Intelligient Design or Evolution?

Question

I am a born again Christian, but I have no problems with accepting evolution. I believe that He creates the necessary "ingredients" to start the evolutionary process and evolution brought us here today.

What troubles me is that manyfundamentalist keeps insisting that I.D is the truth, whereas evolution is false.

Can you all enlighten me on that? If you a strong believer in I.D, what are your main reasons for believing so? If you believe in evolution, why?

For fundamentalist, is there a better explanation than "God Did It?" Can you provide a proof for I.D? Please do not use "Evolution lacks evidence" or "Evolution is Satan's lie" as a means of arguement. You are suppose to prove that I.D is real by providing supporting proofs for it, not basing evolution.

Also please refrain from using the typical psuedo science arguements like the irreducible complexity of the eye, the watch etc. as your main arguement. This has been done to death, and disproved so many times. It's tiring really.

Answer 1

If you profess Christianity, there should be no higher authority and no more proof needed than God's word.



Genesis 20-22

20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.



24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.



MY NOTES---The key recurring term is "according to its/their kind". The Bible doesn't say he created land animals from sea animals. They were all created, individually, by God.----



Genesis 26-27

26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.



MY NOTES---Here, God specifically forms man in His image. Agreeing that a human may have evovled from an ape directly conflicts a Christians ultimate authority. You cannot serve two masters, either you agree with God or you do not.---

Answer 2

As far as evolution, or any other scientific theory or law goes, it concerns me that so many people were educated to believe that science proves things. This is a failure of our educational systems.



Science never proves things. Science comes up with reasonable (and useful) theories that make predictions. Experiments are performed to see if the predictions hold true. No matter how many experiments are performed, no matter how many correct results are found, the theory is not proven.



Think of Newton's Law of Gravity. For centuries every test performed verified the equations were accurate, within a margin of error. But in the early 1900's, it was shown that Einstein's Theory of General Relativity gave different and more accurate results in some instances.



There is nothing wrong with this. It is not a problem. Newton's law continues to be valuable and useful. When Einstein's theories are found to fail, we will better understand where they work and where they don't.



The creationists actually have one thing right. Science books should emphasize that evolution is a theory, not proven. It should not be presented as something to be "believed". That should be stated about every single scientific theory or law. None of them is ever proven. But they are very, very useful.



So no one should "believe" in evolution. I know I don't. I just think that given our current knowledge it is the best explanation of what we know and leads to fascinating questions. So it is a great theory. It successfully predicted that we would continue to find fossils that are related to ones we have found. It successfully predicted that we would find evidence that the earth is very, very old, long before we had radio carbon dating or any other technology to verify that prediction. One of the amazing things about evolution is how many different fields of science are closely related to and supportive of evolution: molecular biology, genetics, physics, chemistry, for starters. It is intertwined with all of them.



But it, as with the rest of science, is just a theory.



This is unlike ID or Creationism, which lead nowhere, make no useful predictions. and hence are not science. And waste a lot of time and resources.

Answer 3

You poor Poor Christian. Must be hard to be torn like that. I can't see how a christian could accept evolution as the truth. If you are truly a christian you should have to look no further than Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God CREATED the Heavens and the Earth. Simple as that. In the following verses after 1:1 it tells what he CREATED on what day ( day 1, day 2, day`3...) no mention of anything evolving. Only God CREATING.



Many scientists are finding that many things in the Bible are true. Scientists also believe the universe began with a single burst of pure energy, thus the BIG BANG, GOD CREATED.

Answer 4

Thank you for asking this (your first) question! It is a very good one.



I am a ''born again" Christian as I believe you are. (I have no reason to doubt that you ARE one and that I will meet you in heaven one day!) I would like to give you my opinion on this subject. This is NOT a "copy and paste job" like the (excruciatingly long) answer before mine. I hope you will prayfully read my response.



First, I believe that there are two types of evolution. The first is the kind posited by the vast majority of scientists who have devoted their lives to the study of this subject. Their belief is that evolution is a purely naturalistic process not involving any sort of supernatural influence (or God). The VAST majority of biologists, biochemists, etc., hold this belief. The second type of evolution is theistic evolution. The proponents of this view purport that evolution is a process orchestrated by God. They are not embarrased to say that God is the author of evolution. A large number of Christians hold to this view . Most "fundies" (fundamentalist Christians) retort that people who hold to this view are not bona fide Christians. They say that they are heretics! (Oh my!)



