How was the world created according to athiests?

Question

I want to know because for a long time they've been detesting the religious possiblities of the Earth's origin. I know the big bang theory isn't the only and many athiest I've heard detest that theory. So please help me out.

No I am not trying to start an argue. I'm asking this as educationally as I can.

Answer 1

Atheists in general recognize that the "God did it" claim is a complete non-starter as an explanation for the origin of the universe. From there, we may take different paths, but essentially all of us recognize what so many religious folks fail to recognize:

Creationism is not an explanation at all. It explains nothing whatsoever.

Once we have realized that, we may choose to believe that we will one day know how the universe came about, we may choose to believe that we'll never know, or we may choose to believe that we already do know - that the "Big Bang" is as complete an explanation as is necessary. There is a lot about the origin of the universe that we DO know, including the fact of initial rapid expansion (the "Big Bang"). Whatever final explanation of the universe's origin we eventually develop, it will need to account for that.

Answer 2

The solar system including the earth was the result of a solar nebula that collapsed from the formation of the sun. The dust and gas from the solar nebula took about 10-20 million years to form into the earth starting with the molten centre of the Earth which cooled down to form a crust that allowed water to begin to accumulate. The atmosphere of the earth is thought to have formed from volcanic activity and escaping gassing. The oceans on the earth were produced by water vapour from asteroids and other planets that may have collided with the earth. Due to the greenhouse gases that exist in the atmosphere and solar activity around the earth the surface temperature of the earth remains high so that the oceans do not freeze up. Life on earth is scientifically attributed to evolution. There have been five mass extinctions as defined by scientist with the last extinction destroying dinosaurs and other large reptiles but allowing some mammals to survive. According to the theory of evolution over 65 million years ago mammals begin to adapt to their surroundings until eventually humans were formed. If Earth follows the same pattern of life that exists in the rest of the solar system in about 900 million years the oxygen on the earth will become too toxic for plants, water will disappear a few billion years later, and the average temperature of the earth will reach 70C. It's easier to say that a magical God did it, but I rather go by the evidence. It is estimated that the Earth can remain host to human life for about 500 million more years a figure that can be extended for an additional 2.3 billion years if nitrogen was removed from the Earth’s atmosphere.

Answer 3

The universe was formed by the Big Bang. The theory of how the Earth was formed is explained very briefly on the attached link. For your information, the definition of a scientific theory is as follows:

In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch, as it can in everyday speech. A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena. It originates from or is supported by experimental evidence (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations which is predictive, logical and testable. In principle, scientific theories are always tentative, and subject to corrections or inclusion in a yet wider theory. Commonly, a large number of more specific hypotheses may be logically bound together by just one or two theories. As a general rule for use of the term, theories tend to deal with much broader sets of universals than do hypotheses, which ordinarily deal with much more specific sets of phenomena or specific applications of a theory.

Answer 4

Well I can only answer for myself
I honestly dont know....when a theory comes along with massive amounts of evidence behind it then I'll consider it
I dont detest the big bang either...its just its hottly contested in physics circles and I do not pretend to have any knowledge of physics so Im not going to back a theory that a. I do not fully understand and b. All the people who do understand it cannot agree on it

Answer 5

By the big bang theory, you noticed I but theory, that is because that's all it is. Then they say man evolved out of the primordial soup mix. Egad, what a thought.
If you study the bible you will learn that the earth is millions of years old, just that the human has only been here around 6-7 thousand years. We, man will we ever get it correct, no, but when we are in heaven, we will know the truth. We actually know now but we suppress our inner thoughts to the truth.

Answer 6

A better question where did god come from?
Did he just big bang out of no where, or did something create or conceive him?
It did not begin with us nor will it end. Have you ever looked in the sky and realized that every star was a sun surrounded by planets?
What is real is more fascinating that what is imagined.
God is a creation of primitives for a primitive mind.
You keep looking in the past and you will miss the present.
Fear promotes a need for a god
knowledge dismisses it.

Answer 7

Since NONE of us were there at the time (with the possible exception of Dick Clark) - there is NO way to know for SURE who/what created the Earth (or the Universe)...

That is why the Big Bang is a THEORY - though it is our BEST (current) understanding of what happened ;););)

Answer 8

When you say "world", what do you mean? The earth? The universe? If you only mean the earth, then I believe it was formed over millions of years from an explosion that created our galaxy. As for the universe, I'm not sure there was a beginning.

Answer 9

I am not as concerned with exactly how the world was created, history is important, but more important (in my opinion) is the people in this world, how they should be using their knowledge to help make it a better place to live, instead of arguing over something which is very difficult to prove, and the outcome will not turn Christians into Atheists or vise versa.

Answer 10

The world, meaning the earth, was formed by the same cloud of dust and gas that formed the sun and the other planets. The universe itself appears to have been formed by a violent expansion from a point of singularity. We can "see" back to a point about a microsecond after the expansion started, but I can offer no facts for the period of time before that.