Atheists: How are you able to miss God through his Creation?

Question

The Glory of God is revealed in a leaf.
The Glory of God is revealed in the intricate design of an eye ball.
The Glory of God is revealed in the masterful development of the Human Brain.
The Glory of God is revealed in the matricalate and orderly life of the Ant.

The Heavens clearly reveal the Glory of God.

Note: Isaiah 45:18

Answer 1

Sad to know that there are so many people that deny the creation of God. Let us wait for just a few more years then we will see who will be able to stand before the glory of the Lord. When His glory revealed as He pours out His wrath and vengeance upon those who rejected and mocked Him. But to the believers let this be the desires of our hearts. Jude 17-23 But, dear friends remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires. These are men who divide you. who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others from the fire and saved them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear--hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.

Answer 2

The Glory of Nature is revealed in a leaf.

The Glory of Science is revealed in the intricate design of an eye ball.

The Glory of Science is revealed in the masterful development of the Human Brain.

The Glory of Nature and Society is revealed in the matricalate and orderly live of the Ant.



Why as a believer in God can you not just be OK that not every person on earth believes as you do? Why can I not lead a fulfilling, happy life without having to revere a supreme being. Why can I not believe that mankind should live life as good and moral people because that's how all people should treat each other.



I believe in the Golden Rule: Do to others as you would have done to you. Not because some deity told me it's right, but because it just is.

Answer 3

The Glory of Evolution is revealed in a leaf.

The Glory of Evolution is revealed in the intricate design of an eye ball.

The Glory of Evolution is revealed in the masterful development of the Human Brain.

The Glory of Evolution is revealed in the matricalate and orderly life of the Ant.



The Heavens clearly reveal the Glory of a finite but expanding universe.



Note: Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, et al

Answer 4

Look, I see religion the same as everything else. The bible? Just because a book describes some miracles and such, doesnt make it true. As humans, not only do we need to believe there is some sense of order, but were inclined to believe almost anything, especially what our brains tell us. L Ron Hubbard invented Scientology, and look at how that's grown. We need to believe in something, it makes us human.



Me? I believe that nothing is true. I can't ever know anything is real, only that I think it is. I refuse to turn to religion simply because it has some pretty sound explinations for the world. God made it all. Easy.

No, I find that we spend so much time wondering where this world comes from, and why are we here, why not just worry about the fact that we ARE here, and who cares about the finer detail.



Although, technically, I'm not an atheist, and an atheist is not the same as an evolutionist, so don't be getting confused.

I'm forming my own set of beliefs based on psychology and philosophy, but I was once a christian. Born again as well. I've experienced religion in god, and the religion of big bang. Neither are good enough. Nothing ever will be.

Answer 5

You might want to have a look at the website for the magazine, "What is Enlightenment" at http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/, and do a search for "real evolution debate". Keep in mind that evolution is a fact, and there are no fewer than twelve theories of evolution that seek to explain to what degree natural selection and mutation are mixed with the actions of an intelligent change agent, as well as just what the nature of evolutionary change entails. These theories range all the way from the strictly scientific viewpoint of the Neo-Darwinists to the strictly spiritual Intelligent Design advocates. The website above will give you an easy-to-read article describing the twelve theories, and you can choose the one that makes the most sense to you. Only those with fundamentalist tunnel vision now believe in Creationism, which is based on the various creation myths found in the Bible and other religious guidebooks.

Answer 6

I'm not an atheist, I'm an agnostic - don't know if there is or isn't a God; prefer to remain open-minded on the issue.



BUT



Assuming that there is a God, and that God created everything, I think it would be infinitely more impressive and more befitting to an all-powerful being like God, that God would have created the universe from the Big Bang, knowing that the natural processes (s)he set in motion would, after billions of years, ultimately result in the multitude of highly complex organisms we see all around us.



"7 days + spontaneous creation" seems a little amateurish for God by comparison, don't you think?



Don't be afraid of science, mister religious person. Understanding things like the origin of the universe, physics and evolution don't make your God any smaller, just waaaay more sophisticated.

Answer 7

the dignity of God is printed in a small leaf. -confident, one that needs image voltaic and heat temperature, or is almost ineffective because it can not guard the plant, nor can it quite is transplanted to others to apply a source of nutrition writer. the dignity of God is cleary seen in the human eyeball. this is layout with such precision. each and everything had to be completely related to be certain which you to make certain your self each and daily. -of course, we human beings basically have this large eyeball it is continually tricked, collectively as the lowly Mantis Shrimp can choose for to be monocular or binocular imaginative and prescient, can see polarized gentle, and has been claimed to have the main progressed eye in lifestyles. the dignity of God is obvious once you supply deep discover ways to the complexity of the Human concepts. It in basic terms did not ensue with the help of accident. plenty to complicated pondering the comfortable stability between Blood and oxygen. the shortcoming of oxygen for basically some seconds could ruin concepts function severly. -I learn Neurology, and have confidence me, the concepts of a human is not extra complexly puzzling than the concepts of an animal. Blood and Oxygen? We exhale most of the oxygen we get.

