If you don't believe in God?

Question

If you don't believe in God how do you think the world got here?
It can't just appear out of nowhere.
I've always wondered what people thought about this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Santa Clause brought it.

Answer 2

Not everyone believes in the "God of the Gaps" In other words, just because someone doesn't know the answer, "God did it" isn't the automatic default.

I've always wondered how theists explain how God got here.

Oh yes, God has always exsisted. The why can't the Universe always have exsisted ?

Personally, I believe that matter has ALWAYS exsisted, and merely changes over time, so while the Universe has not always exsisted in it's present form, all the matter that creates it has. I think there is an intelligence that permeates all matter, and that's how eventually the matter created this present day Universe we have inhabited. Also, before this Universe, other Universes could have exsisted, then been destroyed, giving birth to this one. When this Universe dies, another one could be created, etc. etc. for eternity.

What you call "God", I call "The Universe".

I have been told that my beliefs are called "pantheism". I still consider myself an agnostic, but this is my take on "how the world got here".

Answer 3

Let me explain:

CREATION - is a doctrinal position in many religions and philosophical belief systems which maintains that a single God, or a group of gods or deities is responsible for creating the universe.

EVOLUTION - Evolution is the process by which all living things have developed from primitive organisms through changes occurring over billions of years, a progression that includes the most advanced animals and plants. Exactly how evolution occurs is still a matter of debate, but that it occurs is a scientific fact.

Answer 4

I don't know, and neither do you.

and until there is overwhelming evidence of one sort or another, we can only make an educated guess based on the evidence there is.

there is nothing wrong with not knowing an answer, or in admitting that. Such honesty is a good baseline for asking questions. But coming up with a "definite" answer and insisting upon it just because one feels like one needs an answer only makes one look foolish if evidence comes along that suggests something else.

Answer 5

The universe contracting enough energy created the earth from the "big bang". Some magical dude in the sky didn't clap his hands and everything was created. People, put down your bibles for a few minutes and pick up a science text book. And most importantly, GET LOGICAL

Answer 6

the world got here by the remains of the big bang. Read up your science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang

And if things can't just appear out of nowhere, where did god come from? The invention of god adds nothing to the explanation. In fact even makes it worse because then we have to ask - 'which god?'

Use Occam's razor....

Answer 7

Toadaly, I, and the Big Bang, disagree with you.

The Big Bang Theory it its purest form boils down to

"In the Beginning there was Nothing, which expoded."

so in order for it to explode it had to transition from nothing to something, and in turn everything.

and perhaps the cause of that transition was the supreme deity often refered to as God, now whether the nature of said deity corrosponds to the beliefs and imagery of any one or in some way all of the religions practiced is unknown.

Answer 8

Christians say that the world can't have come from nothing, but yet God did. Hm.

Answer 9

The matter that formed the universe figured out its own way. Read up on emergent properties.

Answer 10

read up on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and in general something on quantum physics and you'll find that your ideas on what exactly 'nothing' is are totally wrong and make the whole premise of your question pointless.

Answer 11

Suppose the particles that make the world have always existed.