If you are an Atheist??

Question

Where did the world come from, where did the first two molecules for evolution come from? I am sincerely asking how you believe everything started, even evolution…

So you just give up?? You stop thinking about it. I am serious...

Answer 1

We don't know, and don't lie either.

Answer 2

I'm not scared of admitting that there is something I don't know, or even something that we can't presently find out. That doesn't mean we have to stop finding out, but we can't know everything instantly.

I believe (since I don't know it for a fact) that the first self-replicating molecule was a primitive DNA-like structure that attracted building blocks of protein acids (?), yielding a duplicate. This is how DNA copies itself today, so there's nothing weird about it. The building blocks were all there, this has been demonstrated i labs. Once that process took off, it must have exploded. Eventually evolution took hold. This is not a complete theory, but it's certainly plausible enough to me. It's a possible explanation that science one day will be able to explore, and possibly disprove.

It's certainly a much more fruitful explanation than merely saying, "God did it". It's just like the ancient theory of what the earth was 'resting' on: a giant turtle. Well what was *it* resting on? And so forth.

Answer 3

The world came from the proto-solar disc of material gathering around the forming sun, drawn in because of the sun's gravity and taking on orbital motion from conserved angular velocity.

The first two molecules for evolution came from the same place -- the disc of material gathering around the forming sun. That material itself came from the interiors of older stars that had already gone supernova...that's the only place heavy elements can be made. It's a cycle that's been repeating constantly and all over the universe for the 14 billion or so years the universe has been in existence.

All of the above has vast amounts of verifiable evidence to back it up. What evidence is there that "god did it?" None (no, a story in the bible is not evidence). So which is more likely: the concept backed by a mountain of evidence, or the mythical story backed by no evidence? You decide. :)

Peace.

Answer 4

Molecules formed in the atmosphere and around volcanic vents and concentrated in the oceans. When one molecule had the capacity to catalyze the reaction that yielded a similar molecule, things got interesting. Life was a long way of, but the one enough copies existed, life was all but inevitable.

You could address this to scientists and science enthusiasts, since this is compatible with most religions.

Answer 5

There's book by Dan Brown (author of 'The DaVinci Code) called 'Angel & Demons' and part of it deals with that. Some scientist makes a machine that's capable of creating something out of nothing. It had something to do with energy currents, I think.
Anyway, if you are some sort of theist, where did God come from? If there is a perfect being, why would it create anything? Since it's perfect, it wouldn't get bored or curious.
I may not believe some fancy labrotory has a scientist who invented a machine that can manipulate energy but it still makes more sense to me than a complex, perfect individual just exists, not according to any laws or concepts humans are capable of understanding.

Answer 6

We don't know for sure, there are scientific theories that are well informed models for what most likely happened, but if you are looking for a 100% answer you won't find it... I don't know and i'm fine with that is a good enough answer for anyone. It's far better than accepting a 7 or 8 thousand year old story without any evidence to support it.

Just because someone claims to have an answer to that question doesn't mean they are right.

Answer 7

How did God get here? What is he composed of? How could we be made in the image of a supernatural being that is not composed of any matter or defies our laws of science?

What if we don't know what existed before life or the big bang? Are we to make up a God even though a God doesn't make any sense or have any proof? Sometimes we just need to admit that we don't have the answers. You know what the ancient people used to explain the tides of the Ocean? A God called Poseidon. Now we don't need him because we know the moon is responsible for it. See what I'm getting too..??

Answer 8

We are only small specks to this world, and virtually nonexistent to the universe...I don't think it's ever possible for us to know for certain, we can only get some good ideas about it and try to piece it together, but some of the puzzle pieces will always be impossible to find.

Honestly I don't think about it too much, it's here now, so why worry. I just don't think it's as magical as religious people think.

Answer 9

The world? Long story, but debris formed into large clumps which became denser under their own weight and formed planets. First two molecules? I'll assume you mean DNA, in which case, amino acids formed through simple chemical reactions (they've been replicated in labs), and these gradually became more complex until they reached the point where it could spontaneously divide.

Answer 10

"Where did the world come from, "

Basic astronomy: google planet formation.

"where did the first two molecules for evolution come from"

The answer is unknown but the field is called Abiogenesis.

Answer 11

I am going to implore to you, please study geology and astronomy , OK?

'the world'? I mean, you know that our earth is a micro-particle piece of dust in billions of oceans, right?


when brought down to the bare minimum molecules; we are all made of the same thing, we are star dust, everything is. how do you know there is not life sprouting molecules in dark matter and all it needs is the right combination of elements to set it in motion and life is not VERY abundant all throughout the universe, not just in our galaxy --where we could never even reach the closest star, much less see all the other solar systems,
but in the BILLIONS of other galaxies?