How Did the Universe and Life Originate?

Question

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”—Albert Einstein.

OURS are times of astonishment on a scale previously unknown. New discoveries from space are forcing astronomers to revise their views of the origin of our universe. Many people are fascinated with the cosmos and are asking the ancient questions that are raised by our existence in it: How did the universe and life come about and why?


Even if we look in the other direction—within ourselves—the recent mapping of the human genetic code raises the questions: How were the multitudes of life-forms created? And who, if anyone, created them? The sheer complexity of our genetic blueprint moved a U.S. president to say that “we are learning the language in which God created life.” One of the chief scientists involved in the genetic decoding humbly remarked: “We have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God.

Answer 1

The mystery's of faith an GOD are beyond human comprehension.

Faith concerns questions which cannot be settled by evidence.

How can the universe create itself out of nothingness? Given the fact that the universe began to exist, it must have had a “cause” that originated it.Doesn't it make more sense to assume the existence of a Creation.

The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.

We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing being is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.



Life without GOD is like an un- sharpened pencil in has no point

You can't see the wind, but you know it is there because you can see what the wind is doing. You can know that the wind is there because you can feel it.God is like the wind, you can't see him.





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Answer 2

Nice quote without context. Einstein wrote in the same letter that religion is no more than a "childish superstition". "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this". Albert Einstein.



The complexity argument is the classic dishonest creationist "argument to incredulity" and "argument to ignorance." In other words, I don't understand the genome so Goddidit.



Your argument is intellectually and pragmatically bankrupt

Answer 3

A few billion years ago a chemical reaction started. During that chemical reaction a chain molecule like RNA or DNA produces copies of itself. That reaction is still going on. It is what we call life. Life is organic chemistry. The process of copying is not perfect. The summed up errors produced interesting variations of that molecules. You and I and every other living thing is a copy (of a copy (of a copy))^x of that molecule.

Answer 4

an honest person seeking an honest, educated answer would not post this in a religion category.

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I'm so glad to have cleared that up for you.