To make a long story short: because there's absolutely no factual, verified evidence for any kind of intelligent creator. And while we can't prove that such a creator exists, the more we find out about the world, the less likely the idea that a "planner" was behind it becomes.
The world is too chaotic and bizarre to be the result of intelligent planning. The evolution of the living is basically the survival of whatever can find a niche to survive.
The are billions of stars in a galaxy and billions of galaxies in our universe, and probably billions of universes other than ours, and none of them special. Even quantum physics run on what could be pretty much summed up as a complicated scientific definition for "crazy stuff happens".
An intelligent, personal god, in my opinion, is just a reflection of our nature projected on an impersonal universe. In other words, we invented god for the same reason that small children believe a rock is evil when it hurt their foot.
And before you ask me what do I think about a god who is neither intelligent or personal, I'd like to reply that such a "god" is not a god, according to the meaning of the word "god". It's a force of nature, a law of physics who created the universe. We still don't know what it was (and maybe we never will) but our ignorance is not an excuse to claim that an intelligent, personal god exists.
The world is too chaotic and bizarre to be the result of intelligent planning. The evolution of the living is basically the survival of whatever can find a niche to survive.
The are billions of stars in a galaxy and billions of galaxies in our universe, and probably billions of universes other than ours, and none of them special. Even quantum physics run on what could be pretty much summed up as a complicated scientific definition for "crazy stuff happens".
An intelligent, personal god, in my opinion, is just a reflection of our nature projected on an impersonal universe. In other words, we invented god for the same reason that small children believe a rock is evil when it hurt their foot.
And before you ask me what do I think about a god who is neither intelligent or personal, I'd like to reply that such a "god" is not a god, according to the meaning of the word "god". It's a force of nature, a law of physics who created the universe. We still don't know what it was (and maybe we never will) but our ignorance is not an excuse to claim that an intelligent, personal god exists.
