Do athiests beleive in adam an eve? and how do they think we all started.....Scientifically?

Answer 1

Atheists do not beleive in Adam and Eve as in the Bible.

However, due to genetic studies, some scientists believe they have calculated when the woman all people came from lived, and when the man all people came from lived. They are separated in time by many thousands of years. Some people have taken to calling these people after Adam and Eve, but it is more to be cute, than it is because they believe in the Bible story.

Most atheists think humans evolved from other life forms. If you want a good basic intorduction on how they think this worked, read "The Blind Watchmaker" by author Richard Dawkins. Be warned that he is unnecessarily nasty in this book to religious people, and he might offend you. Still, it is a very clear introduction to evolution.

If you want a very short intorduction to how scientists think evolution works, I can try to explain it.

The defining characteristic of life is that it reproduces. Once there is an entity that reproduces (and Dawkins discusses theories on how these might have originally developed), small changes can occur in the reproduction, because there is some chaos in the world that causes slight random changes.

Some of these changes are help the offspring live in the world better than its parents did. So, for example, some random change in a gene might give an offspring a chemical in their bodies that helps them digest their food so that they get more energy out of it, for example. Other of these changes are make it harder for the offspring to live in the world than it was for their parents. For example, there could be a change in a gene that might prevent the offspring from having a chemical that the need to get a lot of energy out of food. And these offspring will not be able to live as easily as their parents did.

Evolutionary scientists think that the random changes that make it easier for an offspring to live in the world end up spreading, because the creatures that carry them survive better, while the random changes that make it harder end up not spreading.

They also think that over billions of years, organisms end up with lots and lots of the helpful changes, and not as many as the harmful changes. So, even though the changes are random, the harmful ones are mostly filtered out (by creatures who have a hard time living having fewer babies, over generations), and the helpful changes mostly filtered in (by the creatures who have an easier time living having more babies, over generations).

So, over billions and billions of years, there is an accumulation, in the genetic blueprints, of random changes that worked well, and hardly any of the random changes that didn't work well. Scientists think that this is why we have eyes that work so well at seeing, stomachs that work so well at extracting calories and nutrients from food, etc. Tiny steps, with each step a small improvment over what came before. (With eyes, for example, there are relatively simple organisms that have just light sensors; dark vs. light. That's an example of one step smaller than the very complex human eye.)

Of course, this is not to say that the process makes things that works to make "perfect" things. Also, it is not to say that there's isn't the issue of the fact that many things in the world change, such that some things that work one time don't work in another. (For example, now that people have inventied ways to make food plentiful, in some counties obesity is more of a health problem than malnutrition, and a mutation that enabled one to extract fewer calories from food might now be quite successful.)

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The way this theory could be disconfirmed is if it could be shown that there exists a biological system in people or in another sort of organism, which could not have developed in a process of tiny tiny steps, where each step made something that worked a little better than before.

Answer 2

No, atheists do not believe in Adam and Eve. Neither do most highly trained theologians - at least not as more than a parable.

Most people highly trained in science are deeply spiritual people. It's hard not to be when you pursue science to it's mysteries.

Science postulates an expanding universe starting at the Big Bang. It is oddly in-line with creation - something out of nothing - except that the story is not so literal as the bible. The Big Bang theory is the explosion of time and space itself from a pinpoint. The explosion of everything (or at least the building blocks of everything) including Time and Space from a speck. And there's a lot of proof. A lot.

Odd? It is indeed. Yet if you look closely, it is all amazing. Light itself is a wave. But what does it "wave" (especially in the vacuum of space)? It waves itself - its own magnetic and electric field.

The mysteries are shocking.
If you look.

Answer 3

An atheist does not believe in the existence of 'God' so the Adam and Eve story would have no significance. How our race started or evolved is one of life's mysteries that we shall probably never know. However one point is clear. Atheists do not need to give an alternative to Adam and Eve to prove their disbelief. The fact that they cannot explain our origins is not 'proof' that the Adam and Eve story is fact.

Just as an aside. Eve did not tempt Adam with an apple. The bible tells us that it was the fruit of the tree of knowledge. No mention of apples. They were put in by theologists when the King James version of the Bible was written so as to make the story more plausible to the people who did, of course, know what an apple was.

Answer 4

1. I don't and I doubt any do.

2. There are millions of atheists and no shared belief among all of them. There is no atheist bible that says what atheists believe in. While I'm guessing the majority turn to science (big bang, evolution, etc.) for the answer to that question, not all necessarily do.

Answer 5

No I do not believe in Adam & Eve and as for how we started I believe in aspects of evolution and feel it is connected to that.

Answer 6

No I don't believe in Adam and Eve.....have you heard of evolution? We are still evolving....in a thousand years we won't look like we do now.

Answer 7

I do not call myself an Atheist but i do believe in evolution and that everything started scientifically.

Answer 8

Not all atheists have the same beliefs regarding origins. There are some atheists that believe in creationism. Atheists simply believe that there is no god.

Answer 9

Short version - Big Bang, atoms form, stars form, galaxies form, planets form, life forms, life evolves.

If you're really interested look into it deeper. It's a fun ride.

Answer 10

Wow, really? Where have you been? Evolution man. That would be how we started, Scientifically.