how do athiests explain....?

Question

how do athiests explain how the world and human beings were made? and please dont tell me that we came from apes, because if humans would have evolved from apes...we would see apes walkin up right and losing their hair. apes did not evolve into humans and just quit. and apes still exist, so one cant say that apes evolved into humans and then they became extinct???

wow! i didnt realize just how many people would answer this ques. and i surely didnt realize i would offend anyone. maybe i am ignorant on the whole evolution theory, prbabley because my family brought me up in a church, not a science lab. i just remember looking at books that showed the monkey slowly changing into a human step by step...you know what im talking about. maybe i should do a little research on the evolution theory so i can rebutle the issue in a more intelligent way. still yet, the only thing you all say is we are an ancestor of the ape???? for me, i would much rather believe that God created man and woman in his image and in time i will be reunited with my creator in an awesome paradise, rather than believinmg that i came from an ape and the world is gonna blow up due to an on coming astroid and all of creation will cease to exist like we were never here. so, no, i prob. wont research your theory. ignorance is bliss!!!!!

Answer 1

Oh man, they're comming from all angles today!

*Drink*

Answer 2

Evolution is supported by your favorite book. There was a time when Adam and Eve were stupid and happy, and then they ate from the tree of knowledge, and all of a sudden they were a lot different than they were before.

Pain in childbirth--(bigger brains), Thorns bothering them (less padding on feet), embarrassed by nakedness (no fur), the old fruit became inedible (omnivorous), and knowledge of good and evil (having to kill to eat, and actually having a conscience about it)

Finally, whether apes or neanderthal, there is a peculiar verse of Genisis 6:4, which suggests that during biblical time, a very close species to our own was present, and mated with us.

Besides the fact that your own religious book supports evolution, there are all of the details of reality such as fossil evidence and situations now, where for instance three species, A, B, and C exist. A and B can produce fertile offspring, B and C can produce fertile offspring, but A and C cannot. If B is wiped out somehow, then you have two completely different species.

That's all it is, and there are documented cases of this, and it is not in any real doubt except by people who are lying to you or have no idea.

Answer 3

Research you coccyx (tail bone), the use of the baby toe and that some primates share as much as 98% of our same DNA. Apes do get bald, gray hair, etc... and some do walk upright. For the same reason why Asians and those closest to the Equator has slanted eyes. The same reason why the people in the sudan average about 6'8" in height. We are products in our enviroment and adapt the abilities needed to strive in such climates. So you really believe there's a God, when he would allow people to be enslave, Millions to be executed. Yet it's a gift or miracle when someone survives an accident. The bad things are the devil's fault and the good is his? yet he controls all? That makes sense enough to you where you acceot that as fact? That's why they say most intellects don't believe in God

Answer 4

The Earth was formed from a proto-planetary nebula that collapsed gravitationally. Humans evolved from lower orders of life. You really need to take a biology class, you have a very poor understanding of the concept of evolution.

Humans did not come from apes. Apes and humans have a common ancestor. There is no reason for apes to evolve into humans - that would actually DISPROVE evolution. The common ancestor was not an ape or a human. One side of the family went one way, the other went the other way.

Answer 5

No one has all the answers on this but one thing that needs to be corrected is that humans evolved from apes. Both apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor and this is a scientific fact. However, anything before that point is pure conjecture.

Answer 6

Atheists don't need to explain how the world and human beings were made.

Evolution doesn't address the origin of the universe, and it also DOESN'T claim that humans evolved from apes. If you had really been to college, you would know that, and wouldn't keep making such ignorant statements and questions.

Answer 7

This is a classic misunderstanding of how evolution works. We did not evolve from apes. Apes are just as evolved as humans are, but they are apes, and we are humans. Yes we are related to them because we share a common ancestor (not like today's modern apes).

Also we don't BELIEVE in evolution. Evolution is not JUST a theory. Just like gravity is not JUST a theory.

Answer 8

Atheists for the most part believe in evolution.

Apes do walk upright. Have you never been to a zoo?

Humans still have hair, LOTS of hair. It's just very thin.

If you're so stubborn that you aren't willing to actually research evolution instead of blindly believing people who tell you we aren't descended from a common ancestor as apes, then I won't waste my time trying to.

Answer 9

I don't know or care how the first spark of life began, or how it progressed into human beings. It wouldn't unsettle me if it was proven that we progressed from apes, we are primates after all. I don't feel I owe anyone an explanation, but I'm not going to "jump the gun" as so many religionists have a penchant to do. The fact is - we are here, and have to learn to get along in a civilized society.

Answer 10

Nobody knows. Some will cite the Big Bang and single-celled organisms. We already KNOW evolution exists- it happens even today. Have you ever heard of Darwin's Finches? If not, go look it up, it's a very interesting topic. Just because we evolved from apes, it doesn't mean ALL apes evolved. These are things we ay never know, Atheists simply don't believe that a god created it.

Answer 11

You are right, inasmuch as we did not evolve directly from apes. And that's not what evolution says. Here's what it DOES say:

A VERY long time ago, there was an apeLIKE creature that had offspring that wre slightly different from itself.

Those offspring had their own slightly different offspring, and so on.

On one side of the family tree, those tiny incremental changes added up over THOUSANDS of generations, and led to the current result of creatures we classify as apes.

One the other side of the family tree, different sorts of changes added up over a period of MILLIONS of years and took that line in a very different direction, and that line eventually became the human species.