So *Atheists* How about this..We have the Power to blow up the world?

Question

I think we can all agree Iran is preparing for a Nuclear Attack as well as North Korea, If the Superpowers all were engaged in a Nuclear War and it killed every human being on the planet
Then What?
or Maybe Global Warming will do us in? Many things could end life on this planet as we know it, since you don't believe in GOD who created the planet then what? earth will just be a pile of dirt? that;s it? that is what you can count on..

Answer 1

anyhow!! we all are going to die

Answer 2

1 - It's reasonable to assume that the countries you mentioned would like to have nuclear weapons. Iran, being determined to "wipe Israel off the map" must be stopped if this is the case, but this must be balanced against their right to produce their own nuclear fuel. It's a diplomatic debate. And North Korea has been playing the diplomacy game for decades to develop the technology, most likely in a ploy to be taken as a legitimate threat by other nations to gain a diplomatic edge. However, this doesn't make them "superpowers," nor do isolated nuclear instances pose a threat to the world.

2 - You seem to assume that human beings will bring about their own destruction somehow, yet (assuming you're a Christian), doesn't your holy book explicitly say that people will be around until god says the world will be destroyed? If so, then how much damage could you really believe that we'll do?

3 - If we thought that the Earth was just a pile of dirt, would we be responding to you about diplomacy, human beings, climate, or nuclear weapons? If you mean it's nothing but a physical object, then, yes, agreed.

4 - You believe "god" created the planet. We don't. If you can accept a god who need not be created, then why can't you accept the things that you know to exist without a creation?

5 - I don't count on the Earth for much. I count on human ingenuity. The same sort of brain that unlocked the destructive power of the atom, along with the healing power of medicines and the productive powers of industry and agriculture, can unlock the solutions to our survival, propagation, and longevity. I have no doubt that, someday, worries about human life on a single planet will be a quaint and antiquarian notion. Around this time, I think the Amish will move on to the power of the telegraph.

Answer 3

I didn't think ANYONE would agree that Iran is preparing for a nuclear attack, they want nuclear power for their infrastructure such that they aren't screwed when their oil wells go dry, and they happen to not be on the best of terms with the UN or the West in general... It isn't in their benefit to blow anything up though, and they are aware of this. Likewise, North Korea, though it was testing such things, has more recently given it up (after a failure or two)... Both of them also know that while they'd regard nuclear weapons as useful threats, they would likely never use them as the backlash is far too extreme.

But What's your point, if we start breaking out the 200 megaton bombs we're hypothetically capable of building and blow up everything on the earth's surface, if earth was created by God, why would things be any different?... Would he intervene all of the sudden if nuclear war starts?... If he didn't stop any past wars that doesn't seem likely.

Answer 4

You DO understand how global warming works, right? Further, N. Korea and Iran are not superpowers. Having nukes does not make you a superpower.

And what exactly does non-belief in God have to do with man-made nukes and man-made CFC's which are one of the root causes of global warming? Your basic premise is nonsensical at best, because you seem to have no grasp at all of the issues, or indeed anything else. Next time, at least attempt to understand what you're talking about before you spout, okay?

Answer 5

Ok im really smart and I know how everything formed. Two words...... BIG and BANG. The big bang started everything and particles from it even are some items in your body.
There is nothing wrong with being atheist. Im not really an atheist but im just unsure if there is a God. I also know if you watch South Park they have episodes where everyone is an atheist. I could so live with that. Other than the fact of fighting beavers o.O
By the way I am 11. :D

Answer 6

I think we can all agree that uneducated sheep, think that Iran 'is preparing for a Nuclear Attack' (why the caps?), your question is equally stupid and uneducated. "who created the planet then what" ugh. Don't quit school. If the earth is destroyed, the earth is destroyed. Whether or not a person is an atheist is irrelevant.

Answer 7

actually, a nuclear holocaust would produce what is called a 'nuclear winter' where the world will actually cool.

and I don't necessarily agree that Iran is planning for a nuclear attack. Bush was DEAD wrong about the WMDs that Hussein supposedly had in Iraq, he's probably DEAD wrong about Iran and North Korea as well.

Answer 8

Exactly. Earth is a pile of dirt. That's what we can all count on, and stand on. From such humble beginnings, we can go anywhere, do anything, become something f@cking amazing -- if we survive.

We're all gonna die, dear; one at a time or all together, the result is the same either way. In the meantime, life is for the living, not for worshipping dead gods.

Answer 9

I'm sure there is a question somewhere in your riddle.

But for what its worth, Earth is not just 'dirt', it is a complex ecosystem with a hot core, layers of atmosphere, and enormous quantities of different rock, sediment, gases, soil and organic matter.

So if the human race caused enormous destruction and wiped itself out, Earth would maybe recover in some form, over millennia, and new lifeforms may evolve.

I would count on studying Natural History, it might give you a sunnier disposition than relying on humankind 's concepts of religion and conflict to give 'answers' to their own problems?

Answer 10

God or no God. If a Nuclear war starts then the Earth ends up a lifeless ball of dirt spinning in space. What is your point?

Answer 11

Have you ever been to Iran, visited with the masses, studied their government, visited their many institutions of higher education, and seen how their economy flourishes? I don't think, that if not seriously provoked on a national level by the US, the people and government of Iran will allow even their nutty (nuttier than ours is) leader to get them into too much hot water.

Your assumptions get in the way of your rational thought. There doesn't have to be a reason, for the big bang theory, that would involve many humans' belief in the supernatural. Who are we to suggest that?

And, yes, if we don't reverse our metastatic destruction of our host, earth, there will come a point when she will no longer have the capacity to support oxygen-breathing life.