For some "god" to have created everything takes an enormous leap of faith, so much that it becomes impossible to believe it. While it seems possible to eventually explain the universe in terms of natural laws, it seems impossible to explain how a god could exist that would have the power to have created everything. How can people believe "god did it"?
David F
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More than the number of people that believe that the second law of thermodynamics was suspended and that the universe came into being by an inactive force. Yes
Rothwyn
I don't believe in some magical super rod and I also don't believe in some spontaneous big bang. Both are incredibly as absurd as the next.
Neither explains when the planets are almost entirely perfectly round. Neither explains how some planets are certain sizes and have their own kind of atmospheric conditions. Neither explains how elements can be the same and be light years away.
It is more plausible that there was a small fission reaction on a cellular level that eventually grew large enough in space(considering it is a vaccum with no interference) to attract other large objects to it and break away what it could not consume. This eventually would allow an object to be become perfectly round while sitting in an orbit around the nucleaus.
The sun is nothing more than the perfect example of what happens in the cell of anything every moment of every day.
Space is probably the inside of a supremely large being and we are nothing more than tiny mitocondrial pieces in the makeup on some beings DNA which is inside of a cell with a nucleaus that is the sun. Also every sun is just the nucleus of it's cells and each of these planets are nothing more than the remains of K-Shells that are still around.
This could also explain why it seems so dead. We could be inside of one big giant dead thing.
Think about it.
Deirdre H
People are capable of believing ANYTHING. They might also believe that there is no such thing as "spirit". Confidence men "Con" men, prey on the ability that they have to convince people of things. People will naturally believe that which makes them comfortable.
While I don't believe that a god created the universe out of nothing, neither do I believe that science today is capable of offering enough answers to fully live life. There is much that is not yet measurable or explainable, and until science can actually step up to the plate in these areas, religion and spirituality still have a place. It may be that in the future, science will recognize that there is such a thing as spirit, and religion might be founded upon that scientific precept.
At this point, where Science and religion both have holes, are both incapable of explaining the totality of the universe, the idea of calling either ridiculous seems itself ridiculous.
Anonymous
It all goes back to the natural fear of death. Without this fear animals would take no precaution to protect themselves from predators or the elements. Life would come to an end.
In the very earliest humanoids, this fear of death was so strong that they dreamed up a way of cheating death. Thr "soul" was invented. Of course, there had to be a place where this "soul" went after death, so a heaven had to be dreamed up. And, of course, there had to be someone in control of the whole thing.
Yep, the great controller, the great creator, the maker of all the forces of nature, the terrible thunder and lightning, the life giving sun, the important rain, etc,etc.
Gods came and gods went,dozens and dozens of them. When one of the leaders had a nightmare, he would imagine new gods, so the old ones went to the garbage heap.
Now we're at the stage where the Western World believes in only one god. They're not in agreement as to who or what this god is, but he's the guy who created the zillions and zillions of miles of planets, stars, the whole works. As unbelievable as this appears to some, it is unquestioned by others.
No religious leader has ever attempted to explain how "god" could have accomplished this, or where all the material came from.- - - he just did it - - believe it - - - don't ask questions.
However, some of us must ask questions and must get understandable, believable answers, or write it off as just so much primitive superstition.
HawaiianBrian
The common theme amongst all the bible worshipers is nothing more than a lack of humility and exaggerated self-importance. Summed up as, "Of course, there's a god, you don't think something as PERFECT as man developed by accident do you?!" Well, yeah that's kind of what happened. They think we are too special to just have happened by random chance. God MUST have created us. And not only that, but we were created in HIS image. What vanity and self-admiration! The pretentiousness and arrogance of "humble' Christians is disgusting. Each of us is here for no other reason than we happened to be the fastest of 100,000 sperm. No fairy godmother tales needed.
They can't wrap their fragile egos around the fact that we're all a cosmic fluke, and the absurdity of life. For them everything has to have a reason, orchestrated by some giant puppeteer, controlling our strings. Newsflash to all the marionettes out there. There is no God. Churches get destroyed by natural disasters all the time. Bad things happen to good people. That's life.
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
— Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965)
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking “for our sakes was the world created.”
— Julian The Apostate
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization
— Don Marquis