Buzzfeed uploaded this video about life on Earth and the comments have people arguing about religion vs. science and people posting stuff like "I believe in God, not this"
It prompted me to want to create this thread because it bothers me that people find the two exclusive, and that you fully have to commit, or "believe", in one or the other.
This annoys me. They are not exclusive. They can be mutual. You can believe in God and evolution / science.
People always look at the beginning with this argument. Either God created the world, or the Big Bang took place, this is the common debate.
I think they complement each other, absolutely. I took a course that discussed this very topic, and the conclusion the class drew was that they can coexist.
We know so little about the origin of the Earth. Even the name Big Bang implies that we know so little about the origins of our world that we can't even give it a proper name. So to dispute the idea that there could of been a God or some entity that created the Earth is rather unreasonable. Plus, the circumstances surrounding Earth's location to make the perfect and precise place in the entire unending galaxy that could form life...it's a hard pill to swallow thinking that it's coincidental. If we were one iota to the left, we'd explode, another to right, we'd implode. We're at the perfect place where we are at harmony with gravity and the sun, just enough to make life. That CAN'T just be coincidental...or at least I can't think of it like that. At least thinking that someone made these circumstances happen gives it a sense of understanding...someone/something who/that existed before the universe or Earth did.
We know so little about the origin of the Earth. Even the name Big Bang implies that we know so little about the origins of our world that we can't even give it a proper name. So to dispute the idea that there could of been a God or some entity that created the Earth is rather unreasonable. Plus, the circumstances surrounding Earth's location to make the perfect and precise place in the entire unending galaxy that could form life...it's a hard pill to swallow thinking that it's coincidental. If we were one iota to the left, we'd explode, another to right, we'd implode. We're at the perfect place where we are at harmony with gravity and the sun, just enough to make life. That CAN'T just be coincidental...or at least I can't think of it like that.
But you forget that Earth was an inhospitable place for hundreds of millions of years before it winded down. Not only that, but the majority of the Earth is salt water which we can't drink. So it's not like Earth was made just for us.
But you forget that Earth was an inhospitable place for hundreds of millions of years before it winded down. Not only that, but the majority of the Earth is salt water which we can't drink. So it's not like Earth was made just for us.
Earth was inhospitable for humans for millions of years, but not for life. The organisms (for lack of a better word) that existed during those millions of years eventually managed to create/evolve into humans once the conditions of the Earth changed. But someone had to have made it for those organisms to have the exact (down to the minute details) conditions to be alive and eventually, after millions of years, give rise to humans.
So, yes, it wasn't made for us, but it was made for the organisms that would eventually come to be us once evolution set in.
I just read Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the main premise was that humans did not have data to either prove or disprove the existence of a God but the Christian conception of God is very arbitrary, how do we know it is only one God? Why are we at the center of his creation? If he's all powerful and good why does he allow suffering?
Therefore I believe the idea for the existence of God is merely a human conception bounded by culture and supported by humans desire of something greater than them. Now I can't claim to know there isn't a God but at least the Christian God in my opinion might not exist as he is depicted.
