How do Athiest believe they got on this planet without God?

Question

Curiosity.

Than how did animals get here?

Answer 1

How do the religious believe god was created to create man?

As an atheist who is married to a religious woman, we have this debate all the time.

As I tell my wife, we will never know the how or why of the beginning of life started billions of years ago, but we do know that this is the only life we will ever have.

While I can guarantee that I will die, no one can guarantee there is an afterlife. (before you debate that, there is no proof of an afterlife, it's called faith because you can't prove it).

Instead of a blind-belief in 'god', I instead choose to accept life just is, and instead focus on how to improve myself.

Answer 2

There are more and more atheists simply because more people are believing in Evolution and think that proves there is no God.

Basically, in spite of many contradictions and holes in the theory of evolution, it gains strength because it is taught in our schools and when teaching a subject such as this you get the one-sided look at it which ignores all the unexplained holes and many other factors that do not support it. Thus the theory becomes fact to those being taught. Obviously religion cannot be taught in schools so this is why we see an increase of atheists and people who believe more in Evolution than Darwin, himself, did.

They miss out on learning things that discount evolution such as the simple law of probability. To provide a single protein molecule by chance combination would take 10 to the 262nd power, years." (That is, the number 1 followed by 262 zeros.) That means that if you took thin pieces of paper and wrote 1 and then wrote those zeros after it, you would fill up the entire known universe with paper before you could ever even write that number. That is how many years it would take to make one living cell, smaller than any human cell!

They miss out on learning things like the fact that even though Evolution says earth has been here for 5 billion years the earth's magnetic field is decaying rapidly, at a constant rate. At this rate, 8000 years ago the earth's magnetism would have equaled that of a magnetic star, a highly unlikely occurrence. Also the heat generated by these currents 20,000 years ago would have dissolved the earth.

Answer 3

I really don't pretend to understand all about the origins of the universe and life on earth. But I don't see why some god is the only logical alternative. That theory makes far less sense and it just sounds even crazier to me. Who created the god? etc etc it raises more questions. Besides, it doesn't matter anyway, what matters is that I'm here. Not how I got here.

Answer 4

All life on this planet evolved which is an accepted fact even by most religions. Only simple people believe there is some magical god out there popping babies out onto the planet.
Nobody could be that dumb!

Where do you think babies come from?

Answer 5

The fact i am on this planet has nothing to do with your "god of the bible" who appears to be more of a tyrant or dicatator than a loving god.

I dont think anyone on this planet can answer that one. Any one who claims they can answer that, with or without the assistance of some self procalimed "holy" book... has got a clear cut case or "religious psychosis"

Answer 6

Yasee, back in the Olden Times, before we figured out where Babies came from, the elders said that people were made by God.

But ever since we figured out the rules of reproduction, everybody knows that they got onto the planet through the efforts of their two parents.

Were you absent that day from school or something?

Answer 7

13.7 billion story short:

The Big Bang happened. It had no cause which is related to anything within the universe -- causes require a time line and time literally started at the Big Bang. Perhaps there is some paraextrinsic time line outside the universe. Physicists are still working on quantum gravity, they'll have to get back to you on that one.

9 billion years later or so, a massive star goes supernova, creating a hydrogen rich nebula that is filled with heavy elements.

9.2 billion years later or so, enough of this material collapses under its own weight to form a main sequence star, Sol (the technical name for our Sun). The planetary disc forms along with it, and over time, accretion processes forge planets. One of these planets, by pure harmonic orbiting, happens to be a distance from Sol which is in the water-life habitability zone.

On this planet, complex, self-catalyzing organic chemical reactions occur, completely in accord with standard principles of chemistry. Because the water solvent is churning, and the water contains oils, microcapsules form. Some of these self-catalyzing reactions become encapsulated. At times, they merge. Some of these reactions are mutually catalyzing as well. Because these capsules absorb materials from outside, some of them reach such size they split. Reproduction has begun.

Over millions of years, these reproductive processes stabilize with a basic formula for these capsules -- RNA gives way to DNA for information storage, RNA becomes an intermediate step, and the metabolic pathways stabilize. Because these materials are not always perfectly duplicated, daughter cells occasionally differ from their parent cells. Sometimes, the difference confers a benefit and the daughter survives longer and reproduces more, increasing its particular genetic portion of the gene pool.

Over time, mutualism develops - two cells staying in proximity, to create a favored environment for their mutual support. Eventually, linking proteins form, this provides an added benefit. Mutualism results in larger clusters. At a given critical size, cells start to specialize, slightly at first, until formal tissues form.

Gendered procreation arises in early molds, using cellular fusion. In such cases, the offspring are polyploid. Sexual reproduction produces evolutionary advantage by allowing quicker mutability within a species, allowing for more rapid adaptation to evironmental pressure.

With the advent of sexual reproduction, you get simple animals, then slightly more complex animals, etc etc etc, until you reach man, all of the increase in complexity being powered by an influx of energy from the nearby stellar object, Sol (aka: the sun). Without this energy, the second law of thermodynamics would have prevented evolution, but with this energy, the second law practically guarantees increase in complexity.

No deity needed.

Answer 8

My belief is that of Creation by God... but I find it funny that people write "And who created God?"... that is not really a valid argument! To create something you need to be somehow superior to the thing you create... and how could something be superior to (a) God, logically speaking?

I respect others idea's of evolution... but that is just having faith in something you haven't seen... just like I have faith in a God I haven't seen with my own eyes. Atheists have faith in something they haven't seen with their own eyes, the same way I do... unless someone actually saw the whole of evolution of the planet??

Answer 9

ok...i'm not an athiest nor a christian but would fall somewhere in the pagan spectrum if i had to be labeled. i prefer to think of myself as a truthseeker and when i see or think of this question or other related 'big' questions i think;'our planet is one of the tiniest planets in one of the tiniest galaxies in the known universe...given the massiveness of the universe and the massive numbers of possibilities for absolutely anything and everything...how could we possibly know for a FACT how we came to be on this planet!?
in reference to the comment on other creatures/animals....that is what we are as well, remember?
i think we as humans put ourselves in the tiniest little boxes and rarely ever think outside of them.....in my never to be humble opinion

Answer 10

Look up these subjects: The Big Bang, Abiogenesis and Evolution. Did you pass out during school, or something?