Why do we believe in God, and what is the point? Now, this is more than just asking people to tell me that they believe in God because it is the right thing, and they get “warm fuzzies” inside when they experience God. No, I am wondering why do you or should you believe in God, do you have anything to back up you opinion, and where do you get your sources from? Well there are a couple points to this; there is the emotional, which is also the faith aspect. There is the scientific and logical view, and then there is just our own opinion. For many people, believing in God may seem very far-fetched, But what seems even more far-fetched is that there are people that actually believe that gases or a molecule can mutate into a living being that can breath, think, and move independently. Well, let’s say that it did, but then yet another one forms and just happens to fit perfectly with the other to the point that it sparks chemistry and is able to re-produce even more of these beings together. What are the odds of that and doesn’t that seem even more so unbelievable than believing there is a God that created it all for a purpose? As Lee Strobel talks about in his documentation “The Case for a Creator” a man named Stanley Miller attempted to re-produce the earth’s early atmosphere in the 1950s. He worked on an experiment pumping gases into enclosed glass and using electric discharges; after five days Stanley got his positive results, a few amino acids had formed. Many held Miller’s “creation” as proof the essential components of life could have formed in the oceans billions of years ago. Although now, this experiment has been hourly discredited; the problem with his experiment is that is contained hydrogen which being very light would have escaped into outer space. Gravity is not strong enough to hold it. As well as the fact that the earth’s earlier atmosphere would have most likely have consisted of what we see coming from volcanoes these days, namely Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Nitrogen. The same experiment using these different gases has been repeated time and time again; including by Stanley Miller, yet the result always comes as a negative. Even if Miller’s experiment were valid you are still light-years away from making life. It comes down to this: no matter how many molecules you can produce with early earth’s conditions, you’re still nowhere near producing a living cell.
Why do I believe in God? I believe in God because it is what I grew up on, it is what I know. I have experienced the love of God as well as seen with my own eyes his works in my life and works in people’s lives around me. I have scientific reasons to believe in God, as well as the fact that every aspect of life points to a creator. As written by Patrick Marks in the book “Someone’s making a Monkey out of you”:
“In the 1800s Charles Lyell published a book called “Principles of Geology”. In this book he said that the natural process of rain, snow, ice, and other types of erosion have been happening at the same slow pace as long as the planet earth. He was sure all mountains, oceans, and canyons could all be explained by the slow process of nature that we see around us. William Whewell called this idea uniforitarianism, which means “The Present is the Key to the Past.” The truth is, the idea of uniforitarianism has some serious problem. Most major land forms that exist today cannot be explained by today’s weather and erosion rates. In fact, there are many land forms that cannot be explained by even scientists. For example, the Hudson River Canyon, a vast cut into the earth that goes 15,000 feet deep; that’s almost three miles straight down, and to top in off the whole thing is under water. Another one is a completely flat plain of rocks called the Tibetan Plateau, which has fossil sea shells in it. The entire plateau is uplifted several miles above sea level.”
Now, how can these be explained by anything but God? I think we should believe in God because there are many things that point to a creator as well as it tells us in the Bible that we should believe in him and love him because he was crucified as well as loved and believed in us first. I think these are all many good reasons as to why we should believe in God.
For many Christians the simple emotional based opinion is good enough for them, now normally this is also fine for me, but under circumstance that an evolutionist or atheist, or even just simply a non-Christian friend from school were to ask you “Why do you believe in God, and what in the point?”. I think it would be necessary to know the answer, have facts and scientific reasoning behind it, and know where your sources come from.
