For all you Atheists out there. Christians PLEASE feel free to answer.?

Question

Me and 2 friends were hanging out, discussing Christianity, such and such, outside on a crisp warm day with wind blowing in the trees (bright in gold and red). I bet you're like "So what?" Hold your horses. I'm getting there. Well as we were staring off into the distance: A lake and the beautiful trees around it. We thought about how it looks like something that could be painted in a portrait. Then my friend said something along the lines of, "How can non-believers truly look and admire the beauty of nature and not believe there is a god"
So I want to know if you really think that the world in, all its beauty, simply just came to be out of nowhere. Because if you ask me, the world couldn't of just came from luck of two molecules bumping into each other, as much as I love science.
Christians: God is a creative god. Am I right?

Answer 1

Yes. As stated before: If you see a building, you know that there is a builder; If you see a painting, you know that there is a painter; If you see a creation, you know that there is a Creator.

The world as we see it could not have happened out of random patterns or out of the Big Bang because people question where those came from. It is useless to argue for the case of Christians versus scientists, since both arguments are still deemed worthy of a question, like, "OK, so where did THAT come from?... Where did THAT come from?" and so on and so forth.

Humans might never know, and they might never be able to comprehend how the appearance of "something" came from nothing, but that is where God asks for your faith and trust. You search for an answer and you find "I AM" in the Bible, and nothing in science textbooks.

Answer 2

No, but I've seen the steps involved and I know the science behind it that's been verified by countless different scientists who had no reason to agree with the findings since they were of no real benefit to them... We did not evolve from monkeys, we evolved from a primate that closely resembles a chimp. People keep saying monkey because most people can't deal with the abstract concept of imagining a creature that no longer exists. They were similar, not the same. The reason monkeys are still here is the same reason there are more than one breed of dog, evolution doesn't figure out one way and kill all the others. There's no logic to it, it just happens. No, the monkeys came form a more simple mammal which in a round-about way came from a fish-like creature which evolved from multi-cellular organisms which came from single-cell organisms which came from a lucky mix of proteins and other chemicals which came from the materials in the Earth or possibly from a commit, we don't know that one for certain, which came from the centre of a high-mass star that exploded which came from the Big Bang. Before that it gets a bit iffy as we're not sure if this is part of some large cycle that's always been going on or if there's something else involved. Oh, and the laws of science state that if there was a beginning then it must have come into being from an external source, but since our universe is supposed to be all-encompassing there can be no external source. By that logic there can't have been a beginning. I don't see why there must be, everything else in nature is about cycles and transitions from one state to another, not about creating something that isn't there.

Answer 3

Uh, first you say you want to know what atheists think, but then you say that you want to hear "I agree" from people who think like you do.

So, which is it?

Are you honestly asking a real question, or are you just wasting everyone's time looking for people to agree with you and make you feel that you're right?

No, I really don't think that an imaginary being created everything; that's what 'atheist' means.

How can I look at and admire the beauty of nature and not believe that there's a god?

Because there's a better explanation for why what's here is here; and because I know that everything isn't beauty, but that there's also struggle, pain, and death.

If you think that we think that today's world "just came be ... from two comlecules bumping into each other" then you don't know anything about science.

If you want to understand the scientific explanation for this world, you'll have to do some reading and thinking. It's much more complicated than two molecules bumping into each other, and too comlex to explain here.

Here are two places you could learn about evolution, if you were interested:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/evolution

Answer 4

So you just refuse to believe our ancient natural world was created by a slow natural process that operates in ways that humans can easily comprehend? No, you'd rather believe an impossibly complex imaginary immortal deity created the entire universe in just six days, six-thousand years ago. Personally, I think you must be insane to be so naive as to believe such an improbable fantasy. When I enjoy a picture-perfect golden moment, it pleases me to know that it was created by perfectly natural processes which are continuously operating in the natural world. Religion's repeated attempts to claim the results of Nature's natural processes as God's special creations are the hallmark of human ignorance and hubris. For me, the fact that my my mind evolved on Earth to appreciate Earth's natural beauty is not particularly surprising. I love Earth because I'm an Earthling.

Answer 5

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'm not saying that the scene you described is anything less than glorious. It sounds like it is. The beauty of nature is my greatest joy but I do not see God of the kind you describe in it. It represents many of the qualities about life and the world that we cherish, the trees, the clear water, the solitude from the noisy world. but that beauty is in human appreciation, not some kind of inherent trait. Also remember that something that one person may consider beautiful may actually be hideous to another.

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Answer 6

"Because if you ask me, the world couldn't of[sic] just came from luck of two molecules bumping into each other, as much as I love science."
Thank 'god' the future of medical and technological research doesn't depend on you and people like you. We'd still be living in caves … without fire.

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
We are programmed to see the beauty that you see as beautiful.
You see what you described as beautiful - I just see that stuff as stuff.
I don't get too sentimental or attached to any temporary stuff.

Oh, and imaginary sky critters do not exist.
A universe with a god would be completely different to one without.

Epicurus: Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
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Answer 7

Well, good question.

One thing that's not understood at a deep level by most people is that complex (and beautiful) things can evolve by natural selection from simpler origins. The Universe, as it grows older, naturally becomes more complex and more varied. We perceive this organic complexity as being beautiful, in part because we have evolved to do so.

Answer 8

The problem there is that just because we may not know the exact cause of something "God did it" is still not an all purpose answer.

How is it that a god gets all the credit for everything beautiful but that same "creator" isn't faulted for creating cancer or tsunamis.

We non believers admire the beauty of nature all the time. We just do it without thinking someone had to create it.

Answer 9

Your question makes no sense. The world is COMPLETELY RANDOM and without order. The only reason why you perceive the things you see as beautiful and as "perfect" as you do is because you are programmed to perceive the reality you were built for in a certain way. Human beings would not be able to function in this reality without being able to perceive the universe in an organized fashion. It's like how people see animals and other shapes in the clouds - is GOD responsible for those too?

Answer 10

Because we can look at the beauty of Nature and appreciate, without the use of a myth, and enjoy it.
Even though we use science and education in our world in place of a deity, doesn't mean we can't still admire the earth's beauty...that is why I personally call her Mother Earth.