Why do we need a Creator?

Question

What miracle is required to begin the universe?

Considering the total energy in the universe is zero (a balance between negative gravitional energy and the material energy) and the total entropy is increasing (as the universe expands) and nothingness appears to be an unstable state...

What need is there for a Creator?

--Stenger and Hawking

((Yeah, it's a repost, I thirst for answers))

Answer 1

We?

(The "zero balance of the universe" idea is one of the most magnificent ideas of Hawking's that my feeble brain has been able partially to comprehend.)

Answer 2

"Why do we need a Creator?"
So that we can live. What would you do without a body? Could you live without a body?

"What miracle is required to begin the universe?"
Only one's that God did.

"Considering the total energy in the universe is zero (a balance between negative gravitional energy and the material energy) and the total entropy is increasing (as the universe expands) and nothingness appears to be an unstable state..."
You go ahead and wonder about that. It has nothing to do with your first two questions in my opinion.

Answer 3

Diminati.
There is a big difference between "creationism" and creation. If you actually went to the site that "a_measured_brush" cited then you possible could have figured that out. It is also certainly neither "selfish" or "rude" for someone to point out the scientific argument against aboigenious. I don't think that you know what a straw man argument is. A straw man argument is when you mis-represent the argument of your oponant. Your contention that the simplist living cell is a product of millions of years of evolution is purely spectulative: there is no support for this from extra-terrestial sources, from the fossil record, or from the labortory. Also the question asked at the beginning was "Why do we need a Creator?" not "Why does the universe need a Creator?"

Answer 4

A Measured Brush: You've just wasted most of the space on this page but cutting and pasting from a creationist site, when you could have simply put a link here. That is selfish and rude.
It is also completely unnecessary. Had you done a little research, you would have found that this argument has already been addressed and the fallacy pointed out. The author is arguing that the simplest current living cell could not have simply sprung into existence from inorganic compounds. Well duh, no one has ever claimed it did. This is a straw-man argument. The simplest cell is a product itself of many millions of years of evolution. In fact, the period of time of pre-cellular life and evolution could have extended into the hundreds of millions of years.
Had you studied the actual science of abiogenesis at all, you would have known that already. Education is your best defense against indoctrination by this religious propaganda.

Amd what does biology have to do with cosmology? The question was about the origin of the universe, not life.

Answer 5

Your questioning the need for a creator is basically the same thing as asking "Why do we need water"? The earth is on a 23.5 degree tilt. If it was just a half degree off seasonal change, we'd either burn or freeze to death. The chances of a "big bang" creating a life forming planet with intelligence such as ours, is so slim, it's the same equivalent as someone taking a dime, throwing it in any one of Earth's great oceans. Then traveling to some small village in Africa, finding some skinny villager, and saying to him, "OK, go find it." Hope that helps you out.

Answer 6

I will agree with you on the premise that there is not necessarily a "need" for a Creator.

But I don't think that says anything about the existence or non-existence of a Creator.

Answer 7

A creator we all have one. Who created you? Your parents. Look up to a stary night do you think it all happen by chance? I have no doubts that there is a creator of heaven and Earth.

Answer 8

Because far too many people never get it. From the time of the fall and the flood most people still do not get it. God does exist.

Answer 9

Regardless of how we feel about this issue, the fact still remains that we have one. Now, we must deal with the ramifications of that. That is what we struggle with the most.

Answer 10

Without him? No existence?
On the other hand, how does all this fancy science, explain that humans have in their makeup, so much beyond what is necessary for the survival of the species?