My belief is that there is a God who is the Ruler of our magnificent and marvelous universe. I am sure that as a Christian you adhere to this view as I do. How he "creates" is the subject of controversy among "true" Christians.



I believe that all Christians unite in disapproval of naturalistic evolution. The assertion that everything in the universe evolves by RANDOM mutations (which are almost always, as in the case of cancer, detrimental to an organism) without the influence of God's creative hand is unthinkable in my humble opinion.



The thought that the TEN TRILLION interworking cells and 60,000 MILES of blood vessels in the average human body (Source: the World Book Encyclopedia) happened by chance mutations (and beneficial ones, at that!) is absurd on the face of it. The stunning complexity and symmetry of the human body militates against the claim that it happened randomly without the agency of an infinitely ingenious supreme being Christians (as well as other theists) call "God."



To sum up, I believe that the view that everything in the cosmos happened by purely random means and forces is by and large a fairy tale for modern day man!



I hope this sheds a little light on this important subject. Keep your questions and answers coming.



P.S. I am a firm believer in the separation of Church and State, in letter AND spirit. I strongly believe that the Intelligent Design folks are trying to introduce a Trojan horse into public school science classes...merely to create doubt in the minds of impressionable students concerning the theory of naturalistic evolution. I feel very strongly that this insidious incursion of religious belief into the PUBLIC square is seriously wrong!!! If creationists want to teach their views to their children it should be in private schools and churches! Evangelism should begin in the home and in the church...not in the public school system!!!!!!

Answer 5

A scientist stood before God and said we have perfecting cloning we can make mankind just as you did, we don't need you anymore. God said okay show me, the scientist reached down and grabbed a hand full of dirt and God said wait a minute, make your own dirt.

So if you are a christian you are familiar with the book of Genesis right? You know the one where it tells us about God creating man and all the animals and bringing them to Adam for him to name then making Eve for Adam etc.?

Where did the particles and energy come from to supposedly make this cosmic clash that began it all. The Bible say "God created" it does not say he put some stuff in a bucket shook it and and said now lets see what happens. As a intelligent supreme being he would not be so random. He had a purpose and design from the beginning and that never changed. Malachi 3:6 says "For I am Jehovah, I have not changed".

Answer 6

Typically, rather than accepting evolution and considering it on it's own merits compared with Intelligent Design, fundamentalists start with literal belief in the Bible. Literal belief apparently says that all the creatures on the earth were created by God in the Garden and this conflicts with the view that all creatures are linked in a giant evolutionary tree starting from unicellular life. Note that this is not strictly evolution, since evolution merely states that animals adapt to their environment. However, evolution today is largely meant to refer to a specific set of evolutionary principles which says that not only does evolution exist, but evolution occurs through random mutation. This is where things really don't mesh well with ID, since this would imply that God did not personally design everything just so, and at most just fired things off. This futhermore conflicts with their idea of God creating man and man being above the animals, since it would further imply that the process of creating man was just a random process. While you could argue that God already knew exactly how the random process would turn out and fine tuned things just so that man would evenutally pop out, this is a relatively weak argument (and i'm not using the standard definition of weak here, but rather as it applies to logical/philosophical statements) that doesn't say much at all, and probably directly contradicts with the Bible multiple times (for example, God making Adam out of clay). To clarify, this viewpoint that God merely designed things to run through random processes to turn out as it is today implicitly allows a Universe where God is unnecessary. In fact, it shifts the burden of proof in the religious believer's direction that it would be far more sensible to believe God does not exist at all. Occam's Razor, you might say. But you appear to be familiar with the watch argument and it's fallacies, so I needn't go further into that.



So again, while evolution is pretty much proven, as well as our understanding of random mutations driving it is proven, this is irrelevant. Because Fundamentalists who believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible start from the Bible as absolute truth, thus evolution cannot be true, regardless of the evidence supporting it. In a way, they are following Sherlock Holmes's advice, "Once you discard the impossible, the remaining improbably must be true."



Of course, any rational thinker at the very least must hold that the Bible is not 100% literal. Unless you really believe two animals of every type in the world (excluding sea creatures) and food to feed them for 220 days (without rotting, no less) can fit on a boat built by a single man and his family using ancient technology.

Answer 7

Science is differentiated from philosophy by experiment. Philosophy seeks 'logical' proof. Scientists create hypotheses, then devise experiments to test them. Scientists know that their results are approximations, that their 'laws' are not immutable... not absolute. They do NOT (as creationists would have us believe) view their theories as absolute 'truth', in the same sense as creationists regard the Genesis story of creation as 'truth'.



