A Higher Power MUST Exist

The human body is made up of the following elements by weight: 65% Oxygen; 18.5% Carbon; 9.5% Hydrogen; 3.2% Nitrogen; 1.5% Calcium; and 1.0% Phosphorous. That makes up almost 99% of the human body. The next 0.85% comprises of potassium, sulphur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. The remaining fraction of a percent comprises the trace elements. No, I’m not doing a Walter White and arguing that something is missing, i.e. “the soul”. I am instead going back to basics and asking, “What are we made of?”. The answer in its simplest form is “atoms”. Humans, and all other forms of life, are composed of atoms. I think that we can all agree on that. Now take a single atom — let’s say, a single oxygen atom — the human body’s most common element by weight. Is that single oxygen atom aware of its surroundings? Does it have any feeling? Is it able to move around the room at will? No! It doesn’t have any form of sentience whatsoever — at least, not as far as we know. Now if I get two oxygen atoms and put them together (forming an oxygen molecule for those of you who are scientifically inclined), does the new molecule have any more ability to think or to perceive? No! It’s still inanimate. What if I pile on 10 more atoms. Does it get closer to becoming a living creature? Nope! What if I get hundreds of different atoms of various types — oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorous, and so on, and add them all together in a big pot and mix them together. Does life suddenly come into existence? Of course not! I’m being facetious. As the old adage goes, “God doesn’t use pot”. So why then do our best and brightest think that life just came into being over billions of years? What happened where a bunch of different types of atoms decided to band together and form a living cell? Well of course, they didn’t “decide” anything.

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Artist’s impression of a M dwarf star surrounded by planets

#existence_of_god #atheism #meaningoflife

[enderhorn]

You guys wanna know the truth about the universe? Down an ounce of shrooms and you’ll have all of your questions answered.

[karlstenator]

But then you fall into the trap of thinking "what made the higher power, and then what made the higher powers higher power" - I tend to believe, you get that pile of bricks you mentioned, strike it with lightning and exposure to other elements and temperatures for billions of billions of years, and you just might end up with some kind of brick monster.

[rareone]

I believe the answer might lay in ancient cultures. We must look to the past to find the answers.

[crazyprayingmantis]

Saying a higher power did it doesn't explain anything, it just pushes the problem up a notch.
It attempts to solve one phenomenon with an even bigger one.
Begging the question.

Are you talking about the beginning of the universe or the beginning of life?

Isn't the honest answer 'I don't know' there's not enough information to know.

[tommy_swim]

There’s too many coincidences throughout not only earths and the universes history that allowed us to be here watching this and commenting on this video for me not to believe there isn’t a higher power.

[jonbriggs]

The whole is greater than just the sum of its parts. Life, consciousness, and so on are generally considered 'emergent properties' of their material substrate. Analogously, consider wetness or liquidity. Oxygen isn't wet: it's a gas. Hydrogen isn't wet: it's a gas. But when these two things combine in the right way, they can become a liquid. The property 'wetness' emerges into existence where it didn't exist before from things that aren't themselves wet. Things like 'life' or 'consciousness' are considerably more complicated and also less understood (particularly the latter). Still, the example of water illustrates the basic notion how properties can emerge from things that don't themselves have those properties. It shows that this is something we tacitly already accept (even if we don't consciously think about it), and that we at least don't *in principle* see as problematic.

[Loooksee]

Human life is similar to a machine with its parts scattered in a box. You have all the pieces but no instructions. You can smash the pieces together randomly and not get anything out of it. But soon enough you'll get something that works. You can't say "well I tried smashing the pieces together and I haven't had something that works so X must happen".

