you don't believe in god right\nok explain to me how we were created \ni mean was there a cell evolved or something \nthere must be a good reason for you to not believe in god\ni really need to know because "by chance" doesnt make any sense \ndont it seem impossible to create human (male and female)with this beautiful body  and creatures by chance
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It's not "by chance," it's the result of natural selection and other selective pressures.  I'm sorry if evolution doesn't make sense to you, but the basic principles are effectively proven fact, and it makes sense to anyone who's every actually studied it.  It makes just as much sense as it did to say the Earth is round and revolves around the sun.  People had a really hard time accepting those facts because if you look out your window they Earth looks flat, and if you watch the sun move across the sky it looks like it's moving around us rather than the other way round.  Without having seen the scientific evidence to support these claims, people thought they didn't make sense, so they rejected them.  Now people are doing the same thing with evolution.  Of course it doesn't make sense if you don't understand it, but that doesn't mean it isn't true.  Or should we also reject quantum mechanics, atomic theory, the physical nature of an electron, and Einsteins theory of relativity.\n\nEvolution is a scientific theory that explains the origin of the diversity of species (note that it does not, and is not intended to explain the origin of life). The basic idea of evolution is that mutations result in genetic diversity in a population, and consequently different traits, and different selective pressures favor certain traits over others. In a diverse population, some individuals are better suited to the environment than others, and the individuals that are better suited are more likely to survive to reproduce and thus pass their genes on to the next generation. Consequently, the next generation will have more of the "good" genes and fewer of the "bad" genes than the generation before it. Because the environment is constantly changing, the definition of "good" and "bad" genes is also constantly changing. Something that used to be an advantage can become a disadvantage, and vice versa. More often, however, neutral traits will become either good or bad. Changes in environment can include not only changes in weather or resources, but also competition from other species.\n\nAs the environmental pressures change, the population of organisms changes with it. Over time, the little changes start to add up, and eventually the population will be so different from the ancestral state that it will be considered a different species. The diversity of species results from splitting of populations. If a population is separated by some geographical or reproductive barrier, the two subpopulations will likely evolve in different ways, to become two separate species. Eventually the two species may be reunited, but they will no longer be able to interbreed. Instead, they will compete with each other, and likely diverge even more.\n\nScience is not about finding a single piece of evidence to conclusively prove a theory. It's about constructing theories to fit the existing evidence and gathering new evidence that supports or refutes existing theories. Evolution is supported by a preponderance of evidence. While no one point conclusively proves it, when all the evidence is considered in the context of existing scientific knowledge evolution is a well substantiated theory. Intelligent design is not.  What follows are brief explanations of some of the evidence that supports the theory of evolution.\n\n1. Vestigial structures\n\nOne example of a vestigial structure in humans is the appendix. It has no function. Removing it is harmful only in so far as any surgery is associated with certain risks (so I wouldn't have it removed just for fun, but it's because of the surgery not the absence of the appendix). An appendix is found in several mammals. In humans it is small and has no known function. In rabbits and many other herbivores it is large and is used in the digestion of cellulose.\n\nAnother example of a vestigial structure is the hipbones of snakes. Snakes
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To me none of this makes any sense. Things like this is what made me question the validity of religion in the first place.\n\nI DO believe in the ultimate being. This world & its functions didn't create itself. There were programs to follow & rules set forth.\nSure the universe probably came from a big bang. But something had to make the bang possible. Evolution all well & good, yes, but something was programmed to make that possible.\nI'm not an atheist because of religious reasons but rather for logical reasons. Something had to come from something.\n\nBut I don't believe in this Satan Devil character at all.\nIt's hokey.\nGod created an assistant???\nWhat the hell does God need an "assistant" for anyhow?\nThis is not limited mankind this is Ultimate Being!\nGod needs nothing but God.\n\nIn fact this whole thing about God needing us makes no sense either. For what?\nIf God needs others then God is limited and not the ultimate being. And if what we refer to as God is not the ultimate being than who is? I ain't got time for no middlemen. Who's the top dog?\n\nMy theory on this whole universe is that it is nothing more than God exploded. All pieces and parts within are fractions of the whole, the ultimate. From a simple rock to the species of mankind to oil sludge.\nWhy this happened no one will ever know. We're only fractions and we can only get fractional information.\n\nIt is true. God always was and always will be. But hell if we'll ever know why that is or why it should be.\nJohn Lucas
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I am a christian and I believe in evolution, we didn't just spontaneously appear however the process had to start somewhere, the probability of the random event occurring to start life is so low its near impossible.
