ATHEISTS: How can you look at the world around you and not be astounded, and know this came from something?

Question

Before the big bang and evolution.

ELSEWHERE, NEWDUDE, AND KATE: How could it have come form something that is not a god? It is impossible to comprehend something with no beginning, or at least without being dissatisfied. I am so amazed at the beauty of this world that I know that it goes on forever.

SOMETHING= A GOD

Answer 1

I am astounded, just not in the same way that you are. I do know this came from something, just not what you think it came from. We can both enjoy the sunset and agree that babies are beautiful without believing in the same source for all that is. You are presuming that Atheists do not have emotional responses to their environment. We do. We just interpret them differently.

Answer 2

I wish the Atheists and Christians would just drop it… You’re never going to agree, so stop antagonizing each other. If you look back at the beginning of the Universe as we know it, you come to God, the big Bang, or both. Atheists say “If God created the Universe, what created God?” I say, ‘If the Big Bang created the universe, where did all the matter that caused the big bang come from?” Matter cannot be created or destroyed they say, but it Had to come from somewhere, right? It coalesced over the course of millions of billions of years, formed into a cohesive whole, and exploded into suns and galaxies. The honest to God truth is, we don’t know, nor will we ever. Our brains dont have the capacity to comprehend eternity. Seriously- try it sometime. Fastest way to a headache outside a good smack with a blunt object. We have such a black and white view of the universe as a species, we cant comprehend something that has no beginning. To me, that smacks of divinity. Maybe not in the sense of the big bearded guy sitting on a fluffy white cloud throwing thunderbolts- that’s just the Greek influence. I see divinity in everything. In us, and everything we touch. I think the Universe itself is god. A cohesive, and intelligent whole with a plan for its existence across all planes (Physical, spiritual) and all dimensions. And I think we’re a part of that

Answer 3

I don't think that what scientists lack in understanding can be attributed to a deity.

First of all, how would you define "god?" It's certainly not a human male who makes the weather change and punishes our species for natural behaviors.

Because we are human beings who invent things and create purpose, we approach the world with certain assumptions, not only that the universe came from something, but that it was from an omnipotent, all-powerful god.

Unfortunately, there is no evidence for this. Natural, unintelligent processes guide the universe and its laws. It's hard to understand, but so are many things that are outside of normal life experiences.

It's hard to imagine what came before the big bang. The universe is so strange that it is mind boggling. I am astounded and thankful that I am alive, because billions of other physical and evolutionary possibilities could have prevented my existence.

I'm also intensely curious about the big picture. But I do not think there is a god, especially not one that steps in as emotional wish fulfillments when we cannot understand every aspect of reality.

Answer 4

Nobody knows this came from something. As dawkins says it may be comforting to think this universe came from something, but that doesn't make it true. The current theory i have is that this universe came from something that isn't a god, or anything that's praise worthy. What makes you think that if the universe came from something or was caused by something, it absolutely had to be a god. I'm afraid the universe is far more complex than thant and demands a far more complex answer. The problem is, is that a large group of people somehow seem to know the unknowable, they are totally convinced that have knowledge of something that is impossible to have knowledge of. And what are they're claims backed up by? Ancient scribblings.

Answer 5

I am astounded, don't get me wrong. And I know it came from *something*, as you put it, but personally I don't believe it came from God / Gods. I am more of an Eastern Atheist, though, in that I do consider myself a very spiritual and moral person, though I don't attribute any of that to belief in God.
I think Atheists, on the whole, are extremely disillusioned by right-wing Religious people who promote their religious beliefs but then act against them or appear to be hypocritical. I respect religious people, but not people who use religion as an agenda or as a reason to do bad things to others-- does that make any sense to you? I think the world is a beautiful place, but all too often the name of God gets used in order to help people destroy others and the Earth itself, and that's a shame and it's hard for people like me to look past that and see that there could be a God above who's allowing this to happen to the world he supposedly created.. it doesn't work in my mind or heart.

Answer 6

I personally do not believe God created the universe. Since the matter and energy of this universe must have preexisted this universe, I am inclined to believe God is the universe or encompasses it, in much the way we encompass our body's cells. Any creation of this "God" may not be conscious at all, in much the same way we don't consciously cause our body to grow.

(Of course, within this universe, there could also be beings far more advanced than us who played a hand in our creation. I'm not completely convinced of that, but can't rule it out either.)

Answer 7

I don't take anything for granted. Nor am I a dumb, blind ignorant person.
I appreciate nature for what it is. I understand the elements that make up water and the sky and land. I understand how quarks make up protons nuetrons and electrons and how they make up atoms, and they make up molecules, to cells and so on.

What I don't understand is how everything just appeared, POOF...created by some higher being. A higher being that NO ONE can tell me the origin of.

Thanks for the insults Christians. What did I do to you?

ADDED....this answer is more aimed towards the other people who answered this question. So many insults...good grief!

Not intended to imply that Singforhim1 insulted anyone.

Sorry Sing!

Answer 8

I am perfectly well aware that it came from something, and that something was the big bang and all the events that followed, all according to the rules. There is not the slightest reason to believe that any sort of god had anything to do with it, and furthermore it is provably useless to suppose such.

Answer 9

I am astounded.

If you zoom way out, what we've done to this planet looks a LOT like the mold that grows on bread after sitting in the fridge for a few weeks. It's a really freak coincidence.

When you have 100 trillion planets, and the chances of life forming on a planet are approximately 0.0000001% it's really not all that miraculous. Life had to happen somewhere, just so happens to be here.

Answer 10

It is astounding; but we understand it, pretty much. Your need to believe in a god stems from a lack of understanding.

You realize there was nothing before the big bang, right?