Religions make us feel that we know the truth and that we are the center of everything when in fact the universe is so large that even our minds can't imagine(literally).Why can't we believe the fact that we developed from single-cell organisms?
2007-06-05 01:52:29 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
cuz we are more important to God than the stars...
2007-06-05 01:55:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Religion is a way to control people, much like gov't. Considering that religion used to BE gov't.
Religio-centrism (I just made that up, but it sounds good huh? lol) is the belief that we are the center of everything because of what we believe. It applies to all religions and philosophies that have people who think this.
Something I just thought of, if the earth is only 10,000 yrs old like the bible says it is; then that leaves no time for evolution to take place. So there is the answer as to why they don't believe evolution exists, aside from the garden of eden story.
Slowly, and quite accidently, we evolved from a single cell to what we are today. I have no doubt that during the evolutionary process, that there were multiple adaptations. But the adaptations that didn't work, died out. Just think, had some other adaptation been better for us at one time or another, we could have 4 arms or 8 eyes.....
2007-06-05 09:25:02 · answer #2 · answered by Humanist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I fail to see the contradiction between the existence of God and the fact that the universe is large or that we're indeed developped beings from single-cell organisms !
2007-06-05 08:57:42 · answer #3 · answered by ?? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Christianity, God is the center of everything. He is greater than the universe because He created it. We worship Him because we are unworthy of His love, yet He gives it to us every day. Why do so many people here begin with false premises? There are still single-cell organisms in the world, right? Why did we develop, and not them? They've been around longer than we have, right? What about apes? We still have 'em. Yet we're still here, as well. It seems to me, that when we go to the zoo, it is easier to believe we were created by God, than we evolved from an ape like the one standing in front of us.
2007-06-05 09:00:57 · answer #4 · answered by singwritelaugh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where is the proof, or even conclusive EVIDENCE that we "developed" from single-cell organisms?
Besides, even if we DID develop from a single-celled organism, where did the living cell come from?
2007-06-05 09:07:54 · answer #5 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Psalmist asked the same Psalm 8
Psalms 8
1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
You may have developed from an amoeba. I certainly didn't.
And you claim proof that we ascended from an amoeba. This is patent nonsense and as mad as the Greek theory that we all came together from loose parts that just "fell together"!
2007-06-05 09:00:35 · answer #6 · answered by pwwatson8888 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If u say so...then where did the single-cell organisms come from?Sorry.Cant agree with you on this one.
2007-06-05 09:00:47 · answer #7 · answered by ilani_huntress9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can believe what you want to believe. If you choose not to believe in God and the fact that HE and only He created the earth and everything in it that's your decision. But in the end what if your wrong?
2007-06-05 09:00:11 · answer #8 · answered by SAS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about your religion but mine teaches that God is the center of everything.
Rick Warren wrote a book called The Purpose Driven Life.
Check it out.
http://www.purposedrivenlife.com/
Chapter one.
The first four words are, "It's not about you".
2007-06-05 09:03:11 · answer #9 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK but where did that first cell came from? You can't get something from nothing.
2007-06-05 08:56:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I Don't have a religion but i also think you don't understand what religion is about and why people believe.
2007-06-05 08:58:14 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