This is one of the most commonly raised questions by those favoring the existence of God.
Frankly speaking, I don't know how the world is created. No one could ever know that for sure, because the universe is created billions of years ago when not a soul was there to document the events. But because I possess sound logic and am interested in science my curiosity as to how the world is created is well satisfied by the scientists.
Talking about science, we do have good reasons to believe that the universe is come into existence through the event called the big bang. As far as the claim of the Bible about the creation is concerned, we have strong evidence of evolution to dispel it. The theory of evolution explains how so many species of creatures have come into being over millions of years' time. Thus, it is for sure that the world as it is has not come into existence all at once as proclaimed by the Bible. The scientific theories such as the big bang and evolution are good to believe because they make a lot of sense, as against explanations given by religions which are devoid of logic and are of very primitive nature.
Some people have strong distaste for science. They don't want to believe anything that science tells. No problem. To understand that to think about the God's hand in creation is irrational, acquaintance of science is not required, even. We'll come to that in a moment. Then there's this class who does buy the big bang explanation but further argues as to how the big bang could have happened out of nothing. This is again a valid question just in that it pushes science to its limit. What was there before the big bang and if there was nothing before "the existence" then how the matter formed out of nothing, such questions have no explanation, and science will probably never be able to explain that. But even if we put science aside I can make a truth-seeking mind understand how it is silly to conclude that God has created the world.
Let's put science aside. We simply don't know how the world is created. Now just think, "How does not knowing how the world is created prove that God has created it?" Think hard. Isn't that a fallacy?
Consider this example –
Say, you are walking on a street and you notice a $100 bill lying on the ground. Seeing it what would you think? You would think that someone must have dropped it there. You see a few people standing where the bill is lying. So you'd think maybe one of those people must have dropped it. You ask all of them one by one whether it's theirs. Their answer: No. So, you find that none of them has dropped it. Now you don't know who has dropped the $100 bill you have found. What would you conclude in that case? I am sure that any person with a sound mind would conclude: "Okay, I don't know who has dropped it." Agree? But what would you think if you saw such person who concludes: "Okay, I couldn't find who has dropped it, so it must be created out of thin air by the God!"
Do we think like that in all the events of our day to day life? Imagine when you receive a blank call do you think it's God who called, because you don't know who called? You can think of a thousand examples. When we don't know how something happened, we try to find it out. When we can't find it out, we say we don't know! Then if at all we are to believe something we take support of evidence that points toward it. That's the way people with healthy brains function.
Basically, what is to be understood is that just because we don't know how something is happened it doesn't prove the presence of supernatural, or the God.
Nothing is supernatural in this world. It's just our ignorance or insanity that makes it so.
We can claim to know something only when we have seen it with our eyes, sensed it with our senses, or when we have good evidence to put our trust on. And this is where science comes into picture, and wins. Not knowing how the world is created is a position of perfect lack of knowledge. But through our observation of the natural phenomena and research we have developed theories which give us good reason to believe them.
I am not even claiming that scientific theories are right. But in any case, the scientific theories have more substance than a downright empty proposition of God. That's the reason Darwin's evolution is taught in schools and not the claim of the Bible, or any other mythical story, for that matter.
Frankly speaking, I don't know how the world is created. No one could ever know that for sure, because the universe is created billions of years ago when not a soul was there to document the events. But because I possess sound logic and am interested in science my curiosity as to how the world is created is well satisfied by the scientists.
Talking about science, we do have good reasons to believe that the universe is come into existence through the event called the big bang. As far as the claim of the Bible about the creation is concerned, we have strong evidence of evolution to dispel it. The theory of evolution explains how so many species of creatures have come into being over millions of years' time. Thus, it is for sure that the world as it is has not come into existence all at once as proclaimed by the Bible. The scientific theories such as the big bang and evolution are good to believe because they make a lot of sense, as against explanations given by religions which are devoid of logic and are of very primitive nature.
