You have seen beings created by God? Or by other beings, such as other humans?
No beings.
I think I said something to the affect of, being created is the only way I've seen things come into being.
How about you, have you ever seen anything pop in out of nowhere or was it a result of either man or what was already here, as in the natural?
And, by your logic, if God exists he must need a creator because....
"the only way I've ever seen anything come into being is when someone created it,.."?
Not necessarily, there may simply be something going on there that we do no understand.
We have no idea how God came to be or how he always was as he says he is, but that doesn't negate a creator, as in, we still had to have one. By my logic, we are here, and in order to get here, something had to be here before in order to do the creating I mentioned, how that happened, IDK, but it still sounds a whole lot more logical than nothing did it and for no purpose.
I think you are confusing Atheists with Creationists. "Poof" and here we are are a story of
Genesis 1 and 2, no?
No, I'm not confusing anything, just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it was a poof, just as my not understanding the alternative Big bang, or whatever non reason one might choose. However, I still go with, a God is much more logical than, for no apparent reason.
If I created someone, and an environment for them to live in, I'd want them to know where they came from, and what their purpose was. Also "poof" doesn't sound all that intelligent, the very reason I think there was a smart creator involved...very smart.
Also, just to clarify, Atheists lack a belief in God/Gods. That's the only thing we have in common.
Atheists commonly believe in evolution, but there are now evangelical Christians who embrace evolution as well. Check out
www.biologos.org, evolution embracing site/organization run by the Evangelicals.
I know they do, because they prefer to skip ahead, so they don't have to deal with how evolution got started.
Bottom line..my logic tells me it took intelligence in order to do what we would do well to figure out how it works, much less how it was created, and a God just makes a lot more sense than the general alternative.
Creation is extremely complicated to us, and even if "by chance" could create a single atom, it's not likely to stumble upon making all that is here by sheer accident. And quite honestly it's laughable to think it/nothing/non intelligence could even create an atom, much less our entire environment.