Do you believe in a Creator?

Do you believe in a Creator? Mar 16, 2017 12:41:00 GMT

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Post by 🌵 on Mar 16, 2017 12:41:00 GMT

Mar 16, 2017 11:51:40 GMT Arlon10 said:

Feb 27, 2017 22:50:38 GMT @italktoyou said:

There are so many things necessary for human beings to be alive: the right location in the right kind of galaxy orbiting at the right distance from the right type of star in a continuously stable orbit.

Somehow all the required astrophysical and geological events did occur.

Is it possible for them to have happened without a guiding force?

I suspect that many people are aware there was likely some "creator" or intelligent force involved in the successful establishment of life on Earth who nevertheless say they do not think there was. It's not so much that they're "lying" as it's that they really do not want to believe in a creator.

Most of the atheists and agnostics that I know, including myself, do not really care one way or the other whether there is a creator. There are certainly some atheists/agnostics who strongly dislike the idea that the universe has a creator. I think Christopher Hitchens described at least the Christian God as a "cosmic dictator" or a "cosmic North Korea" or something along those lines (I'm not sure how he felt about non-interventionist, deistic deities; maybe he didn't find those so bad). But in my own experience, that kind of attitude is rare. Indeed, a lot of atheists/agnostics that I know say that they'd prefer it if there were a god. They find the idea of god comforting, but just don't see any reason to believe it.