Athiests - if there is no God then how were humans made?

Question

then if we came from Apes then how did apes come into being if there's no God. ?

God is a self-existant being - nobody created Him

Answer 1

yeah its a good question
i believe in GOD

Answer 2

Why do ignorant people who know nothing about evolution, continue to ask rhetorical questions to demonstrate their ignorance?

Evolutionary theory states that humans share a common ancestor with apes, not that humans came from apes.

There does come a point where you can trace back evolution, to the origins of life, which science has been able to explain. If you haven't read the literature then you probably are ignorant of this. When speaking of the formation of the universe as we know it, there does come a point where present day science has to say 'I don't know'. This does not mean we need to be like prehistoric man and put some supernatural deity as the cause of what we don't fully understand. Grow up and have the maturity and honesty to say 'I don't know'. Claiming that some mythical supernatural deity caused what you cannot explain is ignorant and delusional.

Answer 3

Ever think there is no reason for us too find out?
and when we do then what?
after a week it will be old news.

Things mix together, chemicals or something, creates a living organism, that organism evolves and it keeps evolving into something new

and a question too you Mr. Smarty pants
Where did God come from?
How do you know the Bible is not a fairytale?
Why do we have God?
Theres more i dont feel like listing them

Religion was only created as thing for people to "Live for"
like those Religious Freaks what else would they do with there lives ?

Answer 4

I am sure you already got people trying to explain this to you. So, I will skip that part. Lets look at your logic, you say there is a power needed to make humans. Well then, what was the power that made god? How could he just be here all along? I mean, how could he come into being if there wasn't a god above this god?

Answer 5

I personally think that it's all a matter of chance.
The Big Bang happened billions of years ago, then our Universe was created, then the Earth, and then little tiny cells came to form, then came more complex cells, fast forward to the dinosaurs, then the primitive mammals, then the primitive humanoids, then, through evolution, homo sapiens sapiens.
But I could be wrong and maybe there is a God than put us here as little micobes.
Nobody really knows.

Answer 6

OK, I'm not an atheist, i believe strongly in God and Jesus. you've just been misinformed on the evolution theory. the theory states that at the beginning of the universe there came to be a single cell. and it mutated and grew(evolved) when the need arose. eventually more and more branches formed and some went to land becoming mammals. over many millions of years there came to be a common ancestor between we the humans and the many different apes. then some of them evolved into us as the need arose and others with different needs in different climates stayed apes. that's also why humans differ in skin, size, and other things. its simple yet i dint believe it. you just had never heard the true evolutionary theory. apparently not the big bang theory either. google them and learn then you can further your Christian beliefs intelligently by knowing both sides of the battle. if you dont know facts, or where the enemy comes from then how can you defeat it...you cant. and science is not Gods enemy but his ally, i can use science to PROVE GOD...search one word...phi...and you too can prove him with science. thanks again. always question everything.

Answer 7

I am not an atheist - I was raised on religion and have chosen to believe that G-d created the universe. But, I think atheists don't really have to answer your question. Not believing that G-d created life, doesn't mean they have to have another explanation for how life got here. They might not know the answer - but know that they refute the option that both you propose and I follow.

And a side note. I believe G-d created life initially but I also accept evolution as a process that continues after. The way you worded the question - "how were humans made" implies G-d just created us..or monkeys . Indirectly He did through His process of evolution He set in place. (And for the record we did not come from monkeys - but branched off of a common ancestor)

Answer 8

The Earth is more than 5 Billion years old...and will be around another 5 Billion years...

In the beginning...very simple molecules over a long period of time...began to form...eventually...due to this incredibly diverse petri dish we call Earth...these molecules formed into complex enough molecules that they developed the capability to divide...these dividing molecules (clever little things that they were) eventually formed more complex organisms like amoeba, etc...over a much longer time all over the Earth...given tidal forces, radiation, atmospheric changes, etc...and then as more time goes by...more and more complex organisms divide, mutate, and eventually get to the point of reproduction...all this they believe started out near underwater volcanic vents on the ocean floor...

5 billion years later...fishes and mammals are the complex end result of 5 billion years of simple molecular structures changing slowly into more complex structures (living things) and...after a huge amount of time...mammmals result...and then mammals get more complex...and then Humans result...

It didn't happen overnight...It took 5 Billion years (that's an awfully long time for it to happen, so it's not THAT weird or strange if you think about) of every-changing environments and natural survival selection and reproduction for humans to exist...a very slow, plodding, mindlessly methodical process that is still active and plodding on into the future even as I type these words...

Slow Changes...

"Slow Changes" is what made us...and slow changes will take us out...

Answer 9

Evolution, which is a simple, natural, self-sustained, design-free phenomenon fueled by random mutations and natural selections. The proofs are all over the place.

I agree with someone's response here earlier that humans are NOT much different from animals. Just more intelligent and much more cruel.

Answer 10

Theory of evolution. This was a long process. As the big bang occured, the earth developed an atmosphere having water and oxygen, which is perfectly suitable for life. The first life developed was a group of cells in sea, which could reproduce and slowly it evoluted for million of years to create all the species as per their adaptation to the enviroment, struggle for existence, survival.

its a very simple theory but it took millions of years, we are still changing today but the progress can't be identified in one's lifetime, the evolution is damn slow

There are lot more solar systems and galaxies and we are too far from them and there must be planets , which might have life .

Answer 11

Through a complex series of biological events that occurred over billions of years. It would take too long to explain it to you and I'm sure you wouldn't understand it anyway. Why don't you try looking it up, it's very well documented.

And just to clear things up, we didn't evolve from apes. Humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor.