Athiests, this is a serious question?

Question

Where did we come from? I mean if evolution is true and we all oin one way or another evolved from a single celled organism, where did the cell come from? And the big bang theory is the same if everything came from one supercompressed atom that exploded, Where did the atom come from?

Every time I try to comprehend anything coming into existence it comes down to something having to be created. And if something had to create us it had to have supernatural abilities, Imagination, and intelligence.

to be completely honest and logical about it, it sounds like god to me, it could be more than one but its got to be something all powerful, right?

anyway I want to know of any other possibilities of how anything got here on its own living or objects

I AM SERIOUS, who cares what section its in, and yes it could have been zues instead of god, thats my point, but I want to know how, OTHER THAN CREATION could we have gotten here

Where did god come from? I want to know that, even he had to be created by something powewrful

Answer 1

There isn't anything wrong with simply saying we don't know. Maybe it was a miracle. Science doesn't pretend to know everything, it simply attempts to explain things with provable evidence. Someday science may be able to explain these origins even better. Often times what I've found is that people of faith try to disprove evolution by jumping all over what science doesn't yet know, and assigning some higher power to it. Keep in mind that the church once condemed the view that the earth revolved around the sun and then through scientific inquiry it was proven fact. Maybe in fact it was God and evolution somehow fits into the equation, but science can't ever prove it. Faith is a totally different matter.

Answer 2

These are legitimate questions, and the short answer is in each case that we don't know. As for life on this orb, the evidence (such as it is, and it isn't much) is that it did not take long after the earth's formation to arise -- on the order of a few hundred million years, tops. And it almost certainly wasn't DNA life, and may not have been RNA either -- there could well have been one or more previous forms. All we can say for sure is that once life began, evolution (now a proven fact) took over and brought us to the panoply of life we see today.

As for the big bang, the theoretical basis is very much up in the air. Not only do the laws of physics break down at a singularity such as the big bang, but there are things such as dark energy and dark matter in the universe, about which we know absolutely nothing except that they seem to exist. One day, we may have a theoretical basis that includes all these phenomena, but we certainly don't have one now.

So, what does this imply about any sort of creator? Nothing. Not because such a thing is impossible, but because the idea is useless: no conclusions of any sort can be drawn from such an idea (specifically including anything such as a big brother god which has an interest in, and perhaps occasionally meddles in, human affairs). Hence, the idea is simply not worth bothering with.

Answer 3

Well to be honest, the Big Bang theory should sound like God Did It to you because the theory was
proposed by George Lemaitre, a Jesuit Monk from Belgium in 1927.
He proposed it as an alternative to the common idea that the universe had existed in a steady state forever. He wanted to bring a personal God back into power in the physical world. One who could meddle in human affairs, one that praying mattered to. Instead of the Deist's God who did nothing and was not a Sky Fairy to be prayed to like the Bible describes God being.

There are several theories about how the universe came to be. The Big Bang Model works fairly well but M-theory and quantum looping are both possibilities.

If you want to believe God did it all, that is fine. You should not stop there though because that is a non answer. Tell me how God did it. If you want to say God just poofed everything into being then tell me how he did the poofing.

Answer 4

"Every time I try to comprehend anything coming into existence it comes down to something having to be created"

OK, so what created your god? If everything has to be created, even gods have to be created - which, of course, they were.

Evolution is fact and has nothing to do with the Big Bang or the formation of life on Earth. Evolution kicks in after life starts and is the change in organisms over time.

As time started at the Big Bang, there is no "before" the BB just as there is nothing north of the North Pole. It is a difficult concept to grasp, I know, but you might find this paper useful.
Evidence for the Big Bang
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/astronomy/bigbang.html

Answer 5

Don't try to comprehend something you don't understand with the proper background in the subject. We didn't evolve from just a single cell organism, there were stages before that. And the big bang was not a compressed atom, it was a singularity. And it didn't explode, it expanded.

You make the same mistake all believers do, when you can't understand something, you just say God did it. You need to realize there are things you'll never be able to comprehend. That does not mean they came about from super natural means. Think about it....

Answer 6

Oh boy, here we go again.

1) Evolution, abiogenesis, and cosmology are three different branches of science. Don't call it all "evolution".

2) The answers are out there if you actually take the time to research the subjects. Get a library card. And expect to read something that's longer than a magazine article.

3) The big bang does not say that everything came from "one super compressed atom". And asking "what came before the big bang" is like asking "what's 10 miles north of the north pole?". Again, research the subject first.

4) Your second paragraph is self-contradictory. If you assume everything has to come from something, especially if it seems "intelligent, imaginative" etc. then you have to ask where God comes from. If you fall on the trite argument of "He was always around", then that begs the question of why we can't just say the universe and laws of physics were always around.

Some sources I would recommend (books unless otherwise noted)

- http://www.talkorigins.org
- "Darwin's Dangerous Idea", PBS (DVD)
- Dawkins, Richard "The Blind Watchmaker"
- Anything by Stephen Jay Gould
- "Origins", Nova special on DVD
- Hawkins, Stephen "A Brief History of Time"
- Mayr, Ernst "What Evolution Is"

Answer 7

Well the obvious problem with you logic is that you offer no answer to "where did God come from".

That one cell organism evolved from simpler life.

All the energy and matter in the universe could have always been here before the big bang. But really science is still learning about this. That doesn't mean you say "science doesn't know yet, so lets just say God did it". That doesn't make any sense to me.

I get ALL my knowledge of the world from science and NONE from religion. If science doesn't know yet, then I don't know yet.

Answer 8

aha.... and god came from where? do you know how much proof there is for evolution? a whooooolle lot more than for any other religion. and i dont know how to explain this really but, if humans never evolved and we wouldnt be here, no one would be asking where we came from... sooo in any way we're here people are gonna consider it a miracle. besides, what makes you think everything in that book is true? why isnt it made up? dont you think that the only reason you believe in god, and the only reason buddhists believe in buddha is because of the way you were raised? seriously, i DOUBT anyone will grow up in iraq as a christian or something...

Answer 9

"Where did the cell come from"
-- Chemicals in the ocean.

"Where did the atom come from? "
-- I can ask the same thing about God. That argument is a non-starter. And if you say God always existed, why couldn't the universe have always existed?

"And if something had to create us it had to have supernatural abilities, Imagination, and intelligence."
-- Really? Are you smart enough to know that for certain?

Answer 10

Evolution and Abiogenesis are different theory's. Evolution explains the advancement of life not the origin.

It does slightly sadden me that we possibly came from a random chemical reaction, that was self sustaining. Also life didn't start with single celled organisms. It started with primitive Algae and Bacteria(sub-cellular life can be observed even to this day), a Single Celled organism is a long way away from them in terms of evolution.

To explain further it is theorised, that some algae and other simple bacteria, existed going through mutations some caused their proximity to be coefficient or mutually beneficial. eventually these types of *life* fused in some type of symbiosis.