curiosity!!?

Question

i was talking to my friend at work yesterday lunch time and he said the he believes that were made from stars???

now im a christian and dont believe this theory at all, but i want to know what everyone else thinks? and if were made by stars how exactly did it happen?

thanks for all the idiots that answered this question you make me laugh! May God bless you for your homour

Answer 1

I believe I was created by God.

Answer 2

Well, the planets might have been. There are a variety of theories. Some say the planets were just lumps of stuff that never had enough weight to attract Hydrogen and become stars and when a bigger mass nearby did do that route we got caught up in the gravity.

We however are not made from stars.

Both Religion and Science unanimously agree we were made from, for lack of a better term, "muck" which is geological elements on the planet.

Religion says God used the dirt of the Earth and his Breath.

Science says it was a bunch of inorganic muck coming together at just the right moment. Gasses could also play a part in that and if so then both Science and Religion agree.

The difference is Science says it was accidental.

Relgion says it was with creative intent by an intellegence.

Answer 3

I don't think your friend meant we were made "by" stars, I think he meant that he believes we are made "of" stars. I've heard a tiny bit about this theory, certainly not enough to go into any great detail about it and I'm sorry that I can't direct you to a site that can explain this a bit better, but the gist of it is that everything in the universe is made of the same elements (not a scientist, can't verify that, just stating what I've read), therefore we are all "made of stars" (someone cue the Moby now, please).

It's a "we are all one" kind of a thing.

Answer 4

It's all in the phrasing.

"We are stardust" as the flower-power song has it.
Or we are all waste spewed out of failed nuclear reactors.

Fred Hoyle was the first to publish on the formation of heavy elements in stars when, according to cosmology at the time, the initial expanding universe would only contain hydrogen and helium.

Planets, and later life, require a wider range of elements, and these only came into being fused, (yes, every atom of you that isn't H or He) in the heart of a star that then exploded as it ran out of hydrogen/helium fuel.

Our sun is not a first-generation star.

So, stardust, or nuclear waste.
But made from star-stuff, yes, that's what science says.

Answer 5

Well, we're certainly made from the same stuff that stars are made from. Stars come into being, explode and die and the debris they scatter around is used to make new stars and new worlds, and so it goes.
Without the energy of our particular star, the sun, there would be no life on earth.
So, in those ways, yes we are dependent on the stars for our life.

Answer 6

" I am a christian and don't believe this theory at all" sums up the positions nicely. I am a christian means you close yourself off to that which you use every day? The web was not invented by reading old bibles.
I am ignorant and plan to stay that way, is quite a declaration.

Answer 7

Our mortal coil, I suppose, is made from such things as stars are made. It's a very long convoluted process, however, as I understand.

This article may help. Please keep in mind that we are finite individuals and explorers. We don't have all the answers yet.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/redstar_carbon.html
(here's an exerpt: "The process that creates carbon is called the "triple-alpha process." This is a nuclear reaction in which three helium atoms fuse to form carbon (helium nuclei are known as alpha particles)."

Answer 8

Believing that we were made by stars is even dumber than believing in God or that we were made by God. There is material evidence that we are the current result of an ongoing process of evolution.

Answer 9

The universe is mostly hydrogen with some helium.

Stars fuse hydrogen to make more helium then ultimately these atoms together to make carbon and ultimately iron.

Side reactions make heavier elements.

Hence we are mostly star dust.

Answer 10

We're made from elements which were formed in stars and supernovae. It's called nucleosynthesis.