I, like many others, am very confused as to my reason for being on his planet.
Views from others would be very welcome!
In a non-sexual sense I love you all!
2007-06-03 06:48:23 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You're confusing low likelyhood with impossiblity. It is unlikely that any given individual will ever win the lottery (worse than a million to one), yet there are a lot of winners.
Whether God created the world or not, the world is ruled by the laws of physics, thermodynamics, statistics, and biology. It's your call if God created those, or if they exist naturally.
Sorry. You can't love that which you don't know, and you don't know me.
2007-06-03 09:00:24 · answer #1 · answered by freebird 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is not clear how possible is the appearance of life. Calculating the possibilities requires many unknown factors: the total number of planets, the number of planets with conditions similar like earth and so on. People have tried it and they have come up with very varied results. More or less everyone finds proof for what he believed before making the calculations.
There is no reason why there should be a reason, maybe we just happened to be here. It is a human vice to try to find reasons behind everything. However, if we need reasons in order to carry on it is our own work to find them, they would not come from anything outside, it is our own problem.
2007-06-03 14:42:04 · answer #2 · answered by dimitris k 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We are no more privileged to be here than any other organism on the face of this planet! It is all about food for the cosmos! Everything feeds off of everything! It is all about energy and the workings of the universe! Mankind though has a hard time with this because we think we are so much better and above everything else, when in fact we are not!
2007-06-03 14:04:46 · answer #3 · answered by tonal9nagual 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes there is a god, I can only claim this because I know Him. I was an agnostic I suppose, happy to let others believe what they believed and leave 'religion' well alone, but one day I had a spiritual encounter with the living Jesus and it changed my life. Ask God to show you the truth, seek Him and he will be found.
2007-06-04 09:09:25 · answer #4 · answered by good tree 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Privileged? Have you looked around you?
70% of the world is living hand to mouth. For all of human existence except for the last 150 years, our average lifespan was 30 YEARS!! And we died toothless and diseased.
We are here for the same reason flease are and rabbits and lions and fish. To recycle the free energy at the surface of the earth.
There is no god.
2007-06-03 16:15:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The five year old who just lost one parent to HIV and one parent to an ongoing war on another continent may not agree without in terms of the privileged nature of their existence.
You don't have a reason to be alive. Your parents had sex. You had no choice in the matter. Now that you are here, what will you do with the time that you have until you die?
It is actually that simple.
2007-06-03 16:17:00 · answer #6 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought everyone knew this. We were put on this planet to breed and exist as a food source for aliens. Then the aliens died so there was no-one to eat us so we just multiplied. As regards God, even a one eyed man is God on a planet of blind people
2007-06-05 21:08:41 · answer #7 · answered by rickymeo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To answer you're last question first, it is immaterial. All we can contend with is what is before us. For that, we must assume that what we precieve is real.
At last, I see why we have so many bad drivers. The only reality they drive in is theirs.
The fact remains that we are here because we can be and therefore must be. From that point on, we must contend with everything else that shares this same reality. They too, are because they can be and therefore must be.
2007-06-03 14:11:43 · answer #8 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you say the chance of us existing is almost zero... doesn't this beg the question: what is the chance of God existing?
surely, the way in which he is described by the bible the chances of his occurance are much smaller than the 6.5 Billion of us.
2007-06-03 17:07:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chances of almost zero does not mean that it can't happen. It means that there is a chance of us being here. Well, here we are.
What's the problem with that?
In a very non-sexual sense "lots of hugs", you need them.
2007-06-03 15:09:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