How do Atheists explain Humanity?

Question

Lately, there have been questions and answers about the sun, the planets, universe, etc.... but I want to know how they explain
HUMAN LIFE and how we began and sustain ourselves?

I am talking about the absolute beginning, evolved or not.

Sorry Music girl.
I watched the video you sent and there is no proof of this. Just his opinion. Very wrong one. And no, I have no proof of God, just faith. So I guess no one wins here.
But I'll bet I'm happier b/c there is an afterlife.

And there is no "evidence" that what he says is true. And obviously I am dealing with an unfaithful, unhappy, lonely mind.
I'm truely sad for you!

Answer 1

Um...while I'm not a hardcore atheist, (i believe all religions are real), I believe that we spawned from simpler organisms. The chimp thing doesn't make sense to me, because if we evolved, why are there still monkeys?

Also, since we're the only planet known to have life on it, that helps the God-theory. But otherwise, totally true proof would be observing another universe with living beings on it.

Music Girl~A common ancestor? Then why are so drastically different from them? I'm not saying I disprove that theory, but it's still a theory.

Answer 2

It's hard to say when human life began because there is no fixed time where we can call one creature a non-human and it's offspring a human. Primates evolved over time and what we could call the first human may have been 6 million years ago. We could say it was 100,000 years ago. Homo sapiens sapiens first appeared about 40,000 years ago. So it's hard to answer your question exactly. As for sustaining ourselves, we kept many of the basic traits of our ancestors like eating and procreating and were able to propapagate the species.

Answer 3

there is no distinction. Atheists are human, opposite to universal Christian theory. Our morals come from human interplay. No animal in the international, that lives in a set, does so without difficulty-free morals. it quite is the very nature of dwelling in a set. There are regulations which you in basic terms do no longer violate for the sake of the gang.

Answer 4

Abiogenesis, followed by evolution.

The "why are there still monkeys" thing is old, and it displays a complete lack of understanding of evolutionary theory. *sigh*

Common ancestor. We evolved from a common ancestor, we did not evolve from apes, but with them.

Have a look at this video. This biologist is a Catholic biologist who argued against the teaching of ID in science classes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs1zeWWIm5M

What do you mean, "The absolute beginning"... you are asking about the beginning of life on earth, are you not? Abiogenesis is the answer there.

Here's a link that explains most of the questions that creationists ask.... the main site is an expansive mass of knowledge about evolution and origins of life.

http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html

Main site...

http://www.talkorigins.org/

Science does not deal in proof, it deals in evidence. The video gives plain, testable, and strong empirical evidence. Also, when you say something like, "There's no proof of this," what do you mean by this, and on what do you base your statement? The video gave you evidence. On what basis do you deny it to be evidence? Opinion is not involved when a scientists looks at the genome of the human and compares it to the genome of an ape. That has not the first thing to do with opinion.

But I realize that I am arguing with a mind that deals in faith rather than rational thought. And, incidentally, one that deals in arrogance and judgment. You are judging my heart by saying you are happier than me without even knowing me, do you not realize that? Do you not know how arrogant that is? Do you not even recognize the basic tenets of your own religion when it tells you not to judge others?

Hmm. Yeah, I think I'm done with you. No reason to continue.

Answer 5

Human beings resulted from a long series of natural processes over the course of several billion years. You can say that the odds of that happening are very low, but that's why you don't see millions of planets out there with species as intelligent as us on them. And besides, if you could do it all over again, it probably would've turned out differently, and perhaps some other species would have conquered the world instead.

Answer 6

I'm just going to copy and paste one of my previous answers...

I look at bacteria and how it forms out of the elements that are in its environment. There are all types elements in space. Why couldn't the world have been created one cell at a time when something so small and insignificant as bacteria can create itself just as easily? Embyos of animals and people are created just the same way within a womb. And decomposition is the exact same thing, but completely opposite.

That is my belief and most people respect it because it does make sense to them, though they may not follow it. It doesn't make sense to me that God created the world with a word or two. It doesn't make sense to me that God can be so powerful that he created himself. My belief makes sense to me, and that's enough for me to live by.

EDIT: Hey Music Girl...if people come from babies, why the hell are there still babies?! ;O)

Answer 7

Have you taken a biology class yet?

Answer 8

Can you slam a revolving door?

BUY A BIOLOGY TEXTBOOK.

Answer 9

God is fiction.