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Do you Want Proof God Exists [Spirituality & Religion]

just look ou the window at the glories of nature. consider the perfection of the human body if well cared for, the beauty of the colors f the fish, the sounds of the birds. the vastness of the heavens. now tell me this all just happened accidentally? and explain to me how evolution takes thousands of years but man's brain went from survival mode to creative, reasoning, intelligent thinking in the space of a blink of an eye. and why there is no evidence of horizontal evolution, only vertical. never has there been any proof that an animal, vegetable or man changed for the better unless man intervened and chemically made it happen.

Thousands of scientists disprove evolution by just opening their eyes. the rest just scream the loudest so that's all you can hear.

Yet no one can really believe that that this world, this universe just happened. the math doesn't work, evolution doesn't work, only God works.
LadyGrace Best Comment
We are not here to convince. We are just messengers. The rest is up to them. If they miss heaven, all the answers in the world, won't mean a thing. If we were meant to have all the answers, God would have given them to us. Yet in his wisdom, he knew that nothing is as important as making sure we all knew how to have eternal life in a better, happier place. Who wouldn't want that? Who would turn that down and miss heaven? The Bible says a fool says in his heart, there is no God.

Even science cannot disprove God exists. Galatians 1 , verse 8 says "but though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you, then that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." If people don't want to believe, that's up to them. We didn't come to convince. Just to give the message. Our minds are too finite to figure out an infinite God. We cannot stand in the shoes of God and give answers that only He knows. We don't have God's mind and we cannot see all that God sees.

Both the believer and the atheist hold beliefs, but it takes more than faith to have salvation. It takes grace, which is unearned favor from God.

There are approximately 11 million species of life on earth, including humans, and all of these, including the universe itself, began by chance. Right. lol
@Lynda70 I am still confused about that because I’m thinking how can anything be a proven model if it is only a theory?
Lynda70 · F
@LadyGrace Your saying "[b]only[/b] a theory" indicates you simply don't understand the definition of the word "theory" in its scientific sense. In everyday layman's language, the word is used carelessly to refer to a vague idea or, at best, what scientists would call a "hypothesis". That seems to be where you're getting confused.

A scientist starts with a hypothesis then, as a result of observation and experiment, refines it until he or she has a proven, working model. That model, or "theory", allows predictions to be made based on prior observation. For example, a theory of gravity predicts the acceleration of a massive object falling to the ground. Another theory explains why a 2kg mass accelerates at the same rate as a 1kg one. As a lay person, you might not understand the meaning of the word "massive" in its scientific sense either. It means anything with mass, not necessarily a lot of it.
@Lynda70 Hmmmm....you’re a lot smarter than I am on this. 😄 I’ll have to do some thinking on this. 😂

I'll have to respectfully disagree. I haven't seen any proof of god(s) creating anything, or for that matter being anything else than a way of a conceptual thinking.
It’s not necessary to me. I can appreciate the beauty in the world without thinking some sentient being is responsible for it. In fact, it’s a little easier to believe that when bad things happen it’s because of the randomness of life, and if it weren’t me, it could’ve just as easily been someone else.
[quote] consider the perfection of the human body[quote][/quote][/quote]

Gonna have to disagree with you there. This is a common argument used by creationists but it is not backed up by facts.
Anatomy of humans and of many other animals is actually a pretty good argument against a creator.
While we are marvelous machines, there are many sub optimal and even absurd physiological mistakes that would get any engineer fired.
Just to name one example, look at our backs. We have the spine of a quadruped. The way the pressures are distributed are fine if you're walking on all fours but when walking upright it is the reason we have so many lower back problems and why we can slip a disk just by sneezing.

And if you're denying that evolution happened at all we can get back into the evidence which i suspect you can't refute.

What you have are questions about how evolution managed this or that. What you don't have is evidence that it did not happen.
ladycae · 100+, F
@Pikachu why is there in al the billions of yeas of rocks we have no horizontal evolution, only small vertical evolution?
@ladycae

I'll take that as an acceptance that in fact the "perfection of the human body" is rather less perfect than you assumed.
Again, i'll be happy to review the evidence that evolution has occurred if you don't recall or think you've come up with better counter arguments.

Also, can i ask what you mean by vertical and horizontal evolution?
suzie1960 · 61-69, F
[quote]just look ou the window at the glories of nature. consider the perfection of the human body if well cared for, the beauty of the colors f the fish, the sounds of the birds. the vastness of the heavens. now tell me this all just happened accidentally? [/quote]

If that couldn't have happened as a result of random events, how could a much more complex "creator" have come into being and why can the same answer not be applied to the universe?
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
Whoever has told you some of these things has not been truthful to you.
I believe a creator is quite possible. But whether they hand crafted the Earth or just started a chain of events... I feel the latter is more likely at this point. Fact is life on Earth is highly flawed. Take humans. We evolved as good as we possibly could to survive yet just a change in our body temperature can kill us, not enough vitamin C or D can kill us, not enough water can kill us, not enough oxygen... And these are the daily challenges we face as a species. Seems more likely that is random than a God making us so flawed.
@Qwerty14 Exactly. A "Creator" could very simply have pushed the button that brought forth the Big Bang. Everything else would simply be the method of his/her creation.
JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F
No one said it happened accidentally. It is scientific not fantasy. Those birds...that grass...those fish...that water...it all came to be systematically and was changed through the course by natural disasters..scientifically explained events.
suzie1960 · 61-69, F
@ladycae The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection doesn't deal with abiogenesis. Anyone who thinks it does or is intended to either doesn't understand it or is deliberately misrepresenting it.
@suzie1960 @ladycae Hmmm ... I'm not sure why, but I just read through your discussion here. Being a senior in high school now, my school certainly did teach Darwinian Evolution and the mountain of evidence behind it is compelling.

