Why do so many people pick science over religion? Why are so many people quick to say, there is no God?

Question

If men evolved from apes, where did the ape come from? As well as the other animals? People base their religion on how they were raised, so how do u know without thinking outside of your comfort zone? I know there is a God, he has spoken to me. I have based my religion on how I was raised but also my personal evaluation of God. So I want to know, what makes people say there is no God? Why are there so many unbelievers out there? Does no one fear God anymore?

Answer 1

Alison, it is because their hearts are filled with darkness, themselves and the world. Jesus says that they prefer the darkness to the LIGHT. Thye make themselves their own gods. But God is not mocked.

m 14:11 For it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Answer 2

This is a very simple one and there are many reasons but I'll just go over a few that persuade me the most.


1.
Q: What caused God?
A: He always existed / He was there in the beginning.

Problem: First this doesn't answer the question. It implies God is acausual, that he had no cause. If God had no cause then why can't I say there is a timeless machine that makes universes constantly, and that is a lot less complex than God and God also has many personal attributes in the Christian religion. Or more so...why couldn't the universe be acausual if God is acausual. Which makes more sense...

There was an acausual God who happened to make a universe.

There was an acausual universe.

The ladder has one less assumption and therefore is more plausible.


2. The universe appears fine tuned for natural development of life. There are ~100 billion stars in a galaxy and ~100 billion galaxies, you read these numbers but if you actually stop and think about it...that is a serious serious HUGE amount of stuff! It takes a planet like earth to start life through the combination of organic molecules until you get your first replicating RNA molecule and things just keep rolling from there. Chemical natural selection after hundreds of millions of years and across millions and millions of square miles of sea filled with trial and error...we get our first reproducing cell. Is it possible? Yes, all evidence points towards this being the case although the puzzle pieces are still being put together...it is already looking very good.

So if we don't need God for a universe to exist and we don't need God for life to exist, then what do we need God for? Personal experiences have been shown time and time again to be simple delusions in the brain. I don't mean that in a insulting way but that is what they are, delusions seem real but many people have the same delusions only with different religions and the same thing happens for them all. God has no more gaps to fill. On the other hand there is a lot of evidence that religion developed naturally among diverse cultures as a primitive way of explaining the world and evolved to support social/political pursuits and eventually we get monotheistic religions were are somewhat more elegant because people realized that fire is just fire and lava is just lava, you don't need a God for those things but it makes more sense if we say one God made it all. That's all I can get into now, have a nice day I hope you have an idea of where we come from now. Oh and one last thing, I don't believe there is no God, I don't believe in God. It seems subtle but there is a big difference between the two. The former is hard atheism, the ladder is soft atheism. Hard atheism in my opinion is illogical because it makes the assumption that the individual can draw accurate conclusions about reality.

Answer 3

Life started when nonliving matter formed a self replicating chemical bond that produced more of itself through chemical attraction. This is commonly called the "Primordial Soup" and the process is known as Abiogenises. This process has been observed in nature and has been recreated in laboratory conditions. This created singled celled organisms, which turned into multi celled micro organisms, then simple sea life such as crustaceans, then fish, then Amphibians, to lizards, to primitive mammals you get the picture. The point is life started on its own, it was forged in the heat and chaos of early earth and went from there. And the universe came from the big bang. How that happened I do not know so there is finally an opening for a god to start things I suppose.

And I was not raised to not believe in God, the exact opposite in fact, I came to the conclusion he is false on my own. I have no "comfort zone" as you put it, I think about anything anyone throws my way with little discomfort. If you do not at least consider something seriously once or twice you are not a logical person and I consider myself logical. There are so many unbelievers because people are finally realizing that gods are created by humans not the other way around. Gods are the product of early humanity's attempt to explain the unexplainable or that which he did not wish to truly explain and that is what it still is today. And there are still a great many people that still foolish fear many gods, just the people wise enough to realize the truth do not fear fairy tales. I fear God as much as I fear werewolves or vampires.

Answer 4

First of all as far as evolution goes you need to know that you don't know anything about it. If you will actually read some books about it you will understand the question you have asked.
I was raised a believer. I though outside of my comfort zone and that is how I became an Atheist. For me it was not a quick decision... it was not a decision at all. I simply had no other choice but to accept the truth once I learned it. I used to think that a god heard my prayers. I have realized that I can get that same feeling after a good cry or a long talk with a friend. The feeling you get after prayer is a placebo effect.

Answer 5

The answer to your 1st question is: they do not understand science. Science does not preclude God and, almost certainly, it is not possible for science to disprove the existence of God.

Question #2, about apes: according to the theory of evolution (which it seems you are addressing), all life evolved from lower life forms, and therefore all life has a common ancestor in the simplest life form - a single-celled life form of some type. Some scientists believe that this "first" life form was created by some sort of electro-chemical reaction, but this is mere conjecture and outside the realm of the theory of evolution in any case.