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if you refrain from saying God, faith and beliefs when answering this question,then there can be no answer to your question, that is what  the bible teaches.. without GOD there is no hope and without beliefs there is no GOD !! a person has to believe in his heart without scientific proof that there is a GOD and without the bible how can they teach????
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You know something, you are very uninformed. For you information:\n\nMost scientists believe in some sort of creator or deity. There is a simple explanation for this, and that is science can incorporate the idea of the supernatural since there are places that science cannot go.\n\nThe creation of the universe is one of them. Science can explain all the way back to 10^-43 seconds, but before that there is no explanation, there is only the unknown that is just as well explained as God as any other theory. So God and science are not at odds here, as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking would agree\n\nSpeaking of my great, great, uncle, several times removed Albert Einstein, he is quoted as saying "God does not play dice with the universe." What he meant by this was a repudiation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, because to Albert the universe was a beautifully ordered and created place, created by God.\n\nSome scientist see God in randomness (Heisenberg). Others see it in harmonies of patterns and chaos (Glick and Mandelbrot). Even Darwin still credited God for creating the universe, though he sought scientific explanations for the evolution of species.\n\nThese men were/are fervent men with fervent beliefs. The fact that they deal in science in no way impedes their beliefs in God.\n\nNow, that being said, what you believe God did or does may not be the same thing that these men believe, maybe because they understand Gods universe better, maybe because they are more open minded than to narrow their vision to a few hundred pages of a book, a book that is interpreted many different ways so that who knows which version is right, if any. But when it comes down to it, they believe in God in one form or another, and maybe their views are more enlightened than most.\n\nYou can count me with them, by the way, as I take a more scientific view of the world. I am Deist, what that means is I believe in God as a first cause. I believe that God set the beautifully intricate stage, that we are still trying to understand, and let it be, to run the way it will, a universe of detail ever unfolding.\n\nBTW I gave you a thumbs up on the question, because while it was indelicate, it was thought provoking and deserved an answer, even if it was mostly my opinion.
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Single, It is all about faith and your beliefs. If you believe in Jelly fish, then that's the path you choose and there or others who believe that Adam came from that higher power, GOD. I believe in the latter, and guess what? If all evolved from protoplasm, Then God mad that Protoplasm. There is no escaping it. God IS the creator. Final.
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this answer is for non believers : People believe in god because humans are weak spiritually, we are unable to accept things and are constantly hoping for the impossible. But how to achieve it and will they be able to accept it if they do get their goals? therefore, in order to give themselves mental support or to feel better and explain things on a more "fiction based" way so that they can accept it, They created God. God to you may be nothing. But to these people, they feel that it is real, they believe it is real and to them it is truly real. You who do not believe will never get to experience it be it true or false for the brain is a marvelous thing.
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Of course God exist. Science contradicts itself trying to explain evolution. How could a world full of may species of plants and animals that depend on each other to survive, come from a single celled organism that deepened on nothing? Without air you do not have the mammals, and without plants you do not have air. What about male/female, how did this design come from a simple organism? And that’s the key the reproduction. There is a lot of scientific proof but too many choose not to believe it. Science has proven a world wide flood. Jesus has been historically documented by a few different nations in his time. I believe in God because of answered prayers. And no man can prove that my God doesn’t exist!
