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Does it take more faith to believe that the Empire State Building was created by intelligent design or through a process of chance and time?(The Empire State building being far less complex than all the organisms and beings in the word)

2007-09-11 11:59:18 · 14 answers · asked by Jonny 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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i would say it takes equal faith, because if you believe in something you cant prove, that is faith, and i really dont know of anyone that can either prove or disprove God or nothing

2007-09-11 12:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0 0

That's a really bad comparison. Chance and time can't create something like the Empire State Building. It can create things like Mt. Everest, the Grand Canyon, etc., but not a building...made of man-made materials and altered and warped.
But as for the actual question, it takes more faith to believe in God. If you actually do some open minded research in history, literature, religion or philosophy, you'll start wondering how anyone can believe in God at all. The idea seems almost laughable, and the only reason you don't laugh is because it's all true.

2007-09-11 12:07:16 · answer #2 · answered by Jo'Dan 3 · 0 0

The fact is everything is created by someone. But man can only manipulate things that are already created by the Supreme Person, Creator of all. No one can make life that's a fact. They can only manipulate what God put here. It takes a lot of lack of intelligence to not see that God created the elements that made the empire state building and gave the persons the intelligence to assemble it. Intelligence comes from God and if we want to be rascals then forgetfulness comes from Him too.

2007-09-11 12:59:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You asked the right question but few are here to admit the truth of what you asked. For me it would take more faith to believe we came from nothing. The problem with the whole question is we exist now. Therefore this query becomes an intellectual debate based on one species that exists here on this earth for a relatively short period of time. I'm talking about man and mankind. Man thinks he knows everything. And he actually believes he will have everything figured out too.

How egotistical man is.

If he were wise we would question how it is the laws of gravity and thermodynamics existed long before the mind of man ever discovered it. And he calls those people wise and brilliant for figuring out how those principles and laws of science work. Yet he does not acknowledge the brilliance or genius of how those laws came into existence in the first place before man even discovered them.

I rest my case on the egotistical nature of so called intellectual man.

2007-09-11 13:06:26 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 1 0

*sigh* First, the great Bang improve into no longer AN EXPLOSION. purely clearing that up. you could learn what the scientific theory IS earlier discarding it. how are you able to assert some thing is illogical in case you don't comprehend what it even IS? 2d, the great Bang takes 0 faith, via fact it has info. in assessment to the life of gods. 0.33, you're committing the Argument from lack of know-how- "i don't get it, consequently god". surely you think of technology is purely too stressful to appreciate so which you will extremely bypass with magic. what's "much less complicated" isn't what's genuine. this is LAZY. "Goddidit" stops all rational theory and inquiry. @eliziam- No, she did no longer strengthen a valid question. She gave a logical fallacy and an incorrect assertion of what the great Bang is. And as a scientist, i'm particularly rattling helpful i understand greater appropriate to the great Bang than you. I hate to tell you chief, yet maximum atheists are atheists via fact they study and studied the bible greater thoroughly than maximum believers. did no longer you already know that modern-day examine confirmed that atheists understand greater approximately faith than the different team? That purely 10% of yank Christians have study the full bible, yet almost 60% of yank atheists have? for sure you probably did no longer- which could contradict your preconceived notions approximately your faith.

2016-10-04 09:53:47 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Well lets start here,Faith is one of many gifts that GOD gives us.And only having a personal relationship with his son JESUS CHRIST can we truly learn or understand the living GOD. Take a moment and really think about what you are made of and what makes you tick so to speak. The human body is a totally fascinating creation. Everything in your body that must work just at the right time, the balance of chemicals that must be just so for your brain and body to work to gather? Be honest with yourself, do you really think all that can happen by mistake? Lets take it one step further staying on the subject of the Human body. Do some research on the human eye one time, take a good hard look at what it takes to do what it does. We can go on and on, these are just a couple out of millions of examples. Im sure there are going to be many people out there who do not agree with me , but remember guys the question was not do you believe in GOD ,it was about intelligent design.Stand outside at night and look up. feel the wind in your face, smell springtime, touch the green in the grass.

