Both processes require a leap of faith. Yet some non-believers with deep faith in a spontaneous creation for no reason, scoff at believers of a creation that was orchestrated by a sentient being.
2007-09-02 19:08:30 · 41 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just as some believers scoff at non-believers.
2007-09-02 19:14:02 · update #1
mooseback333 (below) Do to artifacts discovered and historical data that gives validity to religious writings, I believe the universe was engineered by someone.
2007-09-02 19:16:06 · update #2
Jett (below) Your explanation requires a ton of faith as well. You take it on faith that something, ever so basic, came from nowhere.
2007-09-02 19:18:00 · update #3
Basically, non believers have to belie eve that something existed with no explanation as to where how or why it existed. It simply did.
2007-09-02 19:19:33 · update #4
believe - (above)
Meanwhile, believers have to simply believe that a God of unknown origins decieded to make all of this happen. Yet cannot explain His origins.
2007-09-02 19:21:30 · update #5
since nobody can prove either i would say its about equal ...
2007-09-02 19:15:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
No, I don't think it's a leap of faith to think the universe spontaneously began existing.
Because it is here, isn't it?
And science is pretty good at explaining the working of the universe, isn't it?
And God cannot be scientifically verified, tested or observed, can it?
My train of thought is:
1) the universe exists
2) science is the best methods of testing a hypothesis
3) there are scientific theories being studied about the beginning of the universe
4) science is better at solving a hypothesis than religion is
5) there is no empirical evidence hinting that a creator exists and no creator has shown itself to exist
6) until there is empirical evidence suggesting that a creator is probable, one might as well assume there are other means for a universe to come into being
2007-09-02 19:22:57 · answer #2 · answered by Rin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it does not require a leap of faith to accept a scientific explanation for how the universe came to exist as some form of the "Big Bang" theory is the most reasonable and probable explanation, above and beyond the absurd speculation of creationists and/or intelligent design proponents.
All it takes is an intelligent, well-educated person committed to thinking rationally about the evidence they see before them. Once again, science wins based upon the evidence.
2007-09-04 05:21:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah yes, the "I can't believe it could happen any other way, so therefore, you must have faith in something false" argument. The atheists have faith despite what they say.
Look, I don't know how exactly the universe got to it's present state, but from what I have researched and read (including the Bible), I currently believe that the universe is in infinite cycles of expansion/collapse. Is this the truth? Who knows, but that doesn't mean I'll pretend that I have the truth, or that I believe that my religious choice has all the answers.
2007-09-02 19:20:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a point, without knowing for fact, anything requires a leap of faith into believing it. I find it easier to believe that the universe was created by the nature and things of that nature, but truthfully, I don't KNOW for fact either way. Everyone has their views, all of which are based on their faith in what they believe to be true, no one has the right or place to say the others are wrong.
2007-09-02 19:18:47 · answer #5 · answered by ems_fire_rescue_ks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it takes more faith to believe that a sentient being capable of creating a universe simply showed ready for work one day without having evolved from a much simpler form first .
2007-09-02 19:19:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really, because if the universe was engineered, the engineer had to spontaneously begin, rendering your entire line of questioning void. The only consideration is whether or not it is possible for anyone thing, whether it be a universe, or a power, to spontaneously come into being, and logically speaking, one seems just about as possible as the other if both are.
2007-09-02 19:17:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, believeing that the world is create by a sentient being takes more faith as it require you to believe in the existence of a sentient beings that is in charge of our life while a spontaneous creation is just a creation, won't affect the way we living right now.
2007-09-02 19:17:43 · answer #8 · answered by unsastisfied 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't spontaneously begin, evidence points to the basic elements of the universe always being here. We are talking about something very basic, which became complex over time, not something infinitely complex, such as a creator, which by definition has to be more complex than it's creation, always existing.
Complexity has to come from simplicity, this can be observed in every process of nature.
2007-09-02 19:15:27 · answer #9 · answered by Jett 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ah, but implicit within the belief that the creation of the universe was orchestrated by a sentient being is the belief that this sentient being was somehow spontaneously created.
2007-09-02 20:46:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said it spontaneously began? Where did your " magic man " come from? If he was here always, do you not think the universe is a simpler explanation of something always here? Besides, the " big bang " was an expansion; not a beginning. Get it right, delusional one.
I see by your answer to Jett that you are entirely ignorant of cosmological principals. You start that " beginning and end " nonsense again
2007-09-02 19:16:45 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