After some guys made a big deal of my reviving a dead thread I was suggested by some to start a new thread about why I went from not believing to believing. At first I thought it'd be disrespectful to start such a thread on an atheist forum but now I know you guys don't really mind. I'm going here strictly with a deists view so if you have any argument, direct it as you would direct it to a deist.
So why I believe- it's not because my life's empty or that I have a strange fascination with hebrew fairy tales. In fact I never knew that anyone took the entire bible literally until I looked online
It's just that some of us have a sense of wonder about the world and the universe. I'm not talking about myself but for some people I know, the fact that we're on a watery planet going around a ball of gas is miracle enough which I think is a really positive way to look at things like this
As for me, the importance of water, complexity of our body, the eyes and the brain make it seem like it was created by someone intelligent. That doesn't mean we don't try to find out how they work.
Also I feel that the big bang had a cause/source that did it and set events into place. So two theories arose in my mind-
1) There was only a single way our universe would turn out and this led to the formation of life on earth (and maybe other planets).
Since there was only one way the universe could've gone forming over the 14 billion years it shines light on the possibility that it was a creator's intention for life to be born.
Conclusion- We were specially meant to be born. We are not an accident.
2) OR there were infinite ways the universe could've turned out in 14 billion years (because chaos) and out of all those infinite possibilities we got this one- where we come to life and evolved and are having this conversation.
Conclusion- We were specially meant to be born. We are not an accident.
That's my reasoning anyway. I'm not saying theists are right and atheists are wrong. I'm just saying people have different minds and different reasonings with which they make decisions for themselves. You believe it's practical to believe in what we sense with our five senses and what is provable. I believe some things exist beyond what we can sense and hence prove.
Like Rob said in reply to my first ever post-why should we care about that?
You shouldn't. But we do.
Why I chose Christianity of all of them?- later in another thread.
ps- now I realize I should've posted this in the atheism section since this has nothing to do with Christianity. Oh well. I don't know how to copy and paste in my phone so I'm not going to bother retyping everything again
So why I believe- it's not because my life's empty or that I have a strange fascination with hebrew fairy tales. In fact I never knew that anyone took the entire bible literally until I looked online
It's just that some of us have a sense of wonder about the world and the universe. I'm not talking about myself but for some people I know, the fact that we're on a watery planet going around a ball of gas is miracle enough which I think is a really positive way to look at things like this
As for me, the importance of water, complexity of our body, the eyes and the brain make it seem like it was created by someone intelligent. That doesn't mean we don't try to find out how they work.
Also I feel that the big bang had a cause/source that did it and set events into place. So two theories arose in my mind-
1) There was only a single way our universe would turn out and this led to the formation of life on earth (and maybe other planets).
Since there was only one way the universe could've gone forming over the 14 billion years it shines light on the possibility that it was a creator's intention for life to be born.
Conclusion- We were specially meant to be born. We are not an accident.
2) OR there were infinite ways the universe could've turned out in 14 billion years (because chaos) and out of all those infinite possibilities we got this one- where we come to life and evolved and are having this conversation.
Conclusion- We were specially meant to be born. We are not an accident.
That's my reasoning anyway. I'm not saying theists are right and atheists are wrong. I'm just saying people have different minds and different reasonings with which they make decisions for themselves. You believe it's practical to believe in what we sense with our five senses and what is provable. I believe some things exist beyond what we can sense and hence prove.
Like Rob said in reply to my first ever post-why should we care about that?
You shouldn't. But we do.
Why I chose Christianity of all of them?- later in another thread.
ps- now I realize I should've posted this in the atheism section since this has nothing to do with Christianity. Oh well. I don't know how to copy and paste in my phone so I'm not going to bother retyping everything again