Evolution is growth and change. Is it creation? Is it consciousness? Is it life? Is love only instinct?

Question

Sorry for all the questions. Just trying to understand.

If the big bang happened, then what caused something from nothing? It takes faith?

If life started, then what caused something from nothing? It takes faith?

If evolution is random chance and natural selection, then what created the choice, that natural selection could choose from? Again, it takes fatih?

How did matter create consciousness? This takes faith?

Sorry, I am skeptical of a materialistic universe. I do not have that much faith.

Answer 1

I must say, I like Darren S's answer. And your question. Or questions.

And my answer is this, that I believe we are all allowed to believe whatever we want to believe, whether it be Jesus Christ, or Satan, or nothing, or something, on in my case, that God was waiting with his own plan, that he's like a chess player and we are all his chess pieces that he moves around when he feels like it, that when we acknowledge his power and grace and submit to it we find peace, when we struggle against this we find life rather tiresome. That there will be an afterlife where God will judge all of us, and we will all find out the Truth, and it may be rather a shock to the others who believed in other things, but I do think God is quite forgiving, not to mention has quite a dark sense of humour, and can be at one and the same time merciful and vengeful, kind and all-powerful.

He's a bit like an alien God, able to look into our 6 billion hearts and minds at the same time while our puny human brains can't cope with his infinite powers.

So to answer your question, yes, it does take faith, I think, to create the universe, and time, and everything.

Answer 2

Big Bang didn't come from nothing. The quantum vacuum reached a critical threshold and the vacuum state collapsed locally into a lower energy state. The potential energy was released in the form of particles, spacetime, and momentum. This has been established mathematically.

Life started because organic chemicals in aqeuous, anoxic environments were exposed to high-density energy (light from the sun) and that energy was radiated away in low-density energy (heat). This guarantees under the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics that some form of ordering will occur. In such a situation, life arising isn't even unlikely, it's almost guaranteed, given the timescale involved.


Evolution is *NOT* random chance. Natural selection is simply a probability equation. If I have 100 moths, 50 of which are black, 50 of which are white, in a predominantly black environment, plus a predator, most of those white moths aren't going to survive. The dark moths will be the primary procreators, so the species will eventually lose the alleles for whiteness.

Matter creating consciousness, we're still working on. "I don't know" is a valid answer. Science is not a body of knowledge, it's a body of working theories and hypothesis, and it's an incomplete body at that -- if we knew everything, we wouldn't need science.

Answer 3

Big Bang says there was nothing and then it exploded. If the Big Bang Theory was correct then all matter would be traveling at the same speed in the same direction in the universe. (1) Look at our Solar System... The planets are traveling at different speeds and some in different and opposite directions, yet they are orbiting on the same plane (Except Pluto, but it is a rough moon). The Sun spins on its axis in the opposite direction of most of the planets. It also shrinks about 3-5 feet in diameter per hour. If the universe was billions or even millions of years old, life could not have existed on it because the earth was have been touching the sun 70 million years ago.

Evolution is caused by the mutation or change of the DNA of an organism. DNA is a self correcting code; a digital code. Evolution in the sense of the science textbook is caused mutations of an organism to more favorable traits. First problem, Mutation is the Loss of Information not the gain of new information. DNA is digital. Second, all the crude oil and dinosaur bones (fossils) were caused by the Flood of Noah in Genesis. Fossils take a few months to form under the right conditions. There have been fossilized hammers and cowboys hats found. The Flood lasted 371 Days. Third, Evolution has yet to find a transitional species. That would be a land animal with wings forming on its front legs. Common sense tells you that if you were a dog with half leg/half wing front legs, you would not be able to run or fly and would easily die as a result. Finally, Evolution says things start out in chaos and end up in order. Observation shows us that things in order end up in chaos. Proof of Dinosaurs (2)

The Bible says God made all things in 6 days. He says that he made plants before he made the sun, moon and the stars. The plants can't live without the sun for more than a few days so these days of creation are most likely six 24 hour days or 144 hours. It may be hard to believe in God, but this is the answer to your question on consciousness.

God formed living things out of the dust (raw materials, minerals, proteins, and carbon) of the earth. All things that are living are alive. Profound statement. Some things that are alive have blood in them. These creatures have a spirit that gives them life. The Bible forbids the eating of blood because life is in The Blood. God created man in His own Image. God has three parts to Him, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. So far we know of the body (the biological shell that houses you) and the spirit (which is the breath of life from God that gives us not only life, but a way to communicate with God. John 4:24). The third part of you is your Soul. This is the consciousness that you ask about. Your soul is your mind, your will, your emotions, your feelings, your memories, your desires, and your thoughts. It is also where your mind (not brain) lies. The mind is the battlefield. It is where the true Enemy of God puts things like fear, unbelief, doubt, pain, jealousy, hatred, lust, murder, anger, depression, and any other major problem. Your soul is what is judged by God. Humans are the only creatures on earth with souls. Animals with blood can only have a spirit.

