To the "non-believers'?

Question

Im just curious, if those of u who don't believe in God say that God is imaginary and our religion is wrong and u don't believe in the Bible...then what is ur explanation of how we got here? Where r u going when u die? Is this world ever going to end? Why do u believe the way u do? I

I know its a lot of questions, u dont have to answer them all, i just dont want to loose anymore points lol
(Im a christian by the way, i just want to know thats all)

oops sorry ur right, should've used the search bar my apologies for those who told me that...although u did get ur 2 points, didnt u?

Answer 1

am i correct in saying "drink" here? *drink*

Answer 2

I am a non-believer in creationism. Does that qualify me? Even some of the most honored scientists (Einstein, for example) still believed in God. I believe that everything was created during a "big bang" like event (although recently science is looking for what happened to all the matter that would entail). What I don't believe is that one day, God created the stars and the earth, and then started to populate it with everything else in the remaining 5 days.

The reason I don't believe that is that observation points to changes over a period of time, not that everything just appeared one day. Why God would HAVE to do it in this manner, I can't imagine, especially if he is all powerful...he could do it any way he wanted.

When I die, I am not sure. I assume that the energy that makes me who I am will simply die off. I don't believe in a golden hall somewhere that will allow me a set of wings, a harp and song book of praise that goes to page infinity.

The world will end like many are ending every day in the process of nature. Our sun will eventually kill life as we know it, and then eventually die out and take the solar system with it.

I believe like I do because of two things...I have a hard time dealing with the kind of probability numbers that are required to get from a single cell creature to a complex structure like a human all by chance....and I have the same amount of trouble with the concept of a being that just snapped their fingers and it all was here. A really good book that contains information on the probability of our existence is called "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.

Answer 3

(Im a christian by the way, i just want to know thats all)...
imagine that


1. Which god are we talking about.
2. Pick up a science book and read- it'll help you (btw- that SHOULDN'T make much impact on your Christian beliefs- more of an "updater" to how your god did things)
3. We evolved from other species of apes as adaptations were made to various environments over generations of time.
4. I'm probably going into the air in the form of smoke and ash when I die- save for whatever parts aren't destroyed by my pack and a half per day nicotine habit (some lucky recipient gets my well abused spare parts).
5. Eventually the sun will either draw us in, the atmosphere will change and humans will die, etc... whatever happens to this planet will be long after life has been eliminated... I.E. I don't care.
6. Because I've read up on various religions and found them to be no more credible than any Stephen King book, but when I read science books- they give examples, show experiments that can be observed, give credits to other resources I can look into, and will point me into the right direction to verify EVERY claim made in the books. The Bible cannot be verified. The QuaRan can NOT be verified. Nor can ANY other religious text (especially Dianetics).

Answer 4

Just because one does not believe in the Bible does not mean that they do not believe in "God", an afterlife, or even reincarnation.

There are as many explanations of how we got here as there are people and religions. Personally I don't worry about how I got here. I know I am here at that is enough for me.
It is my belief that we choose to come here to learn and grow.

Again, when you die where do you go has many answers depending upon the person you talk to and the religious affiliation.
I will not die, my physical body may, but it is here in use for this physical human experience. The essence that is me will continue on in another form.

Is the world going to end.....If we keep treating it like a giant landfill and keep polluting and killing off the plant and animal life it is a good possibility that we will see this happening. Also, the Earth goes through cyclical changes, so we may just get wiped out like the dinosaurs.

Why do I believe as I do.....my beliefs come from my experiences, my upbringing, my readings, my researching what I am questioning, meditation, listening to that still place within and my connection to The Divine as I see IT.

Answer 5

Just so you know, many people who believe in God don't believe in the Bible or the Bible God.

That said, I have no idea how we got here. Abiogenesis and Evolution, but what caused that to happen? I believe God. We may discover that someday but for now, we just don't know. I'm darned sure that God did not pick up a pile of dust and create a man, though.

When we die, we most likely just cease to exist. I would like to think there is a Heaven but I am sure there is no hell.

Our world will end when the sun enlarges and destroys it - unless we manage to kill off everyone first.

I believe the way that I do because it is the only thing that makes sense to me.

If there is a God (and I believe that there is) that God is loving. A loving God could not allow a place such as hell to exist, let alone send people to suffer there for all eternity. Sorry, but that's the total opposite of love.

God would not set up a system whereby everyone is doomed to fail and must beg for forgiveness and salvation. That's ego, not love.

God would not sponsor prejudice, hatred or war. Those are the tools of man's quest for superiority and power.

