Why just saying god did it is not a satisfying answer

[anonymousyam]

We all know when religion comes up on the unknown topics of the universe (like why we are here or the existence of aliens) the religious say that god did it. If you ask them why god did it they answer because he wanted to do it. Iv'e heard this answer for so many things in life the things that we just don't know are just discarded with the phase god did it. Just create a square chart and put the known knowledge as K and the unknown as ? most of the knowledge is unknown but science is currently looking for the answers while religion just replaces them with god. When looking on the mystery's of the universe must go on with science and reason instead of just saying god did it. Humans are meant to explore the unknown not just stay in a box.

[robvalue]

That's right. It's not only a useless answer, but it discourages actual investigation.

It also discourages learning about real explanations when we already have them, which is even more sad.

Claiming to know the motivations of God has always struck me as extremely arrogant. At least some people admit that they have no idea why he "does" things, and just have faith that he knows what he is doing.

[Minimalist]

Theists as a rule are extremely arrogant.  Comes from thinking they have an invisible friend in the sky.

[Losty]

Are you a candied yam or just a regular yam??

[bennyboy]

I don't think saying "Goddidit" necessarily implies a lack of interest in learning about reality. I mean, a Christian can explore the Universe, learn about its rules, study the Big Bang, learn about evolution, etc. and think "Out of love for God I want to really understand how his Universe works."

Just because many theists are dumbasses doesn't mean you have to be a dumbass to be a theist.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I've always accepted 'God did it' as a perfectly satisfying answer. When someone says it, I'm perfectly satisfied that I've won the argument and can contentedly go back to polishing my extensive collection of vintage paper clips.

Boru

[robvalue]

I don't think saying "Goddidit" necessarily implies a lack of interest in learning about reality.  I mean, a Christian can explore the Universe, learn about its rules, study the Big Bang, learn about evolution, etc. and think "Out of love for God I want to really understand how his Universe works."

Just because many theists are dumbasses doesn't mean you have to be a dumbass to be a theist.

Yes, I suppose it could be used as motivation if viewed in those terms. "I want to find out how god did it."

Such an attitude wouldn't cause so much anti-science, but it also requires being very liberal with your Bible etc. Of course, I'd encourage people to be as liberal as possible with it, if it makes them nice people and doesn't create barriers.

[FebruaryOfReason]

It really is amazing how many of his agencies god forgot to mention in the bible. For example;

Supernovae occurring due to gravitational collapses in stars - god did it, and also neglected to tell us about the gravity that caused it.
The Black death - god did it because we didn't grovel to him effectively enough, but he neglected to tell us about bacteria and viruses.
Electromagnetic induction - god left it around for us to discover, so he could take the credit for it. Ditto refrigeration.
Fossils - god did it. He deliberately left a load of fossils hanging around that directly contradict his story of creation and make a mockery of biblical timescales.

[bennyboy]

I don't think saying "Goddidit" necessarily implies a lack of interest in learning about reality.  I mean, a Christian can explore the Universe, learn about its rules, study the Big Bang, learn about evolution, etc. and think "Out of love for God I want to really understand how his Universe works."

Just because many theists are dumbasses doesn't mean you have to be a dumbass to be a theist.

Yes, I suppose it could be used as motivation if viewed in those terms. "I want to find out how god did it."

Such an attitude wouldn't cause so much anti-science, but it also requires being very liberal with your Bible etc. Of course, I'd encourage people to be as liberal as possible with it, if it makes them nice people and doesn't create barriers.

No doubt.  If you take everything in the Bible literally, you're fucked.  You're also not a very inquisitive person, and are unlikely to do any science or philosophy anyway.

I'd take the Bible as a mix of parables, history, and philosophy-- the point being that you have to be clever enough to separate which is which-- not really any easy task.

[vorlon13]

In the Mormon orbit, if really pressed on some item of historically pliable church doctrine, their apologists will state, "God changed His mind", which to me is even worse than "God diddit".

So God can't foresee He is going to have to walk back a policy, or extend and revise his ordinance(s) till He gets it right ?? And then this is how the rest of us get to the point of realizing if, for instance, Joe Smith came back to 'his' church today after not participating in over 150 years of near continuous tweaking and wholesale rewrites of 'his' dogma, old horny Joe would have to be excommunicated post haste since he would now be a dangerous heretic/apostate in the very church he founded.

Further, in the Mormon orbit, 'God diddit' is further complicated by their confused and confusing take on just who in the Blue Blazes God is. Adam? Jesus? Micheal? and then realizing whoever their God entity is, in a possibly infinite Mormon universe, there are an infinite number of of other Gods floating around and there really isn't a clear piece of Mormon doctrine delineating why they couldn't also be fucking with humanity too.