Only the soul can question God. Let me know if you have any questions about what I have said. God Bless You. ([e-mail])

Time is finite. It had a beginning and will also have an end. God is outside of time. That is how he knows the end from the beginning. It is like time is a parade and as you sit on the curb, you watch it go by. If you were in a helicopter, you could see the beginning, the end, and everything in between. That is a rough example of eternity.

Answer 4

I thought this was a question about evolution?

Big bang - I don't know but it's nothing to do with evolution.

How life started - ditto

Evolution - Well a DNA that is susceptible to mutation provides the "choice" for natural selection to choose from. DNA mutation is adundantly observed. One of the most important mutations is duplication of stretch of DNA. But DNA is also full of 'switches' that turn on or off other stretches of DNA. And even without that, a single gene can have a profound effect - eg. I read today that there was just isolated one gene which is mainly responsible for the difference in size between small and large dogs. Mutations provide the choice. I don't see how faith (in a religious sense) comes in to it? I guess I have 'faith' that DNA mutation is not huge conspiracy by thousands and thousands of scientists....

Consciousness - Not necessarily anything to do with evolution. (And first you have to define what consciousness is...)

It is dishonest to attempt to include these other three things in with evolution.

Answer 5

Faith only actually answers one question and it is a question you didn't ask here. Faith answers the question "how can I believe my own answers?"
If extremely dense matter can't lead to an explosion of less-dense matter, then faith probably can't do that either.
But faith can get you through times when you are tired and discouraged and you feel like giving up.
If the environmental forces that either enhance or decrease the chances of survival can't lead to one organism surviving a little better than another, then faith probably can't do it either.
Unless of course one organism just believes in itself a little more than another and that makes a difference for it.
If a living creature's body can't regulate itself into a brain that organizes itself into a mind that can communicate with other minds and say that it is conscious, then faith doesn't really add to the chances of that happening, but it doesn't hurt either.
Don't believe the people who tell you that you must choose between reason and faith. You can have both. Don't believe the people who tell you that every question has to be answered whether we have any information or not. In the absence of any real information, it is wiser to say that we can't answer the question. It is not a denial of faith or of reason to say that you don't know.

Answer 6

Man doesn't say science created life! Science isn't the kind of thing that can create anything except hypotheses and theories and understanding. The religious view of creation is easier to understand - for example, the stellar accretion of the dust and asteroids that make up the earth, the geology of 4.57 billion years is hard to understand 'god made the heaven and the earth' thats simple. Of course, something being simple doesn't mean its true. Why not ask which is TRUE? Surely that's the important question. I mean you could go to a chemistry class and be told there are 92 naturally occurring elements - maybe that's hard to understand so you're going to go with the ancient set of 4, earth, air, fire and water. Good for you. Just don't expect to pass. *Oh and evolution didn't culminate in anything. We're not the point of evolution and we're not a finishing point. Maybe before you decided which was easier to 'believe in' (though as I say, you should ask yourself instead which is more accurate) you could study a little evolutionary theory.*

Answer 7

That's a lot of what ifs that are really outwith the boundaries of evolution. Evolution is solely about biological mechanisms-do species undergo biological changes through time and if so what are the processes and mechanisms involved. That is the sole issue relating to evolution. Not the origin of life the cosmos or atheism.

Answer 8

Evolution is change. Changes can be to the species's advantage or disadvantage.

It is not creation. It is not necessarily conciousness. It can be life, but ideas undergo evolution.

"what caused something from nothing" - we don't know the causes of if it was something from nothing. faith is about knowing.

faith equals knowing what has occured. If you do not have faith, then you do not know. and, this is ok.

Answer 9

Maybe the Material and Spiritual universe is interconnected. The 'choices' and chances are created by our *connected* subconscious minds. Maybe ALL the gods and goddesses are real and maybe we too can be Gods and Goddesses when we die. Faith and belief is what creates your reality. If you learn to change your beliefs for short periods of time you can learn how to mold your own future.

Answer 10

very good points.
im not religious at all and believe the sientific reason more, but it is a good point. how can something be created from nothing. there must have been something to create something.

also if time is infinite where did it begin? lol
gd luck in finding out.

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