Was god created through evolution?

Question

1.Evolution created humans.
2.Humans created god.

Evolution created god.

Answer 1

In effect, yes.

At first, people just had various superstitions they made up about the world. They gave special meaning to things they couldn't understand like the Sun, the weather, and death.

Eventually, these superstitions became organized into various rites. People created various explanations, based on limited knowledge, of how things happened. This included various gods and spirits and such, which were mostly just anthropomorphisms.

As people mixed, these ideas competed with each other. People found organized superstitions to be more effective in garnering power. As the idea competed, some became stronger and others died off. As time went on and people passed these ideas to the next generation, they sometimes changed in small or major ways. Groups of one religion would split into several sects. Those groups would further drift from each other in their beliefs. And the society they flourished in also evolved.

Again, as the religions changed over time and found their own niches, they evolved into newer religions. Polytheisms which worshiped whole pantheons of gods went out of favor, except for a few, such as Hinduism, and monotheistic religions sprung up. These further divided into various Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions and sects of those religions. Again, the concept of their gods evolved over time as their society changed and evolved.

These days, you see this process still continuing. There are even some relatively new players in this environment, such as Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses, which represent extreme offshoots from previous religious beliefs. And you still have some religions dying off and becoming extinct, like the Shakers. Though, unlike biological evolution, you only need some people finding old literature about an old religion to cause it to spring up again and gain new life, probably in an even more different form.

So, yes, the gods of today were created through an evolutionary process.

Answer 2

Religion is a meme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Memes evolve.

For gods, they started out as explanations of natural effects. Leaves russtle, grass whispers, streams babble - there must be someone making those noises.

Then they get into the Bigger natural effects, what keeps the sun up and going round? And the moon? What makes the seasons and the crops grow.?

Then they get used to answer the imponderable questions. How was the Earth formed? Why am I here? Where do I go when I die.

At this point there is a good job in being a priest. Someone who can give those answers (after eating the right mushrooms/plants!) Someone who can say when to plant, when to harvest.

Someone who can cast the blame when things do not go well, take the credit when they do go well.

Spirits get combined into gods and goddesses. More successful versions take over less successful ones. Better heavens and worse hells attract more followers.

Eventually you end up with single all powerful all knowing gods with the best heavens and the worst hells.



This is not theory - it is history. Look how the native Americans gave up their religion because the god of the Europeans was more powerful - it must be otherwise their gods would have protected them.

Answer 3

for sure, Evolution exists. even with the undeniable fact that, that's merely as clean that God exists besides. It makes logical experience then, that God has a hand in Evolution. Adam and Eve are probable the earliest recorded Hebrew human beings. Who arrived the place they have been by the means of Evolution.

Answer 4

Quite possibly. As first was the Void. The Primordial Ooze.
Our Creator is the I AM. The first thought or realization that the Creator even existed! Mind. Awareness!
And everything WE know, comes from the Creator.
In fact. I think conscious evil, (making a choice), came into being through a "degenerative evolution". Our Creator giving birth to the Highest Lifeforms. And they having godlike qualities and abilities. And
giving birth to other spiritual beings. And as the dimensions were made, a degenerative process took place. A weakening of the power that made these beings. And they retained their godlike abilities to have power and create. But lost their godlike qualities of unconditional Love. And became prideful and controlling!

Answer 5

No, He wasn't created at all (that whole "eternal" thing), however, your question is not without merit...

Although He wasn't created, in a way, He IS evolving, and it is His Creation that will assist Him in doing this!! In fact, this may be considered "the meaning or purpose of life"!!

As stated in the Bible, God is the "Alpha and the Omega", i.e. the Beginning and the End. God-Alpha represents the before-time Eternal Being, the one who initiated creation, perhaps by exploding pieces of HimSelf into the Universe (Big Bang).

So what is God-Omega?? Put simply, it is the re-joining of all of His "Pieces" that He sent outwards as Creation. If/when we Awaken to our True Identity as ONE, we will realize our Unity...and our Unity stems from the fact that we are all, in effect "Pieces of God". Once we all come to the realization and are then drawn back together To and In God, God will in a sense be Whole Again, as together we reach Omega...

And it could be that this is part of why God created The Universe; He no longer wanted to just be HimSelf. He wanted to share His Being with others. And b/c He is All That There Is, all of Creation are just fragments of Him. But now, all these various "Pieces of God" are enriched by living different lives, by learning and achieving different things. Our existence enriches and deepens His Existence!!

So, in effect, God is RIGHT NOW in the process of Evolving from God-Alpha into God-Omega. I for one am extremely intrigued and excited by this process, and will do whatever I can to help further it along...

Excellent question!! :)

Peace.

Answer 6

HMMM...

1) No God magically puffed in to existence and has existed for infinity.

2) God has never existed.

3) Yes, considering if in the future humans create life in an unconventional manner on a different planet that we terraformed we can be seen as God. So yes evolution can create Gods.

Answer 7

I will venture to say that the majority of you non-believers will get that 'foxhole religion', when your life is threatened and you have a brush with imminent death.
I have seen it more than a few times.
now, about your question, God could not have been created through evolution. Evolution was conjured up by
people who wanted to absolve themselves of the idea that they had to be responsible to a higher being for their sinful actions.
You all can struggle to drive that final nail in God's coffin, but as long as there are people on the Earth, God will not die.

Answer 8

Well the Christian's interperation/expression of the Christian God has evolved - even since the Medieval Ages.

This is a form of evolution, as in the developing of the various branches of X-ianity.

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Answer 9

Yep, the Evolution of Stupidity.

Answer 10

god was created by primitive man during the early period of human civilization as a way to explain what could not be explained. As time went on humans started to understand what causes earthquakes, rain, thunder, lighting, solar eclipses and other things that are able to be explained.

Remember primitive man was clueless as to what caused an earthquake so they assumed that god was angry; but now we know what causes them.

Well at least those who have an open-mind