What differentiates religion from both philosophy and science is that neither proof nor experimental confirmation is required. Religion can be summed up very succinctly: Where an obvious answer cannot be found in nature, make up an explanation based on the supernatural and accept it as a matter of 'faith'... faith in a 'truth' written in scripture as (claimed to have been) 'revealed' to someone by a transcendental, supernatural being.



Intelligent Design is NOT a scientific theory. It is a 'red herring'... a 'Trojan Horse'. It is a carefully orchestrated subterfuge intended to create the PERCEPTION that there is a scientific controversy where no such controversy actually exists. It is religion/creationism in disguise, tarted up to look like 'science'. Here is the difference:



* At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, science says: "We don't know... OK, boys... let's roll up our sleeves, dig in and find out."



* At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, Intelligent Design (imagine South Park - Officer Barbrady) says: "That's too complicated. God did it. Move along. Nothing to see here. Everybody go home now."



It would be easy to attribute Intelligent Design to intellectual laziness... but sadly, that is not the case. It is a conspiracy. The object is to sabotage science... to reintroduce religion to the public schools via subversion and subterfuge. The saddest thing about it is that a large percentage of Americans ARE intellectually lazy, and generally ignorant of the concept and processes of critical thought. They (enthusiastically) fall for this nonsense.



The objectives of the creationists who are promoting ID are spelled out in the Discovery Institute's so-called 'Wedge Strategy' (http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html), which is a political strategy. The main plan is to "teach the controversy"... that being the claim that many scientists reject evolution... except that it is a lie... there IS NO controversy within the scientific community. The ultimate aim is the subversion of science itself, changing the definition of science to include supernatural explanations, rather than it being restricted to natural explanations (methodological naturalism).



The Wedge Strategy's overall objective is this (quoted directly from the Wedge Strategy): "Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture seeks nothing less than the overthrow of (scientific) materialism and its cultural legacies."



You should check out the judge's opinion in the Dover School Board trial... that explains the issue quite nicely. (http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site515/2005/1220/20051220_085143_kitzdecision.pdf



If people want to introduce 'Intelligent Design' into the curriculum of our public schools, that is OK... in a elective 'Comparative Religion' class. But NOT in a science class; that would be a travesty.

Answer 8

considering an atheist does not have confidence in deities and clever layout argues a deity created existence i'd say its no longer something maximum atheists embody. in basic terms a droop. As for we did no longer come from monkeys, evolution by no potential mentioned we did. in basic terms creationists and IDers who don't be attentive to it ever say that. We do in accordance to maximum suitable evidence share a ordinary ancestor with apes contained in the distant previous. Chimpanzees have one extra chromosome than human beings do. whether it extremely is actual we share a ordinary ancestor we would desire to continually be waiting to make certain what got here approximately to that chromosome. Researchers have chanced on it. Chromosome 2 in human beings is actual the fusion of two chromosomes that have remained separate contained in the chimpanzee line. on the top of each and every chromosome is a marker called a telomere which generally seems in basic terms on the ends. yet in human chromosome 2 it additionally seems contained in the middle, marking the place the two ends fused. it relatively is barely one small reality that extremely demonstrates sturdy evidence of ordinary descent.

Answer 9

If you are a Christian then you should believe that God made man in His own image, as He said He did, at the time He said He did it. That in no way is compatible with evolution.



I'm not going to question your sincerity when you say you are born again because it's all a learning and growing process. I would say to put your trust in God and not man and He alone will be your guiding light.

Answer 10

Right, could I appeal for some peace and love here people. Personally, I am sick and tired of this Creation/Evolution debate. But I have had enough of the mud throughing. One can believe in G-d and accept a scientific theory of the development of organisms into more advanced life-forms, this is just a fact and I know this for certain because I am one. Because the "theory" of gravity works one hundred percent of the time does not negate the "religious truth" of the sun being stayed in the sky for longer than it should. Religious truth is still religious and moral truth without it needing to be scientific or historical fact. For example I do not believe Abraham to be a real historical figure (oops, off to hell I go), the very name betrays him as mythological; "father of many peoples." You are more than welcome to disagree with my pragmatism but I still believe in the Master and Creator of the Universe. I promise that, even despite many peoples refusal to accept scientific reasoning, I will still respect that they too believe and trust in G-d. Forget cells evolving and let us try and evolve into more accepting human beings.

Answer 11

The people who attack evolution never understand evolution to begin with.



