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Tuesday, April 06, 2004
I was recently asked by a friend a question that has surfaced in many debates. "Did God create man, or did man create God? You can believe whatever you want if it helps you deal with life."
After thinking about this for a short while, I realized a few things. If God didn't create man, then something else must have. I know that I did not create myself. I think it is safe to assume that man did not create himself. Nothing can create itself, since the act of "creating" has to be initiated by some "creative force". That force must come from something that already exists. Therefore, something that existed before man was responsible for the beginning of man.
If we assume that man created God, then we are inferring that God did not create man. Something else must have created man.. the most common belief is evolution. If evolution made man, what does that mean? Evolution includes the idea of "survival of the fittest". Since cultures have believed in God for thousands of years and some people still do... does that mean that belief in God is one of the "fittest" attributes of man? Maybe not, but at the very least we can say that it is not an unfit belief. It's hardly an intellectually responsible statement to call belief in God a "crutch".
After thinking about this for a short while, I realized a few things. If God didn't create man, then something else must have. I know that I did not create myself. I think it is safe to assume that man did not create himself. Nothing can create itself, since the act of "creating" has to be initiated by some "creative force". That force must come from something that already exists. Therefore, something that existed before man was responsible for the beginning of man.
If we assume that man created God, then we are inferring that God did not create man. Something else must have created man.. the most common belief is evolution. If evolution made man, what does that mean? Evolution includes the idea of "survival of the fittest". Since cultures have believed in God for thousands of years and some people still do... does that mean that belief in God is one of the "fittest" attributes of man? Maybe not, but at the very least we can say that it is not an unfit belief. It's hardly an intellectually responsible statement to call belief in God a "crutch".
