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For the atheists who believe man created God...?

Ok, fine... but do you have a better solution as to how life originated from nothing. Even the Big Bang theory begs the same question as to what caused it? Obviously, in all the time scientists have been on Earth, none have been able to come up with the answer as to how all things came to exist, yet here we are. Logically, wouldn't it be true then, that something far greater than we understand is at the root of it all? Then why do you dismiss me, when I name that something: "God"? Yes, I've heard the Flying Spaghetti monster argument, but that doesn't negate the possibility of God, so wouldn't even an atheist have to consider God a possibility?

Update:

Ray J: So you are suggesting that we will have an answer? Wow. Good luck with that. I don't claim God did it, because I have no better answer, I know God, His existence has been proven to me. But then I wasn't afraid to seek Him out for myself.

Update 2:

Serf: I'm just asserting that a God has to be a possibility. You are the one claiming a fallicious argument. The biggest fallacy is to dismiss the possibility of God, that makes no logical sense either. Basically, even as an atheist, you have faith in something that can't be proven, or else you don't believe in your own existence.

Update 3:

erik k. that's all I'm looking for right now.

Update 4:

darwin...AM: I'll admit God doesn't fall into man's sense of logic. Neither does any other theory or explanation for the orgin of all things. Yet, again... here we are. Peddle your psuedo intellectual babbling somewhere else.

Update 5:

Reverant Soleil: thanks for gracing us with your presence, (sigh) and all... however, as usual you miss the point. An atheist believe in what? Nothing? It's easy to snipe at someone who has faith in something, when you have faith in nothing. But, even you can't humble yourself to admit, you have no better answer, you just criticize those who have one because I suppose it makes you feel a little superior. Your ego is your weakness, it always has been. It will be your undoing.

Update 6:

Anne: nice "new age" gibberish. But, God doesn't have human fraility at all. Don't analyze a God you know nothing about. It only makes you seem feeble. God is. Whether you admit it or not, He is reality. He is personal. And He does know you. Deal with it.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Nature is too complex for there not to be a supreme being that is in charge. I look at the plant world and have to believe in God. The plant world is what fascinates me. The flowers alone spell God. I use to have a plant called a Century plant. One year everyone that had a Century plant in my neighborhood saw their plant bloom and die. This happened within the same week. No one knows the mystery to that. Bloom and die. The first time any of those plants had bloomed.

    Is there something here you are trying to tell us God?

    In the animal kingdom you find certain animals that know when a Tsunami is coming. God could call upon nature to exterminate every person on earth if he wanted to.

    The earth has to keep on it's axises to exist.

    Now God has told man what he has to do to have a happy ending. This is to accept his Son he sent to redeem us to him.

    God has given us free will to choose our course of action on this earth. This way God can find out what spirit we let live within us. A clean or corrupt spirit. He is looking for spirits that love righteousness to live with him forever. The rest he will trash.

  • 1 decade ago

    Do i personally have a better answer....no. but i'm not in the business of finding the beginning of all existence. Logically is there something that must have done it if we don't know....not really. Logically there are things we still don't know yet that could help us understand the how and why. We still need to study further.

    So just because we don't have the answer right now that means we should just give up and say god did it? That isn't logical at all. Not one bit, and i'm sure the other side had made this argument since the first argument began.

    Just because we don't have the answer in our lifetime doesn't mean we won't get it. Look at how long it took to get the answers we have now and ask yourself where the world would be if we never questioned. Atheists don't run in fear from the concept of god, they wonder where the concept gained credibility.

  • 1 decade ago

    The current belief according to physicists is that the universe is a four dimensional manifold. The easiest way to explain a four dimensional manifold in regards to this question is like me handing you a spherical object and asking you where did this sphere begin and where does it end? It had to be started somewhere and it had to connect with the rest of the sphere to finish it's shape, but where did it actually begin or where did it actually end? The truth is that we may never know or never really be able to prove one way or the other. This also begs to ask if in the case of the universe (this is where my sphere analogy breaks down) if it HAD to really start anywhere? It may just be the human brain demanding that there is a beginning and an end and demanding we contribute it to something. That's the strange part of a manifold, it doesn't really have a beginning or an end so there may not have been a point of "creation" if you will but a parabolic "point" of generation that doesn't have a beginning and may not have an end.

  • jxt299
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    There very easily might be a God, a supreme, original creator, but obviously--VERY obviously, the Holy Bible got it wrong. The Bible makes it totally clear the world was created in 6 days, if you want a literal reading, its 6 DAYS, and if you want to "interpret" 6 days to millions or billions of years you might as well "interpret" everything else too, making the whole thing ridiculous and meaningless. The "god" we worship was created about 6000 years ago, he was called El Shaddai, he lived in a mountain, that is who the ancient Hebrews worshiped and when the Egyptians kicked them out they had to make "god" universal because they didn't have that mountain any more. Maybe some tribe in the Amazon has the right god, maybe some tribe in Indonesia, or maybe the Romans were right, or maybe the right god hasn't even been discovered yet, but you can absolutely bet for sure that the god depicted in the Holy Bible is wrong because the whole Bible is ridiculous as a fact source.

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  • Leo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I'm sorry but I don't see the point in discussing evolution or the big bang or the origin of life (3 distinct events) with someone who doesn't understand them and who is using that gap in their knowledge to justify their belief in the existence in God.

    Actually, when it comes right down to it that's a perfect metaphor for how and why man created religion. It was to fill gaps in his knowledge.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "Obviously, in all the time scientists have been on Earth, none have been able to come up with the answer as to how all things came to exist, yet here we are."-You act as if scientists had the big bang theory for centuries and that science hasn't found answers that were previously unknown.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Even if science doesn't yet have all the answers it has the potential to create new information, new answers. Reading the same old book over and over for two thousand years generates nothing new, which was exactly the intention of those who wrote it. They knew that new ideas were dangerous.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "There is a theory that states that if the meaning of the universe is ever discovered the universe would collapse upon its self and expand into an even more complex and confusing universe." "There is another theory that states that this has already happened." There there is your answer this is not the first universe the answer is in another state off time unreachable to anyone

    Source(s): Amazing Asthmatic Agnostic Atheistic Omnist
  • 1 decade ago

    The god of the gaps is so weak it barely falls into the category of an argument.

    Please try not to use the word "logically" when coming out with this sort of rubbish.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Premise: scientists do not have the answers

    Conclusion: goddidit

    Fallacy employed: argumentum ad ignorantium

    Edit: God does not have to be given any consideration as a possibility whatsoever. Neither does bigfoot, the Loch Ness moster, Toucan Sam, Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer, the king of the Morlocks, nor the wicked witch of the West.

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