Why should I believe that I came from dirt? What indisputable proof is there that I was created out of dirt?

Answer 1

I don't know about created from but after death and left to decompose naturally, you pretty much are nothing more than basic compounds and fertilizer.

Answer 2

The fossil record gets down to one celled creatures the further back in time we go. Elements of dirt combined with organic molecules from space can form more complex molecules. That seems to be the way things stand. Just yank all the dirt from your body, and there will be no body except hydrogen and some bit of helium. The rest is dirt flung out from supernovas.

HOW DOTH THE FROTH?

Are you foam, or core of wave?
Serpent's tooth, or lock of knave?
When were you last ichtal fin
Part of happy otter's grin?

Are you, all of you, everywhere
Sliding down old Darwin's stair?
When were you last corral chain
Moose's head in Maine?

Do you truly know each bit
Of matter making up your wit?
Are not atoms of stellar source
Formed in novae and set on course
Shared in aeons many times
By quetzal birds, critics of rhymes?
Does not the copper in the Earth
Maintain its worth
As part of noble steed
Or the book you read?
What happens after use
Does it return to moose?

Oh blow thee high, oh solar wind
Go find a place where none have sinned
For they may not reject your ions
Jealous like a pride of lions.

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Answer 3

You may find this hard to believe, but if there was indisputable proof, there would be no point. "Believe", you say... why should you believe when it hasn't been absolutely proven? Well the thing is, if it was absolutely proven, it wouldn't BE a matter of belief. You'd just KNOW. The point is, you have to choose what to believe. I'm not going to tell you to believe you came from dirt, and nobody better tell me to believe I came from a monkey! George Bush may have evolved from a monkey, but I sure didn't! :P
Besides, does it really matter? I mean seriously. Will it have any effect on how you live your life? No.

Answer 4

Technically we are all created from the most common element in nature which is hydrogen.

The statement your thinking of is "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" which is usually a philosophical question but it can obviously mean that is you subscribe to the religious theory we were made from the dust/dirt and when we die we eventually decompose back into it. This is a way to show the everlasting cycle of life from birth to death.

Of course this is no proof but thats never stopped religion before.

Answer 5

Not dirt .... but dust from the ground. But let us start with verse 6. I will use KJV.

Genesis 2:6
'But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.'
Genesis 2:7
'And the Lord formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became living soul.'


1st proof: 70% of our body weight was made up of water.
(Genesis 2:6)

2nd proof: you will be amazed by this. This is what a Diplomate of American Board of Pathology posted.
http://web2.airmail.net/uthman/elements_of_body.html
The elements of the body is also the elements of the earth.
(Genesis 2:7)

Answer 6

Well, whether you choose to believe the biblical model or the evolutionary model, the answer is the same.

In the biblical model, God formed man from the dust of the earth.

In the evolutionary model, the first life formed from inanimate matter, call it dirt, primordial soup or whatever....it's basically the same thing.

Amazing how science confirms aspects of the biblical account, isn't it.

Answer 7

where is there indisputable proof you came from an animal??? Molecularly do we consist of the same elements as dirt??? When we deteriorate what do we turn into???? DIRT!!!!

Answer 8

Our bodies actually contain traces of the same elements found in dirt.

And we actually do return to a dirt-like state when we decompose. Why do you think worms like decomposing bodies so much?

Answer 9

It was stated by God in Genesis. Here read it and understand it carefully.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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Answer 10

Well, go to a grave, dig up some poor person who has been dead for 100 years and see what's in the casket. bones and yup DUST.