Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
If you are making the determination of what God can or cannot do, You are attempting to build your own god ,not discover God that is real .
If Jesus were not real, the many answers to prayer, and extraordinary events I have witnessed, in defiance of natural laws would have never occurred.
God changes lives of those truly devoted to Him, He is awesome .
Believing is not just thought ,it is trust put to action and realized real time .
I have known and seen God's intervention for over 60 years ,in my life and the lives of many others .
If this were not so it would be very difficult to explain the many extraordinary events that have occurred as a result.
God is not obligated to intervene in the lives of the rebellious ,they rarely change even when God has intervened for them.
Most men LACK GRATTITUDE .
The other day, I was talking with a friend (I'm atheist, he's christian) and he kept posing the question "Why does the earth exist and why is there life?"
This kind of baffles me, because I don't really know *why* this is significant or useful. He insisted repeatedly that it was useful and matters very much.
So, my question is, do why questions matter and why?
There's a fairly simple answer to "why does the earth exist and why is there life?"
1. Why does the earth exist?
For the same reason all the other planets exist. Accretion: the cohesion of matter under the influence of gravity to form larger bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.
2. Why is there life on earth?
Because our planet happens to consist of just the right combination of elements, and we happen to be in orbit just the right distance from the sun to make life possible. You might even view life on earth, (simple biological life) given the conditions, as inevitable. Simple cells may have appeared as far back as 3.5 billion years ago. For complex life to evolve, it also required a lot of extra time. For humans to evolve, required all of that plus a cosmic accident that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Do 'why questions' matter? Depends on your perspective. To humans, historically, the 'why questions' have mattered a lot in that they are what have driven our exploration and progress. They could also be our undoing though if we continue the treat the planet as we are doing.
The 'why questions' only seem to matter to humans. As far as we know, animals don't have the capacity to ask questions, and they seem to survive fairly successfully. Dinosaurs were phenomenally successful.
The 'why questions' don't matter to planet earth either. It will still be here for a good while after we are gone.
Depends on what is meant by why. In the case above of dinosuars if the why is meant to mean by what mechanism was the cause of the end of the dinosuars is a different question is the why meaning for what reason did the dinosuars die out.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons why there are theists and non theists, some may not be able or willing to accept that something happened with a rational for it happening and others accept that things happen because of forces acting upon them with no concious creator of that force.
For example one could say a town was hit by a tornado becuase someone it that town was gay or cheated on his wife or taxes or one could say that the region experienced a mixture of two air masses and the conditions were right for the formation of tornados and the region often has these two air masses mixing hence the chances of a tornado occurring are high and every tornado has to hit somewhere.
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand."
So, my question is, do why questions matter and why?
"Why?" is the nature of discovery. The ability to ask "Why...? and to work out a method to discover the answer and the truth is what separates man from the lower animals.
The lower animals do not ask "Why?" They merely accept, without asking "Why?"
There's a fairly simple answer to "why does the earth exist and why is there life?"
1. Why does the earth exist?
For the same reason all the other planets exist. Accretion: the cohesion of matter under the influence of gravity to form larger bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.
2. Why is there life on earth?
Because our planet happens to consist of just the right combination of elements, and we happen to be in orbit just the right distance from the sun to make life possible. You might even view life on earth, (simple biological life) given the conditions, as inevitable. Simple cells may have appeared as far back as 3.5 billion years ago. For complex life to evolve, it also required a lot of extra time. For humans to evolve, required all of that plus a cosmic accident that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Do 'why questions' matter? Depends on your perspective. To humans, historically, the 'why questions' have mattered a lot in that they are what have driven our exploration and progress. They could also be our undoing though if we continue the treat the planet as we are doing.
The 'why questions' only seem to matter to humans. As far as we know, animals don't have the capacity to ask questions, and they seem to survive fairly successfully. Dinosaurs were phenomenally successful.
The 'why questions' don't matter to planet earth either. It will still be here for a good while after we are gone.
We have a winner! Glad to see someone paid attention in science class, I was beginning to think all that tax money spend on education was wasted.
"Why" questions inherently presume agency is involved and influential in events playing out. There is no reason to presume such a thing, no evidence to suggest it is likely to be true, no rational argument in its favor. The end.
It is bad enough when people will not listen to reason when discussing legitimate questions. But when they go so far as to ask entirely the WRONG, IRRELEVANT questions, then there is no helping them.
"Why" questions inherently presume agency is involved and influential in events playing out.
No they only presume that cause and effect is involved
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
