That is what the ancients used to think. Cant you see the fallacy in attributing a natural process to the supernatural? Where did life come from? Why assume God did it? Why not assume it was a natural process like everything else?
2007-12-05 10:57:32 · 40 answers · asked by Future 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The law of causation states that for every occurrence there is causal factor. The universe had a starting point for how can you get to the present if there is no beginning? Furthermore, the laws of thermodynamics reject an eternal universe. Thus, the ultimate causal factor is God.
The complexity of life is great evidence for a Designer. If I told you my car happened to randomly form one day, would you believe me? If you had any brains, you know such a statement is a lie for it is too complex to happen by accident. There had to be a designer. Life is so much more complex than a Cadillac Escalade. Why is it so hard to believe a perfect being is responsible for designing life?
2007-12-05 11:08:26 · answer #1 · answered by j97774 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It does NOT rain because God is happy.
God created rain because, without it, we would all die. It's pretty much that simple. Just because it's a natural process with a cause does not mean that someone else did not create or "start" it.
By the way, I'm a devout Christian, and I, too, see the fallacy in attributing a natural process solely to a supernatural attitude. I see some of these people who say that Katrina happened because God was angry with EVERYONE in the Southern USA and I think that's absolutely ridiculous.
2007-12-05 11:02:32 · answer #2 · answered by boyob588@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think too often the reason these kinds of things are so difficult to reconcile is that people focus too much on the minutia of these questions. "Can God create a rock too big for him to lift" etc.
The question is not "does God make it rain" because the question is too small. Obviously God is not sitting up in the clouds with a watering can. Saying "does God make it rain" is like saying "Does Alexander Grahm Bell make your cellphone ring?".
The whole idea of an omniscient being is too much for us to grasp because we just can't think that big. Because of this we wind up with fallacies like "Since God doesn't directly cause rain, obviously God doesn't exist." An ever-present, all powerful being that created all of existence doesn't make it rain, he creates the concept of rain, he creates the rules that make rain in the first place.
A supreme being would create all of these laws of physics and science that allow such phenomena to occur. This is exactly why I've never really understood why people get so upset about evolution. Obviously things evolve, the question is not if 'God' created these things spontaneously, the question is if 'God' created the idea of things and guided them along the path. If this is the case, then such things ARE a natural process because of course, a supreme being created the very concept of natural process.
2007-12-05 11:09:14 · answer #3 · answered by QuestionWyrm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A natural process - like the progression chaos to order? Oh, wait, that's the other way around.
Face it. The world is just a bit too orderly to have just happened.
2007-12-05 11:04:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Matthew 5:45 clearly points out that God "makes it rain on the righteous and unrighteous alike."
2007-12-05 11:04:25 · answer #5 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God IS natural process.
2007-12-05 11:01:24 · answer #6 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I feel sure, Its a long time since anyone. let alone Christians has probably thought of that one being correct, in fact I NEVER have.
I think we are all a lot more enlightened these days don't you.
Maybe if we all listened to one an others religion, and tried to understand it, and learned to respect others beliefs, the world would be a far happier and safer place don't you.
May your God go with you.
2007-12-05 11:03:35 · answer #7 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
read "inherit the wind". it could help answer some of these questions. basically, why do you assume that god is unnatural? why do you assume that his actions have to be unnatural? god could easily use seemingly natural processes and means to carry out his wishes.
you're putting a lot of faith in the random nature of our ecosystems to self-regulate and generate and initiate themselves. that's a big leap.
2007-12-05 11:01:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It rains because God wants to water the earth
2007-12-05 10:59:41 · answer #9 · answered by Here 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, it's the natural order of things. Everything needs water.
2007-12-05 11:01:50 · answer #10 · answered by ppkoo7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