i don't ask this question to prove for a certain theory.i just wanna know!
2007-09-20 01:49:25 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Interesting question. I'm agnostic, but believe in some form of God. As a musician, I experience the highest levels of humanity. I just don't believe in the specifics of a religion, and believe religious institutions are mostly corrupt. I want to see the answers here too.
2007-09-20 01:51:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
We don't know how life started, but it's something scientists are looking into several hypotheses (note I didn't use the word "theory", unlike the vast majority of creationists, I've actually bothered to find out what the word means) on the origin of life. It could well be that life began by means of a deliberate act by a supreme being, or it might not have been. We don't know. Yet.
What we do know is that once life did get started, whether it was by abiogenesis, panspermia or something else, it diversified. We also know that it diversified by means of Darwinian natural selection. Because Darwin did get it right. The theory has been refined over the last 150 years, sure, that's how science works. But Darwin's description of how natural selection leads to fully fledged evolution was pretty much bang on. It's just needed some minor tweaking here and there is all.
2007-09-20 02:57:21 · answer #2 · answered by Scumspawn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to be two different questions. Humans became humans through evolution. Life came to be maybe due to many things happening at the right time in the right place. I think the exact mechanism of how a self-replicating "living" thing came to be and what that might have looked like chemically is still an open question but it doesn't seem to be a stretch given the approx. 130 billion galaxies with maybe 40 billion stars per galaxy. The statistical odds of a living thing NOT coming in to existence at some point in the last 13 billion years is nearly impossible.
2007-09-20 02:02:01 · answer #3 · answered by ADubya 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is the belief that there is no God. To deny God does not imply ANY other beliefs. There, therefore, is no 'athieist catechism', 'no atheist dogma' and no 'atheist science'.
Now most peope think humans evolved from other animals. How the first lot of animals got there is up for grabs. Some people think that that they too evolved ultimately from complex compounds created in the earths atmosphere. Some think the initial spark came from outside the earth. Others accept our ignorance: at the moment we just don't know.
2007-09-20 01:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Short answer: Abiogenesis.
Long answer: You'll have to do some study cos it's not easy.
The fact it's not easy goes a long way in understanding why 'God Did It' is such an attractive option among you USians - with GODDIDIT it means you don't have to think and y'all can relax.
The rest of the world likes the fact USians are becoming dumber, if that's possible, cos it means the rest of the world can become the leaders in Medical and Technological research and development cos y'all can't because your god botherers have a law against it somewhere.
The scammers don't want y'all to be smart. If you get smart they lose money - they're not gonna let that happen.
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2007-09-20 02:17:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was a very long process. Single celled organisms evolved into multi-cellular, then they kept getting bigger and bigger until they got to the early form of the aquatic life we see today. They kept getting bigger and eventually an amphibious creature came to being. These evolved into two different beings, the reptiles and the mammals. Some of the reptiles grew to be big and powerful dinosaurs, forcing the mammals to thrive in ground-dwelling roles. Then a giant meteor crashed into the earth and killed the dinosaurs, thus giving the opportunity for mammals to grow. More evolution happened and were here.
2007-09-20 01:56:36 · answer #6 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Life is the natural consequence of carbon based organic chemistry.
Life began as a self sustaining chemical reaction that produced exact replicas of the catalyst molecule.
The temperatures of the early Earth and the amount of organic carbon compounds in the water of the early Earth were conducive to self sustaining chemical reactions.
These self replicating molecules took hundreds of millions of years to achieve the complexity of RNA. RNA took hundreds of millions of years to mutate into DNA.
The rest of the story is pretty straight forward.
2007-09-20 02:00:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The scientific explanation is abiogenesis, which I imagine is the view of most atheists. But it isn't a necessary aspect of atheism, as long as an explanation doesn't involve any gods it's consistent with 'atheistic belief'.
2007-09-20 02:10:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't know. We only have theories. However, basic physics say that energy (what EVERYTHING is made of from us to rocks to trees to animals) cannot be created or destroyed and is always changing form. Therefore, the energy that everything is made up of has always existed and is in constant evolution.
So, who know what happened millions of years ago? That question is of no importance to me, really. But we do know that the world is NOT only 6,000 years ago. That HAS been proven.
2007-09-20 02:18:48 · answer #9 · answered by spike_is_my_evil_vampire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists do not follow a sect as religious people do. They are free thinkers who do not accept beliefs imposed on them...
They all have their own personal view about life and existence, and usually agree with evolution...
2007-09-20 01:56:07 · answer #10 · answered by CiberNauta 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