Atheists and Non believers, How do you reconcile our (human) level of Consciousness with out God?

Question

I have read and studied a ton of writers on the subject of human consciousness. For example; Pinker, Eldeman, and many others that show how and why certain systems developed. However, those are not as comfortable when it comes to explaining the high quality functions that we are imbued with. They call it qualia and its stumps them. Love, Music, Feelings, Appreciation, Art, and so many more are not required for life to have sustained itself and continued its systems

Does it stump you?
Why do we have so much more than required for survival and evolution?

Answer 1

Can not a person enjoy life and the beautiful miraculous many obvious deeper natures where to some the need for the existence of a higher conciousness and the need to observe the more beautiful and wonderful aspects of our life without the labling of others for their compliance or non compliance to some personal belief is more than sufficient in that perhaps the need is not related to some form of emptiness within so much as that is concerned.
At the moment we have survived so far are evolving so far. But nature is not thru yet. We are but a speck of dust in time.

Answer 2

The 'thinking" part of our brains is a recent development of our species.

The deep religious part of our brains is contained in that last remnant of our reptillian past...the limbic system.

The 'religious' experience is triggered by deep depression, starvation, near death, or other highly charged situations. The 'born-again' christian phenomena has a scientific basis....yes, your limbic system. Why has man evolved this mechanism you might ask? Simple...it was a survival mechanism of our cave man ancestors to cope with a hostile and unknown universe.

The cerebral cortex is a more recent development. Here is where our rational and logical thought processes take place. It is here that the atheists have found their basis in reality.

In reality, there is no sentient, omnipresent, omnipotent supernatural being, supernatural entity or force....therefore all the inequities and misery of the world will always persist, some will have good things happen to them and some not, some will blame the invisible entity but objective reality wins all the time....no matter how hard some try to get that limbic brain of theirs to work...sorry

And why does bad things happen to good people all the time? When the tectonic plates crash into each other causing human calamity, they don't worry about Karma, good and bad, evil and riteousness. Life's paths are made up of randon circumstances, some predictable and some not. Most religious people will state that god has a 'bigger' plan for them and humans in general, that we can't know the 'big picture.' Most say there can't be good unless we know or experience the depths of evil.

Is it fair to have predation, disease, deformities, child rape, parasites and evil in the world? If the answer is yes, then with god(s) like that, who need them?

Answer 3

The Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic considers these questions to be unanswerable at present, since they believe it is not possible to prove or disprove the existence of God. It' s a matter of coming to terms with uncertainty which is extremely difficult for most people. I too have read Aristotle, Darwin, Dawkins, Behe, Mayr, Greene,Crick, Feynman et al, and I'm stuffed if I know.

Answer 4

Most of the human attributes some associate to gifts from God do not have to have come from a supreme being for humans to have developed them.

As humans evolved they started to acquire the one thing most other species on earth have seldom been able to achieve: the luxury of spare time.

While there are a few species that have been able to ‘play’ from time to time, mankind seems to be the only species that has mastered the act of survival to the point where most humans have freed up enough extra time not required in the daily purpose of survival to train their minds on more frivolous pursuits. Music, art, advanced thinking, even science as we know it, evolved from the time humans freed up.

It’s not one of life’s great mysteries: It’s just something that happened to a species that had extra time on their hands and the luxury to enjoy it.

As to the attributes of love, affection and loyalty most warm-blooded mammals on earth display variations of these attributes. Horses, dogs, dolphins, bears, etc., display affection towards their own young, loyalty towards their own packs, and what could easily be called love towards their own mates. And animals display grief towards a mate that has died.

If you’ve ever owned a dog you’ll know these attributes are not simply just something humans can feel.

Answer 5

Because oncology recapitulates phylogeny, that is how. Why? That is for you to decide.