ok i am a christian raised child who believes in god i am not rube by saying this because i respect atheist as i would respect everyone else and will not judge you by who our what you are becuase it your beliefs and you have the 100% right to believe that. but my question is how do atheist think we all got here on earth or how the universe was created.
2006-09-25 15:16:55 · 12 answers · asked by skateboard everyday allday 24/7 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As an atheist, I really don't care. The fact that I'm here just means that one day I won't be here. End of story. Besides, nobody knows who or where I was before I was born, but there sure are a lot of people who think they know what will happen to me after I die.
2006-09-25 15:20:18 · answer #1 · answered by Angry C 7 · 11⤊ 3⤋
Why does anything exist at all? If God created the universe, what created God? Atheists say that the story of creation told in the Bible is one story. We also have modern scientific theories including the Inflationary model of the Big Bang, and the theory of Evolution. These scientific theories also tell a story, but they admit that we don't know what came before the Big Bang. The Bible claims to know: that God came before. But if God came before, what created God? The Bible claims that God always existed. But the Bible also claims things that area clearly false, such as the earth is flat, that the sun revolves around the earth, etc.
Atheists believe that the best explanation for the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) is that is was the oral tradition of the tribes living at the time. It is essentially myth, like the Greek myths of Zeus. The idea that some superpowerful creature created the Universe seems tempting, because we don't have any other explanation. But if you have to postulate a God in order to explain why the Universe exists, then don't you have to also explain why God exists?
We may never know why the universe exists. But when compared to modern knowledge and what is known about life on this planet from independent evidence, the stories of the Bible simply don't make sense, unless viewed as myths.
2006-09-25 15:33:38 · answer #2 · answered by Jim L 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Ok, first let me ask you this...how do you think the universe was created?
To this I would expect an answer somewhat comparable to "Well it was God!" But then I ask you this - "What created God?"
In this I think you'll find my answer to your question which will no doubt be refuted profusely by those who are 'believers', no doubt such as yourself, but I truly believe that mankind, the universe and everything else begun with the Big Bang. I mean heck, how could this theory of 'the beggining' be anymore outrageous then saying "God threw some stuff together and battabing-battaboom, out we come". Yes, my answer isn't exactly complete yet given that scientist (yep, those guys) havent truly discovered when the universe was created, but given the fact that planets are indeed 'moving away' from each other this grants us evidence that the universe very may well have 'exploded' from nothingness at the beggining of time, which caused the galaxies and everything else in the universe to 'move away' from each other, thus giving us our world, and therefore universe, that we all know and love today.
Finally I will state this - my views are purely those of an atheist (as I consider myself an atheist), and as such it is in my strong belief that science can discredit religion on any given day. For example, during the time of Galileo he proposed that the Earth was indeed, not the centre of the universe. This caused much annoyance from the church and Galileo was convicted for heresy. However, later on the church was to discover that Earth was indeed the centre of the universe...what else could the church be wrong about?
And so, in summing up, I believe (as an atheist) that the universe was created with the Big Bang.
Fin
2006-09-25 21:32:32 · answer #3 · answered by Aaron G 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, it's like this for me. I believe that matter and everything that makes up matter has always existed. You cannot destroy matter, that is to say you cannot erase it from existence. The best you can do is alter it. For example, take a piece of wood for instance, you can burn it and it is no longer a piece of wood, but that which made the wood what it was still exists. Molecules were separated and others brought together to make some other material form. Put simply smoke ashes and vapour in this case.
Animals (including people), plant life and everything around us was made in pretty much the same way. It's all chemical reactions. You just need the right combination!
Now I have a question for you. Where does God come from?
I hope this answered your question some what.
2006-09-25 15:45:08 · answer #4 · answered by Rebelde 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science has compelling evidence indicating that the universe was created via a violent explosion between 12 and 20 billion years ago. This explosion is still echoing, so to speak, via background radiation, and it appears that there is no current way to measure anything prior to that explosion. However, that is not to say that nothing existed. It just has not yet been discovered.
Life on earth appeared about 4 billion years ago, and began from the self-replicating protein molecules of RNA (and later DNA). Through the pressures of envirnoment and random mutations in the duplication patterns, life evolved over the next 4 billion years to the forms currently present on earth.
This is the briefest answer I think I can come up with. Entire libraries have been devoted to your questions, however.
2006-09-25 15:25:00 · answer #5 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I try not asking myself that question because my head may explode well for now I guess the universe was made by causes and effects of remarkable things beyond my understanding and as for people on Earth I have no postive clue and I try not act like I know because I really have no idea
2006-09-25 15:21:59 · answer #6 · answered by the fallen one 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't profess to know all the answers. I am patiently waiting for scientists to make new discoveries. I do, however believe that we evolved from single celled organisms. I don't know how the Universe was created, but I am not willing to say that it had to have been a "creator". Future generations will know far more than we do, just as we know far more than past generations knew.
2006-09-25 15:19:40 · answer #7 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Not atheist but non-christian view. We live in an oscillating universe. One dies and another begins. After our planet formed, somehow, the first prokaryote cell formed. Life snowballed from there. It changed, grew, and became strange primate animals wondering where they came from.
2006-09-25 15:20:29 · answer #8 · answered by Kaiser32 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Firstly, mankind created god... and man kind didn't arrive on this earth as a result of the "god" descibed in various 'holy' books.
The bible is clearly flawed in many respects, but those who *really* believe, choose to ignore this.
Why do you think out of the thousands of "gods" that man created .... why do you think your "God" is the *one* ... (statistically your "god" is as fake as all the others)
We dont worship cats and bury our dead in pyramids any more... those gods were false... why, oh why do you think your "god" is the *one* and all the rest are fake?
Get real dude ! Peace !
2006-09-25 15:24:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 6⤋
An amazing chain of benificial accidents.
They may all be insane
2006-09-25 15:20:19 · answer #10 · answered by unicorn 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