It was never one person who invented the wheel or electricity. Those people were just applying what they learned from other people. It was a collective conscious. Moreover, why the emphasis on creation? We never truly create...We just react to our environment. Humans are super smart but what we do isn't any different from a monkey climbing a tree to escape a predator. The monkey's using his brain to climb the trees but he's not inventing the act of climbing.
2007-05-09 15:43:20 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I'm wrong then fine...but why contradict what you say about not comparing God to the physical when you're just going to use the Watchmaker Analogy repeatedly?
2007-05-09 15:51:02 · update #1
Yes but the monkey can't paint the tree many years later in perfect detail all the while recalling the smells and grandeur of the moment
2007-05-09 15:49:29 · answer #1 · answered by nikola333 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did someone say a "creation" has only ONE creator? Who are you arguing with here, anyway?
I suppose it comes down to what you mean by the word, "create." If you mean make something out of nothing, that gets into the metaphysics. Maybe it was God, or maybe more than one God, or maybe none at all.
But if you mean make something out of something, then you have your basic chain of events which supports the "collective conscious" notion. Even so, some ONE had to be the very first to put together the predecessors' work and make the new thing "click." That may not be the one we CREDIT with it, but it had to be someone.
Which brings up the possibility that "creation" may not truly be a single act or event, but rather something that happens all the time and everywhere. And so, just as telephones started as a couple of tin cans connected by strings, and still evolve to this very day, so does the universe change over time; new star formations emerge, old ones go away ...etc. And so with life itself, as species mutate over time into new forms, some of which succeed for a long time, some of which never make the cut, and none of which, apparently, have made it from the beginning of life (on earth, I mean) until today.
Back to the metaphysics: If you believe there is just ONE God, and that this God created all that there is (I'm a card-carrying subscriber to such a belief) then it stands to reason that you have your basic one-to-one relationship.
Simple enough, right?
2007-05-17 09:18:13 · answer #2 · answered by JSGeare 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Creator of the Universe is *obviously* bigger than anything or anyone you can imagine! No, *we* cannot create anything; we can only discover what God has already created!
Do you believe that the creation of life, the creation of self-awareness, was a group effort? What group of people got together and created molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles? What group of people created the various forms of animal and plant life, including those invisible to the naked eye. Who were the collaborators to create DNA?
What group of people created the earth, the moon, the sun, the solar system, the universe? And who among us decided, by consensus, to place the earth at its precise distance from the sun and decided what the exact tilt the earth's axis should be?
If we are super-smart, who gave us the intelligence? It's been said that even Albert Einstein only used about 10% of the capacity and capability of his brain; what's the other 90% for?
2007-05-09 23:19:17 · answer #3 · answered by trebor namyl hcaeb 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're right ... there are many humans with great minds (as we were created so beautifully by a greater mind) who are capable of inventing and creating, but there is only ONE True God, therefore, one Creator when it comes to intelligent humans, animals, plants, etc ... things that humans naturally cannot "create" (cloning is not the same thing). Also, know this, that all things were created THROUGH Jesus, so Jesus, being God's first creation, helped his Father create the earth & everthing on it (again, not made by humans).
2007-05-17 17:31:15 · answer #4 · answered by mrs sexy pants 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Only One Creator you said have already given His power and energy to all His creation to enable themselves to procreate, recreate and even make its own creativity to adopt to the changing and advancing state of life. It only not applies to man's capability to invent things but it also apply even to the smallest kind of living specie to adopt the changing elements and environments. Some species die only to live in another form and shape for its newly develpoed way to survive. The same thing with mankind, many were born and died in the past with their own kind of lifestyle that becomes our guide to live in the present as well as prepare ourselves for the future. Is God alone in His creation? Unless you are born dumb, you have to know that you are a part of continuing cycle of creations.
2007-05-09 23:06:12 · answer #5 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... there was no one creator.... there were 2....
In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.... the same was in the beginning with God.. and without him was not anything made that was made......
According to Scripture Christ was with God when things were being made..... So, he basically did whatever he was told to do in the matter of creation.
Consider a mirror...... it reflects the image of the original.... between two mirrors is a successive series of images of the two original reflections that become smaller the longer it continues to reflect....... Symbolically, the two originals are Christ and God.... God being the original, and Christ reflecting the work of the original.... the reflections between these two (God/Christ - 2 mirrors) are symbolically men... the smaller the reflection is the image of God within men.... the longer they reflect, represents the generations of men.....
Therefore, the images represent that which is written in Genesis 6:3..... the image of God is spirit.... and the spirit of men is a reflection of God.....
your sister,
ginger
2007-05-09 22:56:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
My opinion is that God gave us only enough knowledge to get by in this world. To try and comprehend those mysteries of God is beyound our human comprehention.
We will all know in heaven some day!
2007-05-09 22:50:10 · answer #7 · answered by lovingfeathers 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God is the Creator.
We are His Creation, along with the heavens and the earth.
Pastor Art
2007-05-09 22:47:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why in the world would you call people super-smart? There are a few that might be called that, but very few.
2007-05-09 22:48:18 · answer #9 · answered by Davie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're using evolution as proof that we are just intelligent apes that have evolved through natural selection. Unfortunately evolution is just a naturalistic philosophy without any concrete evidence.
2007-05-09 22:49:58 · answer #10 · answered by lollipop 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