty of life out there which means it happened many times).
Nothing in all of that gives any evidence for a creator
2007-05-06 17:38:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The premise of that link goes something like this:
1.) Life in the universe is rare.
2.) We are alive.
3.) Therefore god exists.
If the earth weren't in the "just right" Goldilocks zone that allows for life to develop then that website wouldn't be able to make the connection between a favorable setting for life and the existence in a deity. That's a circular argument using false reasoning. One doesn't prove the other.
You know it's really not that difficult to "prove" or offer "evidence" for something that is unfalsifiable. Theists are in a very cozy position due to this fact.
2007-05-06 17:41:05 · answer #5 · answered by Peter D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can not look at statistics retroactivley like that. It just doesn't work. It's this simple, if we didn't exist, we'd have never known that we didn't exist. We only know we exist and we were lucky enough to exist because we do exist.
Someone once used this analogy to me that life on Earth has the same chances of winning the lottery. Actually, the chances of winning the lottery are much better, but my point is that someone always wins the lottery sooner or later. It is just that in this case, the losers never knew they even played.
2007-05-06 17:53:43 · answer #6 · answered by errorloading 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I get time I will review this website. Thanks for the link. After a great deal of study I've lost my Christian faith but I'm not closed minded as I feel many Christians are. I'm open to anything. For anyone interested, read The God Theory by Bernard Haisch an astrophysicist.
2007-05-06 18:37:16 · answer #7 · answered by rkazbr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what a ploy -
I do not believe in a creator, I have seen what a mess or what a work of art I and my friends in this life can create. I know of many creators, which takes much more work and effort/skill than to destroy.
I find beliefs and religion largely to destroy humanity and unity
2007-05-06 17:35:01 · answer #8 · answered by voice_of_reason 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Aren't you taking it the wrong way, life developed because the planet was fit, not the planet became fit so life could develop.
If any other planet had the necessary characteristics and earth hadn't, life would exist there just the same(different organisms of course).
2007-05-06 17:35:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, I'm not going to look at all of that, but I don't believe in any "creator".
2007-05-06 17:31:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