If anyone ever tries to tell you that evolution is false "only a theory" etc... ask them to tell you what evolution posits.



you'll find out that they don't have a clue.



yet they're certain that it's wrong.

they argue from ignorance.

Answer 12

sorry to say but if you are a born again christian then that means u believe in the bible and that means u don't believe in evolution, so please don't say you are a christian and insult our faith and beliefs



i have seen some1 post a question here about a day or 2 ago that wanted proof that evolution is real and noone provided that proof yet every1 says they have proof,



evolution goes against everything God says

Answer 13

One thing that I don't really understand, is how Christians seem to be so divided on the subject. You have your beliefs, then the traditional beliefs, then the people in the middle who don't know.

Answer 14

You can't realistically expect Creationists to be capable of actually comprehending a question that involves more than 'yep' or 'no way' type answers.

Answer 15

I'm with spots dust on this.



Why would you argue with and ignore what science says? science/evolution isn't a religion. You can believe it and still be religious.

Answer 16

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS SOUND .. CAN YOU DESIGN OR MAKE A MICROPHONE OR A SPEAKER .. CAN YOU DESIGN A STEREO SYSTEM ..

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS LIGHT CAN YOU DESIGN OR MAKE A CAMERA ..

LOOK AT YOUR EYES AND EARS .. YOU HAVE PERFECT TWO STEREO EYES .. AND PERFECT TWO STEREO EARS..

THEN HOW COULD CELLS DESIGN OR MAKE THESES THINGS .. WHERE THEY ARE DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SOUND AND LIGHT ..

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE CAN YOU MAKE A WATER MOLECULE .. THHEN WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THESE COMPLICATED CHEMICAL REACTIONS DONE ALL AT THE SAME TIME IN A COLD CONDITION ..

THINK ABOUT SAVING DATA CHEMICALLY IN DNA CHAIN !!!!!

Answer 17

no offense sir...but saying your a born agin christian means nothing. (no i am not judging you...you very well could be one). however...half of "professed born-again christians" don't even believe in or acknowledge the existence of satan and hell...when jesus talked about it repeatedly. a lot of professed "born-agains" are anything but.



evolution contradicts the word of God.....when you understand the bible (again...not judging you) just being realistic.

Answer 18

I am also a cristian, and dont have any problem to believe in evolution.

Answer 19

You first, prove evolution & how there cannot be a God involved.

Answer 20

Honey, evolution is a hoax.

Answer 21

EVIDENCE FOR CREATION



1. The Fossil Record...Evolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of "primitive" life forms to "more complex" systems we observe today. Yet, "since only a small percentage of the earth's surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rock/life/time over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance.1" "[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material. The deficiencies are real, they will never be filled."2 This supposed column is actually saturated with "polystrate fossils" (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame. "[T]o the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation." 3



2. Decay of Earth's Magnetic Field... Dr. Thomas Barnes, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso, has published the definitive work in this field.4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earth's magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate, demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1,400 years. In practical application its strength 20,000 years ago would approximate that of a magnetic star. Under those conditions many of the atoms necessary for life processes could not form. These data demonstrate that earth's entire history is young, within a few thousand of years.



3. The Global Flood... The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noah's day. Additionally, there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world. 5 M.E. Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent. 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earth's sedimentary layers..7 It is now possible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood.8



4. Population Statistics...World population growth rate in recent times is about 2% per year. Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number. Wars, disease, famine, etc. have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years. Starting with eight people, and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noah's day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people. However, application on an evolutionary time scale runs into major difficulties. Starting with one "couple" just 41,000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089. 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies.



5. Radio Halos...Physicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite. The half-life of this element is 0.000164 seconds! To record the existence of this element in such short time span, the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously.10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form.



6. Human Artifacts throughout the Geologic Column...Man-made artifacts - such as the hammer in Cretaceous rock, a human sandal print with trilobite in Cambrian rock, human footprints and a handprint in Cretaceous rock – point to the fact that all the supposed geologic periods actually occurred at the same time in the recent past.11



7. Helium Content in Earth's Atmosphere... Physicist Melvin Cook, Nobel Prize medalist found that helium-4 enters our atmosphere from solar wind and radioactive decay of uranium. At present rates our atmosphere would accumulate current helium-4 amounts in less than 10,000 years.12



8. Expansion of Space Fabric...Astronomical estimates of the distance to various galaxies gives conflicting data.13 The Biblical Record refers to the expansion of space by the Creator14. Astrophysicist Russell Humphries demonstrates that such space expansion would dilate time in distant space.15 This could explain a recent creation with great distances to the stars.



