Atheists...what or who made us if a Higher Power does not exist?

Question

I am serious..I cannot understand the concept of believing that there is no Higher Power or God or whatever name people want to use. I have seen answers like "Mom and Dad made me" but you know what I mean. Mom and Dad did not DESIGN the equipment.

Answer 1

I cannot intellectually defend natural selection. (how does an entire organ get "naturally selected"). I also cannot intellectually defend the random creation of a protein ( 1/10 to the power of 60). If people don't want to believe in God that's fine but please come up with something that's at least CLOSE to ever happening. I cannot help but believe in God due to the law of Entropy. Since the universe is gradually leaning towards disorder something/someone must be maintaining it.

Answer 2

how long have you got? i don't have a complete answer, but i find i have no need to mention a Higher Power at any point. the fact that you apparently single out life as requiring a designer indicates that you don't see it as necessary for everything. you might ask who made the sun? but perhaps you accept that gravity acting on gas clouds can form stars, which undergo nuclear fusion and release energy. no need to mention god there. life is a little more complicated than stars, it requires not only an energy source but also a way of replicating - producing copies of itself. DNA currently does this, but there are indications that RNA was a precursor replicating molecule. now admittedly this is vague, but i would say that life began when a replicating molecule first came into contact with a source of energy - maybe a deep sea hydrothermal vent, or a perennial favorite, the lightning strike. from there, life evolves simply because replication is not perfect - progeny are not always just like their parents and these changes may be advantageous. a few billion years later, most recently humans share a common ancestor with chimpanzees. i left a lot out, but maybe you get the general idea.

Answer 3

Who threw lightening after we figured out Zeus wasn't real? I guess we didn't need to believe once we understood that it was a natural phenomenon. I see some who have to invent a story of God for all things we don't have an absolute answer for yet. I think we don't have all the answers yet for how life originally arose although we do have a pretty clear picture of how humans evolved. I think saying it must be God when we don't have definitive answer is just making up a story for things we don't understand like our primitive ancestors did. I don't see a reason to assume that it must be God because we don't have a full answer. I am content to say we are still learning and don't have all the answers. Lets investigate with minds open to the evidence.

Answer 4

Christians answer everything with glib analogies; so here is one. It takes a "higher power" to make a Rolls Royce, not so much so for an off the shelf Buick. Am I right so far? You perceive creation as a bunch of Rolls Royces, so there must be a higher power, right? I percieve creation as less than even a bunch of Buicks, more like Yugos, or Trebans. So you see, I can live without the "higher power" concept quite easily.

Answer 5

yes I do believe in a higher power. the reason why science and math can not explain it is due to the fact that those two things were never meant to explain it. Do you feel love? If so can you write a mathematical equations for it or can you make a scientific formula for it? No.. The higher power is in all of us. You just have to open your heart to see it

Answer 6

I can not understand why Evolution is denied when evidence is placed in front of some people.

Many people believe that the universe is not designed at all, and that enough factors came together in this region on space on this planet to allow it to support life, and I really do not unstand how anyone could deny the possibilty of there being other forms of life on other planets.

It could also be argued that we outselves are part of a mechanism, with the universe being a living being itself and us it's parts.

Answer 7

I don't know...there...that's the plain and simple truth! I have NO idea how we got here.
I use to be religious and believed in creation, but now as an atheist, I am wary of embracing the therory of evolution simply because it seems to be the only other option.
The evolution they taught at school didn't make a lot of sense to me, I don't know...maybe I got a skewwed version of it.
To be honest, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Knowing how we got here isn't going to affect how I live my life, because I am already trying my hardest to be a good person and do positive things.
Knowing how I got here won't change that. I'm not about to start stressing out about it.

Answer 8

The Grand Canyon is impressive, but it was not designed. The argument from design is a discredited argument.

Natural selection has allowed complexity to accrue over billions of generations, increasing complexity. No design necessary.

Answer 9

What exactly don't you understand. No "higher power" made us. It's like asking "if god didn't put this shell on the beach, who did?" The shell came onto the beach via natural processes. Just like you and me.

The rest of your question gets a little murky. Are you confused about "Argument from Design" or "First Cause"?

Answer 10

Chance created the first living thing. This living thing then mutated through errors in its self-replication, the bad changes were weeded out because it would be less likely to survive to breeding age, the good changes kept because it would be MORE likely to survive to breeding age and thence pass these changes on. Some changes don't make it either more OR less likely to survive, so sometimes these are kept too. And that's what makes new species.

It's really not that complicated.