Whether you believe in God or not we're made of dirt aren't we?

Question

Even from a science point of view we were created from dirt.

Answer 1

Actually we're mostly water.

Answer 2

If you've ever dug up an old grave, you can see that our bodies turn into some kind of earthy powder. I live in Asia, and after people have been buried in a wooden coffin seven years, the remains are dug up, cleaned, and put in an urn. Besides the bones, the remains do look like dirt. I've seen it several times up close. Cremated bodies also turn into powdery, grainy ash.

But that's just our bodies, our super precision fabulous tool. I believe that our essential reality is another matter, rather not matter at all.

Answer 3

The elements, yes. We breathe the air, we are made of water and earth and produce heat, fire. Even space, consciousness. Though, people should focus less on the physical element and more on the mental element as that isn't exactly made of water or dirt.

Answer 4

No. We are carbon-based life forms, but we are not made of dirt. Dirt is dead and anything dead can not come back to life. We can become dirt, but dirt can not become life. Most dirt, by the way, is decomposed plants.

Answer 5

Yes, and the amazing thing is that the dirt of earth is now sitting on the throne of heaven in the person of the bodily resurrected Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

Actually, we're about 98% water and 2% minerals, mostly calcium and salt. No dirt.

Answer 7

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. From the earth we came and to the earth we shall return regardless of belief. There is only the original elements of earth, air, fire and water to make anything from. Man was formed from the earth, air was breathed into his nostrils, water was used for baptism and the Holy Spirit came upon him like tongues of fire. Each of the primitive cultures uses those four elements. We are really 98% water.

Answer 8

Hmm. Think soup - a thick concentrated ocean of biochemicals that accumulated in all bodies of water over hundreds of millions of years, formed by the action of lightning and radiation on the early earth's atmosphere.

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Answer 9

well if you consider that some dirt has microbes in it, I guess you can say that our essential beginning came from an organism that is found in dirt (although the first microbes lived in water and not really on the rocky land)

Answer 10

While all elements are made of the same particles (i.e. neutrons, electrons, protons), the molecules of the human body do not particularly resemble those of dirt.

As others have pointed out, we are about 80% water. In addition, we are made of calcium phosphate, collagen, elastin, oxygen, and many other molecules.

Answer 11

Yup, except for the whole 2/3 water thing.