RE: Why sometimes I incline to Atheism and how I rationalize myself out of it.
June 8, 2014 at 7:42 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2014 at 7:45 am by Confused Ape.)
(June 7, 2014 at 10:09 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Sometimes I think about the problem of evil and it makes me really question things.
I never lose belief in God but it does make me think.
Anyways, I've been thinking perhaps it has to do with wanting to create diversity in the universe including diverse sentient lifeforms. And to do that, the wisest way to go about it was to make things happen through evolution naturally.
I don't even know if this is possible or not, but, perhaps in creating life naturally like that, it was bound to happen that we face hurricanes, diseases, etc...
As you're not ready to let go of your belief in God you could look at it from the viewpoint that science and belief aren't incompatible. The majority of Christians accept that everything started with the Big Bang and think that evolution is the way God did it. I decided to look at Islam for a change.
The Quran on the Expanding Universe and the Big Bang Theory
Some Muslims have managed to find verses in the Quran which can be interpreted as meaning the Big Bang.
Islamic Views Of Evolution
Quote:Islamic views on evolution are diverse, ranging from theistic evolution to creationism.Islamic Views On Evolution - Muslim Society
Quote:Evolutionary biology is included in the high-school curricula of most Muslim countries. Science foundations of 14 Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, and Egypt, recently signed a statement by the Interacademy Panel (IAP, a global network of science academies), in support of the teaching of evolution, including human evolution.[21]
A 2007 study of religious patterns found that only 8% of Egyptians, 11% of Malaysians, 14% of Pakistanis, 16% of Indonesians, and 22% of Turks agree that Darwin's theory is probably or most certainly true, and a 2006 survey reported that about 25% of Turkish adults agreed that human beings evolved from earlier animal species. In contrast, the 2007 study found that only 28% of Kazakhs thought that evolution is false.[21]
According to a more recent Pew study[23] these numbers appear to increase slowly but steadily. For instance, a relatively large fraction of people accept human evolution in Kazakhstan (79%) and Lebanon (78% for college students), but relatively few in Afghanistan (26%), Iraq (27%), and Pakistan (30%), with most of the other Islamic countries somewhere in between.
As humans have spread all over the planet it's inevitable that many people will be in the wrong place at the wrong time where natural disasters are concerned. Disease is also a natural part of life on Earth but humans have made themselves susceptible to a lot of it by lifestyle choices which result in pollution and poor hygiene etc.
Nature is as Nature is. As I'm an atheist I don't believe that any deity started the universe off. You'll have to think about it and come to your own conclusions.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?