I can respect an Atheist, but what then is their answer as to who created the world?

Question

I can't understand how someone can be a hardcore Atheist, how can you not believe in God" I mean you don't have to believe that bible **** or what men have said, but hello, who made the world then? It was God" or whatever you want to call It. What do they believe made the world, what created you then?

Damn, you people are real sticklers to evolution, seriously I didn't know it was like that, ok, evolution could not create the first micro organism, there is no point to that, you don't have to call It God that is what I am saying, doyou have your own "god" as an Atheist? No way evolution can come up with all the strange wonders, how can things just be made out of things that you could never think possible. No I can't accep those answers.

It's funny how you don't believe at all in some God, but yet the Big Bang Theory is real, who has proof of that, you were not there to see it, no one can say anything about the world, and I always ask, ya, wtf made God, and his father and so on.....it just came to be, I guess well the theory is logical, I don't believe any religions.

Answer 1

Who? No "who" involved.

Frankly, we don't have an answer to how the universe got started. As for the world, we know that the stuff of the world came out of fusion reactions in a star that subsequently exploded. Gravity then pulled that stuff together here.

For us atheists, we are content to have "We don't know" as our answer when we, in fact, have no evidence. We're not like the religious people who have to make something up just to have an answer.

The presence of human ignorance about the origin of something is not evidence that a god exists.

Answer 2

Just because we cannot explain where matter came from doesn't automatically mean that it was god who created everything. Over the centuries there have been many things human could not understand and were therefore chalked up to "god." Study the big bang (the History Channel is running an awesome series called 'The Universe') and evolution. If you understand these, its much easier to see that EVERYTHING can (or will eventually) be explained as a natural phenonmenon.

In response to the follow up question (who has proof of the Big Bang?), uh, pick up a science book. The Big Bang is a theory (repeatedly validated experimentally), not a hypothesis (very limited evidence). I drives me nuts that people who have not studied science can even try to dispute it. Bottom line: science is the best way we have to collect information about the universe. I assume you have no problem going to the doctor when you are sick or using a telephone. We have science to thank for all of our technological wonders. It will be a great day for humankind when we stop taking 2,000 year old ideas of an old man living in the clouds seriously.

Answer 3

You asked "who made the world". It's not a question of "who" but "what".

I've read up on what science has to say, and it makes sense to me. There isn't enough room here to give all the details in complete layman's terms, so I would suggest going to the library and reading up on cosmology and the history of the solar system.

Of course, even if science didn't know, that wouldn't mean "a big invisible man did it" is somehow correct by default.

>>you don't have to call It God that is what I am saying,
>>doyou have your own "god" as an Atheist?

No, atheism, by definition, means "no belief in deity". That means not only the Judeo-Christian god "God", but Zeus, Osiris, Krishna, Allah, or any of the other 8,000+ deities from countless different religions over the centuries.

>>No way evolution can come up with all the strange
>>wonders,

You are misusing the term "Evolution" to refer to not only biological evolution, but cosmology, astronomy, atomic theory, chemistry, abiogenesis, and probably more. There are different branches of science to deal with different studies.

>>how can things just be made out of things that
>>you could never think possible.

Oh, you mean like a man being directly made out of clay? Or a woman being made out of rib? You're right, that doesn't sound very probable at all. In reality, the only people claiming that atoms came together and formed everything as we see it now, are creationists. Life comes from GRADUAL steps from one to another that are VERY probable, not one giant leap.

>>what created you then?

My parents' fornication.

>>No I can't accep [sic] those answers.

Why not? Have you even done any research on these subjects? My guess is no.

>>It's funny how you don't believe at all in some God, but
>>yet the Big Bang Theory is real, who has proof of that,

That's because the former is based on personal faith, and the latter is based on objective, observable science. The Big Bang is not some random hypothesis; it is a conclusion based off various pieces of evidence (the physical expansion of the universe, presence of certain elements, CMB radiation, etc.). And if the Big Bang turns out to be inaccurate, then that will be found out by scientists, not armchair theologians like yourself.

Oh, and by the way, the Big Bang model was first proposed by a physicist who was also a Belgian Priest. Obviously, he didn't feel is faith was threatened by the science. Why do you?

>>you were not there to see it,

By that logic, we should not have courtrooms or try people for crimes if nobody alive "was there to see it". Instead, what policemen, detectives and court systems do is examine the evidence, see if they can rule out possibilities, look for motives, etc. so that they can come to a clear conclusion. So rather than sitting back and saying "We'll never be 100% sure", science puts the pieces together.

Answer 4

ok, the natural thing is to think this is all too complex to have just formed, but as a human you have no concept of how long a time we are talking about. But think about this, if you think the world is so complex that someone had to make it, then isn't it even harder to believe that no one made this god who is even more complex. You and I can make things, but not things move complex than ourselves. So any god who could make a universe must be very complex - who made that god? Isn't it the same situation? At some point you have a really complex thing you cannot explain. Slowly evolving and increasingly complex over time makes more sense than the idea of a god so complex that has always existed. Read "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins with an open mind and listen to his explanations about why it is almost impossible that any supernatural being exists.

Answer 5

This question is why the CONCEPT of God still exists. It is not an easily answered question...We come from a process...that process is called Evolution. We weren't created...now you could ask: Who started the process? That's called the intelligent design theory...however you couldn't explain away various imperfections that an atheist would argue wouldn't be built into such a system by an intelligent/logical being. So in the end this is one of those philosophical questions that'll probably remain unanswered. I can accept the idea of faith...mine is in evolutionary theory and I respect that yours may/might be God the father/creator.

Answer 6

This is the PROBLEM! Man can't be happy with life. I mean come on! What's more important. Working out to make Global warming less bad. Or working out what made man? Evolution was caused by God! I believe the garden of Eden is Heaven? With no pain and all the food. There IS a God up there watching us. Ever since I stopped saying "Oh my God" and "Goddammit" My life has been great! God was right. Live by his rules and life is good.

Answer 7

Its called mathematics. I am not an expert, but I trust those who are, to come to the correct assumptions using math.

I am an Atheist. Not a paleo-biologist, not a geneticist, not a cosmologist. I am a web designer.

Not believing in god is the way we are all born it is natural. Believing in gods and other fairy tales is unnatural and is a learned behavior picked up from parents and others influencing you in the society you are born in.

That is it. No god(s). Just reality. Just because you don't or won't understand it, does not make it wrong.

Answer 8

If everything that exists needs a creator, who made God? How is the idea of an all-powerful, all-knowing God that has always existed any less confusing than not knowing how the universe came to exist without a creator?

Answer 9

what makes you think this earth, this universe, this existence is real to begin with ?

What I believe...

Nothing you have ever seen or heard or touched actually exists.....it's only what it would be like if it did. All forms of relative energy..whic is energy we can see and touch and hear, are not real....they do not actually exist. Ironically the only form of energy that is real, that truly exists, is your soul...which we cannot see, or hear, or touch.

there is no god, no heaven, no hell except the ones we create in our minds.....we all are god, in bits and peices.

Basic laws of conservation of relative energy say that energy cannot be created or destroyed....but the simple fact that energy is all around us in many forms proves it can be created. The truth is that it doesn't really exist...it's an illusion.

see you again when we get back to the collective...


but that's just me, i'm crazy, so why are you even listening to me.... if it makes any sense then it isn't true.

Answer 10

I assume you don't know the difference between evolution and abiogenesis because you had your head up yourAss as you attended biology in highschool. Evolution simply explains the development of life, it has nothing to do with how life started, nor does it make any attempts to explain that. Abiogenesis is the idea that the initialization of life happened on its own, again, this has nothing to do with evolution.