Why do some people always want other reasons for explaining how the world was formed besides God created it?
960476
Because the devil is smart and will twist peoples mind into other things like believing we come from monkeys.  It's just the devil working......
1102706
One of the things that my Pastor always says is that the creation tells man that God exists and that man has a obligation to look for God also.  I think God is sayin that they don't have an excuse cause he made the things so they would know.    \nRomans  1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
1091888
This is a case where some people don't want to admit the truth, that God exists. Because if God exists, then there could be a right and wrong and a morality which they don't want. True science should not rule out any possibilities, including the existence of a creator. However what we have today are a bunch of them who start off without even considering the possibility of a God. so when the evidence points that way they refuse to see it.
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Thats the problem, we dont have to ask who created the creator because we are told that God just "is, was, and always will be".  \n\nThe arrogance of man to think that we are smart enough to understand everything is our greatest downfall.  Ever hear people say that when they think they know everything, they learn that they know very little?\n\nVirtually everything that we know today was once unreasonable to the abilities of our brain.  Just like no one knew about gravity until it was discovered and able to be measured.  People thought the Earth was flat, and when they were told it was round, it took many years before they realized the person was right.  Then they discovered later it was somewhat oval.  Just because the most intelligent scientist in the world cannot understand supernatural things, dont mean they dont exist.  Maybe someday someone will discover a way to "see" these things too, so that everyone will have the knowledge.  Just because it hasnt happened yet dont mean we are at the end of all learning, and it wont.\n\nThe fact that we are the only animals on the planet that aspire for greatness, desire things that we dont need, and have learned how to create things ourself is proof that God created us in His image.  We dont question why we have the ability to learn and evolve, we just take it for granted.\n\nMankind has in effect became gods, because they forgot and no longer appreciate what created them. They believe as long as they can invent and create new things that now they are gods. \n\nThis has been prophesied in Revelation. Part of being marked with the mark of the beast is man becoming their own god.
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Religions for the most part were created during a time when most people still believed the earth to be flat and that is was the center of the Universe.  Generation after generation has been indoctrinated into believing the religion they were born into without ever really questioning it.  It's easier for them to ignore science than face the truth.
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I kind of feel that it is almost impossible to answer this question if you are honest with yourself.  If you believe that the earth WAS intelligently designed, then by current logic, there are a LOT of flaws with it, however that could be because our logic is flawed, and not the subject about which we are discussing.\n\nIf you DON'T believe it was created, then you would have to put yourself into the shoes of that GREAT INTELLIGENT POWER, indicating you are on the same level with that power, and hence, have a perfect knowledge of these things. I don't think we can objectively do that, wheather you believe in a "God" or not.
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earth is obviously created "naturally", in my opinion, there is no such thing as god, rather, earth was created coincidentally.\n\nwhen the solar system is formed, little bits of the sun is trapped by its own gravity, because they were fluid, they formed spheres, this explains why planets are round and not triangular. earth was one of them, it was once small and in habitable, it is only by chance an asteroid nearly the size of earth than collided and fused with earth, readjusting its orbit, size and atmosphere, this also provided the optimal conditions for simple organisms to form out of chemical reactions between chemicals found in the sea together with other natural phenomena like lightnings.\n\ngod had no hand in this, rather, god was created by man
1073200
Surprising so many answers.  If you start in Genis you find that it does not mention others of any account until it comes to man.  It has God calling things into formation.  There must have been a goodly number moving things and mixing things as the heavens and the earth were created.  With earth there was the additional processes of creating plants and animals.\n\n"THEY" were so impressed, they said "Let us create man in our image!"  And so God created man in his likeness.  \n\nSo when God demanded there be light, I am sure the others that looked like him did what they needed to to create light and keep the boss happy.\n\nRead Genis-pretty plain writing no need for an expert to explain the basic story, but plenty of room for kids to ask how and why.
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If seems that if God was required to create a complex world, than it would require an even more complex being to have created the complexity of God.  Would this be God's God?\n\nI do not see that using God as an explanation for the inherent complexity of the world resolves the issue at all; it simply seems to remove the question to a level where people feel more comfortable admiting that they do not know.  It is much more difficult to admit one does not understand why the natural universe, which they can see and feel and touch, exists, but much easier to admit that they don't know how God came to exist.\n\nSo the question is very good both philosophically, theologically and psychologically.\n\nAnother question you may wish to ask is: If God created heaven, where was He before such a creation?
