Was creation random or by a design?
Design. Answers in Genesis is a great resource for this type of information.
Atheism is a religion. It requires the same leap of faith as any other religion.
Atheists too seem to have a vendetta against a particular religion which might be valid. Religions and churches and religious organizations can be very corrupt.
Churches can be their own worst enemies.
Yet, it is the message and not the messenger that is important.
My experience has been that most people who claim to be atheists are actually people who prayed for something and it didn’t happen.
They are angry because of that.
Then they tell everyone they are atheists because they are angry.
To acknowledge God as our creator would be to admit to themselves that they aren’t the perfect beings they think they are.
How could God not give them what they prayed for because they are perfect.
Perhaps a better question we should next ask is; was creation random or by design?
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Even if creation was random, what or who started this random process?
It’s kind of irrelevant. When I was an atheist, I was convinced that humans came from outer space. We are a unique species. No other animal has made an MRI machine. When I became a Christian, the Creation idea made sense.
And then success must follow success and success must follow success and over again and again a million times. Well a huge number of times to get to very complex beings like ourselves.
The statistical probability of a million successes in progression is an impossibility or an extremely low probability.
Well “creation” implies “creator” so no.
As for how it all came to be, dunno. Doesn’t matter. It’s fun to watch the scientists try to figure it out. But knowing that it’s a very challenging science, gleaning evidence from billions of years ago, I don’t expect any answers. Just neat space pictures and cool theories.
‘Intellectualism and atheism are religions too, and their followers are often the biggest zealots.
Atheist is a term that is never used in the Bible. There is one scripture that defines a person who says there is no God.
“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”
If you do not believe in the Creator you are not an atheist, you are a fool.
Atheists would say we, sentient beings, are simply consequences of abiogenesis - random chemical reactions and energy changes in matter, which has always existed, randomly combining to create “life.”
Personally I find it very empty and logically meaningless. No atheist can explain how the natural world makes this jump from pure chemical reactions to “life” and sentient beings.
As a side note, the famous atheist Christopher Hitchens once said the only scientific fact which troubled his atheist belief system, was that the atoms and molecules which combine to create organic life ALL must to be exactly the weights and polarities they are. If they were different in the slightest, the “chemical reactions” of life simply could not exist at all. It seems there is some kind of non-random, “intelligent design” in even the most basic and fundamental building blocks of the universe.
He’s dead now, so we have no idea if by the end he overcame his stubborn pride and if his ideas changed.
Maybe God explained it to him before he dispatched him to Hell.
The atheist position is that existence arose out of natural, material processes that did not involve a creator.
Everything is so fine-tuned that it’s impossible for a chance happening.
Most philosophers who have reviewed his book have determined that he failed in his attempt. His fellow scientists don't care, because they think philosophy is nonsense, and so they believe that Krauss has sent the knockout blow to theists.
Like most materialist theories, Krauss just assumes that the Laws of Physics existed from all time and that those laws show that a universe like ours will eventually pop up given enough time. But who or what set the initial Laws of Physics? Why are they the way they are?
String theorists claim that there can be up to 10^500 different sets of Laws of Physics based on how their strings are wriggling. So they claim that we just happen to be in a universe that works for humans. However, if String Theory is true (and it is increasingly being thought that it is NOT) who or what created these Strings or the laws that guided them?
Their arguments are really similar to the arguments the ancients made about what is holding up the Earth. An elephant. But what is holding up the elephant? A turtle. But what is holding up the turtle? It's turtles all the way down.
A lot of the materialists have decided that the existence of the universe is just a "brute fact" that we have to accept, i.e. shut up and do the math. They might even admit that the existence of the universe is not in their purview, but when asked what IS in the purview of this question, they will have no answer. They can't give any respect to philosophy or religion for fear it will undermine their materialist project.
You must not be an engineer: nothing that works properly happens by accident.
By the way "creation" means designed and built by someone. Autogenesis is supposedly how something, somehow makes itself.
It also requires the belief that inert elements could magically combine into something as mind boggling complex as a living cell.
Was creation random or by a design?
If "The Big Bang" theory still has credence, then Creation has to have been by design, as you then contemplate what existed before "The Big Bang". It is pretty obvious to me.
I think it was Crick, co-discoverer of DNA that figured that no way that the DNA code just happened by chance. It was created. However, he couldn’t bring himself to think that God could do it - so aliens on another planet created it and sent it off their dying planet in hopes of repopulating elsewhere.
A few years ago I was reading about a new discovery about DNA. I don’t recall exactly, but I think they called it shadow DNA or something. There is actually twice as much info in a DNA strand than originally thought.
My opinion is that creation was by intelligent design and the main reason for that opinion is the vast complexities of the DNA language.
Design-——Absolutely.
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Consider the Eye Ball or Mouse Trip.
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The second Law of Thermo Dynamics.
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It’s Complicated.
I don’t believe in the existence of atheists.