07-24-2008, 09:45 AM
speedbump Wrote:I'm done arguing, but I just don't understand how you can think an explosion created all of this. Think about it. I mean GOD could've created the world using an explosion, but an explosion without a creator just formed all we know today? And then you believe that once you die you just cease to exist? Where did the concepts of good and evil come from? Did people just form with the explosion and develop a language, and all the intricacies of the human body? Look at a drawing of the human body, and all the muscles and everything and tell me that came out of an explosion. I just don't see how you can cease to believe in a creator when the beauty and complexity of the world screams it.
But where did GOD come from? How is he here without something to create him? How is he here without an intelligent designer? You think it's hard to believe that everything "just happened" when that's PRECISELY what you believe about God! He "just happened." He was just "always there."
You're making the mistake of assuming the big bang happened and instantly there were planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies, nebulas, pulsars, and black holes. That is NOT what the Big Bang theory is. For much of the history of the universe, the only element was Hydrogen. The density of that Hydrogen didn't remain uniform, it congealed into stars, which by the use of a fusion reaction, create not only Helium, but all the elements of the periodic table. Think of it like hailstones. Most of them are quite small, so most of the atoms that result in the fusion reaction of stars are Helium. But, conditions can be right to create bigger hailstones, and thus "bigger" atoms like Iron, gold, and uranium result (much more rarely) as well. Atoms are mostly unstable, and bond to each other to create molecules. Some of these molecules create chemicals, which react with each other in amazing and unpredictable ways. Take a water molecule, H2O. By adding just one Oxygen atom to the molecule, resulting in H2O2, you go from having a clear, drinkable liquid that sustains life to peroxide, a solvent that turns a cloudy blue at certain temperatures.
I agree these are huge concepts to wrap your head around. I'll admit they can even be hard to believe, but to me, it is even harder to believe that a vast intelligence has always existed, and can exist without a creator was the prime cause of all this. To me, that's intellectual laziness. It's giving up.
Besides, if God's vast, "superior" intelligence doesn't need a creator to exist, why do we as "inferior" creatures need one?