How can people who don't believe in God explain what started all of life/existence?
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But saying it's God doesn't explain it does it?\n\nQ: My car's broke down, how do I fix it?\nA: God\n\nSame logic as yours but isn't really a useful answer.
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Sigh...this is the sort of thing that makes me twitch.  Okay, here goes:\n\nAn atheist believes that there is a logical contradiction inherent in the idea of a/the God.  Because it is otherwise impossible to prove that something doesn't exist (for example, try to prove that there is now or never was any such thing as a unicorn), atheists hold that the idea of God is logically impossible.  Atheism is usually opposed to the traditional omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God of monotheists.  In other words, atheists find it impossible to believe that a being can be all-knowing, all-powerful and all good at the same time.  They usually cite something like the problem of pain.  (If God is all-good and all-powerful, how can He let bad things happen?)\n\nI realize that there are atheists that are complete materialists and reject the idea of anything that can't be perceived through the senses.  However, usual usage of the term "atheist" is one who doesn't believe in the Christian/Muslim/Jewish God.  (Let's be honest:  how often do you see atheists and Hindus duking it out?)\n\nAs for agnostics, there are two kinds:  1) those who think that it is impossible to know if God exists and 2) those who think it is possible, but aren't convinced one way or the other.\n\nHere is an example to clarify.  You're walking down the road, and a big light from the sky suddenly shines on you.  You hear your name and are told to repent.  Would you acknowledge the possibility that you had just witnessed a miracle, or would you immediately assume that you've done one too many acid trips?\n\nThe 2) kind of agnostic would believe that it is possible and that it might even be the proof they were looking for.  The 1) kind of agnostic would lay off the drugs for a while; he doesn't believe that a God, even if He/She/It exists, can interfere in such a way in human affairs.\n\nI realize that this might not be the simple answer you were looking for.\n\nThe quick answer is that atheists say no and that agnostics say maybe.\n\nSome agnostics are convinceable, and some are not.
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IF you truly are NOT A BELIEVER... then why on Earth would you even bother to reason out with someone who may or may not be able to FULLY EXPLAIN things to you in the first place?? Like, what's the big deal anyway, right?\n\nHowever, I suggest that if you are CURIOUS enough to know or to find out, it is best that you ask THOSE who have the knowledge and capacity to do so personally rather than in an open forum since, by asking it HERE, I'll bet that you'll get even much MORE CONFUSED than ever before with the myriad answers you'll get from all three sides of the coin.\n\nKnow what I mean?
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There are a couple steps of atheism:  Mild atheism; where a person just doesn't believe in religion because there isn't any proof. If proof were offered, then they'd believe. Or perhaps they just think that there's too much to be known by people, which is technically called Agnostistism. \n\nThen there's true atheism, which denies the existance of everything non-tangable. When you die, you decay in the ground. Your soul disapears. And that's that.
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to.\nread this: http://www.toykeeper.net/philosophy/knowledge
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Atheists have to turn a blind eye to logic.\n\nThey cannot answer the following:\n1) How did something arise from nothing?\n2) Order arose from chaos?\n3) Life arose from non-life?\n4) Intelligence arose from non-intelligence?\n\n3 things evolutions cannot explain: 1) Consciousness 2) Increasing Information and 3) The very first life\n\nThey do a good job of name calling, but they HAVE NO ANSWERS.\n\n** Checkmate, God **\n\nPerfect example: Christians can look at the science of a 747 jet and conclude that the plane will fly.  Christians have faith to get on the plane and fly it.  Science only proves the plane will fly, faith gives us wings.  Atheists will be left on the ground.\n\n.
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Bertrand Russell  and G.E Moore posed a similar issue many years ago when one of them suggested something like the following: Suppose you were created 5 minutes ago, complete with memories.  How would you prove what was real?\nThis has, of course, given way to many explanations and many theories of epistemology.  How do we know anything at all? Is it handed out by a great and powerful God or did matter just gel together and create mankind?\nI cannot pretend to be able to answer the question but I will suggest food for thought; in any human endeavor, we believe in something first and discover its efficacy later.  That is, we think we see something before our eyes, say as a child, and then we figure out how to reach out and grab it.  In this way, babies discover that they can reach their rattles and blankets and Mommy, but they cannot reach the window, the sky or the ceiling fan.  As adults, we learn to use the keyboard by pressing buttons and testing the results.  However if you wish to suggest that there might not be any keyboards in existence, I would give you a funny look and ask what you meant.\nHence I am suggesting that your question is turned upside down:  we do, in fact, each of us, believe that matter exists and has existed for some time.  While some believe in God as the prime cause, others believe in some sort of eternal material goo which somehow, and somewhat embarrassingly, developed a spiritual nature that ended up as mankind.  In both cases, what gives us comfort in our lives often leads us to our conclusions about beginnings rather than the reverse.\nLastly, when we are angry with the actions of others, we usually take it out on ourselves.  As Montaigne suggested, more blood has been spilled in the name of God than by any other cause.  Frankly, I don't see how we could blame God for that any more than we can blame him for not giving us the answers we demand.  I think His purpose might have been to teach us how ridiculous we are when we act in an immoral way, but judging by the present state of things, perhaps that isn't working all that well.  The state of the world today is better explained by the primoridial goo theory and the spirit of human beings? Maybe it's just a terminal case of a bad design flaw.  Of course it could just be bad personal behavior and unending greed, but lots of people would have trouble with an absolute morality.  By this time, maybe God does too!\nThink of this, the next time you get the urge to wonder about something: an atheist is, by definition, someone who denies the existence of something which doesn't exist.