Question #3: "what makes people say there is no God?" It is because many people need proof to believe something, or they need to be persuaded that something is reasonable before they believe it, or they need to *want* to believe something before they will believe it. God is something that must be taken entirely on faith. We *cannot* *prove* the existence of God, and we *cannot* *prove* that God does not exist. Those who do not want to believe in God find it very easy to discount God because there is no conclusive evidence of the existence of God. Those who think it is not reasonable that God exists are likewise encouraged by the lack of solid proof.

I hope this helps.

Jim, Christian, B.S. in Physics, John Carroll University

Answer 6

If you'd actually take the time to study Evolution then you would understand that humans evolved from a common ancestor of both human and ape. Evolution does not explain how life began; but rather how we have such a diversity of life.

People say there is no God because they have not had proof to say that there is. They don't see the logic in believing in a supernatural being who just so happens to be the image of human beings.

No one should ever have to fear a deity... I don't fear the God and Goddess I believe in, I live in perfect harmony and respect with them. I don't see why anyone should fear a deity. You cannot have love with fear.

Answer 7

First, no, men did not evolve from apes... they are as modern as you are.... Even the Catholic church accepts that evolution happened...

Secondly, define god. If you are thinking of a sky daddy, a personal being that listens to prayers, keeps track of requests, and bam created the universe, then, no, you would have few takers. But if god is being itself, as described by Paul Tillich, that god is the art of science, the wonder of life, the riddles in DNA, and resides in the hand of the surgeon, the brush of the artist, and the music on the pages written by Mozart and Bach, and the joy of love, then hon, god for sure is real, alive and part of us all god just not a super sky daddy.....

Answer 8

To answer your questions I will quote directly from the Bible.

What makes people say there is no God?
2nd Corinthians 4:3,4 (Blinded by the god of this world Satan the Devil)
Psalms 14:1 (This says they're senseless)
Colossians 2:8 (philosophies)

Why is there so many unbelievers?
2nd Corinthians 4:3,4 (Satan blinding them to the truth)
Matthew 13:10-15 (Jesus said those who truly don't want the truth are not granted to know the truth.)
2nd Timothy 3:1-5 (They love being that way and love pleasures rather than God)

Does no one fear God anymore?
Matthew 24:3,45-47 (There would be a group in the last days(our time) that would be faithful and Jesus would use them to teach the truth about him and his Father, Jehovah.) (Matthew 24:14 and Matthew 28:1920)
Revelation 11:18 (God says he is going to reward those fearing his name.)
Psalms 83:18 (King James Bible will show you the name to have godly fear for.) (At Matthew 6:9 and Matthew 4:10 Jesus showed that his Father's name, which is there at Psalms 83:18, is the name to worship and to be sanctified, or hallowed.)

As regards where animals and man came from the Bible is perfectly clear.
Genesis 1:21,24,25 (These verses show that animals were made according to their kinds, therefore, did not evolve.)
Genesis 2:19 (Animals made from the ground like mankind.)
Genesis 2:7 (First man, Adam, made from the ground
Genesis 2:21-23 (First woman, Eve, made from Adam)

Answer 9

93% of members of the national academies of sciences are non-believers. The National Academy of Science comprises the best and brightest scientists.

Even of those remaining 7%, very few of them believe in a traditional God like most Christians believe in.

There are very good reasons these brilliant people don't believe in your God. But to understand them, you would have to study alot, and you probably won't. So be happy being ignorant. Or study some biology and prepare to have your faith obliterated. You'll never know why until you broaden your horizons.

Answer 10

it is because we do not want to believe there is a God then we can act anyway we want and no one will be able to judge us for our actions. also many people have a hard time understanding that God always existed, there never was a time when God did not exist. Science everything is proven by an origin point except they cant prove one for God. For people who say they were raised a christian when they were little and not one now. That is you went to church, but you did not believe or understand what you were taught. But going to church doe not make you a christian, neither does going to a bar make you an alcoholic.

Answer 11

ok im kind of total Jesusfreak Catholic, but here's my theory. We are all human. Our nature is to want to be the best. It's hard for us to imagine that someone bigger and better than all of us created this world. No human could have accomplished what this world is. We have trouble comprehending that. And there are so many religions out there, they all conflict, even though most have the central point of God, I think it's like we're all kids and there are a million different parents telling us the best way to grow up. Some kids would listen to one, some may just shut them all out and see if he could make it on his own. I think if we all agreed on 1 religion it'd b easier for someone to believe. But it's hard to get past the 'I don't want to be told what to do.' Some ppl see God as this big boss man who rules the ppl. He only gave us 10 rules, and seriously this God is the most forgiving. No matter how bad we screw up as long as we are sorry he forgives us! I think people see the power of God as ruling and bad instead of comforting and good. It's our choice to see which. But remember not everyone can believe in God, who would be left to spread the word to?