this question is for the god -did -it people…
Hi Turtle,
You ask,
You want an answer from the God-did-it poeple. Am I one of those, or are you looking for a more orthodox explanation?
I started out believing in science and morality. When the idea of God existing did not seem to fit in that perspective, I thought it was not reasonable to believe God exists. Even now, I only think its an uncertainty with uncertain probabilities on each side.
For God to have done it, God must have done it in a way that created a world that fits with our studied observations of the world (science).
For God to have done it, God must have done it as God (within the confines of what a morally perfect, omniscient, omnipotent being would do).
I think people tend to underestimate God’s omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence. If God exists, then I believe God would have created every possible world that could have existed before there was a God. That would mean not interfering with any possible set of natural laws in ways that would not have happened in the absence of God. On the other hand, where natural laws allow for multiple possible results (as in quantum mechanics), God causes all of the possible results to occur (branching parallel universes).
if god didnt cause life to begin…did life form from ordinary molecules…all by itself…
I did say God may have had some involvement in causing the universe (or some precursor to it). That would mean that God has some causal role in the origin of life, albeit not direct causality.
But in any event, life most likely did form from ordinary molecules via ordinary chemical processes.
But that does not mean life created itself…
Rather, life on this planet most likely came to exist as a result of ordinary chemical processes.
I believe that is the conclusion folks generally come to when they approach the question under the guidance of the scientific method which is itself designed under the guidance of the golden rule.
Responsibility in belief entails disbelief in the kind of magic and miracles that amount to exceptions to natural laws.
@ turtle:
We cannot know if a god did or didn’t…at least not the one which most currently believe in.
But Something obviously did. How many universes backwards in time do you think we need to travel to before an answer is found?
Ordinary molecules? 
So if I wanted to worship my own semen jerked off onto a wall by calling it “God”, I could?
I feel like there is a start of a new religion on the horizon. Come around everybody for I will become your new Moses and messiah.
Sure, if your vantage point is that narrow and you lack such imagination and live in a fantasy world, why not?
I think not, at least not by me.
This little guy says that -
But, I thought that all religions revolve around a fantasy type world. Why would it matter?
Lack of imagination? I thought it was quite brilliant myself.
Heretic!