Atheists please?

Question

I have always wanted an athiest's point of view. Not some refrence bull crap. So if you dont believe in god or jesus. What do you believe created this world? How. Please give me as much info as you can.

Answer 1

Time and chance, my dear. The universe is BIG and OLD. With all that space and time, literally anything can happen. One of the things that happened was a small planet with water and atmosphere, orbiting a small star during the stable middle part of its lifespan. Another of the things that happened was the gradual development of life.

If you want more detail, go to college. Good luck!

Answer 2

Most of us are curious about how the universe came to be too. Your question assumes that something or someone was responsible. That is a dangerous assumption. There are guesses about it. Some are pretty wild. The point of the guesses is not so much that there might be an ultimate truth, but that they are testable ideas. Some of these ideas give us a lot of new knowledge and have resulted in such things as computer chips and anti virus medicines. The current favourite theory about creation seems to be M-theory or Brane theory. But in spite of its mathematical beauty it is untestable, and is offering no new knowledge that can be applied. So in my mind it is useless.
This is why I regard any untestable dead end answer as useless.
Branes might interact and might be the cause of everything but give us nothing. "God did it," is an even worse answer and "God works in mysterious ways," or "Who are we to want to know the mind of God," are even worse.
Sorry if I ran off on a tangent.

edit; Saxquiz seems to be making a pun when he calls it the "Big Band" theory, but it is as good as any, I like some big band music, Benny Goodman was a great.

Answer 3

I don't know how the world was formed. Theoretical Physics just seems like speculation to me. They all have different theories and change their minds all the time. I'm content with an "I don't know" when wondering how the universe came to be. Some people aren't content with no knowing something, so they pretend like they know by claiming that God did it. "God did it" is the theist's "I don't know". If you believe in the Big Band theory or that God did it, both are effects without a cause (which makes no sense to humans yet). God simply raises the question "who made God?". If you say "God was always here", why isn't it possible that the universe was always here?

Answer 4

I don't know. However, there are so many inconsistencies with the explanations provided by religion that I feel confident that they aren't correct. I don't claim that science has all the answers, but I think that trying to find them using science will get us a lot closer than through religion. Being an atheist (to me at least) doesn't mean I know how the world was created, but just that I don't believe that any of the religions have it correct.

Answer 5

Although I am not an atheist, I am Wicca, you would need to understand evolutionism. That is the strongest belief among those who have no god to have created it. The entirety of the explanation would be far longer than anyone here would be able to satisfy your question to it's entirety. It's the same as you trying to explain creationism by just saying that the bible says so. Either way, if you are truly interested check online about evolution.

Answer 6

It is utterly inconceivable that an intelligent entity (a 'creator god') could just exist fully formed from nothing, without a universe in which to be born. Logic also tells us that you cannot have an infinite regression of causes (one thing being caused by a previous thing, which in turn is caused by a previous thing, and so on forever). Taken together, these two things tell us that the only way the universe could exist is from an unthinking, uncaused event. Interestingly, quantum physics (backed up by experimental evidence) supports the idea of uncaused events - i.e. that existence itself is a matter of probability rather than determinism (cause and effect). So, straightforward logic is supported by fundamental physics which in turn is supported by experimental evidence.

Seems quite reasonable to me...

Answer 7

They generally go with the Big Bang Theory. You know, science. Look it up, it was theorized and supported by Dr. Stephen Hawking.

Earth and the other planets in the galaxy were probably formed by compressing the dust particles full of various elements, including a lot of carbon, from an exploded star.

Answer 8

I believe the forces of nature created this world. An undirected process that had no supernatural cause. No God exists to create, matter and energy just always were and have formed and reformed since time immorrial.

Answer 9

i believe that the whole of everything has always existed, similar to what the religious think about their gods.
the world and everything in it are just another part of everything else out there
i think that life arose from much simpler things over an extensive period of time by way of evolution.
sorry but i dont have time for too much detail

as for the big bang i think it was a random chance event occurring a long time ago in the even longer history of everything

Answer 10

To answer that question, I would have to teach you lessons in astronomy, geology, physics, planetology, chemestry, and biology.

Simply put: This planet got lucky enough to be in the "life belt" around the sun, and the right size to retain water. The development of life was inevitable. As for humans specifically, we proved to be not only highly adaptable, but capable of altering and controlling our own environment...so we survived better than most of our competitors.