I'm not sure why it always seems to be the center of the debate over the existence of a Creator though? Couldn't evolution be the method of God's creation? Evolution makes sense. Evolution has a mountain of clear and convincing evidence. The Big Bang is far from convincing and is based on ambiguous evidence at best. Maybe "God" pushed the button and got the ball rolling and evolution was all planned?

As for a believer praying for people in general or for someone in particular, why is this offensive to so many? I'm not really a believer. I was raised Catholic but haven't been to church in years. I don't really have a strong opinion on whether a God or a Creator exists and if he/she does on whether he/she is involved in day-to-day life, but I do know that when someone who does believe says they are going to pray for you, it is an act of love. Why is this offensive? When someone says it to me, I just say Thanks and internally shrug.
rob19 · M
@suzie1960 [quote]The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection doesn't deal with abiogenesis. [/quote]
That's a mistake a lot of christians make, I think they do it deliberately. They can't refute the theory so they try to debunk it by claiming it doesn't explain something it was never intended to explain in the first place.

As we know, there are heaps of evidence to support what the Theory of Evolution actually does say.
I think there comes a time to end the chatting, when all people want to do is argue for arguments sake. Not everyone will believe, and that’s their prerogative. Keeping it going, actually brings a lot more harm, than good, I believe. Neither side can “prove” anything. Not when Jesus said it only takes faith. One either believes, or they don’t. It’s that simple. When people start arguing about it over and over and over and over, it actually turns people away from God.
Northwest · M
The universe, as awesome and beautiful it might be, at the macro level, is no proof of the existence of God, than wars, crime, and the cruelty of individuals, at the macro level, is disproof of the existence of God.

It's a matter of faith.

[quote]man's brain went from survival mode to creative, reasoning, intelligent thinking in the space of a blink of an eye[/quote]

How do you know that? How do know that it was lack of tools, that was the obstacle. As in, language, paint, paper, canvas, etc. had not evolved. Even in fight or flight mode, early cave dwellers, still managed to draw. Who knows how many drawings were not preserved, during passage of time.

If, by horizontal evolution, you mean Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT), then you should check into how HGT works in bacteria, as a reaction to antibiotics/pesticides.

We don't have the non-God math fully worked out, but if you think math, as we know it today, is the litmus test, then that also fails to explain God, so it boils down to faith/belief system.
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suzie1960 · 61-69, F
@ladycae I consider all christianity a cult. What is the other book Jehovah's Witnesses believe in more that the bible?

You're free to preach what you think is the truth but I'll continue to challenge it with what I consider to be the truth. Actually, that's how scientific advancement works. One person presents a hypothesis which others then challenge. The hypothesis is refined as necessary to fit the demonstrable facts before it finally becomes a "theory".

I was a victim of christianity. I care enough about others to want to help them avoid falling into the same trap.
ladycae · 100+, F
@suzie1960 you are not a victim to me. i have done nothing to "victimize" you. yet you blame me for what others out of my control have done. that seems unfair. i don't blame you for what atheists have done to me? yet they are every bit as push and mean as you think Christian are.Google Jehovah's witnesses. you will see a lot of unique things. their main book is New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.. but it has little relationship to the actual bible. you can tell wwho they are because most of their publications are printed by watch tower.
suzie1960 · 61-69, F
@ladycae I'm not blaming you personally for what other christians have done to me. In fact, I was like you at one time, thinking god was great and all that but now I see I was being misled. You could be as much of a victim as I was, you just haven't realised yet.

Jehovah's Witness get a lot of bad press but they're really no worse than any other christian group. The New World Translation is just one of many translation of the bible. I have a copy. It's written in modern English ("you" rather than "thou/thee" etc.) but doesn't differ significantly from the KJV.
smh, at some of these conversations. Unbelievable.
Fernie · F
god works for you.
ladycae · 100+, F
@suzie1960 you know, i find it interesting that i HAVE [b]NEVER [/b] told you that you[b] HAVE[/b] to believe in my God. i have always said it is [b]YOUR CHOICE[/b]. yet you knock yourself out trying to make me not believe. now learn some respect. i have the right to choose to believe in God whether you approve or not. stop trying to tell me your horror stories, I DON'T CARE.
suzie1960 · 61-69, F
@ladycae I agree you have the right to believe as you wish, I've never said otherwise. I'm only saying what I believe and why [b]my experience[/b] led me to that conclusion. You might not care but others might.
ladycae · 100+, F
@suzie1960 and yet you have said it 5 times in the previous 7 messages. isn't that a little overkill? like i said have some respect and let it go.
I already believe in him.. :)
What is horizontal evolution?
@ladycae


I'm not really sure how to start here...

Evolution theory IS proven. If you disagree then we can debate the evidence for it right here and now.

It's certainly not a hypothesis and i KNOW i've explained to you what a scientific theory is before.
What missing link are "they" looking for?
@ladycae

[quote]t we have never found vertical, saber tooth becoming modern tiger[/quote]

Can you tell me what that would look like?
@ladycae

Just to be clear, you're not going follow up on this discussion about evolution being proven, right?
Wishingwellguy · 46-50, M
W a load of B.S
SW-User
I'm okay thanks
I don't need convincing
Heartlander · 80-89, M
I absolutely agree with you!

 
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