...a sunset, or a mountain, or the complexity of life? If there is a watch, there must be a watchmaker.
2007-07-28 15:58:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Slap your parents for me please!
2007-07-28 16:01:56 · answer #1 · answered by KEVIN D 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simple really. A sunset occures as the earth rotates about it's axis in an easterly direction. Happens every twenty four hours give or take. Most mountains were created through tectonic upheavals between the plates that comprise the earths crust. The complexity of life occurs as different species and subspecies branch off to form even more species. Interestingly, we only see about one tenth of one percent of the species that ever existed. The other ninety nine point nine percent have become extinct as we humans will some day. Complex huh? And you don't seem to be confused about everything. If there is a watch, indeed there is a watchmaker. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that to be a fact. But no watchmaker made those other things did he/she? At least there is no evidence that one did.
2007-07-28 23:08:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply put: a sunset isn't a watch.
Read The Blind Watchmaker, it's a decent refutation of the watchmaker analogy.
2007-07-28 23:06:45 · answer #3 · answered by N 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sunsets are caused by the sun reflecting on dust particles in the air. The most beautiful sunset I ever saw was one summer evening in Los Angeles. The guy on the radio said that all the beautiful colors were cause by the worst air pollution in five years. Several elderly people died from lung problems caused by the pollution that day. God?
2007-07-28 23:05:45 · answer #4 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How childish of you. The sunset is the earth spinning and the piece of earth you are on going away from the sun.
Mountains are formed by volcanos bringing up lava that cools and turns into rock or from tectonic plates pushing together and pushing land upwards.
Life really isn't that complex once you know about it.
2007-07-28 23:03:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
there is no way of explaining. Like you said: if there's a watch, then there's a watchmaker. So, if there's all these beautiful things, then that mean it was created by someone.....God.
2007-07-28 23:02:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Using this argument, then God, the ULTIMATE of perfection, must ALSO have had a maker. Who do you propose made GOD? He is the bulova of watches, so HE must have had a maker as well.
2007-07-28 23:35:46 · answer #7 · answered by Tikhacoffee/MisterMoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people who cannot grasp that concept are concrete thinkers. They are not capable of wonderous abstract thoughts. Notice how the first answer is entirely out of context?
A watch does not make itself, even if you lay all of the pieces on the table. If you throw clothes up in the air, they will never land in a folded matter, stacked apon each other.
2007-07-28 23:03:29 · answer #8 · answered by Basil 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i don't believe in that god that's listed in the bible. actually, i don't believe in any god. if there is a greater creator it has to be better than god. i can't explain y things are the way that they are, it just doesn't make sense for a god to create people to want to serve him when he had the angels for that.
2007-07-28 23:06:23 · answer #9 · answered by lookingforanswersandquestions 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But your explanation for those things is an invisible, supernatural being that just magically created it out of nothing. Am I supposed to believe that?
2007-07-28 23:04:38 · answer #10 · answered by Kitty 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Friend: You have done a great job at answering your own question. Well done!
Rev. Terry
2007-07-28 23:03:00 · answer #11 · answered by Rev. Terry 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