2007-10-06 15:31:27 · 13 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Attributing natural phenomenon to supernatural beings is dangerous. It stops people from learning about the world.
By claiming that reality was influenced by an outside force, a person gets to make a claim without evidence. By saying "god did it," one merely gives an answer that does nothing to explain the phenomenon. Using the supernatural to understand nature is an appeal to ignorance.
Imagine what would have happened in the Dark Ages if those priests and peasants had said, "we can fight the black death by learning about it," instead of "this is a punishment from god."
Ignorance kills people. Using gods as an excuse for ignorance is even worse, because it keeps humans from finding the answers to real world problems.
Let me illustrate how this is going on today: Some conservatives consider AIDS as a punishment against homosexuals for their behavior, and thus are resistant to programs that focus on contraception as opposed to their focus on abstinence before a monogamous, heterosexual marriage. One bishop in Africa even warned the populace that condoms contained HIV.
Willful ignorance is dangerous. It uses supernatural belief to stop people from finding or updating knowledge.
2007-10-06 17:39:26 · answer #1 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God created man in his own image, then man shows us what God is like, right? What you're saying is, if God is benevolent and man is malevolent, then man is not made in God's image. That is logical. But what I say is, God created man with the capacity for ill, and indeed there can be nothing in creation which does not embody polar opposites. I still believe that man is made in the image of god ... and woman too, and that tells you a lot about what God is like. Different from how most Christians imagine him, I fancy.
2016-05-17 22:28:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more reasonable statement is "it is God's Will, and we may not understand it." But that should not be the end of it. We may not know all of God's Will, but that does not mean we should halt our quest for knowledge. Take it is an opportunity to learn.
2007-10-06 21:11:51 · answer #3 · answered by Mikey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A) God made it happen, it is a well known fact that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the creator of the universe. Only a fool wouldn't believe a story like that.
2007-10-06 15:34:00 · answer #4 · answered by klover_dso 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Both are reasonable statements. It depends on the situation.
how did the universe begin: answer A > B. Even though we really don't know how it happened, something cannot be born from nothing.
how a magician does tricks: answer B > A Obvious reason since we know a magician is a trickster. I have yet to see a wizard/ witch.
2007-10-06 15:46:08 · answer #5 · answered by Romuald 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
God made it happen is just stupidity. I don't understand so God must have done it!!! It's called God of the gaps and some Christians like to say "oh the universe is so complicated so lets not learn about it and say God did it" or "the eyes is 'irreducably complex' so let's not research how it evolved and say God did it."
It's ignorance at its highest form.
2007-10-06 15:36:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
B of course. God is a myth. And we have yet to come across something we can't understand once we have enough knowledge about it.
2007-10-06 15:36:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
(B) We don't KNOW how it happened, we just BELIEVE it happened that way.
2007-10-06 15:40:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
(B) Used by intelligent people.
(A) Used by morons.
2007-10-06 15:53:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what you are talking about
2007-10-06 16:59:13 · answer #10 · answered by carly sue 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