9. Design in Living Systems...A living cell is so awesomely complex that its interdependent components stagger the imagination and defy evolutionary explanations. A minimal cell contains over 60,000 proteins of 100 different configurations.16 The chance of this assemblage occurring by chance is 1 in 10 4,478,296 .17



10. Design in the Human Brain...The human brain is the most complicated structure in the known universe.18 It contains over 100 billion cells, each with over 50,000 neuron connections to other brain cells.19 This structure receives over 100 million separate signals from the total human body every second. If we learned something new every second of our lives, it would take three million years to exhaust the capacity of the human brain. 20 In addition to conscious thought, people can actually reason, anticipate consequences, and devise plans - all without knowing they are doing so.21



11. Moon Dust... when we landed on the moon scientists expected to find and in fact planned for several feet of dust. According to evolution's time frame the dust on the moon should be several hundred feet deep. When they got there the moon dust was only a couple inches deep.



and Much Much more... too much to post here

Answer 22

THE EVOLUTION



“I know that the word of “Evolution” has become an obsolete and worthless word in some circles of the people___ and they do frown even on it’s simple reference.



You will however surprise to know that I, not only, respect these friends and their feelings, rather, I agree to their viewpoint, to some extent, in the light of the current knowledge. Because they apprehend “Evolution” in terms of material or mechanical evolution whereas material or mechanical evolution is far different from that of the creative evolution.



An important source of Evolution is the Nature’s process of selection. Which is originally one of the laws of nature and a secondary cause, like the other laws of nature, as it’s Creator is again God.



All the species generated by this process are again the indirect creation of God as the Nature’s process of selection, itself, is not capable to create any specie. It simply admits some species to be nourished, leaving aside the others, to be withered and this process works under some hereditary variations. So___ the survival or removal of a specific specie, is never accidental as it is presumed by the believers of material or mechanical evolution”.



This very statement of Edward Luther Castle positively removes that superstition. Which has captured, not only, the materialists but the religious leaders as well. Who are still in it’s captivity even after the lapse of so many years. Dr. George Erl Devis, the physicist, writes:



“As much as the knowledge is flourishing and the superstitions are being unveiled___ importance & inevitability of the critical study of religion & ethics___ is increasing day by day in the same scale.”



The physicist is hinting upon the urge of the “quest for truth and the specific process” which may bring forth, a suitable solution for the problems of life. Of course, we can not lead the life in a particular way unless we come to know the origin of life. What is the actual and factual truth? Only after positive cognition of the same, we can learn to lead the real life. And__ the same learning may, in turn, lead us to the aim of life.



George Erl Devis writes further:



“The surprising scientific discoveries have produced certain indispensable questions. Though not so new, but their nature has become more changed, on account of___ the receipt of detailed information about cosmic system. And___ in any case____ man can not be held as excluded thereform. Among these questions, is the most important question___ upon whose answer is depending___ our aim of life and the system of our moral values. And___ that is the same old question that:



Is there any Supreme and Sublime Source who is the Creator of whole cosmos and who could be surnamed as God?



And___ thereby arises the other question, that if God has created us then who has created God? This question is usually raised by the children, in a highly logical air.



We can not deny the fact, that science has no convincing reply of the question that God is existing or not? Rather, science can never bring forth a scientific proof thereof.



We are breathing in such a physical universe which is running smoothly in terms of the pre-ordained laws of it’s complexed system. But, it does not mean that we can ever derive some information, through this very universe, about a thing, which is existing outside to this universe. Our universe is just like a room without any doors and windows. And even if it is having the same, then, such glasses are fixed therein that to see & understand the outside thereform is totally impossible. Whereas to see inside from the outside__ is almost possible.”



As we can not prove the existence or non-existence of God on the basis of science. So it is the all-alone way for us, that whatsoever stock of information we have, about this universe. We should derive a reasonable result therefrom. Such a reasonable result___ which could never be objected on logical grounds. And such a result, duly derived from the stock of scientific information, is this:





“No material thing is capable to create it by itself”



and___ that is such a reasonable result, which is free from all sorts of logical objections. And___ through this very result we come to know about the Creator Who is Creator of all the material and immaterial things, and who is the Omnipotent.



If we presume that the universe is created accidentally or automatically. Then we will have to presume too, that the universe, itself has the power of creation. Such a presumption is, however, not maintainable on account of the scientific informations, collected so far, about the universe. So___ accidental or automatic creation of universe___ is the result___ which is totally irrational.