2007-09-11 12:57:17 · answer #6 · answered by Scott 1 · 1 1

What is more absurd? To believe God designed all of this, or given enough time, hydrogen turns into humans, molecules to man, particles to people, microbes to microbiologists, protozoa to ponies, pelicans and politicians? If a frog turns into a prince in an instant—well, that’s a fairy tale. But if a frog turns into a prince over millions of year—well, that’s evolution. But I still say it’s a fairy tale.

Are we the ones with blind faith? Where you there when something popped into existence from nothing and exploded? No, well do you see something pop into existence from nothing today? Were you there when non-living matter gave rise to life? No, well do you see non-living matter giving rise to life today? Where you there when single-celled organisms gave rise to many-celled organisms, when invertebrates gave rise to vertebrates, when ape-like creatures gave rise to man? No, well do you see it happening today? You have to believe that matter came into existence by itself and then arranged itself into information systems by blind chance. That is what goes against real science.

As Dr. Jonathan Sarfati says, we need to quit calling evolution a theory; that is giving it too much credit. “Goo to you” evolution is an unsubstantiated hypothesis or conjecture, not a theory.

Swedish biologist Soren Lovtrup made an interesting statement: “I suppose that nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology...I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science. When this happens, many people will pose the question: How did this ever happen?”

So why do so many people believe in evolution? It’s simple, most people believe what they want to believe and they don’t want there to be a God. You see, if God created us, then He also owns us. If He owns us, then He has a right to set the rules by which we must live. If He has set the rules by which we must live, then we are accountable to Him. They don’t want to be accountable to God; they don’t want to be controlled. And so, it is their desire to explain the origin of everything without a Creator at all costs; they must believe in evolution. Evolutionism then, is intrinsically an atheistic religion—the religion of secular humanism.

2007-09-12 09:18:59 · answer #7 · answered by Questioner 7 · 1 0

True faith comes from a belief in a God or a higher power--a belief in something larger than yourself without being able to attain visual proof. Today's definition of faith has been skewed to apply to just about anything, but you don't have "faith" that it's going to rain just because you look at a gray sky--you have a "belief" that it's going to rain based on previous knowledge and experience.

2007-09-11 15:17:00 · answer #8 · answered by jennisess 2 · 0 0

We all have a measure of faith to believe in God- that one is easy-as compared to how the empire state bldg was created.

2007-09-11 12:11:47 · answer #9 · answered by faceeternity 3 · 0 0

Believing in God as we do generally, is not actual believing. It is only a pretension, for others to applaud or appreciate you. Without knowing God, how can our belief be sound? We need to practice knowing Him, before we can say that we believe in God.

We have to make an imaginary God for ourselves first and attribute all the wonders and infinite kinds of creations to Him. We have to understand that He knows the actions ( physical and mental) of each one of us, living in innumerable planets spread across the galaxies, and notes the ideas of each one of us. He doesn't note the physical consequence of our ideas.

We have to think that He is present at all the times within our hearts and in each and every heart. We have to imagine that He is in each and every atom and its fractions and in the whole of universe and beyond. We have to imagine that He is capable of doing anything at anytime. He has also the capacity of not doing anything and He has the capacity of undoing whatever you think, cannot be done or undone! When you start living in this 'fantasy', but always thinking your self an eternal soul, the effects will start happening. And when that will happen, you will start believing in God.

Until that time I and you, are only atheists.

2007-09-11 20:07:54 · answer #10 · answered by Vijay D 7 · 0 0

It takes more faith to believe in God. because in the creation myth in Genesis , the Bible states that in the beginning there was nothing, but God created something out of nothing. So to believe in God you have to believe in 2 improbable things.;
1. that the whole universe came out of nothing
2. that god, who was there, even though nothing was there, made something out of nothing

point # 3 the big bang theory doesn't say that the universe came out of nothing . it says that all of the stuff was in a small ball that was surrounded by nothing until it exploded flingeg bits and pieces across the universe, which became galexies planets and stars.

2007-09-11 12:22:58 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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