Well, I'm an atheist, but I was wondering... if God exists/existed, why did he want to create a universe? Why did he want to create a universe where he can do whatever he wants to and where all intelligent life being has to believe in him otherwise they will go to hell and stay in there until eternity? This way he sounds the opposite of what the Church says - he sounds selfish, arrogant and abuses of his power. Even if he had interest in creating a universe, why would he have interest in protecting the "good" people and sending "bad" people to hell?
Hmmn.. maybe you're atheist because you're completely oblivious to what Christianity actually is? Maybe not, but somewhat partially obviously.
First off, every person has the ability to get to Heaven. No one is predestined to Hell, and God doesn't want anyone to go to Hell. Without Hell, divine justice is obsolete.
People go to Hell because of not repented, unforgiven sin. God will forgive anyone of any sin if they are truly sorry for it and ask forgiveness.
I find it much more plausible to think that this world, which is considerably adequete for life, with its incredibly complex human inhabitants capable of reason, free will, and consciousness was created by a creator and not just an accident of a bunch of cells and organisms that just existed for no reason.
Until you can prove God made everything in the span of 6 days and all fossils ever are fake, then it might as well be fact.
So even though you can't prove your side, I have to prove mine or else yours is fact?
Oh, and the creation story in the Bible is said by many theologians not to be taken literally, though it could have been 6 days. If you understand the concept of what a god is, you can understand how something infinite wouldn't be bound by time or by the physical boundaries created by himself.
Obviously, this is going in the direction of religious debate and away from evolution.
Because we all know Christianity is the only religion that has ever had a god, don't we? Funny thing is, a passionate atheist friend of mine knows the Christian bible more than most Christians do. If God is this perfect figure, why did he create the Universe? Answer me that.
Oh, and if you wish to see why we are here, just think of this, 10 to the power of 27, so ten with 27 zeros, multiply by nine, if our galaxy is an average galaxy, which judging by our sun's stage, it is likely, that's how many planets are out there, that's a lot. Then, thanks to liveable conditions on this planet thanks to the atmosphere, bacteria was able to forms, and evolve, to make us.
Oh, and 10 to the power of 27 is the estimated guess of how many grains of sand there are on all the beaches of the world, seems small, and it's supposedly more than that.
And what you said that's in bold, that's kind of what your saying, because we can't prove it 100%, which can never be done (therefore I do not cling to the evolution theory, no matter how much evidence it has) makes it so that religion is true and we just existed. However, human homo-sapien records only go back, give, 6000 years maybe? Maybe 7000. I'm not good at estimating dates, but I know fossils of possible earlier humans have been found long before any records showed up. Maybe for millions of years we just couldn't establish a language or anything, and so it took us time to make it... which is pretty much evolution by the way.
I understand the concept of god perfectly. God is an outgrown answer for people that made mankind stop for around 900 years while they believed that god was an almighty and perfect figure, but merciless. Who would accept everything as it was because of God. But then some people took away God from their minds, and made theories, most of which have now been accepted due to mass amounts of evidence instead of just people saying that some almighty but unprovable figure had done because he was almighty and perfect.
An example, 'How was the Universe made?" Well, seeing as when God was invented people didn't have the tools necessary to develop theories like the big bang, so they made an Answer, God, or Gods, who were responsible for everyone's unanswerable questions. See, Back in the Egyptians time, peasants would ask question about life, so the Pharaoh made god. Couple thousand years later, some people still cling to him and refuse to move on to find the, in some way, proven ways. There is more proof of evolution than that some high authority perfect figure placed us here for fun.