And where, God is being believed as the Alone Creator of universe, scientific informations are now becoming a foundation there. And science___ which is the fountain-head of the pure observational, analytical and experimental knowledge___ has reached at such a stage. That the next step whereof is not else___ but to believe in God and God’s Almighty Omnipotence. And___ that is on account of this very consensus of the universal scientific informations that:



“No material thing is capable to create it by itself”.



It is a Verse-like ray of Holy light and a great information. Proper apprehension whereof leads us, directly, to the realm of Faith.



“Universe was created accidentally or automatically” is a notion, which is not confirmed by the scientific information. So, to think like that is an irrational & illogical gesture. Which leads nowhere but to the ignorance.



Which God we should believe?



It is an important question and it is more important for the person who is desirous to know his God.



Can we consider this accidentally or automatically created universe as God? Does it create and remove everything by itself? But the scientific consensus that:



“No material thing is capable to create it by itself”



clarifies that universe was not created accidentally or automatically. Nor it is capable to create anything by itself. Nor it is given any knowledge of creation. And___ if the universe does not own any knowledge of creation___ then the knowledge of creation is definitely related to Mr. Albert Einstein’s that very Infinite & Supreme Power or Cause. Whose creative manifestations are being seen everywhere in this inapprehensible universe.



The act of knowledge, which is the process of creation in this universe___ is a magnificent sign ___ which is leading us, directly, to the Creator.



Power of knowledge and act of knowledge in terms of the process of creation___ bespeak of such a Creator who is Unique___ Who is free from the creaturely traits__ Who is far above the Nature and our state of knowledge___ Who is Supreme, Supernatural and Omnipotent. About whom we can speak in the following rational terms.



“The Creator of things is not a thing or like the created things. And as the intellect itself is a thing, so it is not considerable more than a thing of superior kind. Therefore its capability of making some image or imagination of the Creator will result to such a step, which may diminish the supreme sublimity of the Creator”.



In this way a man of intellect may believe in God on logical basis. Whereafter he will always consider his God as the Sole Creator and the Sole Guardian of universe. He will never consider his God as a part of universe or a thing in universe or the universe.



It means that God is Super-natural and Super-physical. Who is not perceivable through our senses at all.



The commonplace concept that God is a kind of matter as well as God is the Creator of matter or___ God is the universe as well as God is Super-natural & Super-physical___ is a self-contradictory and an irrational concept.



We must refrain from such concepts and resort to reality that existence of creatures is separate from the Creator and the creatures are not like the Creator at all. Because creatures live and die and they are under God’s control. It is recorded in the Scripture in the words of the Creator:



“I__ and I alone___ am God

No other god is real”

(Duet 32:39)



Worship no god but Me!

Do not make for yourselves images of anything

In heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth

Do not bow down to any idol or worship it

For I am the Lord your God and

I tolerate no rivals.

(Duet 5:7 to 9)



Hence, we must believe our God as the Supernatural and Super-physical. God is not perceivable by our senses. Nor___ God is point-able like point-able things. Nor___ the names of God’s created things should be used for God. Nor ___ we should consider God in terms of things and worship God as a thing. Of course___ we should believe God, the same way, as God has commanded us to believe. And___ God’s Commandments 9Duet 32:39 and Duet 5:7 to 9) are very much reasonable and quiet corresponding to our intellect.

. God created this universe and made it a home for the creatures. So that the creatures might pay thanks to God through worship and obedience and in turn they might receive God’s blessings.



Universe is a creation of God and behind it____ is God’s Almightiness. God created the needs___ the needies____ and all the things of needs. God is God____ God is need-free and Absolute Holy.



God is Almighty. God creates whatsoever God wills to create. Each and every creature of God is answerable to God and God is not answerable to anyone.



If the worshippers worship God and obey Gods commandments, it makes no difference to God. But on the other side, it makes a lot of difference to the worshippers if they do not worship God as they become empty-hearted and remain empty-hearted until and unless they resort to God.



If the sinners sin and disobey God, it makes no difference to God but the sinful life brings a lot of difference to the sinners as the sins necessitate the curse of God.



Curse is the God ordained result of sin

While blessing is the God ordained

result of virtue.



God has already judged the sinners and the righteous, in terms of their deeds through revealing the commandments and ordaining the ways to Hell and Heaven.

Key-point to receive the blessings of God___ is to become God’s dependent by all means____ through prayers_____ and patience ____ and trust in God.

God helps and guides aright to those who ask God for God’s help and guidance.

The people who do not believe God and lead a lustful life____ are always mislead to disaster.