It is interesting that the very first response you got was a personal attack on you.
Interesting and revealing.
2007-06-02 16:52:23
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answered by Tim B 2
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first off, if i'm not mistaken, the bible is simply a grouping of stories that were written by people who had the briefest of contact with the so called deity known as jesus christ. i believe that is all new testament material. as for the old testament...well now there is a challenge. the first book, genesis. who wrote it? oh no one really wrote it, it just kind of popped into being. so it must have been that god wrote it.
well now wait... i see some other books of the old testament. and they have no real authors either.. must be that god guy again.
having had many religious debates over the years, ironically enough with christians, i have determined that christianity will use the excuse " god did it" very much like a child who cannot explain why a dish was broken by saying "it was the cat".
there is NO PROOF one way or the other as to who or what created the universe. that's why it's called faith. some have it some don't.
i prefer to look at things as such. i am here. i have things i want to do and i will enjoy doing them irregardless of what comes after this life. what if it's nothing...absolute darkness. will your religion save you then?
as for the bible, yet again. i think george carlin put it best when he stated that the bible was "the greatest bulls**t story ever told".
you keep your faith, i will keep mine and the world will continue to turn..
2007-06-02 17:30:04
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answered by Geoffrey B 1
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I don't know ..... that should be the best answer, because, seriously, you would not know who created the universe, as much as you wanted it. No one can be sure how the universe is created until science advanced to the stage.
For the time being, I just take some theory, even though there is some loopholes here and there, it is better then a fictitious character where humans created to explain the unknown, or mainly to control minds.
2007-06-02 17:16:27
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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I am an atheist. You asked many questions. Allow me to answer them:
1) Why do you assume the universe was created? Why cannot the universe have been always there, like how you postulate your god to be? OK, if one does not know how the universe came to be, does it make sense to assume some god must have done it?
2) The first human (homo sapiens sapien) evolved from an earlier primate species.
3) Why do you think we are so complex? relative to what?
4) Why do you get god every time you cannot answer a question?
5) I don't understand what you mean by ABC or 100001.
6) No, if you are truthful to yourself, you will realize that just because there isn't an answer yet, that the answer is not god. Many centuries ago, people died of the plague. They did not understand the cause, so they assumed it was god that did it. Today, we understand the cause....bacteria with a rodent vector.
I challenge you to find a nobel laureate scientist to claim god must have done everything that we do not yet understand.
2007-06-02 17:11:20
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answered by CC 7
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What bothers me is whilst a individual says or does issues that undermine the two the great factor they're attempting to make, or it relatively is unfavorable to the verbal replace as an entire. it relatively is the "You fool, you're no longer assisting" reflex. whilst an atheist solutions in an excessively arrogant way (and that i admit i've got completed this myself, nonetheless in many circumstances on particularly inane questions), all it relatively does is strengthen the thought we are all a gaggle of self-serving pricks sitting around feeling more suitable. what's extra functional is for example that the arguments we make are valid. it relatively is significant to coach that we are no longer in basic terms residing to "do what we'd like and not be held in charge", and that we don't disbelieve in God because of the fact we'd pick to be renegades or are misled via devil or what have you ever, yet quite as a results of trustworthy searching for fact. @orchidmg: because of the fact asking despite if or no longer God exists interior the 1st place *is* a non secular question, and answering it might bypass a protracted thank you to fixing the different non secular question asked.
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answered by whitehouse 3
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What I don't understand is why people assume that God did something just because we currently cannot explain something. If we did that during Newton's time up to the 20th. century then gravity is god, electricity is god, basically anything that we couldn't explain would be attributable to god. Science progresses at a slow speed. The 20th century has produced a massive amount of knowledge and yet we still have a long way to go on alot of things. Since science progresses based on past knowledge then it is insane to expect science to explain everything when it has only gained the knowledge in the past 50-100 years.
So since we currently do not understand all of this is basically an argument from ignorance, you are saying that because we do not know how this or that works then it must be god. We don't know alot about alot things, does that mean that we attribute them all to god? No, and the universe and life is no exception.
BTW I can make a universe that is beyond time if I say that time was created at the beginning of the universe, therefore causality does not apply. Do I believe this, no, it is a hypothesis but at least I am honest enough to say I don't know.
Not to mention the fact that we do not know how the universe behaves when it is massive yet very small, this is the reason for the unification of relativity and quantum mechanics. What this means is that all of this, matter must have come from something or all the time talk is meaningless because we just do not know if our macroscopic laws of physics apply to the relativistic quantum world.
And I realize the trouble you get into when talking about time being created while at the same time talking about a beginning.
2007-06-02 16:56:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Our universe originated with the Big Bang; and it is true that the physics of the known universe do not apply before that event. However, we can see the light and detect the sound from the (Big Bang) explosion. Neither you nor any human has ever seen or heard any God (hallucinations do not count). If you have proof (something that you can show to everyone in the world that, when they see it, they all agree that “yeah, that is a God, all right”), then show us.
2007-06-02 17:14:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Well you won't find man current scientists that say that. The National Academy of Science is 93% atheist. So you just keep fooling yourself into thinking it isn't a majority opinion.
And M Theory suggests that the Big Bang was caused by a collision in the underlying framework of other universes. I could go through the math and explain why they think this, but it is very complex and there isn't room here. Google it if you are curious.
2007-06-02 16:59:15
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answered by Anonymous
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You are using the same false logic that has been used over and over, so don't think of yourself as clever. You assume that there must exist an original cause, much like Aquinas. The fault is in the idea itself. Aquinas stated that everything which is caused is caused by something else. Then he went on to say that there must be something which is the original uncaused force. The problem is in his first statement, since he said EVERYTHING which is caused must be caused by something else. You can't use this as proof, since EVERYTHING must have a cause according to his own theory. This is like saying that everything that is blue is blue, except for the first blue. It is faulty logic that serves only to show that logic cannot be used to prove the existence or nonexistence of god. However, logic can be used to disprove certain qualities that some believe their god must possess.
2007-06-02 17:04:29
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answered by seattlefan74 5
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It was called the big bang.
The current universe was, according to evidence, created about 13.7 billion years ago, when the matter that was condensed into an infitesimally small space, and then "blew up" to create the universe.
If you mean *before* the big bang... we're still trying to figure that one out. It's part of physics, trying to determine how it all started, and some pretty interesting theories have been proposed.
But science is willing to look for new answers, rather than settle on God and not ask questions.
2007-06-02 16:52:09
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answered by David M 3
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Perhaps you should stop using the Bible for your research. Not all the answers are there yet and some may never be. But at least we're still finding answers and even more questions. We know the universe is so much more complex than Jesus or God could have imagined.
2007-06-02 16:53:17
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answered by Anonymous
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