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Firstly, thanks for asking this question.  I've probably answered it about twenty times already, but i think you're the first person I've seen with an actual interest in the answer.\n\nYou're asking two questions here.\n1) What proof do we have that God does not exist?\n2) Isn't evolution just a theory and not a fact?\n\nBoth of these questions touch on a more fundamental question:\n"Why do atheists believe what they believe?"  I'd like to address that question first, because it will make it easier to answer the other two.\n\nI can't speak for all atheists (I'm actually agnostic), but many attempt to base their beliefs in scientific reasoning.  Modern science is based on the facts that human knowledge is limited and human perception is faulty.  All the tools that scientists use to discern the truth (falsifiablility, replication, lab controls, measuring devices, statistical analysis, the scientific method of inquiry, etc.) are all designed specifically to limit errors in human perception.  \n\nNonetheless, mistakes are made and scientists are often wrong.  That's why scientific belief is pliable.  You may hear people talk about "margin of believe" and "index of suspicion".  Basically, these terms represent the degree of belief, which varies with experience.  For instance, I have a high index of suspicion that the sun will rise tomorrow.  There is the slightest possibility that it won't.  Based on historical records, mathematical calculations, and what we know of the natural world, it's a good bet that it will.  Similarly, I have a high margin of disbelieve in the theory that aliens abduct cows on Earth.  There is a very small possibility, but it's very unlikely.\n\nWhen we consider a belief's worth, we're really just raising or lowering our margin of disbelief.  Generally speaking, most beliefs are given an "a priori" possibility of 50%.  Evidence that does not support the belief (it fails to conform to theories that we already have good reasons to believe, it is internally inconsistent, it violates known natural laws, it fails to explain certain phenomenon within its scope, it doesn't make accurate predictions, etc.) raises our margin of disbelief.  Evidence that supports the belief (it makes accurate predictions, it's reproducible, it supports existing theories and known natural laws, etc.) lowers our margin of disbelief.   Once the margin of disbelief is high enough, we can treat the belief as an untruth for practical purposes.  (Bigfoot ate my baby.)  If our margin of disbelief becomes low enough, we can treat the belief as fact.  (My car still has gas in its tank).  Basically, not all beliefs are created equal.  We should have more faith in beliefs with lots of evidential support, and less faith in beliefs with little evidence to back them up.  Conversely, we should doubt beliefs that the available evidence doesn't support.\n\nContrary to what many atheists say, it is possible to prove a negative and prove negative existence.  Assume that I state that you have no quarters in your pockets, then force you to turn out your pockets.  If there are no quarters in there, I have proven (within the limits of perception) negative existence.  The problems with disproving the existence of God are matters of definition and perception.  I can say that there is no god in your pocket and show it to you.  You could reasonably respond that God is invisible and we can't see him.  It all depends on how we define "God" and how powerful our ability to "see" him is.\n\nSpeaking specifically of the the Judeo-Christian god, we can say that it is very unlikely that it exists.  The existence of an omnipotent intelligence defies the Law of Conservation of Energy.  The concept that the universe was created out of nothing defies the Law of Conservation of Matter.  These laws, together, establish the basis for all of physic
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... Hrm. Good question and. Yeah, I think you would be an atheist. Atheism is the unbelief of god or anything above. If you just don't believe in the christian, Catholic, islamic etc etc, with all the "founded" religions, but believe in a greater power you are an agnostic, I think. \n\nEvolution is not part of Atheist belief, it's just a label. Somehow believing in evolution means not believing in god. But there are those who believe in both so why not someone who doesn't believe in either? \n\nAlthough I would like to know if you have any belief about how we got here. or "came to exist" The only other possibility that popped into my head was "aliens dropped us here like my dad suspected" but I'm sure there's more than three explanations as to how humans came to be humans.
