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However, I am not atheist, but the world came into existence by God it tells you in the bible he created it in six days and on the seventh day he rested! is this good enough for you.

2007-10-16 18:50:19 · answer #1 · answered by tammy5992001 2 · 0 1

There are pretty good astronomy and geology books that will describe this process better than I can. But I assume you really mean "the universe," not just the world.

The answer is, I don't know. There are many interesting hypotheses, but that's all they are. None of them have been confirmed by evidence. I happen to think that science will one day uncover the answer, but until then I have to admit that I have no idea. Atheism is just a lack of belief in God or gods, and atheists have different feelings about this subject.

Just because I don't know, doesn't mean that God did it. To ask you a similar question, how do you think God came into existence? I'm sure you have an opinion on this matter, but I doubt you have any evidence. So we all really have to admit ignorance on this subject.

2007-10-16 18:32:17 · answer #2 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 2 1

So you never read any science books or anything? Honestly, it surprising me that anyone would not have an idea about that now a days. Does things like the big bang, formation of stars and nuclear fusion, abiogenesis and evolution mean nothing to you?

Seriously, read up on it. There is alot of details involved how the universe and world began, such that and summary here wouldn't begin to do it justice.

2007-10-16 18:32:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

the international got here into existence via a procedure noted as accretion. look it up. "that doesn’t artwork both with the aid of the indisputable fact that would mean the universe become infinitely previous" incorrect. Time itself isn't eternal. Time, as we realize it, got here into existence on the large bang adventure. there become no time before the large bang. The universe itself would have existed in a diverse style earlier to then. study up on what area-time is and the large bang adventure as defined by technique of Quantum Folds. "even if that is infinitely previous then why hasn’t it run out of useable skill by technique of now because the 2d regulation of thermodynamics might want to state." incorrect. The 2d regulation says that the quantity of usable skill is lowering, even though it says no longer something about the speed at which the usable skill is lowering. If the speed is sluggish sufficient, which it obviously is, then it extremely works in basic terms tremendous. once you've 2 miles to commute, yet you may in basic terms commute 2 inches in conserving with day, then you're going to be vacationing for a lengthy time period. cost of skill move is important. "with the intention to get to the prevailing in an infinitely previous universe, a limiteless era of time might want to should be crossed" Already addressed. there has been ~13.7 billion years which have exceeded because time as we realize it all started. something of your argument is in accordance to a paradox that would not be conscious to the actual international. It become reported many years in the past contained in the "Arrow that by no skill strikes" paradox. enable's say you opt for to shoot an arrow at a objective 10 ft away. before it receives to the objective 10 ft away, it ought to pass 1/2 that distance (5 ft.) before it receives to 5 ft, it ought to pass 1/2 that distance (2.5 ft) before it receives to 2.5 ft, it ought to pass 1/2 that distance (a million.25 ft) etc continuously till you get the point the position the arrow isn't waiting to pass in any respect because it would want to first ought to commute 1/2 that distance. although, you and that i comprehend that you may, in truth, shoot an arrow 10 ft. Your paradox isn't any diverse. that is a chilled idea attempt even though it has no baring on truth.

2016-10-21 07:21:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Couldn't tell you, and I'm totally comfortable in the knowledge that I may never definitively know. I don't need answers to give myself validity.

It would be interesting, no, fascinating, to know exactly how the earth and stars and planets and solar system and galaxy and universe were formed; all of these things are scientificly explainable, we just haven't figured out how, or aren't asking the questions in the right way. We may never know, and that's ok.

2007-10-16 18:40:26 · answer #5 · answered by deirdre_75 1 · 0 0

you obviously don't have any atheist friends, or friends for that matter, isn't it so easy to say "oh god did it" that is the problem with most people they need answers to things they don't need to know, I don't need to know what happened on a specific street in Italy, how does that help me. Don't think that because atheists don't have an answers PROVES that god exists. Since you are trying to prove this, the burden of proof is on you, so good luck with that.

