Credit to Jim Darwin: If God made man from dirt, why is there still dirt?

Question

It's such a classic question.

Sean, you rock!

Answer 1

your faith shall be rewarded - this day you will be with me in paradise

Answer 2

If kids make a mud pie out of dirt, will there still be dirt? Everything in the world is made out of atoms and molecules that existed since the beginning of time. (Heard it on a TV show called “The Human Body”) The body is made up from five elements and when the soul exits the body, the body decomposes and returns to the five elements. Dirt is earth, one of the elements. In essence, the human body comes from the earth and goes back to the earth. It’s not as if God is running short of dirt. He’s recycling it.

Answer 3

Surely a man-sized space would show up somewhere in the geological record showing where God had taken the dirt he'd used to make the first man?

Ain't never happened.

Answer 4

A delegation from the plant kingdom met with God and complained that contributors of their crew don't have adequate airborne dirt and dirt left to anchor their roots, and God switched to creating stronger human beings from the rib DNA of the present male.

Answer 5

Simple, HE only made One Man from dirt! He made One Woman from a RIB ( not a ribbone, as so many children have tried to indicate!) and from those atoms the creating continues! Awesome!!

Answer 6

If God used ALL the dirt to make us, then we would be humongous giants.

Answer 7

God obviously didn't use all of the dirt He created.

Answer 8

There isn't. I don't believe in dirt. Dirt - if there was such a thing - would be of the DEVIL.

Answer 9

because God,hold on let me say THE GOD only made the first man from dust.

Answer 10

DId you know that the same elements found in dirt are also found in the human body ?

Answer 11

My dirt is dusty.