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At last! An excellent point in my opinion. If God created humans, then he made us capable of questioning everything around us. Otherwise, we'd never have developed technology, learnt how to advance as a society and form our own opinions. So if he created us that way, why wouldn't we question the Bible and all it states?\nMaybe it's right, maybe it isn't. Surely the challenge is for us to discover that for ourselves, not effectively be told "think like us or go to hell!" If there is a God, we have to hope he's proud that we think for ourselves.
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Sir Arthur Keith (Evolution Expert) himself said it best: "Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We [evolutionists] believe it because the only alternative is special creation [God], and that is unthinkable." \n\nWhat proof do we have of evolution? None at all.  One responder said you were "simplistic"...another cited the "proof" of amino acids.  Any honest/knowledgeable inquirer would recognise that those were VERY simplistic answers.  He wrote "Next comes single cells...".  Wow!  That was an easy transition...and where/how does he maintain the possibility of that? Those do nothing to support their theory, but I guess its all they've got.\n\nWhile we struggle to find the elusive "missing link", in reality there are missing links between every species. How does DNA suddenly decide to produce something other than it is programmed for? Where did those first single celled creatures come from? Where did the matter for the "big bang" come from? \n\nThere is no proof that you are reading this letter as a result of an explosion 14 billion years ago. The evolutionist accepts that origin by "faith", just as the believer accepts our Creator by faith.  However, the current scientific evidence does not support evolutionary theory, rather, it refutes it.  Why does is live on?  Because in the effort to find the origin of life outside of God, its all they've got.
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NO ONE can answer this question except God!\n\nI believe:\nThe word God would not have been there if God didn't create humans, He created humans becoz this is what a God would do.
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Im gullible!\n\nIf they ask you what came before an one celled organism, just say the complex protein structure which is the building blocks of life which is randomly spread out across the galaxy suspended in dirty ice. It only develops once condition are optimum for life to form, at least that should shut them up for a wee while.  \n\nAs for them the reason they get a little hot under the collar is that unlike us, they cannot provide an answer or even a theory  to suggest what was before God. Anyway didnt you know God has always existed?
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I didn't see the question you're referring to, so I don't know what your question or your answer is.\n\nMy belief is that no one created God.  He is the Creator of all things.
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I just finished reading an article in the newspaper about two FAU proffesors who are investigating your exact question. They did some testing and came up with the theory that we have an urge to believe in a higher being throught evolution, natural selection. In the beginnig when we hunted and gathered, the world was a scary place, violent and food was scarce, believing in a higher being gives you since of purpose, courage etc... these tribes were more likely to succed and keep on living. and we are all decendents of these tribes.that is why we all have the urge to Believe, and 95% actually give into this. I dont believe there is a god, but the urge is always there.
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No, you're correct. Many believers can't seem to grasp this simple concept.\n\nIn the following argument (which is the same as yours, just more in depth) the author does not assign god a gender, therefor god is referred to as "it", instead of "he" or "she".\n\n"The problem here is that God knows everything that has happened and everything that will happen. Its knowledge cannot be wrong. There is not a single event that it has not foresaw. Given that it created the Universe the way it did, do we have free will? Consider that when God made the Universe it could see every possible result of what it was doing. Which means: it could not create something without knowing what the results would be, and without knowing how it would be affected (and effect) the things around it.\n\nLet's say that Fred has a choice that will save his life, to accept God or not to accept God and the final choice is to be made tomorrow. God knows already what choice he will make - God cannot be wrong therefore Fred cannot choose otherwise to what God has predicted. When God created the chain of events that made Fred it also knew that it was making Fred's choice for him, and knew how the various circumstances and character would make him choose either right or wrong. Fred would go forth and make that very decision that God knew he would make, and by virtue that God knowingly set up all the factors that affected his decision, it was not up to Fred but to God to decide how Fred would fare.\n\nThis argument does not imply that God does not exist. It leaves us with three results, two of which have to be wrong.\n\n   1. God created everything with full knowledge and we have no free will to change it\n   2. God does not have full knowledge\n   3. God did not make the Universe or there is no God"\n\n - Written by Vexen Crabtree