If God is not necessary to explain an event (nature/science can do it), why evoke God?

Answer 1

Your reasoning would have been more valid prior to the discovery of Quantum Theory. Now science does not explain events at all. Cause and effect (causality) is dead. Everything is probability now. Let's take the extinction of the dinosaurs, for example. What caused it? A meteor? Okay, what caused the meteor? All science can say is chance occurrence. Chance means the same as "I don't know". Even in principle, we'll never know what caused the meteor.

What will I type next? Ask all the scientists in the world what I'll type next and all they can ever do is guess. No power of prediction, just probability. If science is so good, why didn't it predict the bridge collapse or the tunnel collapse in Utah?

Answer 2

Hi, I am not sure if i believe in god or not but i believe in something. Its a hard (Q). But we all evoke god in some way most of the time we don't know we do it. I think we evoke god for help, encouragement all selfish even if its for someone else its selfish as "you" want to help someone. Q for you. Have you ever listed to a song on the radio and a few days down the line that song is in your head but you have no idea who sings it and cant remember the words and then you get feeling that song is playing as you are thinking of it so you turn on the radio a miracle it that song. This has happened to me so many times but science or nature cant solve this who can some way say god but we will have to wait and see. Hope this helps in a strange way

Answer 3

God is tied with the spiritual. The unseen. Those who believe there is a spiritual side to life by definition believe in a part of human existence that is unseen and unknown. It can be experienced sometimes, but not explained by science.

It is tied to the essential nature of each of us. There is a branch of science that covers this, but it can't give concrete answers. Philosophy, and within that, Metaphysics.

Some people believe that there are some things that science cannot answer.

Answer 4

It's what I think of as 'the magic feather' (you know, how Dumbo thought he needed his 'magic feather' to fly, even though it was actually his ears that did it).

I read someone's blog once where they said something like, "My marriage has honest communication, mutual respect, truly reciprocal love for each other and it all works because we have God at the center". Well, actually, I'm thinking it works because of the communication, respect and love and, if those things are actually in place, then you can take God right out of the equation & it will still work.

Some people just need a magic feather in order to believe they can fly, be good, be happy, be polite & kind - they believe that God is necessary to make the whole world work the way it does.

Answer 5

ok so how would explain an event w/o calling God? or what event are we talking about? If were talking about when Time began then there was a God.

you have 3 options.

-Nothing created something.
-Something created something.
-It's always been there.

but its kinda hard to belief the first choice.
a painting never just comes to be.

second choice is a lil easier to believe.
a painter painted the painting.

and third its really "iffy" because a painting cant just always have been there.

tlk to me I'm curious on your view. =]

oh and I completely believe in science & truth. =]

Answer 6

If science is not necessary to explain an event ( god can do it ) why invoke science. You can see science is a waste of time. God can do anything.

Why would you invoke something like science which no one can understand when you can just say god did it and no more thinking is necessary. How much simpler can you get?

Answer 7

Because not everything in life is a dry catalogue of events in an anthropology textbook, sensor, or radio telescope.

A wedding, a sunset, or even a simple smile: we are more than the sum of anthropologists struggling to explain about fertility rites, or engineers evaluating twilight spectral emissions, or checking the infrared wavelengths for emissions from whiter teeth.

Life is replete with meaning. For those who understand, no explanation is necessary, and for those who don't no explanation is possible.

Answer 8

For some people, that's a pretty big "IF," but I think people use events to explain God more than the other way around. They decide to believe, so they have to say he's responsible for things, so they can have a way to experience his "reality."

Answer 9

Why indeed? No-one has ever come up with one single valid reason to believe in any god, in all of human history - that's why believers make such a big thing out of having 'faith'. They recognise that there is no argument, no evidence, no observation that any rational person could use as a reason to believe in a deity.

Probably the best answer is that it's the lazy way out. If you have a problem that you can't fix, or a question that you can't answer, just say "God did it" or "Satan did it". It saves all that intellectual effort involved in finding real answers.

Answer 10

Take this link for instance.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_sc/artificial_life
Even if they synthesize life in a laboratory.It's still not evolution,because humans had a hand in it.Remember,it's supposed to be by chance,and not by million dollar budgets that brought life.All the scientists are doing is figuring out how God did it.Synthesized life is not evolution.Science cannot explain everything,nor will it ever.