Answer 8

Design with no designer is revealed in a leaf.

Design with no designer is revealed in the intricate design of an eye ball.

Design with no designer is revealed in the masterful development of the Human Brain.

Design with no designer is revealed in the matricalate and orderly life of the Ant.



The Heavens clearly said, "F*ck the bible."

Answer 9

The glory of chlorophyll was revealed to me in a leaf.

The glory of optic nerves was revealed to me in an eye ball.

The glory of neurotransmitters was revealed to me in the human brain.

The glory of social structures was revealed to me in the behavior of ants.



I saw no God in any of these things.

Answer 10

The beauty and wonder of the universe is not lost on me.



Darwin saw the same thing you see every day, and he believed that such a thing could never be an accident.



That's why he was able to developed his theory of natural selection, which states that this world is anything but an accident.



Even if I were to look at the world and think that it had to have been created by a god, why would I assume that it was your god of all things. It's too great a leap for me to make, my friend.

Answer 11

Evolution

Evolution (and not all that good either, considering the number of humans who must rely on corrective eye-wear to see clearly)

Evolution (the brain is complicated and wonderful, but it is hardly masterful. All animals have brains - ours just evolved away from mere survival.)

Evolution. Survival. Many animals have social structures that enable them to thrive and survive in their environments.



What are the "heavens"? The sky? I can explain those without a god as well.

Answer 12

As an atheist, if you're honestly looking for an answer, I don't see God in all of these intricate, impressive natural occurrences , I see the result of thousands or millions of years of evolution.



That might sound shallow or too easy to you, but I view the leaves, our structure as having survived the ravages of a growing planet, not as having been created for it, and that itself in incredible and impressive.



Our planet is hospitable for life, but it is not perfect for it. Our planet is constantly bombarded by radiation from the sun and other sources that destroy us and our environment. In some areas food is scare and water is insufficient to support life. Our planet is full of powerful forces of rock and heat that destroy life as well as help create it. There are life forms in the ocean that we have not discovered and that have formed and will change without regard to us and how we live our life.



Where you see the Glory of God, I see the incredible diligence and will of life to survive and protect itself and all of the mysteries about ourselves and our planet that have real answers that we have not yet discovered.

Answer 13

The glory of God is revealed in a cruel battery chicken farm.

The glory of God is revealed in baby seal`s heads being bashed in.

The glory of God is revealed in kids being gassed in Hitler`s death camps.

And the glory of God is revealed in an abused child, murdered by his mother`s lover.

Or in starving refugee camps.

Answer 14

So tell me, what did he create first the trees or man? I suggest you look at these first before you reply.

GE 1:11-12, 26-27

GE 2:4-9

Answer 15

I'm a Deist/Pantheist that believes the consciousness of the universe is God. God to me is the laws of the universe as well. Physics, Evolution, Chemistry, Mathematics and Probabilities, etc. I still disagree with you.



A Modest Proposal: That's not happing until next week anyway SHEESH! or a couple of billion years.

Answer 16

Depends what you mean by God.



I don't believe that there is a being out there that demands our utter obedience and we shall be punished eternally in hell for our actions.



But I do believe in a creator that made all things. Those things are what make me believe in a creator in the 1st place.



God is such a broad idea. the creator is more in aspect.

Answer 17

I am not sure that you have much proof in a bible that was written by humans and translated so often that there are glaring errors in the current bibles. I believe in God but I also believe in charity and love. I often see those qualities in atheists as much and often more than in strong religious believers.

Answer 18

How can you specifically direct this question at Atheists?

Any belief and any religion can see the glory of whatever they believe created the world... Or for Atheists.. the world just is.

Answer 19

The Glory of God is revealed in the flesh eating disease Necrotizing fasciitis......

Answer 20

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams



The first person to provide a shred of verifiable evidence for God will become world famous and mega rich!!



Until then we will know you are making totally unsupportable claims!!

Answer 21

Please explain to us how the leaf, the eye ball, the human brain and the ant could NOT have developed naturally? You're asking me to believe that it wasn't when you're not even willing to entertain the possibility that it was all a product of natural processes.

Answer 22

um evolution is not god. you are confused.

first what you need to do i understand evolution which explains everything you just said. Then you need to look up the definition of god. you can call that god, which i call evolution. But you are adding the additional things that come with the name god.

