With all respect to you atheists/agnostics/evolutionists, if there is not higher power or god then why are we here on Earth? If there is no afterlife then what is the point of living, and how did we get here to begin with. Primordial soup is very very very hard to explain how you got matter out of nothing and etc., so if you believe that please explain your reasoning?
If you are atheist or dont believe in a god, why?
REMEMBER IM NOT ATTACKING ANYONE!
2007-02-06 14:17:01 · 17 answers · asked by Brandon B 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To play Y!A, duh!
Well, generally speaking, I hate to tell you this but your parents had sex!
2007-02-06 14:21:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The question is legit.
But the models of the big bang, primordial sludge, evolution are based upon mountains of observed natural phenomena, research, verfied hypothesise, and the knowledge base is continually added to and any errors are eventually updated and corrected.
These hypothesises can be worked and verfied in any culture, any country , and by one holding any religious belief. Belief in any one Holy text/creation story is not required; each person can do their own scientific investigation and come to pretty much the same conclusions.
If you find the big bang and co very hard to believe, realize that believing that a God formed himself out of nothing, or simply "always existed" with no way to observe or verify his involvement with the universe, is many orders of magnitue harder to believe than any belief system that is based on rigorous scientific modeling. The question of where did God come from will never be answered because it is not mentioned in the Bible and we can not contuct an investigation into the matter.
Why are we here? There is no reason. if you need a purpose in life, you are free to assign your own purpose.
What is the point of living? I think of it this way - look at all the people who have *not* lived. If things happend only a little differently, I may not be here but 1000s of other people might. I get the privelege of (hopefully) 80-100 years of conciousness in the timeline of a universe that is 13.6 billion years old! Life is short, because there is no afterlife, I must never be resigned to simply accept things asw they are. I will not be rewarded with that which I could not have on Earth. My time with loved ones are finite as I will never see them again. One purpose I have is to make the most of what little I have.
2007-02-06 22:44:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God, but do not believe he interferes and I question that he deliberately put us here (I am a Deist). Life is an ongoing chemical reaction (albeit, a very complicated one and actually more than one going on at the same time). The full origin of the "primordial soup" is currently unknown, but may be known at some future time. Regardless, "why" is not the issue. We are here because of something. Life can exist without a purpose, though we humans seem to need one.
2007-02-06 22:32:35 · answer #3 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not here for any reason at all. Just because we have big brains and some kind of self-awareness doesn't mean the universe is for us.
Think of a dog... a lion... a troop of monkeys,,, what is their purpose? Why are they here? For no reason. When they die, they die. Humans developed a big brain, that does not mean that we suddenly got souls or that heaven was waiting around for 4.5 billion years for us to get self-awareness. We die just like a flea. Dead.
If the asteroid hadn't hit 65 million years ago, there would be no humans. Do you really think that asteroid was sent on purpose?
2007-02-06 22:33:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's purpose for the earth was for mankind to live forever upon it Gen1:1 -6.
Adam and Eve chose of their free will not to obey their creator and thus fell into sin and death as Jehovah warned them would happen.
But God made a way out for mankind to regain that everlasting life on earth at Gen 3:15. There he is talking about Satan and Jesus and how Jesus would brues him in the head and kill him and restore back to man what he lost in the begining, that was ever lasting life on earth.
If your child did something wrong and you told him he was going to be punished for what he did would you punish him for the rest of his life? of course not.
If he was good and could show you that he wasn't going to do the bad thing he did ,you would lift the punishment and forgive him, and if you took something away from him you would give it back in time, wouldn't you?
Well that's exactly what our father in the heavens is going to do very soon.
Dan 2:44 will be fullfilled very soon.
Sincerely yours,
Fred M. Hunter
fmhguitars@yahoo.com
2007-02-06 22:41:27 · answer #5 · answered by fmhguitars 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why do you think there has to be a reason?
Not having an afterlife actually makes life way more important.
I don't think matter came from nothing. I think that it was always here in some form.
2007-02-06 22:21:53 · answer #6 · answered by Alex 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the point of living, even if you do not believe in an afterlife, is enlightenment. the point of living is to learn.
2007-02-06 22:25:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A more elaborate way to say that would be "Whats the meaning of life?" Well, LIFE is the meaning of life
2007-02-06 22:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by Sean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth is one big pregnant belly, where we are growing. When birth comes (death) to live.
2007-02-06 22:26:30 · answer #9 · answered by Cister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Praise, worhsip and LOVE God..... that's our life's purpose. if it sounds stupid that only because your living for yourself.
2007-02-06 22:20:14 · answer #10 · answered by Björn 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are here because He triggered our beginning and our end
2007-02-06 22:24:09 · answer #11 · answered by markos m 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