[Athleticigsmoker]

yo i literally thought u were goin the walter white route until you said that 😂

[sumik]

Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alteration of the night and the day, there are signs for men of understanding. Those who remember God while standing, sitting, and lying on their sides, and meditate on the creation of the heavens and the earth, then say: ‘ our GOd ‘ you have not created this in vain. ( Quran: chapter 3, verse 190)

[peterfischer]

The explanation of the atom is brilliant, but you forgot to mention that all the atoms have a vibration through the electrons moving around its core. What if the creative force is a vibration of love and compassion, because you cannot explain creation with the logical mind.

[espalorp]

If I had a single brick, the chances of it forming some kind of basic life that can replicate itself is admittedly small.
If I had a Burj Kalifa of bricks, same deal.
However if I had coalesced one septillion, seven hundred six sextillion, seven hundred forty-two quintillion and a bit bricks in the same place, if my understanding of physics is if anything rudimentary, the gravity from all the bricks would form a roughly earth sized brick planet. Although this planet doesn't quite have much in the way of moisture or an atmosphere common bricks are made up of magnesium oxide, silicon dioxide, carbon and calcium. Sure that's quite a lot of bricks but with no catalyst it's going to take a long take for an atmosphere to form.
Let's add another one septillion, seven hundred six sextillion, seven hundred forty-two quintillion and a bit bricks and throw that orb of bricks at the other one turning it into a molten nightmare where everything can get a little crazy, allowing constituent brick components to get kicked up into the atmosphere and such. My chemistry is a bit rusty but if any kind of water can form there and we make sure this brick planet is orbiting a nice warm brick sun then yeah, I don't think it's quite that ridiculous, due to my added ridiculousness.

[epicjag]

Of course there is a higher power. There's no way all this universe happened by accident

[waxworse]

Search "fine tuning of the universe"

[anyariv]

chicken and the egg. Did God create us or did we create God? If a higher power created everything, what created that higher power? You yourself said something can't come from nothing. So how can a higher power come from nothing?

[david_ishere]

i understand your point, but no one has ever claimed that complex, multicellular life randomly sprung up from nowhere. With an entire universe full of matter, it is not that surprising that at least one planet would have a combination of atoms that were DNA and later gained a lipid membrane. Though billions of years these organisms would start popping up in more places then eventually gain more cells and evolve into what we have today. I also don't think the fact that we don't know the exact cause of the initial singularity means there's likely a higher power. Throughout history there have been many questions that humans never even thought they would be able to answer, but as science evolved and we gained new ways to answer life's mysteries we answered many of these questions. To me, the initial singularity is another question we do not the answer to, but i think we will eventually. I do not think that it means a higher power is any more probable.

[amvCBG]

I find this a non sequitor. If stuff exists and is complex therefore needs higher stuff and complexity then does that go on forever? Why not?

If God is infinite, I don't know what that means particularly. Why can't infinity go into more infinity and so forth? Sounds stupid you might say. But not at all. Infinity is a never ending chain of regression and progression as well as decimals and fractions and so forth. It's not one way at least mathematically

We say there must be a higher power. And perhaps. But what if it's nothing we expected? What if it's not concious? What if it is limited? What if it's actually the universe itself? Or exists within an alternative multiverse Instead? We are playing by a lot of ifs here that we have no way of confirming except the spooky woo feeling we get sometimes that we can't fully define, test or make predictions out of and can artificially create the experience which suggests it's a Psychological phenomenon and bias.

[natalid]

Makes total sense. Yes, 'religion' is a word people are weary about. But it's not the point. And a higher power can be called different things because humans need a linguistic representation of a specific concept. But there are other words used, of course. For me, it is GOD. The point you're making here is more important: there has to be something behind all that magic, like our universe... And beyond.

[fraser_mr]

Then where did the higher power come from?

[silviodeassis]

Ok, I've been trying hard to keep it secret but after the creation of You tube more and more people are doing their best to explain absolutely nothing.
So I will tell you exactly what happened:I was all by my self and the only thing that existed was me until I got so fucking bored that I decided to do something about it.
I farted as loud as I could (big bang)..And that's how everything began.

[trx.]

2022 and we still dont know about shit