I mean if all you are trying to explain is the existence of those things, i call that process evolution. You can call it what you like. But you really need to explain the additional premises included with the term God.

Answer 23

The Glory of God is revealed in his sick sense of humor of sending our galaxy on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy.



The Glory of God is revealed in his idiocy in passing the optic nerve through the optic disk, creating a blind spot.

Answer 24

Amen.



Romans 1:20, "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are CLEARLY SEEN, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse".



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Even in it's fallen state, God's creation is a testimony of His power. The only possible reason for not seeing is that their eyes have been blinded by that same power.

Answer 25

A leaf is cut by cutter ants, the eye is easily disfigured (and in humans, backward), the brain is subject to disease and delusion, the red ant bites and stings... marvelous to study, not so great as a design ideas from a divine being.

Answer 26

My eyeball is too long so I have to wear coke-bottom glasses or contact lenses (neither invented by god) and in addition my eye ball has vitreous separation which leads to tons of floaters which give me headaches. It could be worse, I could be blind, but it could be a lot better.



Talk to somebody with schizophrenia.



Ant colonies are a hotbed of reproductive conflict.



You have a very romantic view of nature. You probably live in the city.

Answer 27

If we find writing on the surface of Mars that says " Copyright 15,000,000,000BC, YHWH and Sons and Holy Ghost - All rights reserved", I'll be a believer instantly.

Answer 28

The glory of which god?

Answer 29

All of those things can be explained easier and more thoroughly in scientific terms. Yay, you quoted scripture! Blah! I am more astonished by theists absolute blindness to reality and rational thought. How are you all able to miss THAT?

Answer 30

Its much more glorious if you realize that it all evolved over millions of years. Isn't it?



PS: Compared to some other eyes evolved by nature, the mammalian eye has serious design defects....

Answer 31

1. You're just saying that; you have no evidence of it.



2. This god must be pretty stupid to design an eye with a blind spot.



3. Which god specifcally, out of the thousands made up, does it prove?



4. Paley's argument / argument from design / watchmaker analogy.



Still false.

Answer 32

the glory of God is revealed when I have diarrhea and splatter all over the toilet seat.



Amen

Answer 33

>> The Glory of God is revealed in the intricate design of an eye ball.



Teh God must not have done too well, 'cause my eyes are shot.

Answer 34

These atheists are nothing more than pissed off kids. They really have no idea what it means to be a non believer, let alone what the science behind the reasons they believe what they do are. They don't understand the complexity of nature. They don't understand anything but argument.....



Look.... not one intelligent anwser from an 'supposed' athiest. They have no facts on which to base their decision.

Answer 35

are you just one of those religious guys who thinks he can win people over by repeating something over and over again? that may work on others, but the reason that we're atheists is that we aren't taken in so easily.



since we're all about science, you have to prove something to us scientifically, beat fire with fire as they say. atheists have always used your greatest weapon against you; the bible. you should do the same to us.

Answer 36

Well it sure isn't revealed in the development of your brain.

Answer 37

kami are also revealed in a leaf



the rest is just pretty patterns, if you want to mention them plz mention the spiral it is everywhere

Answer 38

Open a science textbook.



Not a fairy tale bible. Funny you guys all believe in the bible, but not in facts in a science book. Smart.

Answer 39

Even if he did create everything, he abandoned it all, thus it would be a waste of time to be worshiping such a selfish, uncaring deity.

Answer 40

I'm pretty sure evolution can explain all of those things too, and also it can probably explain all of the negative mutations in all of those things.

Answer 41

As a top contributor I thought you would have known that this kind of nonsense question achieves nothing.

Answer 42

Because God is not in any of those things. I looked.

Answer 43

Someone is gonna report you. People don't need a lecture from you.

Let them believe in what they want to believe. How's it hurting you?

Answer 44

um, no its not you stupid **** christian



all of those things can be explained by evolution

i mean, jesus, how can you honestley believe that some "magic" entity just went POOF and created the world

Answer 45

Like Malaria, small pox and fleas.

Answer 46

you do realise that this does not WORK on atheists dont you change?

that is why we are still atheists

and also why many of us despise religion, because of their need to force their belifs on you, you are only driving us further to satan with that kidn of thing, not closer to god

Answer 47

If you really look at the design of the eye, you can tell it developed with evolution.

Answer 48

Oh brother, another one of the "just look around to see proof of God" rants. So 20th century and so over it.

Answer 49

I personally believe in evolution :)

Answer 50

i believe in god. but seriously stop trying to convert people.. its annoying.. and no one will change their view by reading your "question" if i can even call it that.

Answer 51

The glory of God is revealed in the 55 million dead in WWII. Don't forget that one.