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There is no proof that God does not exist.\nThink about it:  if God does not exist, then there cannot be any proof of His non-existence.  You can never prove that something does NOT exist.\n\nSo, what does that make a person who believes that God does not exist (aka atheist)?  Someone who believes something based on no evidence.  And what do we call a belief based on no evidence?  Faith.\n\nAtheism is just another religion, with all the texts, all the dogma, and all the faith necessary for any other mainstream religion.
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to.
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That's just it, it is a theory only and there is NO real proof. And every so often they change and adapt things in this theory when some scientific fact or discovery comes along and begins to expose it. People did not come from monkeys. A piece or two pieces of nothing did not explode and create everything. And evolution disproves itself. It teaches that the strongest species survives. So if that is so why is man still here? Man isn't the strongest species, but he does think. But the original theories say the strongest not the one that can think. So as I said it disproves itself. So now the only logical and factual explanation for existence is GOD!!!
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Well simply, if you don't go by the bible (or other religious texts), then there is nothing to tell me there is a god.\n\nTherefore there is nothing to believe or disbelieve anything about a god, because without the bible pushing his existence, i have nothing to suggest he existed.  It is a non-issue/problem.\n\nThat aside: Here are the main reasons why I don't believe \nin god\n\nEvolution (including evidence of unintelligent design)\nBig Bang Theory\nHistory of Religions (diversity of opinion, and change)\nEvidence (or lack of) supporting Religions\nOther Animals\nMoral contradictions in some religious teaching.\nHow Impersonal Nature Is! (Think 'evil' in nature, natural disasters, etc, why make a world that threatens to kill it's population from a multitude of different ways)\n\nLook up parasitoids or even the more commonly known parasites! What is god's will for them! To be a burden? To kill the host?
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This sort of thinking should be based on observation. You can come up with any theory you like, but if it does not explain what is seen it is useless.\n\nOn this basis:\n\n1. the universe (and implcitly nature) had a beginning, about 13.7 billion years ago\n2. that beginning did not require a creator (though you may choose to believe in one - you just won't find him experimentally)
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My not believing in god comes from me. I was raised to think, believe whatever I wanted. I was exposed through my life to most religions, beliefs, sciences, and theories. After looking at all, I chose. I used logic, and observations to make my decision, atheism was the choice. I came into life a clean mind with no beliefs, and over time made my own, but only after many years. Most of the theories I believe are my own, and I am the only one who believes them. The only influence on my beliefs is me, my thought.
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No evidence of God, this is the point.  It's about belief despite there being no proof.  \n\nI don't believe in God but I don't think that even if there was one anyone could prove the existence..\n\nUsing the human body as 'evidence' is just farcical - yes, it did happen through evolution - look at all the mistakes along the way!  Look at all the barren planets and planetless suns if you want proof that life isn't premeditated - it takes a lot of chances to come together to create life, not a 'creator'.\n\nBesides, if there is a creator I don't think much of 'his' design - bit faulty.  Too prone to disease, accident and mental disorder.\n\nYES I BELIEVE DARWIN as do most sane people.  It's ludicrous to expect people actually to believe that some creator built a world in seven days - here we have actual proof, not stories, of what happened.  Besides, for those of you who seem to think that the world was made by God, who made God?  You're question (which you seem to think is so unanswerable) about 'do you think you just popped into being' should be turned to 'God' - so 'God' just popped into being, hmmm?  The earth developed by itself - it was not created.
