If God exists, why did he create life? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, December 18, 2010, 02:16 (4871 days ago) @ dhw

It's the silence that greets the prayers of those who are being destroyed by catastrophes and diseases and all the other treats that God's natural world has in store for us. Theologians tie themselves in knots trying to explain or justify them, whereas the simplest explanation by far is that if he exists, he doesn't care. Take one step further, and ask why he created them and us if he doesn't care, and the simplest answer is that he enjoys the entertainment (the good as well as the bad). Any more favourable explanation can only rest on faith. As you have so rightly pointed out on the Similarities thread, "Religion tries to answer 'the why question', but has done so in a very unsatisfactory way so far." Atheists needn't bother with 'the why question', but of course that doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't ask it. -DHW while the arrogant humanist streak in me would love to think that humans were the final purpose, there is a part of me that is not so certain of that, which is why I said I do not know what the actual purpose of all life is, merely that it has once. And yes, I do think that everything that has came before was necessary to lead us up to where we are now, and I believe that on several levels, not just the physical biological progression from one organism to the next. -As for the statement above, I have to ask, why blame God? Either you are blaming the UI for the disasters, or blaming him for not bailing us out when they happen. Either way, what made it his responsibility anymore than it is your responsibility to bail your adult children out of jail when they break the law, or to pay their medical bills when they get ill? What is the responsibility of humanity in all of this? -Let's suppose for a moment, since this thread is dealing with God, that God did create everything and all life, gave us this wonderful home, and all the joys of existence and, if *any* of the religious texts are accurate even in the slightest, provided some instruction at the very beginning on how it can be used. If all of that were true, which is more than most parents would, or do, do for their children, what makes it his responsibility to keep us from screwing it all up or from hurting ourselves either by our own willful intention, or out of sheer ignorance and arrogance?