530994
I am a teacher (actually a university professor). My *job* is to teach people and I enjoy it. I want to promote a world where people think for themselves rather than take whatever those in power tell them. I believe this will make the world a better place not only for me, but for my daughter and others that I love. When I find someone that has misunderstandings about basic things like atheism, or mathematics, or evolution, or history I try to teach them if I can. Seek the truth and it shall set you free.
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Many Christians often ask "why" rather than "how".  Even with all the facts that one could possibly obtain about the universe, even if scientific methods reveal exactly how the universe came into being and what caused actions and reactions to occur, there is still a nagging question of why any of this should exist.  It might be determined how the universe exists; e.g., random actions that culminated in what we observe now. But Science cannot satisfactorily answer "why" the universe "should" exist.  It can only point to how it came into being and how it exists and what forces and materials constitute it and manifest it.  The "why" question here is not a question of how it came to be, but what reason it should come into being.  Christianity is more concerned with the question of whether there is something behind the reason for the universe existing, rather than the question of how the universe came into being.  Science cannot answer whether there is a reason for the universe existing.  On another note, do you notice that even scientists have to have faith--in science?  A scientist cannot verify or repeat all the experiments and observations ever claimed by all other scientists; a scientist has to trust that his community holds truth in high regard.  So even a scientist relies on the notion of faith.
1018526
I believe in God just not the bible, how dare anyone claim to know what God thinks, I have more respect for God, there are hundreds of archaeological finds proving that the bible that exists was put into place by church hierarchy that had ulterior motives for including and not including what THEY wanted in the bible, only someone who had ALL the original texts and could read them in the original language that they were written in would have a good understanding of what the ancient religious leaders had in mind, and who's to say they were God inspired, insane asylums are full of people who hear God
1095622
Probably it is human nature to try to find an explanation for everything. Before the establishment of science the most simple explanation was that since things such as fire, lightning natural phenomena were beyond human abilities, they were the work of something superior-the gods. So I guess it is partly a remrant from those times\nAlso I think it is in human nature to believe in something superior, because it fuels hope. Finding "evidence" for the existence of such a power reassures you that your hope is not in vain.\n.
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The Bible came first,the others followed. I believe that it is very possible that the ideas came from the worlds oldest book. Most peoples from the world share similar stories of a world wide flood and the gathering of one of every kind of animal. A very interesting question!
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There are very clear psychological reasons for why people believe in these things.  People want to find reasons for tragedy, the unknown, etc. \n\nBefore we understood them, people thought eclipses were bad omens... that gods were upset, that trouble was ahead.  They simply didn't understand what was happening.  Today, we still cannot explain everything we observe through science, but that doesn't mean that they aren't explainable.  It's simply easier to believe that something is controlling the outcome of what we experience.  As time goes by, we understand more and more... things that appeared to be magic previously.  \n\nSome people find this depressing and choose to believe in god and they think this creates purpose in their lives.  But it's narrow sighted and simplistic. I and most atheists, have no problem finding meaning in our lives... I am not amoral, I am not evil, etc.  Religion has had thousands of years to evolve.. It's a formidable opponent to reason because it teaches to ignore reason.  Only through free-thinking can you successfully question belief and your understanding of the world.  For some people it's a matter of stupidity, for some people it's a matter of ignorance... but for many, it's purely indoctrination in a manner that has been nearly perfected over the last thousands of years.
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Because God created it.
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Because religion is what is used to explain what we do not understand.  From the beginning of time people have created religions and Gods to compensate for the unknown.  \n\nOriginally, eclipses, stars, and pregnancy were all seen as works of a God.  Now we understand these sciences and can rationalize them in our common knowledge.  If you expand this to today, we have a whole belief system setup to explain what we don't understand in today's world.  And it doesn't take a genius to think, "Well, these seems to be a process... ...I wonder what happens when we know a bit more, and a bit more, and...".  \n\nSo to me, a belief in God or a religion is nothing more then an acceptance of intellectual laziness. It's an excuse to look at something you don't understand and say "God did it" instead of "Let's find out how that came to be and why".\n\nDo I think that there could be a God?  Sure.  But I also believe that there could be life on another planet.  Which one do you think we will have quantifiable proof of first?