2007-10-16 18:47:02 · answer #6 · answered by Zack 4 · 1 1

Earth was not around at the beginning—the universe began without us some 10 billion years earlier than Earth. The universe started out with only two elements, hydrogen and helium gas, which formed stars that burned these elements in nuclear fusion reactions. Generations of stars were born in gas clouds and died in explosive novas. The conditions in those novas produced the heavier elements we have with us today. This is well-documented cosmology and astrophysics.

Long, long ago (some 5 billion years ago) in a perfectly ordinary place in the galaxy, a supernova exploded, pushing a lot of its heavy-element wreckage into a nearby cloud of hydrogen gas and interstellar dust.The mixture grew hot and compressed under its own gravity, and at its center a new star began to form. Around it swirled a disk of the same material, which grew white-hot from the great compressive forces. That new star became our Sun, and the glowing disk gave rise to Earth and its sister planets. We can see just this sort of thing happening elsewhere in the universe.

While the Sun grew in size and energy, beginning to ignite its nuclear fires, the hot disk slowly cooled. This took millions of years. During that time, the components of the disk began to freeze out into small dust-size grains. Iron metal and compounds of silicon, magnesium, aluminum, and oxygen came out first in that fiery setting. Bits of these are preserved in chondrite meteorites. Slowly these grains settled together and collected into clumps, then chunks, then boulders and finally bodies large enough to exert their own gravity—planetesimals. This whole process is rather well modeled by scientists like those at the Planetary Research Institute.

As time went by, planetesimals grew by collision with other bodies, and as their mass grew larger, the energies involved did too. By the time they reached a hundred kilometers or so in size, planetesimal collisions produced a lot of outright melting and vaporization, and the materials—which we can confidently call rocks and iron metal—began to sort themselves out. The dense iron settled in the center and the lighter rock separated into a mantle around the iron, in a miniature of Earth and the other inner planets today. Planetologists call this differentiation, and it is documented not only for the planets, but also for most of the large moons and the largest asteroids (from which come iron meteorites). The asteroids Ceres, Pallas and Vesta survive from that time, miniature planets.

2007-10-16 18:37:49 · answer #7 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 3 1

You mean the planet specifically?

The earth was formed in the same way as the sun, planets, stars. At first the earth was a hot glowing ball of white hot gases with a temperature that was millions of degrees Fahrenheit. This was caused by particles of gases being drawn together and compressed, giving off a lot of heat. This happened millions of years ago. Finally the earth cooled down. The ball of gas slowed down from spinning and the color changed from white to yellow to red to not giving off any light at all.

The earth contracted, getting smaller and the gases changed to liquid as they cooled. Heavier materials drew to the center of the earth. The heavier liquid settled at the middle of the earth. As the earth cooled more, a solid crust formed over the over the liquid material. As the crust cooled, it got wrinkled and burst open in spots. Gradually cracks formed in the crust. Water that formed under the earth's crust escaped from the cracks in the earth and soon water vapor formed above the earth. This lead to cloud formation. Larger droplets formed in the clouds and as they were pulled to the earth by gravity came the first rainfalls. The rain at first evaporated as soon as it hit the earth. Later, as the earth continued to cool, the rain stayed on to form lakes and oceans. At first the water was all fresh water, but as it had chemicals from the earth's crust mix in, the water of the oceans became salty. At one time the earth was all water on its surface.

Later pressure and heat in its center pushed up solid portions of the earth that became land forms. Sometimes the land would sink back down and other portions arise. About three million years ago, the earth cooled a great deal and great sheets of ice called glaciers covered its surface. As the ice spread over the land, it gouged great valleys, rivers and lakes into the earth. About 8000 years ago the last glaciers melted, with the earth more as it is today.

Now that sounds a little more researched than saying a big invisible man in sandals put it there, doesn't it?

2007-10-16 18:32:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I'm not embarrassed to say we'll never, never know. Maybe when we die our lives and the life of the entire Universe will flash before our eyes and then we'll get it but, if there's such thing as reincarnation ... we'll only know it for a moment and then we'll be a little round ovum getting prodded by a wiggly tadpole all over again.
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2007-10-16 18:29:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

Atheist here. I don't know how the world came into existence. But I do know, that whatever the answer is, it's based in science and not in preposterous fairy tale.

2007-10-16 18:27:40 · answer #10 · answered by dawnsdad 6 · 5 1

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