I have a problem understanding why some people believe in nothing.?

Question

How can a person not believe in something? To say everything on this earth happened by one big coincidence after another is not feasible to me. I’m not saying that one religion is better then another or that one is right and another is wrong, but there has to be “something”, whatever “it” may be that is guiding us to our ultimate destiny whatever “it” is.

Answer 1

Do you believe in Zeus? Or Ra? Or Odin? If not, why not?

"To say everything on this earth happened by one big coincidence after another is not feasible to me"

Just because you don't understand how it works doesn't mean it's not feasible. I don't understand all the mechanics of particle fission, but that didn't stop the US from bombing Japan.

Answer 2

"I have a problem understanding why some people believe in nothing.?"

Are you talking about atheism?
It's the lack of belief in deities. I can understand or believe in many things that are not supernatural in origin. Love, hope, joy, family, galaxies, exoplanets, human ingenuity: I can love all of these things. I just don't think the universe is run by some kind of male figurehead described by contradicting books written by a few humans a thousand years ago.

How can a person not believe in something?

Everyone believes or understands something, it's just supernatural deities that atheists lack belief for.

"To say everything on this earth happened by one big coincidence after another is not feasible to me"

Sounds like you need to study science. There are many wonders that are based in natural processes, such as evolution. It's also not random. In the words of agnostic Albert Einstein, who did not believe in a personal god but used the term to describe his awe of the universe, "God does not play dice." Study physics, chemistry, evolution, the big bang, and other natural phenomenon before assuming that atheists "believe in nothing," or that an empirical view is empty.

Answer 3

My opinion is that there would be several somthings working together and evolving. I don't believe in an individual creating the different aspects of life. I certainly don't believe in an eternal punishment for not believing in something there's no proof of.
Regardless if there is a supernatural world, humans have learned and discovered so much throughout history.
Not knowing, or believing in nothing but human knowledge/power, inspires some to figure more out-that's why now when a person has a seizure, we can go about figuring out the cause and do something about it instead of saying that person is posessed by the devil and pray that it goes away.

Answer 4

I have a problem understanding why people need to believe that we must have some great purpose or "ultimate destiny". Do they need to feel special? Is this life, plainly as it is, not enough to fulfill them? It seems that this belief in ultimate purpose must be based on hope because I don't see any evidence at all that our life has any ultimate purpose or special meaning. We don't choose to be born in the first place. And, whether we like to admit it or not, our lives are largely, if not entirely, determined by factors out of our control. Sorry, but hope isn't enough to make me believe. Asking me to believe something without any evidence is an insult to my intelligence.

Answer 5

Why does there have to be something? And what makes you think it's one 'coincidence after another.' Couldn't the quantum leap of the membranes which caused the big bang have been the only 'coincidence' which occurred, and everything else be the simple effect of that original cause? Couldn't everything from the big bang up until now have been predetermined by the magnitude of the explosion and the amount of matter and energy which was dispersed by the big bang itself? I think it's more than fair to say. I think it's absolutely factual.

Answer 6

Although we like to feel like we have some divine purpose, wishful thinking does not create reality. You're saying that there has to be at least SOME sort of supernatural force that created the universe, but some prefer to look at the natural evidence. I can't say much because my knowledge in physics doesn't go past an introductory course, but for me it's hard to believe in something that hasn't a single shred of evidence. As for our existence, the natural evidence clearly shows we came about naturally through the laws of evolution. You may say that some divine power guided us to be this way, and while there is no evidence against that, there is also none for it. That may be your opinion, and you're entilted to it. But you should know that things aren't completely random; natural selection, for example, is quite the opposite.

Answer 7

Religion, to me, is something that man made so that they have closure to losing loved ones and thinking that they live on after physical life. This is understandable. However, we have conscious thoughts from evolution. This is accidental and we were formed from natural selection and mutations along the years. You can take or leave the evolution argument, it's still something that may need some testing, but I see no proof from a god. What I do see is that people use religion to justify bad causes like religious fanatics who kill. I also see people who play the religion card to get what they want and to keep other down.

Answer 8

I know what you are saying I have spoken to many people who believe that our existance and the way there is order in our atmosphere, the laws of physics involved etc. it is too much of a big coincidence for some people.

I do believe in creation but I know it is not the mainstream thinking of most, the more I study the more I discover different things as I read that didn't grab my attention the first time the passage was read.

As we grow spiritually it is important to keep ones mind opened to posibilities that we can't understand, and its called faith to believe in something you cannot see, this is what God wants He does not want us to make a likeness of Him for no one has ever seen Him and no christian would bow to manmade idol, idolitry is despised by God this is why I have a hard time with all the statues and crucifix in the faith I was born into but haven't practiced in years, its contrary to many of God's wishes, and it is twisted into some fire and brimstone put the fear of God into them so they show up every Sunday to fill the coffers thing, that I just couldn't ignore through my own experiences.

your destiny is greatly affected by the choices you make every choice will have its own consequence good or bad, this is why it is important to learn when we are young to make good choices, to think of the other persons feelings, we are made as a child to step back through parenting and imagine the other person's feelings, we should do this as adults to keep ourselves sensitive to others if we expect to be treated that way too.

Answer 9

that's because you look at the world in an 'egocentric' manner.

If accept that you are just another being that isn't the centre of the universe, as all the available evidence points to, then you will see that there was a world without you before you were born and it will continue on after you die.

There is no need to make up stories about some fantasy land that you will go to if you can humble yourself and accept your impermanence.

Answer 10

Watch this TV program on line and let us know what you think afterwards .

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html

EDIT for "A Friend 4ever" :
Please stop preaching Islam with cut and paste jobs that have nothing to do with the actual questions .
It just takes up space and shows how idiotically brainwashed the members of Islam are .
The next time any of us honest participants here notice him do it again should report him for religious spamming which is against the guidlines .