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How do they describe the earth's origins?

2007-02-08 18:08:41 · 12 answers · asked by Brofo 3 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

To clarify, are there people who do not believe in a god or gods who at the same time do not believe in evolution as the origin of man.

2007-02-08 18:14:06 · update #1

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There's no such thing as 'evolutionists'. Evolution is science, not religion. It's something to be understood, not believed in.

Do you 'believe in' gravity? Does that make you a gravitationist?

Virtually all biologists, except for a handful of religious fanatics, accept evolution.

There are no alternative scientific theories.

2007-02-08 18:13:25 · answer #1 · answered by eldad9 6 · 2 1

I am certainly not one who would deny the truth of evolution... I have a deeply rooted scientific education. The ducks are all in a row and they are unlikely to ever be scattered.

Evolution has been questioned so completely, (and it is still being questioned and tested so thoroughly,) that it has become a sort of scientifically perfect symphony that hasn't missed a beat. It is as real as the sand on the beach.

As a died-in-the-wool atheist, I would think myself a fool to deny the truth of it - it has grown to become as obviously factual as God has withered to become so entirely false.

Evolution is not what I would call the corner stone of atheism, but it could easily act the part and proudly prevail.

FYI... You should try to understand, however, that evolution is not a part of the Earth's origin. The Earth has a geophysical history - it's beginning, it's changes of shape and character are the result of a completely different nature - it is a product of inorganic chemistry and physical laws. Evolution is about life. It is a product of organic chemistry, microbiology and cellular physics. The two topics, Earth's origin and evolutionary changes of life structures, belong primarily in separate disciplines.

May I suggest that you dig up your grade school science books and do a few hours of much needed review; you are not only missing the boat but you have failed to successfully find your way to the quay. Once that task is completed, you ought to do yourself the favor of studying a tad more. You will likely find that science is much more believable and truthful than ... ... well you know, don't you?

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2007-02-09 02:40:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Someone else asked this question earlier.

I knew a guy years ago that I would run into at a bar. He didn't believe in God, but he also said he didn't believe in Evolution. I asked him when he told me that, "So where do you think we all came from?". He said he didn't know and he didn't really care, but that he didn't think Evolution was real either. I think he was the kind of person that had to see something happen right in front of him to believe it.

2007-02-09 02:14:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Most definitely. In fact, there are more and more questions that are being raised about evolution by atheist scholors. There are some flaws in evolutionary theories, and that creates makes some people continue to hunt for the mechanism behind why we are what we are.

2007-02-09 02:16:04 · answer #4 · answered by Angry Moogle 2 · 0 0

there maybe atheist who are atheist cause they just don't like the whole idea of religion, but they don't over analyze about the reasons not to believe.
how ever, most atheist, are, because they do not believe in creation, in the first place an believe on the facts of science.
i am an atheist an d i rely on scientific explanations for everything.

2007-02-09 02:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by Black Raven Rose 5 · 0 0

They are one and the same; the atheist religion is evolution......and it takes far more faith to believe in evolution than to simply believe in a Creator.

2007-02-09 02:18:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

The term atheist means you do not believe in the existence of a god, so it automatically means you reject the concept of Biblical Creation. That leaves you having to consider Evolution, either directly, or in passing, since it is the only other active investigation going on into our origins as a lifeform on the Earth. By rejecting God an atheist tacitly accepts that he will examine the results of human enquiry and pass his own personal judgement on it's validity. When the majority of fellow thinkers and examiners pass a majority acceptance of a body of evidence, dissenters have to come up with other evidence that challenges the status quo, which is also based on evidence. Unlike believers, atheists and scientists are willing, and striving actively, to change their opinions if information proves their earlier conclusions incorrect.
Evolution is a scientific discipline like chemistry or physics based on observed phenomena in the physical world around us. It is not something you "believe" in, in as much as you are not required to believe in " salt" or "oxygen". The observations of fossils of ancient humans, for example, have to be explained to rational people and cannot just be wished away, if you are a believer in a faith that claims we humans were just created as we are. If I were to assume that Creation is the truth, and not evolution as science explains it, then I would have to conclude that the God who made Homo Sapiens, as we are today, arrived at this final design by a process of trial and error, after creating many failed and inferior earlier species, as a simple explanation for the observed fact of the existence of their fossil remains. For a god to have created Australopithecus for instance, whose bones reveal he was incapable of speech as we are today, I would have to conclude that God was experimenting with producing a voiceless species, maybe just having fun with his ability to create for the sake of creation, or more seriously that he, God, was an idiot, who didn't have a clue how to make a more sophisticated being, and required millions of years of experimentation to arrive at the right formula to produce us. This leaves me then with the huge dilemma of accepting the claims made by Believers that God is All-powerful, can do anything and everything, and still accept the evidence of his inferior earlier models of humans which he also, rather stupidly left lying around for me to find and question his intellect. I think that leaves me and many any other simple-minded Homo Sapiens, with no alternative but to pursue Evolution as the more viable explanation. Thus without even examining Evolution thoroughly, I had to reject Creationism as possible, based on the claim that God's abilities to create are perfect, when I learned about the half and quarter humans he created millions of years ago, then so callously rubbed out of existence, like a little boy who stomps on his badly made sand castle on a beach. I cannot believe in a God who creates by trial and error who makes models and prototypes of his creation before settling on final designs. At least my creator should be more intelligent than I am and not fumble in the dark grabbing his *** at every design fault and throw out his defective creation willy nilly all over the planet. Even the Homo Sapiens he finally created is so flawed I could kick him from here to Jupiter... just for making my cells susceptible to cancer... and my heart so easily broken!

2007-02-09 03:28:19 · answer #7 · answered by Bluevariable 3 · 0 0

That doesn't make any sense.

I know there are loads of evolutionists that aren't atheists (I'm one of them) but I can't imagine ANY atheist not believing in evolution.

2007-02-09 02:11:27 · answer #8 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0 1

i belive that evolution is correct but i don't consider myself an atheist.

2007-02-09 02:11:43 · answer #9 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0 0

That would be silly.

2007-02-09 02:21:28 · answer #10 · answered by lilith 7 · 0 0

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