Theists: Do you understand that just because you don't know HOW something happened, doesn't mean god did it?

Question

This is known as "god of the gaps." For a long time people believed that earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, lightning, etc. were their fault. That their actions caused god to become angry and cause these devastating natural effects.

We know better than that now. We understand how our environment works and no longer believe that god causes them. However we still don't know how the universe began. Continuing in the tradition of our even more ignorant ancestors we still stuff god into any space we can, any crevice that knowledge doesn't currently fill is left open to the god excuse.

What's wrong with just saying "i don't know 'X,' but I'd really like to find out?"

Answer 1

If I dont know what it is God did it!! Thats where God came from. IF its seems amazing must have been God thats the basic tenent of Intelligent Design.

Answer 2

have you ever offered a much better answer? i will see the element of atheists and of theist. they have taken an very, very previous question and debated it to dying. something the two of them say, has been mentioned many circumstances earlier, and could be repeated many circumstances any further. The argument is futile, as neither occasion can furnish evidence. that is been feed to you, on the breast, contained in mothers milk. that's the reason a Muslim thinks that Christianity is worse than Atheism, as he/she does not understand any further suitable. A Hindu, has many Gods/gods..... additionally with the proviso that they could be or ought to not be. And what does it count number? i do in comparison to vegetables, yet that does nor lead them to unreal. you do in comparison to "Christianity" (merely an occasion), besides the undeniable fact that it does not make it unreal from a believers viewpoint. so anybody to its own liking. Atheist, Christian, Muslim, Hindi, Buddhist.......peace to you all. Peace.

Answer 3

God did EVERYTHING - there is nothing he hasn't created or provided. Want to explain the new star just discovered that is 284,000 times the size of our sun, or the trillion microscopic strands of DNA that make us each unique, how our bodies work (see, hear, interact, love) or how the sun is 93 million miles away so that we don't freeze or burn up if Earth were a million miles closer or further away?Those who deny God take alot for granted, at least.
Your point if view is humanist - and no, I don't know better than that - it would be arrogant to say so.
There is evidence of God all around us - you can choose to look for it, see it, or not. No one can make you do anything, and God will not force anyone to do so.
I do know... in my heart that a loving, great God exists and my life is abundant because of him and has the promise of eternal life as well.

Answer 4

First, because I DO know. I sought the answers using faith and found the truth. Ridicule all you want, but I'm not deluded. Since, I understand that not everyone can know, wouldn't you agree that you have no better explanation and that maybe the reason God "fills the gap" is that He fits in it so well?

Answer 5

It is more important to admit that you don't know God but would really like to find out about him. Most scientist in the U.S. are also Christions and most Christians believe in science as a way to understand the physical would.

Science will not help you understand the spiritual world.

Answer 6

I appreciate your attempt to educate but Faith is a logical argument for the existence of God in philosophy. If Major Universities recognize God why can't you. Faith is a science of believing according to higher education.

Answer 7

Just because you think you understand doesn't mean that it was caused by nothing; don't be fooled. Some natuaral disaster that happens are guided by the hands of God.

And also just because we chose not to believe how you say things came to be does not mean we don't understand. We simply see the light in the midst of darkness.

Answer 8

So then, who do you blame when a mother prays that her son's blindness be cured, and for all intents and purposes, according to all reports, his eyes should not possibly be functioning in any way shape or form, yet he sees because of his mother's prayers! Do you blame...what?

Woman asked GOD GOD alone!

Answer 9

“The natural laws of the universe are so precise that we have no difficulty building a spaceship to fly to the moon and can time the flight with the precision of a fraction of a second. These laws must have been set by somebody.” —Quoted from Wernher von Braun, who had much to do with sending American astronauts to the moon.

Physical universe: If you found a precision timepiece, would you conclude that it was formed by a chance blowing together of some dust particles? Obviously, someone with intelligence made it. There is an even more magnificent “clock.” The planets in our solar system, also the stars in the entire universe, move at a rate that is more precise than most clocks designed and manufactured by man. The galaxy in which our solar system is located includes over 100 billion stars, and astronomers estimate that there are 100 billion of such galaxies in the universe. If a clock is evidence of intelligent design, how much more so is the far more vast and complicated universe! The Bible describes the Designer of it as “the true God, Jehovah, . . . the Creator of the heavens and the Grand One stretching them out.”—Isa. 42:5; 40:26; Ps. 19:1.

Planet Earth: When crossing a barren desert, if you came to a beautiful house, well equipped in every way and stocked with food, would you believe that it got there by some chance explosion? No; you would realize that someone with considerable wisdom built it. Well, scientists have not yet found life on any of the planets of our solar system except the earth; available evidence indicates that the others are barren. This planet is, as the book The Earth says, “the wonder of the universe, a unique sphere.” (New York, 1963, Arthur Beiser, p. 10) It is at just the right distance from the sun for human life, and it moves at just the right speed to be held in orbit. The atmosphere, of a kind found only around the earth, is made up of just the right proportion of gases to sustain life. Marvelously, light from the sun, carbon dioxide from the air, and water and minerals from fertile soil combine to produce food for earth’s inhabitants. Did it all come about as a result of some uncontrolled explosion in space? Science News admits: “It seems as if such particular and precise conditions could hardly have arisen at random.” (August 24 and 31, 1974, p. 124) The Bible’s conclusion is reasonable when it states: “Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God.”—Heb. 3:4.

Human brain: Modern computers are a product of intensive research and careful engineering. They did not “just happen.” What about the human brain? Unlike the brain of any animal, the brain of a human infant triples in size during its first year. How it functions is still largely a mystery to scientists. In humans, there is the built-in capacity to learn complex languages, to appreciate beauty, to compose music, to contemplate the origin and meaning of life. Said brain surgeon Robert White: “I am left with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a Superior Intellect, responsible for the design and development of the incredible brain-mind relationship—something far beyond man’s capacity to understand.” (The Reader’s Digest, September 1978, p. 99) The development of this marvel begins from a tiny fertilized cell in the womb. With remarkable insight, the Bible writer David said to Jehovah: “I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, as my soul is very well aware.”—Ps. 139:14.

Living cell: A single living cell is sometimes referred to as being a “simple” form of life. But a one-celled animal can catch food, digest it, get rid of wastes, build a house for itself and engage in sexual activity. Each cell of the human body has been likened to a walled city, with a central government to maintain order, a power plant to generate energy, factories to produce proteins, a complex transportation system, and guards to regulate what is permitted to enter. And a single human body is made up of as many as 100 trillion cells. How appropriate the words of Psalm 104:24: “How many your works are, O Jehovah! All of them in wisdom you have made”!

Answer 10

Um, we think we do know how it began. Its called the Big Bang. Scientists are coming to that conclusion more and more. Geez, read a book or something!