I mean, just take a look around you, this earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, the universe, you think all this formed by some cosmic accident, that put everything perfectly in place? that takes more faith to believe than it does to believe that God created everything..
2007-09-24 04:55:28 · 36 answers · asked by Former Atheist 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thats an excelent point. My world history teacher, whom I know is a religious man, did an amazing 3-day lesson on how evolution is a lie. Its so awesome to how many times the evolutionists were proven wrong. It makes me so sad to see how some people just don't get it. How else could everthing be the way it is? I mean, come on, BANG, there everything is?! Sigh....
2007-09-24 05:03:26 · answer #1 · answered by kenzie 2 · 0⤊ 11⤋
Okay, let's suppose just for an instance that the earth and universe and everything in it is proof of a god, the question then becomes "which god did this?" Logic would say that the god that first claimed creation of the universe would be the right one, right? So please explain why you worship the god who is named "Jealous" instead of the supreme creator god "Ptah," who claimed creation of the earth and all the other gods millenia before the god named "Jealous" was even thought of?
See, I can play this game too. Look up Ptah, and look up the word "lord," and then tell me why I should believe your version of god over any others.
Your argument is misleading. Claiming that Oprah created Microsoft because Windows is running on computers all over the world does not make it truth. Doing a little research outside of the "Oprah created Microsoft" believers books and websites will reveal the truth.
In other words, put the bible down, back away slowly, and read something other than christian propaganda. You'll discover that most of the world does NOT believe your god created anything, but the people that believe in it did create a whole lot of turmoil throughout the years.
2007-09-24 05:12:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge and faith are two different things. Don't mix up both!
Faith in God is to see your inner strength and develop it for living as a good soul or at times even as a noble soul to help the humanity as a whole!
Knowledge is the essence of science of living and non living on Earth, for our understanding to research the engineering and the technology for the benefits of humanity as whole!
The word "faith" has no relevance when we talk about the science of existence of matter like earth,sun,stars and the universe etc! Neither they are perfectly placed nor they have a promised existence for future!
Believe it or not, in the real scientific parlance, by clear analytic evaluation it is perceived that we have the chance factor of our Earth, and other planets and the Sun to get totally destroyed, does exist in every minute of our living!
We have no means to analyze and predict, all that could happen on Earth or elsewhere in the Universe even for the time of next second! So deadly is the uncertainty exists while we argue for the faith in god with the confidence we have on the knowledge gained by science!
So the knowledge cannot be interpreted as faith on science and to quantify it, as more than the faith on god for those who negates God, is absurd and meaningless! hence in the realm of Science there is no God and in the realm of God there is no science!
2007-09-24 05:38:43 · answer #3 · answered by anjana 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, it only takes logic and reason. It's the religious who need faith that their particular god created everything.
Ask yourself: *Why* did a god have to create everything around you? Why would you make that assumption? Is it because that's what you've been raised to believe?
Science tells me that evolutionary processes led us to our current state, following the explosion of a singularity that gave rise to the universe. That doesn't require faith. It's observable and backed up by scientific evidence. It's just science ... it's nothing to be afraid of. Nor is it a deliberate attack on your beliefs. It is, quite simply, just the way things are.
If you believe a god created the universe, you might just as well say a bunch of invisible purple monkeys did it, or an army of unicorns and fairies. There's no more evidence for a god having done it than there is for those things having done it.
"God did it" answers nothing. It only makes people feel more special about their place in the universe.
2007-09-24 05:04:55 · answer #4 · answered by Cap'n Zeemboo 3 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Look around, can't you tell that it is the Pagan Gods whom have Created all life? What? You don't believe it? You must have more faith Not to believe that than to believe in what you currently believe. Do you have Faith that Unicorns don't exist? Faith that Pagan Gods don't exist? Faith that the Easter Bunny doesn't exist? If so, you have more faith in things that don't exist than you do your own God.
It doesn't take Faith to NOT believe in something. When you don't believe in something like God(s) it takes No faith at all.
2007-09-24 05:15:21 · answer #5 · answered by River 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The fact that you're too dumb to be a rocket scientist doesn't prove that god exists.
It takes no faith at all to not believe in god. "Not believing" is a passive action. I don't believe in god, just as I don't believe in 16-footed invisable rabbit creatures.
It does, however, take faith to say that god does not exist, because then you are taking an active position against something.
So, in sum... you still lose.
2007-09-24 05:08:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Just look at all the contradictions and historical inaccuracies in the bible.
It takes faith to believe that these things somehow make sense.
There may have been a creator or designer for the universe, but we simply do not know.
It takes faith to believe that you know who did it.
It takes intellectual honesty to admit we have not found out yet.
2007-09-24 05:03:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Having faith is an active thought process. Not believing doesn't require action or a mental committment of any kind. Non-belief is not the same as believing something does not exist. Right before you read this, did you believe that a 200ft. yellow space-monkey does NOT exist? No, you simply had no thought about the matter.
2007-09-24 05:02:57 · answer #8 · answered by Meat Bot 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No. Absolutely not.
If you were to pick one planet around one sun in the universe, then the odds of that planet being in the right place to support life are astronomic.
But that in the entire universe, the trillions of trillions of planets around the trillions of trillions of suns. The odds that no planet would be in the right place to support life are approximately zero.
That life should happen on a planet capable of supporting life is no trick, just obvious.
If I take a load of petri dishes and fill some with rock, some with acid, some with metal and some with agar, and then leave them around in various places, like on the moon, in a blast furnace, in the Arctic, in my garden, etc. - I am not going to be surprised that bacteria grow on the plates that have the agar and are in a mild environment.
By your argument I should be amazed by this.
You are like the puddle that suddenly becomes aware of itself, looks around and claims that the universe must have been made just for it, because it sees how the rock it sits on is EXACTLY the right shape to fit it's form.
(Kudos to Douglas Adams for the example)
2007-09-24 05:12:58 · answer #9 · answered by Simon T 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have no difficulty, really, with cosmic accidents. They don't strike me as all that unlikely. I do, however, find that it strains my credulity to imagine that some all-powerful, all-knowing entity assembled everything. This is not to say that I have conclusive proof that there is no such entity, it's merely that I suspect that we've created the divinity out of our own longings, fears and unanswered questions.
2007-09-24 05:01:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
No. If you believe the bible, god created the light and dark, then the earth, plants,... then... the sun and moon and stars!!
What was the light god created and where did it come from?
That is just ridiculousness!!!
2007-09-24 04:59:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