Answer 6

Well, the popular explanation of human origin is evolution, but the origin of the Earth and the Universe itself is still unknown. However, as an atheist, I disagree with the theory of God because it is an unnecessary assumption. The universe operates just fine without him. As to your other questions, I disbelieve in the metaphysical and the supernatural entirely, so my theory on death is that it is simply the end. Brain functions stop, heart stops, and consciousness ceases. That is all. Oh, and the world is going to end. Either the sun will grow too hot, and extinguish all life on Earth, or one of the periods of global cooling will be too intense.

As to why I am an atheist, I guess that is because the idea of God or even any god doesn't make sense to me. If there is something else out there that explains the origin of life and the universe, I'm sure that it is purely physical and able to be understood through science and logic.

Answer 7

Quantum fluctuations
Inflation
Exploding stars (heavy element formation)
Abiogenesis
Evolution

Going nowhere "When I die I rot" (Bertrand Russell)

The planet probably won't disappear till the sun explodes.
The human race is only a short-lived species, so far.
It may not be around long in evolutionary terms.
We've got a long way to go to beat the score the dinosaurs accumulated, and I have some doubt we're going beat the sharks.

I used to be a Christian but careful sincere bible study convinced me it was far from inerrant, and therefore not divinely inspired and preserved. That raised the question of whether there was any sort of divine being.
Which led in due course to me becoming an atheist.

Answer 8

I don't believe in the xtian god. We got here through billions of years of evolution. When we die? Each religion has its own theory. Or maybe we just cease to exist.The world will one day end as our sun is not eternal, but by then we will be advanced enough to be able to, hopefully, transport our people to another world. I used to be a xtian, went to church, read the bible and prayed feverishly. But I never felt fulfilled. I turned to Asatru, Germanic Paganism, and found what I was looking for. I now have the peace of mind and heart that I was lacking.
There are no definate answers but science progresses every day. Can you say the same about xtianity though? If you don't know the answer to something you all repeat the same mantra's - it is gods will, god made it etc. Even though I have a religion, I do not believe in creation stories etc. My religion gives me comfort and is my heritage. It does not rule my mind, I can see science can answer many questions and look forward to what else we can learn - by looking forward and not backward.

Answer 9

I believe we got here through a series of NATURAL events (for there is nothing supernatural in the universe...ever...)--the Big Bang, and then evolution eventually led to the creation of the human race. And no, I do not think we were monkeys at one time. The chimpanzees were our cousins, not our ancestors. You ever see pictures of neanderthals? Do they really look anything like modern humans?

I'm not going anywhere when I die, unless you're talking about my body's remains (I hope to donate my organs, be cremated and cast over an ocean). I believe my thoughts will simply...cease to exist. It's hard for a human to comprehend, because it is in human nature to assume we will always BE. However, that is not the case. Everything has to come to an end. I find more beauty in that then, when you die, you go to some poofy cloud land.

Yes, the world will end. Maybe tomorrow, maybe six billion years from now when the sun dies. Who knows?

And, quite simply, I believe the way I do because I have no reason not to. I wasn't raised (-cough-brainwashed-cough-) Christian like 98.9% of Christians were...so Christianity seems a bit foreign to me. The idea of a God seems a little crazy in my perspective.

Answer 10

I don't know, entirely. I don't need to. I'd rather be honest and admit lack of knowledge, than accept an easy but false answer.

I think life formed through Abiogenesis. You can look that up. And it evolved to the point we are at today.

When I die, I know that my consciouness ends, and I become worm food or I get cremated. I don't fear death or want eternal life. Once is enough for me.

The world will have to end one day, the sun will die, and it will consume the earth.

I believe the way I do because it's what makes sense to me. It's what I've learned in school, and it's based on the observations of people far more educted than me.

Answer 11

1.) The Big Bang is how the universe got started. As to what happened before that? We don't know, yet; and as Carl Sagan so eloquently put it, "It really is okay to withhold judgment until the evidence is in."

As to how life got started on this planet? Keep in mind: there are billions of galaxies in the universe, each with tens of billions of planets; and they've been mixing and matching chemicals for over 10 billion years. And once the right combination of elements combine and form the first self-replicating molecules form, it's very hard to stop them from continuing to make copies of themselves, and those copies changing over time. It's just happenstance that THIS was the planet life appeared on.

2.) When I die, I'll go to the same place I was the first 13.5 billion years of the universe's existence -- into the ground, and eventually I'll become the heart of another star.

3.) The world as we know it will end in another 5 billion years or so, as the Sun begins running out of fuel and expands into a red giant star, incinerating Earth.

4.) I believe that way because I am describing the natural world, and that is how the forces of nature (physics, chemistry, astrophysics, etc.) predict that the universe will behave. i don't believe in the supernatural because there's no evidence to suggest the universe is governed by the supernatural; and each time we've thought we found something supernatural, science has proven it to have a much more mundane explanation.

5.) That's quite alright -- asking questions is how we learn!