Atheist, where does love come from? Is it a force of nature, is there any scientific proff?

Question

Does it exsist?

I mean no disrespect. this is just a question asked to get a unique point of veiw.

what is an emotion?
and by the way I'm not trying to prove anything, Why bother it doesn't do any good?

seems odd to me, that a bunch well aged primordial soup can produce such a complex emotion. It doesn't add up in my book.

What vintage are you?

Answer 1

Love is an emotion,a chemical reaction, nerve cells lighting up in your brain.
We have proof of emotions since everyone displays them, but there is no everday display of God's power is there?
Edit: I don't understand what you're trying to get at. Please explain. Are you trying to say that the human mind isn't capable of something as complex as emotions? So it has to be God's doing? If so, everything that happens is Gods plan, is it not, no thing as free will anymore, you'll have to learn to respect atheists as well since they seem to be part of your Gods doing as well.

Answer 2

I can answer your first question. Is there any scientific proof? Not absolute proof. Strong evidence, yes.

Love is an emotion found in many animals, not just humans. If you disagree, you have not owned a dog.

Love is highly correlated with species who form social networks, such as herds or packs. This includes such groups as dogs, humans, other primates, elephants (particularly fascinating), dolphins, and many others.

According to evolution, such emotion has been evolving for hundreds of millions of years, and continues to. It's not like a big heart jumped out of primordial spaghetti, and no evolutionist has ever claimed this.

Simply put, there is a huge evolutionary advantage to love. Love plays a crucial role in:

-Reproduction
-Successful rearing of offspring
-Protection of the good of the pack
-the ability to not only preserve the genes in your body, but those same genes in your relatives.

The list goes on. So how did it evolve from that soup? Well, for starters look at ants. Almost no brain, but just enough to develop tremendous social order, even sacrificing one's life for the sake of the colony or the queen. The result: one of earth's most successful species ever.

Now consider that advantage, and add in highly evolved brains in mammals. There you have the formula for a highly advanced capacity for caring for others, favoured by natural selection.


Now, you've made it quite clear that you're trying to be fair, but at the same time you've made it quite clear where you stand. I'm not even an atheist, but I can easily see how evolution would favour love.

A harder question might point to mankind's capacity for destruction, and how evolution allowed that to prevail. Whether you believe in evolution or God, it's hard to beleive that either would allow us to have such capacity for hate, evil and destruction. Yet it exists....almost exclusively in humans.

Now there's something to think about.

Answer 3

You seem to be asking if love can be explained short of acknowledging God. We observe grooming behavior between animals, sometimes seeming to go beyond the instinctual level. Occasionally we see primitive forms of cooperation. Are we anthropomorphizing or are these primitive emotions? Of what practical use is love? Outside of infatuation, love seems directed outside of the individual, providing him no direct benefit.

So what indirect benefit is derived? Feelings of debt and goodwill, possibly a desire to imitate the behavior? Cooperative systems are able to accomplish more than the efforts of an individual, so love could be an adaptation that enhances survival by fostering cooperation. Even in sacrificial situations, if the altruistic death of one person saves other lives, the species benefits.

I don't mean to sound so clinical. I'm just suggesting how love could be explained in evolutionary terms.

Answer 4

Emotion, in its most general definition, is an intense neural impulse-produced mental state that arises subjectively rather than through conscious effort and evokes either a positive or negative psychological response to move an organism (a human person) to action.

Well, love is an emotion. God has nothing to do with it.

Answer 5

Dynamic MRI's demonstrate that love and emotions are particular neurological responses to stimuli which initiate behavior that enables cooperative activity and reproductive activity which perpetuates genetic information, which is the backbone of evolution.

Answer 6

Let me answer the question above, on behalf of atheist.

"I don't know where love comes from. And I don't know where all the religious people who are full of envy and anger, who like blaming others, who feel they are the best people on earth, come from.

Answer 7

What the hell is with all the atheist bashing.? do you seriously think atheists care? Love is instinctual, by the way. that's why so many teenagers think they are in love at the drop of a hat.

Answer 8

love is a chemical reaction occurs in the brain

Answer 9

Atheists are the product of sex between their parents!

Answer 10

I don't know or need to know. I just enjoy it.

Anyway, just because we don't know, doesn't mean it comes from God, does it?