by: Nathan June 1, 2003 (originally written when author was 17)
Many people try to explain God's existance by saying that He created man. They say that God is the only possibility because any scientific explanation, such as evolution does not have an answer to the question "From whence came life?" They have the belief that the only answer to this question is that God Himself reached down his hand and spake; "Let there be light" and there was.
This belief of Christianity, and other such religions does NOT explain the origin of life, no matter how much they would like to believe that it does. If we were to rely on this belief, the only thing it would explain is the origin of earth, man and anyting else that the creator of the Bible decided to throw in there, but not life. I ask you this: how was it that the creator of all this life was able to do so without first being created itself? Nothing in the Bible explains the creation of God, and thus the Bible believers have brought up a new angle to the same old question. However, if you go by the beliefs of the Christian faith, you will have now narrowed the number of answers down to two. One, God has just always been there, since never and for eternity. The other, which doesn't exactly coincide with the Christian beliefs, but is
the only other possibility: God doesn't exist.
The belief that God has just always been there is preposterous, and must automatically be put aside because of the beliefs that the believers of God have, and because of lack of proof or any good argument. Why do the beliefs of believers contribute to this? Well, lets take a look at what these people believe. Firstly, they believe that man can't exist unless something created it. This is a solid theory, it makes sense. Since this is true though, how can one believe that God can exist
without a creator? This doesn't make sense, and it is completely contradictory to the previous statement. That one entity can exist without creation and that another doesn't have that possibility is unfair, and doesn't make sense. Who can make the decision of who gets to come first? How can it be so? Well, to put it quite bluntly, it can't be so. It is impossible to say that one being was always there, and the other cannot have been there unless he was first created. If you want to say "God was just always there," you must give man that equal opportunity. So if you say this, you are left with only one answer to the question of whether God exists or not. No. Because if man has the opportunity to have just always been there, then there is no need for God, because he didn't create anything. Thus, through looking at facts, and obvious comparisons it becomes common knowledge that if someone says "God was always there, and He created man," what this means is "There is no such thing
as God." Therefore, our only answer is: God does not exist.
I once heard a man, who was a preacher and called himself an intelligent man, and I believe he even called himself a scientist. He tried to disprove the belief of evolution with a verse from the Bible. In Genesis, chapter one it says:
Let the earth bring forth grass, and the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his own kind whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so.
He made an attempt to analyze this as evidence against evolution because the part which says "After his kind whose seed is in itself" means that the offspring of all plants and animals have offspring that are of its own kind and that if evolution is false, this is true. Firstly I would like to respond by saying: NO. You can't use the Bible, which is completely unproven as proof against another belief. There is no
evidence behind the Bible. I would also like to say this; what happens when a caucasion person mates with a person of african descent? Yes, you get a human, but is it caucasion? Is it african? No, you get a mulatto. The offspring is not the same as either of the parents. It is known, at least by scientists who have fully researched the topic that mutation is in fact evolution. When genes splice, they create new genes, along with pass on the old. We get new people from two people that are different from eachother, on a biological level. So, no people do not just
yield people. They mix and form a brand new person, who will eventually mix with someone else, possibly of a different race, and then that offspring will breed, and eventually the descendant will be completely different from his ancestor. Just look at some of the people out there which we have marked as weird. We have hermaphrodites. They are quite different from their parents. Not exactly a new species, but they are different. A tree may yield a tree, but that tree will not necessarily be the same. If we look back far enough, red maple and white maple are probably descendants of the same tree.
The same scientist made a statement that there are two distinct possibilities for the creation of life. The possibility he didn't support was called spontaneous generation, where at one moment there is no matter, and the next moment there is. The other was of course creation. Let's face it, if we look at it rationally, it is almost inevitable that at one point there was nothing, and then matter was spontaneously created.
Something from nothing, it had to occur sometime, whether at the beginning of God, or at the beginning of something else. Everything obviously has a beginning, lets not make it more complicated by saying "God was spontaneously created, and the he created everything else with his divine powers." That is ignorance. So, as you can see belief in God is plain ignorance. Someone who didn't have all the answers decided that there must be something up there that made him, otherwise there was no way that he could be there. And he created many Gods: Zeus, Apollo,
Athena and all of their family, to explain how everything else works.
Later on, the first Christian was born, and he reformed these beliefs so that there was only one deity controlling our everyday lives. It is blunt and obvious that the polytheists were wrong in their beliefs about the Gods of Mount Olympus, to me it is the same ignorance that drives Christians to believe in their one, theirs is only slightly harder to disprove, because they decided it was silly to say that he lives on top of
a mountain on earth, but rather the heavens.
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