What do Athiest Believe In, please explain in detail.?

Question

How do you think man came to be here?

Well If we Evolved, were did the thing we evolved from , come from? and why haven`t, we reproducd again ,this thing we came from? If we came from a monkey, wouldn`t we at some time or other, have reproduced a monkey?

Answer 1

We "beleive" nothing. Everything we know is what we KNOW to be our truths....

Im an Atheist. Ive recently had a very good, informative conversation with a Christian from this site. And you know what Ive come to realize from it? that we are both right...God really does, and really doesnt exist. God is inside each and every one of us. Some find it easier to explain this power as an outside God, others, such as myself, simply realize that it is our higher brain at work.....

To answer your second question - we arent certain of that yet. But we can admit uncertainty, rather than chalk up uncertainty to the notion of a Creator God. We beleive in evolution. We are carbon based life forms, and will return to a carbon base upon death.

Answer 2

To us, religion equals superstition. The question of where we all come from thus becomes a question of, what is the most reasonable explanation? Evolution is a theory that provides the best explanation for the different species that exist. It's also the only theory that treats Biology as anything but merely categorizing life (which is what it was before Darwin).

Evolution is quite simple but its implications are huge, and it can be hard to see it immideately. The big thing here is time; we can easily imagine a period of 50-100 years, but what about 1,000,000 years? Rivers, lakes and even mountains come and go during that time. The environment changes, and so does life. If a forest slowly becomes a savannah, what happens to the apes that live there? Some move on, others stay. After thousands of generations, small adaptations to their new environment stacks up to big changes. They can no longer mate with their distant relatives that went elsewhere: they have become different species.

The most common misconception about evolution seems to be that change is programmed to occur, to achieve a desired result. Species change because they adapt to their environment, and they change because winners reproduce and losers die. Winners are winners simply because they made it, not because they had more strength or some other specific quality. Perhaps they were better at hiding.

Answer 3

Atheists believe that when something or someone dies...it stays dead. There is no after-life, good nor bad. Atheists can think anything that they want to about where/how life arose...just not knowing is good enough for a lot of us.

I read the beginning of the Bible and it explains to us that there is a firmament in the sky that has windows to let the rain fall through and cause a global catastrophe if necessary. We live under this inverted bowl on a flat world which is held up by pillars. There is much more detail than this but it is all obviously what some people living a few thousand years ago thought...not what a creator of the universe would have known. Is that what you believe now..that the Bible is right?

Atheists are happy with what is real, no need for kowtowing to imaginary supernatural being(s), no need to worry about worshipping, no need to fear any horrible fate if we haven't 'passed' some ridiculous 'test.'

If you think that by not believing you'd be free to commit heinous crimes then you are a weak person and you really need God as a crutch.

Answer 4

You are only limited by your own imagination. Just because you cannot think of a good explanation for how we got here, you invent a magician called god to do the whole thing for you. You do not beleive that a real life magician can saw someone in half, there is a logical explanation, it is an illusion, so why do you not accept that it could be possible that the world may give the illusion of being designed, when infact the real truth that all you see is the product of billions of years of natural selection is a much more satisfying answer.

The earth is wonderful, and no less wonderful for being the product of gradual evolution of species by natural selection. Surely it is enough to look at a garden and appreciate its beauty without trying to imagine that there are fairies at the bottom of it.

Answer 5

There are such things as spiritual atheism. Spiritual Atheists believe that everything is sacred. We believe we are all a part of a a big spiritual sacred world. If there is a "God" we are all part of it. We are no better then anything and nothing is any better then us. We are all made of the same stuff.

The story of life on the earth: the primordial earth had this ooze on it that had the building blocks of life in it. This stuff was somewhere inbetween what we know as being "alive" and being just slimy goo. Over millions and millions of years it evolved into one celled organisms. From there different one celled organisms developed according to different circumstances like geography and weather to better cope with their surroundings. Some of them developed more cells and more sophisticated means of reproduction. Over millions and millions of years of this "evolution" fish-like creatures developed, and from those other types of creatures they adapted into new forms to better cope with their surroundings. and so on and so on. eventually you had monkey-like creatures that developed larger brains as a strategy to survive. these were our ancestors. We are still evolving with every generation. We will always continue to evolve. You can see it with your own eyes every day

"In the past two decades, the average height of Japanese men has increased by almost four inches, and today Japanese are almost the same average height as Americans"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_hilton/20060705.html

The story of evolution is a beautiful, amazing and spiritual story if you choose to see it that way. What makes it all the more powerful is that its evidence surrounds you every day. There is no need for "faith" because its not difficult to believe what your senses and heart tell you every day without having to think about it.

Answer 6

Thiest comes from the Greek word meaning believing in God. Athiest is the negative of this so means not believing in God. An agnostic is someone who is not sure if they believe or not in God (from the Greek word nostic meaning knowing). So an athiest is not simply someone without a religion but someone who firmly believes there is no God.

Answer 7

To answer the scientific side of that question, consult your local science teacher or text book. To answer the moral side of it, Atheists believe in solving their own problems, not praying to the magic sky-fairy to fix them for them. They believe in being good and just because it is the right way to interact in a society, not because said sky-fairy threatens eternal torture and suffering if they don't.

Answer 8

Righto, mate, i will supply it a crack. Organisms reproduce. they do no longer reproduce suitable copies of themselves, there is often some reasonable version. specially circumstances, the variations (or mutations, as they're greater precise referred to as) particularly enhance an organism's probabilities of surviving in its ecosystem long sufficient to reproduce. Or, in terms of the peacock with its stupidly heavy yet alluring tail, it basically will enhance the organism's probabilities of having laid. the two way, this is going to likely be plenty greater possibly to produce offspring. besides, those constructive mutations will, over here couple of generations, radiate into the gene pool, and those with this is going to outbreed those without. this is version, or "microevolution". The diversifications convey mutually over many generations, and the small variations upload as much as very very vast ones certainly. this is how a dogs and a fowl can, in case you flow back far sufficient, proportion a consumer-friendly ancestor. We proportion our maximum cutting-edge consumer-friendly ancestor with chimpanzees. We chop up from them approximately 6 million years in the past.

Answer 9

They have a very complex set of rules and regulations not outlined, for no higher beings exist to atheists.

May the Invisible Pink Unicorn bless you with her holy hooves!

Answer 10

Atheists can and do believe in many different things. The only thing all atheists have in common though is the disbelief in god(s).