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Wow, I was talking with some friends from church recently about this. I also had this feeling deep inside, "what if God didnt exist?" We talked for hours, debating on facts. Our conclusion: Yes, God exists. I'll try to give you some insight on what we went over.\n\nOk, let's not get too complicated and just give an everyday example. Suppose you got home today, and there was this beautiful chocolate cake with icing and everything, on top of ur table. Now, we have 2 theories of where that cake came from:\n\n1) There was an HEB truck this afternoon going by ur house, and all of a sudden, a car hit it at 70mph, and the truck rolled over violently. There were eggs, flour, all sorts of stuff in the truck, and they all got mixed up in the crash, and the truck caught on fire, and the extreme heat baked all that stuff, and as the truck continued to roll on the street, the stuff flew through ur window and miraculously landed on ur table.\n\n2) Someone who knew how to bake a chocolate cake, went there and did it, and then put it on top of ur table for you.\n\nWhich one makes more sense? If you answered #2, good! Then God created the Earth and everything in it. If you prefer to believe in an absurd and very creative theory called "the big bang", in which somehow gases mixed up, just in the right proportion, and then everything exploded and the earth was formed ... my friend, you have a very creative mind. First of all, how were those gases there? Someone must have created it. God. Stuff doesn't just appear.\n\n=D Doesn't that make sense? Ok, now, let's get a lil more complicated.\n\nScientists say that man evolved from monkeys or whatever their creative mind came up with. Well, it has been proven that over time, living beings only lose genetic material, constantly. Therefore, evolution cannot be possible. The human body is so complex, there is no way it just "evolved" from something. A project called GENOMA, just recently finished their research. Their task: make a complete mapping of the human DNA. Many countries joined forces to complete this project, each taking a body part, like arm, leg, or whatever, and finding out the DNA code for it. Germany was in charge of the human eye. At the end of the project, they said that the human eye was so complex, that there was NO WAY it could have evolved from some other animal. It's a fact. Scientists researched and wrote it down. Aren't they contradicting themselves now? Ok, I believe I made a point on this one. Mankind did not evolve. God made man in His image.\n\nOk, now back to the big bang stuff. The NASA has been measuring the distance from the Earth to the moon, and it's a fact that every year the moon gets further and further away from the Earth. Fact. It's been proven. It's also a mathematical equation. So, if we take that mathematical equation, and do it backwards, we come up with how long since the earth and the moon we're almost touching. The calculations say something about 10 thousand years. It can't be more than that, otherwise the moon would have been rolling around on the earth.\n\nAlso, it's possible to calculate the rate of aging of the Earth. Every year, scientists calculate the rate at which the Earth is aging. It's roughly the same. If we then backtrack how long since the Earth was relatively "new", the calculations vary from 10 to 12 thousand years. It's fact.\n\nAlso, the population of the Earth. Today, we have roughly 6.5 billion people alive. Populations, increase in a mathematical progression. In other words, there will always be more people alive today, than there are people dead. Fact. It's not possible to have more people dead than alive. Draw a sketch of a simple family tree, and you'll stumble upon the same conclusion. So, if we backtrack how long since the beggining of population, the results say somewhere between 10 to 12 thousand years.\n\nEvery fact that we
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Well, it lacks of logic that's it. If everything in the universe needs a creator, then the creator needs a creator, since he's part of the universe, if something like god can exists without a creator, why can't the universe exists without a creator?\n\nIf the universe and its "order" requiere design, does that mean god as a being lacks of order? If there is order in him as a being, doesn't it means it needs a designer since order can't exist without a designer or, can it? If something like god, as a being, can have order without a designer, why can't the universe have order without a designer?\n\nIf nothing can't be created from nothing and the existance of the universe implies creation, does that mean the existance of god implies he had to be created? If god can exist without creation, can't the universe exist without creation? Who created god? If he needs no creator, why does the universe needs a creator?\n\nIf god has no begining and end, why can't the universe have no beginign and end and just being in constant change? Who really knows without basing his knowledge in ancient books.\n\nIt sounds to me like god is just a concept used to explain everything that lacks of logic or just can't be explained yet, since our knowledge is very limited. God violates logic and to me it can only exists through faith. If the world is too beautiful that it can't be an accident, does that mean god ain't beautiful? Because if he is, he needs a creator, I mean, beautiful things need a creator, don't they? Where does the logic lays?\n\nSometimes I think it's hard for some to simply admit "I don't know". Can the universe exists without a designer? Well, I don't know and I don't need to make fairy tales to explain its creation, because really, I don't know and those who claim they do, they sound highly suspicious... They do.
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Hello Rendier.. :)\n\nI just heard the other day, a scientist that said that you cannot produce something out of nothing..\n\nSo how then can they say, that the universe came from nothing..\n\nGod created the Heavens and the Earth..that makes more sense..It just seems to easy for those that do not believe in God..