Some people have strong distaste for science. They don't want to believe anything that science tells. No problem. To understand that to think about the God's hand in creation is irrational, acquaintance of science is not required, even. We'll come to that in a moment. Then there's this class who does buy the big bang explanation but further argues as to how the big bang could have happened out of nothing. This is again a valid question just in that it pushes science to its limit. What was there before the big bang and if there was nothing before "the existence" then how the matter formed out of nothing, such questions have no explanation, and science will probably never be able to explain that. But even if we put science aside I can make a truth-seeking mind understand how it is silly to conclude that God has created the world.
Let's put science aside. We simply don't know how the world is created. Now just think, "How does not knowing how the world is created prove that God has created it?" Think hard. Isn't that a fallacy?
Consider this example –
Say, you are walking on a street and you notice a $100 bill lying on the ground. Seeing it what would you think? You would think that someone must have dropped it there. You see a few people standing where the bill is lying. So you'd think maybe one of those people must have dropped it. You ask all of them one by one whether it's theirs. Their answer: No. So, you find that none of them has dropped it. Now you don't know who has dropped the $100 bill you have found. What would you conclude in that case? I am sure that any person with a sound mind would conclude: "Okay, I don't know who has dropped it." Agree? But what would you think if you saw such person who concludes: "Okay, I couldn't find who has dropped it, so it must be created out of thin air by the God!"
Do we think like that in all the events of our day to day life? Imagine when you receive a blank call do you think it's God who called, because you don't know who called? You can think of a thousand examples. When we don't know how something happened, we try to find it out. When we can't find it out, we say we don't know! Then if at all we are to believe something we take support of evidence that points toward it. That's the way people with healthy brains function.
Basically, what is to be understood is that just because we don't know how something is happened it doesn't prove the presence of supernatural, or the God.
Nothing is supernatural in this world. It's just our ignorance or insanity that makes it so.
We can claim to know something only when we have seen it with our eyes, sensed it with our senses, or when we have good evidence to put our trust on. And this is where science comes into picture, and wins. Not knowing how the world is created is a position of perfect lack of knowledge. But through our observation of the natural phenomena and research we have developed theories which give us good reason to believe them.
I am not even claiming that scientific theories are right. But in any case, the scientific theories have more substance than a downright empty proposition of God. That's the reason Darwin's evolution is taught in schools and not the claim of the Bible, or any other mythical story, for that matter.
dude, if you ask people if they dropped a 100$ bill, nearly always, their answer is yes. noone is that stupid. :)
ReplyDeleteand as for creating this world, it was heat and evolution.
yeh sometimes the answers that sciences gives is more baffling than what the religion gives.. all that big bang, and black holes those all sound like science fiction..
ReplyDeleteI just hope that science is able to give some good answers before i die, it will be very disappointing to die without knowing these answers..
No one really knows the whole... either science or religion. But science has at least some basis.. religion has none.
ReplyDeleteBut when will we know the answers to these question... the real answers.
"How does not knowing how the world is created prove that God has created it?"
ReplyDeleteDude, it's not the not knowing. It is the not understanding.
When something is beyond our understanding, it is suffice to say that it is God. We don't understand God. Like how was evolution possible given the nearly impossible chance of success? God makes sure evolutions happen against the odd.
Make a stronger case please. :-)
There's one religion that explain about the creation of earth and the universe. It's in Islam - The Holy Quran. You might want to read that before you conclude something irrationally. It just the matter of whether you believe it or not.
ReplyDeleteinteresting article ... as far as the theology with its books like Bible, Ramayan, Quran etc is concerned ... then they are as 'valid' as a surviving copy of a harry potter book found after a few thousand years will be .. archeologists will say there was a city named london , there were brooms , there were people ... then maybe harry potter was the last messiah :D
ReplyDeleteleaving that aside ....
we have a non-religious but still theistic creation theory that says everything must have a creator n presumes that a self existent n self-sufficent consiousness that 'decided' to create this universe ... which takes us back to the question 'from where did this consiousness come?' ... n if an all knowing, all powerfull consiousness can existence out of nowhere , why can't the universe ? so the creation theory discards itself ...
then comes the scientific aspect that says "we are pretty sure about the events after the big bang , but beyond that we are still looking n we will really appreciate your insight".. it gives you freedom to ask question, to critisize, to propose a theory of your own etc .. so i place my two cents on science over religion