Answer 52

You see though, all those living organisms you mention can all come to be naturally.

Answer 53

Because this isn't at all true. Random selection is what "reveals" all these things.

Answer 54

would you like some evidence to go with your fantasy?

Answer 55

How's that delusion workin' out for ya?

Answer 56

i see he did not give you 'smarts'.



note: short and to the point 7:11

Answer 57

None of those things have a signature on them.

Answer 58

I can certainly understand how someone who suspends all critical mental faculties could delude himself into buying this rubbish. Don't let anyone talk you out of your delusions.

Answer 59

No, its not

Answer 60

You could replace "glory of god" with "Beauty and science"

Answer 61

The Glory of your stupidity is revealed in your stupidity.

Answer 62

Sorry, I'm going to have to disagree.

Answer 63

OK key then I see you have been reading your manual again, you just shouldn't smoke crack while you read.

Answer 64

Argument from incredulity and asserting the consequent, both fallacies.

Answer 65

i know i don't get it either

Answer 66

Lol replace each "God' with "FSM"

Answer 67

What makes you think an atheist would agree to any of your religious babbling? The bible is worthless.

Answer 68

Do you honestly not see Odin, the All-Father, in the world around us?

Answer 69

and? wHAt is the point, BILLY GRAHAM?

Answer 70

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is revealed in a bowl of pasta.

How did you miss that?



Why do I have to wear contacts if my eye ball was so intelligently designed?

Answer 71

Praise Jebus. You haz saved me.

Answer 72

so when will pigs fly?

Answer 73

They're brainwashed, blind, and cannot see:



Mat 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.



2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.



Joh 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.



It's not so much that I disagree with you regarding a leaf or an eyeball, and Isaiah 45:18 tells us that God created the Heavens; but the Psalmist states that the HEAVENS DECLARE His Glory:



Psa 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Psa 19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

Psa 19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Psa 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,



Although I must admit that atheists have plenty of support these days. There are ad infinitum questions on Yahoo that accuse Christians of being "stupid, ignorant, brainwashed, insane, etc." pick your insult and insert___________. Unenforced Community Guidlines only fuel the animosity.



Then there is this Oxford professor, no less, Richard Dawkins, who continually spews forth breathtaking blasphemies. In his New York Times bestselling book, Dawkins writes, "The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty etnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, rascist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestential, megalomanical, sadomasochistic, capriously malevolent bully."

Christopher Hitchens, contributing editor to Vanity Fair, goes so far as to say that "the Bible contains a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price and for indiscriminate massacre." (In his book how god is not Great).



Not to be outdone, Bart Ehrman, Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, makes a plethora of accusations against the Bible and its authors. While still a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, he submitted a long and complex paper attempting to resolve a supposed difficulty in Mark 2. While reading Ehrman's paper, his professor scribbled in the margin the simple comment, "Maybe Mark just made a mistake." Upon contemplation, Ehrman came to the realization that his solution was "a stretch" and resolved that "maybe Mark DID make a mistake." This epiphany opened the floodgates for Ehrman. As such, he no longer felt constrained to explain away "errors" in the biblical text.

Thus, Ehrman concludes, "Just as human scribes had copied, and changed, the texts of scripture, so too had human authors originally WRITTEN the texts of scripture."

Ehrman has left behind the faith of his youth. He has recently devoted an entire book to the one insurmountable obstacle to his faith--a book whose title spells out his thinking--GOD'S PROBLEM: HOW THE BIBLE FAILS TO ANSWER OUR MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION--WHY WE SUFFER.



Today we even have the President of the United States joining in mocking scripture. Obama asks, "Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we to with Leviticus, which suggest slavery is okay and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or should we go with Deuteronomy which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?"



Obama, Hitchens, Dawkins, and Ehrman are merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Professors, political sages, and public personalities through magazines, manuscripts, the media, and, most notably, the internet, are increasingly raising doubts in the minds of millions regarding the validity of a Biblical worldview. Left unchallenged, their smoke screens reek havoc on Christianity by stumbling seekers and galvanizing skeptics against "the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints" (Jude 3).

In an age when internet fallacies travel halfway around the world before truth has had a chance to put its boots on, it is ever more crucial to know what you believe and why you believe it.



We now have an entire generation of atheists, with their sister evolution, who has been fed these lies since sitting on their mothers knee. Our society has entered the postmodern age, and I believe I could make a reasonable argument that evolution is the beast in Revelation 13 who came out of the sea with seven heads and ten horns.



NO ONE who is not ACTIVELY SEEKING TRUTH will find it today:



Jer 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.



My faith and my hope is in nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness.

Answer 74

god who?