Now, I ask you Atheists, what is it about death that makes sense to you?
2007-10-07 04:47:06 · 29 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Death makes sense because organisms and the cells that they contain may only live for so long. Your body's cells are forever dividing, because you grow, and you also lose cells in shedding skin/digesting food/bleeding and so on. In order to get more cells, the existing cells undergo a process called mitosis, wherein they replicate. In this process, the chromosomes in your cells cross over to give the new cells genetic information. However, each time that this happens, the telomeres on the chromosomes break off a little bit. At some point, they are just too short to reproduce anymore, and your body runs out of good cells. This causes problems like organ failure and many diseases... and then you die. That is, of course, if you don't get hit by a bus or contract meningitis or get murdered. There are a ton of ways that you could die.
Anyway, things must die. There are some six billion people on earth right now... can you imagine if none of us ever died? The earth would become far more crowded, and more people would suffer because there'd be more struggle for resources that are already poorly distributed. If no one died, the soil would be exceptionally poor, as decomposing biological matter is what adds nutrients to the soil and allows things to grow and thrive. The poor soil would make it nearly impossible to grow anything substantial for food (and shelter... recall how much we rely on wood) so we'd be screwed. What's more, if nothing died, we couldn't kill plants or animals to eat them. Everyone would starve, but since they couldn't die, would exist in a state of perpetual agony.
That's what makes sense about death to me: elementary biology. What doesn't make sense about that to you?
2007-10-07 05:05:35 · answer #1 · answered by Rat 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Er, death doesn't make sense to you? Really?
Atheists generally follow the evidence, rather than simply asking what does and does not make sense, as "making sense" is not a sign of truth.
Is it the fact that death does not "make sense" to them that explains why Christians do not believe in death?
2007-10-07 05:04:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-10 11:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by nein 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When my body is either maimed or just wears out, I will die. When I am dead, I will no longer exist. There is no conscience that will live on. Now, my body will be cremated and my ashes poured into a volcano in Hawaii or off the cliffs in Ireland. I don't really care. I'll be dead. I won't know a thing. That makes sense.
The thing that doesn't make sense is that whole white light, tunnel, gates, gold streets (I prefer platinum), mansions. All that seems crazy. And that whole never sleeping thing, too much. Worshiping the same guy for eternity, a bit egotistical, don't you think?
2007-10-07 04:56:20 · answer #4 · answered by Allison P 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Death is the final stage of growth. It is a normal process of life with scientific studies to prove.
Death is a part of the population control for all animals to include the human animal homosapien.
Death is nothing to be afraid of, or to fear in any way or to use this upcoming event to run to the "god belief".
Death makes perfect sense in all areas of science to include the social sciences.
The "god belief" was created by man, for man, to answer man's unanswerable questions namely the existential questions of why I am here?, where did I come from?, and where am I going after I die?.
Those of us who are without the "god belief" are rational beings who accept that there are not any supernatural or surpreme beings or concepts that can be proven with science or common sense. We accept we are evolved primates and many of us are more "christian" in our actions and behaviors towards others than those who are "christians".
Talk is cheap, actions are real. It's not about the creed, it's about the deed.
2007-10-07 04:58:12 · answer #5 · answered by thefinalresult 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are GROSSLY misinformed about what atheists "believe"! LOL!
Atheism is simply the absence of belief in "theism", or "supernatural" gods.
In addition, death makes perfect sense when you consider what life actually is, and how ridiculously unlikely it would be to expect ANY living organism to continue indefinitely!
2007-10-07 04:53:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are over simplyfing things.
Things can not make sense because they are absurd and unreasonable, or things can not make sense because one does not have enough knowledge to understand why.
Quantum physics does not make sense to me, but that does not make it invalid to me - as with some serious study of proven facts, I could hopefully understand it.
Death makes sense, death is a cessation of life and is an inevitable outcome for living things.
2007-10-07 04:54:39 · answer #7 · answered by HP 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Death is certain and is the result the inevitable decay of living organisms. Death makes reproduction necessary for survival. Death makes more sense than a lot of things in life. If it doesn't make sense to you, I think your thinking is clouded by your fear.
2007-10-07 05:09:21 · answer #8 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
For many animals, the food chain!
"Of course, by then, most of you will have been eaten"
(The wonderful Gary Larson cartoon of a praying mantis explaining the facts of life it its brood of offspring.)
I suppose you could eat something and have it stay alive, but I'm not sure there would be a lot of point.
(I'm aware there are some very interesting detailed exceptions to that, possibly from mitochondria, but certainly from gut bacteria, on up)
2007-10-07 05:22:21 · answer #9 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists don't believe in any god. How this translates to not believing in anything that doesn't make sense is beyond me.
2007-10-07 04:59:12 · answer #10 · answered by OPad 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