Don't you think the complexities of the universe AND life are good reasons to believe in a Creator?
817005
Yes, it requires intelligent design.\nBut it also requires intelligence to realize that fact.
774326
Yes, if you didn't question His existance every now and then, then I would have to question whether you believe in Him or are just following what others have told you to believe. Questioning is a part of being human - curiostity, you must think logically and a lot of matters to do with good are not always logical, but I think that these matters are outside of our realm of understanding and I figure that it may be for the best. So yes I believe in God (don't really fear Him as much as some people) but I think it is healthy to question His existance to create a better, stronger belief.
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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)
655235
I also belive in creation. Mant of these questions are answered in the book : A Case for a Creator.  That book has increased my faith alot.
957298
Yes, read Lee Strobel's book "a case for a creator."  It talks about why there is a creator from several stand points.  Science as well as psychology and a few other.  Very interesting and way to much to put in here.  It talks about the universe expanding.  Very factual.  Well, just read it or he probably has a webpage.\n\nAlso recommend "darwin's little black box" by Behe.\n\nEnjoy!
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Yes, but this is not as important as God believes in me. For I can imagine any kind of a God or none at all but as long as he thinks of me I continue to exsist. This can not be said of all people. I am an orgininal thought of God, very unique and there is none like me on the earth though there be billions with my form. He has spoken to me a few times and he is more real than I am, for I am just a thought of his
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do you beleive that a car create it self by it self? ... NO!?? why ?, if you can beleive that the universe was created by itself and without creator, then why you dont beleive that a car cant be created without a creator?\n\nfor everything created there is a creator, and the creation of the universe proves the greatness of God.
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Not really. God will always exist to those who believe in him. Personally, I don't believe in God (Believing in God to me is sort of animal-like; we control our own destinies and fates and there is nothing beyond death) but those who do...well, they aren't going to stop for Hawking, are they? And Hawking isn't neccessarily going to discover the beginning. There are many other brilliant scientists out there working or working with Hawking to discover the origins of the universe.
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If you believe there is something that was not created (god) then you are opening a precedent, paving the way to believing that others things needed not be created (eg, universe).\nTherefore, even those who believe in God shouldn't necessarily believe that the universe was created!
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Aha, So you have discovered one of the roots of existential angst! Existentialists believe that a perfect form for every idea exists in the universe, whether it has been put into words or not. This is a difficult argument to make because its basis is that if the idea exists, then the thing the idea represents exists, a huge leap.\n  Simply stating a disbelief in a philosophical construct does not validate the existence of the construct. One may argue for the validity or invalidity of the construct based on empirical evidence in support of one's position, however the conceptualiziton of an idea does not thereby bring it into reality. In order for your hypothesis to be valid we would have to accept that something exists because we had the idea for it to exist. To show that this is false one need only point to the Empire state building which, as an idea, did not exist in reality until bricks and mortar were set. If the idea were the reality, then every criminal act ever concieved in ones mind and not acted upon would make one guilty of the concieved act.\n   Comitting oneself to an Atheistic viewpoint is a comittment to a belief which is not possible to prove or disprove beyond redoubt, it is therefore an act of Faith in ones position. Atheists DENY the existence of a  supreme being. If on the other hand, one chooses to neither accept or reject the existence of a supreme being, one is considered an Agnostic. An Agnostic is one who neither believes nor disbelieves, they simply do not make a choice. Belief in God is a choice just as disbelief is a choice, that is the basis for free will.
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I know several people who are scientists and believe in God.  Many of them see that there is more to the universe than can be explained by science.
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Yes. In fact I so desperately want to believe, it's just that there are so many historical, achaelogocal, anthropological and biological evidences to the contrary. \nI'd love to believe in a loving creator and be able to let go knowing that he's in control; in life after this one, and really be sure that all this is not just random chance. But can it be proven?\nI have Christian friends and they believe the Bible unquestioningly. But my intellect just can't get past the myth of creation, to begin with. It's just not credible. If you can give solid proof, I'd convert in a heartbeat.
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Actually, all that stuff is too confusing for the average Joe to consider. I think it actually takes more faith to believe all that stuff than it does to believe in creation. Of course, that's just MY take on the whole matter. It's almost like believing a junk yard blew up one day, then came back together to form a cadillac. It's just too much to believe for me. <*)))><
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I read a bit on John's stuff and I have to say that it didn't get to the question of who created the creator.  If you attempted to answer this question you would find that being created by a god is just as difficult if not more so than being created from some random source because ultimately at some point a god would have been created from some random source.\n\nThere are more emotional reasons to believe in god.  Mostly, fear and a need to answer questions in an attempt to fill the void of our non-understanding ( is that a word? I don't know, if it isn't I just made it one) of our own existance.\n\nIs there a god?  If there is a god what is it?  Who is to define this god?  Don't we first have to have some type of experience of reference to see if this god exists?  \n\nWhat if I said god was undefinable?  Or infinate.  Then, you could say that god is everything and as such cannot seperate himself from himself to expose himself and therefor, you cannot detect him unless you detect the inifinate which means to realize that you and god are one, like that jesus guy.  This is the only way I believe a god could actually exist if we're talking about an omni god that is.  If you're talking about a super being then I don't know what to tell you other than proove it.
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Yes...\n\nWe find in nature things that are possible to be and not to be, since they are found to be generated, and to corrupt, and consequently, they are possible to be and not to be. But it is impossible for these always to exist, for that which is possible not to be at some time is not. Therefore, if everything is possible not to be, then at one time there could have been nothing in existence. Now if this were true, even now there would be nothing in existence, because that which does not exist only begins to exist by something already existing. Therefore, if at one time nothing was in existence, it would have been impossible for anything to have begun to exist; and thus even now nothing would be in existence--which is absurd. Therefore, not all beings are merely possible, but there must exist something the existence of which is necessary. But every necessary thing either has its necessity caused by another, or not. Now it is impossible to go on to infinity in necessary things which have their necessity caused by another, as has been already proved in regard to efficient causes. Therefore we cannot but postulate the existence of some being having of itself its own necessity, and not receiving it from another, but rather causing in others their necessity. This all men speak of as God.
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I believe so, based upon not only what the Bible says about it, but also based upon the evidence in nature that points to a Creator.  Many scientists, such as myself, have become believers after examining the numerous things that have to be balanced within 0.00010% or less of where they are for the universe to exist as it does and for life as we know it to be possible.
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I do believe in an afterlife, but assuming heaven did not exist, then, yes I believe humans would create a belief in one for comfort and expectation of a new life to come.  I could even go as far as to say the mind is a powerful thing, powerful enough to even create supposed proof of afterlife by communicating with departed souls.  But, if the mind is that powerful, enough to falsely prove life exists after this one, isn't that power enough to say something bigger is going on here.  It points to the path the soul does live on, in my opinion.