evolution or creation?

Question

ok I've thought about something like this before I mean...how do we know we exist

I'm atheist but sometimes I'm like ok we evolved but what did we evolve from....and how did that get here...how did the earth get here....big bang? how did all that get here....where is the end if there is even an end at all...what goes on after infinity....everything MUST end....

it confuses the hell out of me

alaskansnowpeach

ever heard of circadian rythm?

I'm pretty sure that's what woke me up.

:D

Answer 1

I believe in God and that He created us.

Answer 2

"...how do we know we exist?"

"I think, therefore I am." Not to mention that when I break a bone it hurts like the dickens. You are asking questions that will never be answered with our meager human minds. Scientists will acknowledge that they don't exactly know what caused the Big Bang, if indeed it happened. I would say yes based on mathematical predictions.

Believers like to say, "I KNOW there is a God." But that is a feeling, or thought not based on any science. That requires faith.

As far as eternity goes, I don't think we can comprehend that. One always wants to ask, "Well, what was there before the Big Bang?" Maybe there have been many Big Bangs. We will never know.

If you go back and look at the issues pondered by the ancient philosophers of any culture, you find the exact same questions

It's good to wonder about these things. Give yourself a pat on the back for being able to question our very existence. You are in good company.

Answer 3

Looks like you are answering your own question, if you know and believe we evolved , then it is only common sense to believe what the scientist predict where we evolved from .
big bang , life of this planet , predictions about how our planet will end, and if you believe in infinity , why must every thing end , the whole universe will change billions of time over , as it has been done billions of time before, but it will never end , we can safely say we are pretty well sure of the future , and we know how we came to be ,
The question should ask, WHY dose it happen, that is the Question,( I don't know)

Answer 4

Creationists say god created the universe, god has no creator, god has no beginning nor ending, god knows everything, etc. Very complex supernatural concept without any single proof throughout the history of mankind.

Scientists say that the beginning of the universe was the big bang. The universe keeps expanding and, under physical laws, when it reaches the critical density (thus maximum size) it will begin to collapse into the big crunch. The big crunch turns into the next big bang and the cycle continues.

So, while religions say there is god that does not have beginning nor ending, science says the universe itself does not have beginning nor ending.

Must everything end? The current universe, yes. But, the new universe after the next big bang will emerge. New civilizations will emerge and they will ask "how did we get here?" too. This is when "I think, therefore I am" applies to them.

I chose science and evolution and big bag theory. These are comprehensible. Religions' supernatural concepts are just way too weak.

Study histories of religions (as many religions as you can, including extinct ones) and I think you will come to the same conclusion as mine that all religions were just man made concepts developed to control mass from self destruction and social chaos. Religions provide imaginary hopes that most people need in order to have inner peace.

Answer 5

Good questions, sounds like you have an active mind and that's a good thing. What I wonder is, if evolution is true then where did all the orderliness in our universe come from? Why is there such organization, such concrete natural and moral laws? How did such complex life forms as amoebas come to exist out of nothing, let alone something as incredibly complicated as the human body? Where did the matter that everything is made of come from in the first place? And why does beauty exist? What is the function of beauty? It is certainly not an efficient or necessary thing. That I do not understand.

This is why I believe in creation. It makes far more sense to me that an intelligent (well, brilliant actually!) Being created everything to run smoothly and in order than it does to think that all this beauty, all this complexity, came from random chaotic events with no rhyme or reason.

Keep searching!

Answer 6

creation theres evidence all around us i dont see any monkeys here that change to humans and the lucy thing really riduclious big bang nope read the Bible its the real truth we couldnt have evoled from monkeys Gensis 1:1 in the begening God created the heavens and the earth and no this isnt a fairy tale its the TRUTH and no there wasnt any million years only about 6thousand God created the earth and i dont give a care if everyone gives me thumbs down this world today is crazy about the bang and the monkey stuff is not real im just trying to help
God Bless
JJ

Answer 7

The Theory of Evolution is an explanation based on the evidence for how and why life on Earth developed over time into its current forms.

It says nothing about how life started, why there's an Earth, or why there's a Universe.

"Infinity" seems to be an imaginary human concept. At least, nothing in observable reality can be said to have an infinite aspect.

Answer 8

If you have asked the question then you have answered it. To ask you have to be aware of your existance.
The problem with organized religion and belief is you don't understand anything out of your tribal mentality of belief. If something doesn't fit into your understanding or teaching then it can't exist. Things have to just exist in its perfect form or it can't be divine, when in reality all things have a plan or course of action in order to be.Everything starts with a Basic element and divine/organized planning and a series of events to make it into a finished product. A master craftsman starts with a thought and then puts it into action with a series of actions and events to get a finished product.
Called the Creator, God or evolution it still has an element of existance of a beginning that ends with a finished product.
Matter never dies is just evolves to a new existance it is the same matter just in different form. It will still be you. You will just have a different set of values, form and reason for being that will be just as important to you then as now only it will pertain to who you are then in a new existance. A child dies to the womb to be born into life but it is still the same entity only now with a different purpose.
That's how I see it.

Answer 9

> how do we know we exist
I accept the input from my senses. It seems to be coherent. Thanks for asking.

> we evolved but what did we evolve from
Our hominid ancestors.

> how did that get here
They evolved from their hominid ancestors. Go back far enough, and you have ape ancestors, monkey ancestors, prosimian ancestors, ...

> how did the earth get here
Gravitational coalescence of gas cloud formed by a supernova or hypernova

> how did all that get here
*shrug* Don't know. "Don't know" is very different from saying that a god or gods must have done it.

> where is the end if there is even an end at all
No one knows the nature of the universe's edge.

Answer 10

i believe in evolution because of the big bang but there is no evidence that say there is a god. people say the universe keeps growing all the time and dose not stop so the universe must be infinity because it keeps growing

Answer 11

the entire population of the world DEFINITELY did not grow from two people named adam and eve. the story is meant for symbolism.

In AP boi2, you learn about the primordial soup, which is basically the by chance combination of the right chemicals and gasses that sparked life.

This is not to say i do not believe in a God.....at my school, which is a catholic school, they teach us the importance of evolution in a scientific way, and then say that altough we all did not pop out of Eve, there could have been a presence of God in the perfect combination (aka primordial soup) that sparked life.

therefore, you can still have creation/religious beliefs, and believe in the science of evolution