what is this that i believe?

Question

i've come up with this on my own and was wondering if it was similar to anything already out there.

there is no god, only a creator. this creator may have been significant in power, significant enough to maybe have begun the processes of evolution on earth so many ages ago, but surely was no god. i believe this creator entity may or may not have been simply travelling the universe, and intentionally/unintentionally sparked the original seeds of life on earth. surely this creature is no longer near us, or not likely still living.

there is no religious text, no deciples, no god, this is my belief on the origin of mankind.

Answer 1

Your entitled to your beliefs, as screwed up as they may be.

Answer 2

I'm not quite sure what "sparking" the seeds of life means. Either there was a process in place that could have proceded without any intervention, or the intervener would necessarily have the capacity to design and put such a process into service.

Evolution isn't magic. It requires the right kinds of molecules in the right kinds of arrangements in sufficent quantities to produce the right kinds of chemical reactions. And without the support of the basic physical properties of the universe, none of it could have happened. So either this "creator" introduced an organic form (from somewhere else?) that had not yet occured naturally, sped up a process that was already occurring, intervened so early in the process as to make no descernible difference or designed the rules of the universe to make life possible.

Because all life on earth uses the same genetic replication and modification technique, DNA, we can assume that whatever might have "created" it started early enough to not leave any traces of alternate or failed methods. This suggests a god-like being who knew enough about what it was doing for the process to continue working billions of years later. And if it merely borrowed the "seeds" from somewhere else, that just begs another question: what started THOSE seeds?

And since the process is still automatic, requiring no supernatural intervention to occur, one might ask whether there ever WAS an intervention. So either the "creator" WAS tantamount to "God" or it wasn't much of a creator.

There's nothing wrong with believing in a "God" who created the universe, then went off into retirement. That's called "Deism", a brand of belief popular in the 18th Century and bandied about often in this forum. But I think a non-god "creator" is a matter of semantics. It's as if you needed a sufficiently powerful and intelligent explanation for our existence but didn't want the possibility of it running your life. Either the development of life was natural and automatic or artificial and managed. One process needs a god (at least initially), the other does not.

Answer 3

If you're looking for the name of a religion to attach to your beliefs--unfortunately, there is more to religion than just a set of ideas. There are also rituals, organizations to join, and so on.

What you are describing resembles what some UFO contactee groups teach, though they usually believe the alien creators are still in touch with us (through the group, of course). Your beliefs may or may not stretch this far, but check out the Raelians, for example.

On the other hand, you might see yourself as an atheist / agnostic who just happens to have some peculiar beliefs about the origins of life on earth. In fact, I understand that mainstream scientists now take seriously the idea that life on earth was seeded by a meteorite from Mars (though this would not imply an intelligent creator).

A few other religions for your edification and amusement:

HINDUISM--accepts a creator god, Brahma, alongside numerous other gods

BUDDHISM--disinterested in the question of where the world came from. Some traditions take for granted the existence of Indian gods.

DEISM--God created the universe as a self-regulating mechanism, much as a watchmaker makes watches, then abandoned his creation for all practical purposes

Good luck!
Zla'od

Answer 4

Okay, I will admit that is a possibility. However, then the next question you must ask yourself is....where did the entity come from? Who created Him.(it)? Your hypothesis is interesting and one that I myself have thought about...in fact thought about to the extent of writing a book (fiction) about such a happening. I changed my mind however because even though it was fiction, it would still be a slap in the face of the one I call my God. God Bless.

Answer 5

Everyone was created by God to worship. When some people's bearings get out of whack they don't cease to worship, they simply cease to worship God. So, look around you. Everyone worships something. It seems that you worship self. You are so grandiose in your self-adoration that you believe that after 4,000 years of humanity that you can come up with an original angle to deny God.

Narcisis.

Answer 6

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's? - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Answer 7

that goes along my theory....that god is a drunk alochalic deadbeat who turned his back on Earth the day bible ended and modern civilization started.

Answer 8

It's very Pagan. Which is in no way wrong. You should research all the correlations that the Bible has to astrology!

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

Answer 9

And who created the creator?

Answer 10

if there was only a creater there must have been a God to make a creater. but if there was a God He would not have need for one