A few questions for Atheists?

Question

What Pasteur attempted to prove centuries ago, science confirms, that life cannot arise from non-life. Where did human, animal, plant life come from?

How did the universe come to be?

Why is the Earth at just the right position in space? If it was closer to the sun, we'd burn. If it was farther from the sun, we'd freeze.

Do you Atheists EVER think about whether there MAY be a god? If so, couldn't god be seeking you to think of his existence? That you are being pursued by him?

I do not want any rude answer, or I'll just skip it. Just give a response to these questions, that's it.

Answer 1

I sometimes think there could be a god. I don't claim to know everything. Where would science be if people never asked "what if?" What I will never accept is religion.

Answer 2

What Pasteur attempted to prove centuries ago, science confirms, that life cannot arise from non-life. Where did human, animal, plant life come from?
WAIT FOR ABOUT THREE TO FIVE YEARS. SCIENTISTS ARE ALREADY IN THE EARLY STAGES OF CREATING A SIMPLE LIFE-FORM FROM SCRATCH.
NOT EVEN THE MOST ADVANCED SCIENCE CAN TELL US WHERE THE FIRST LIFE-FORMS CAME FROM BUT THEY DO HAVE SOME VERY GOOD HYPOTHESES. WE WAIT FOR PROGRESS ON THIS MATTER.
How did the universe come to be?
THE UNIVERSE. IF YOU MEAN THE ENDLESS VOID, IT WAS ALWAYS THERE. IF YOU MEAN THE CONTENTS OF THE UNIVERSE, THE STARS AND PLANETS AND SO ON, THEN YOU NEED TO RESEARCH THE THEORY OF THE BIG-BANG. THUS FAR, ONCE ONE IGNORES THE 'GOD DID IT' NONSENSE, IT IS THE BEST THEORY THERE IS.
Why is the Earth at just the right position in space? If it was closer to the sun, we'd burn. If it was farther from the sun, we'd freeze.
SHEER COINCIDENCE. THE FACT THAT IT IS WHERE IT IS ENABLED LIFE-FORMS TO BEGIN AND TO EVOLVE. AS IT STANDS, THE SUN IS EXPANDING AND WILL CONSUME MERCURY. BY THAT TIME, LIFE ON THIS PLANET WILL HAVE BECOME MORE THAN A LITTLE DIFFICULT AND THE PLAN TO COLONISE ANOTHER PLANET IS A MUST FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN RACE - AND ANY OTHER LIFE-FORMS THAT WE TAKE WITH US. MOQUITOES AND SUCH WOULD BE LEFT BEHIND.
ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE SOME LIFE-FORMS ALREADY EXISTING THAT CAN WITHSTAND FAR HOTTER AND FAR COLDER CONDITIONS THAN WE HUMANS CAN. WE HAVE SIMPLY EVOLVED TO SUIT THE CONDITIONS THAT SURROUNDED US. OCCAM'S RAZOR TELLS US THAT THE SIMPLEST ANSWER IS OFTEN THE CORRECT ONE BUT THAT ANY IMAGINARY FRIENDS IN THE SKY IS FAR TOO EASY AN ANSWER. ONE COULD APPLY THE 'GOD DID IT' ANSWER TO EVERYTHING AND THAT WOULD BE A COMPLETE DISASTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THIS SOCIETY.
THERE IS NO GOD. IT IS ALL A FABRICATION.
Do you Atheists EVER think about whether there MAY be a god? If so, couldn't god be seeking you to think of his existence? That you are being pursued by him?
NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST.
ALL GODS AND GODDESSES THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THINKING MANKIND HAVE BEEN INVENTED BY MANKIND. THE CURRENT CROP THAT ARE IN FAVOUR GLOBALLY, AND, OF COURSE, THERE IS MORE THAN ONE, ARE JUST AS FABRICATED BUT THE POWERFUL INDOCTRINATION AS CHILDREN HAS IMPLANTED THE MYTH VERY DEEPLY IN YOUNG AND IMPRESSIONABLE MINDS. FACT IS, THAT PEOPLE WANT IT ALL TO BE TRUE SO MUCH THAT THEY HAVE CONVINCED THEMSELVES THAT IT IS A MAJOR DELUSION. THANKFULLY, ATHEISM IS BOOMING, PARTICULARLY IN WESTERN EUROPE, AND WILL CONTINUE TO RISE AS THE OLDER GENERATION DIES OFF.
I do not want any rude answer, or I'll just skip it. Just give a response to these questions, that's it.
RUDE? ME? I THINK NOT.

Answer 3

Pasteur proved that maggots couldn't spontaneously generate. He did not prove that amino acids couldn't come from the right chemicals given enough time and chemical reactions. There is a large difference.

I don't know how our universe came to be. I know that there was a rapid expansion of space and time at the beginning (known as the Big Bang), and this may have been caused by two 3-dimensional branes colliding across another dimension.

You're putting the cart before the horse with your question about the Earth. We wouldn't be here if the Earth was closer or farther, so we wouldn't be able to ask that question. There are literally hundreds of trillions of planets in our universe. It's not surprising that at least one of them is in the right location for water to be liquid most of the time. It's also not surprising that we "happen" to live on that planet. We couldn't exist on another one.

It's kind of like saying "Wow, my room just happens to be filled with things I like. What a coincidence!" when you are the reason that your room has all those things in it.

I do think about whether there may be a god. However, why would god seek my existence? If god created an entire universe, why would a few little creatures in the universe matter?

Answer 4

Life cannot arise from non-life TODAY. Anything pre-biotic would quickly be gobbled up by some living thing or other. Back before there was life, however, it was possible for life to form gradually, which is what it did, and then it evolved to form plants, animals, and eventually us humans.
The universe came to be in a sudden and rapid expansion of an incredibly tiny ball of pure energy, which cooled upon expanding and then condensed into matter, mostly hydrogen with some helium, with a gigantic amount of energy left over. The matter then coalesced into stars, which fused it into heavier elements and then exploded in what are called supernovas. These heavier elements then recoalesced some time later into solar systems, with planets and moons and asteroids and comets and such.
The notion that Earth never gets any closer to or further from the sun is just wrong. Earth is about 4 million miles closer to the sun during northern winter than it is in summer.
No, I never think about whether there may be a god, at least not the kind you mean by that term.
That's it in an abbreviated form. Were there any other questions?

Answer 5

I'm not a scientist and it would be pressing to assume that most of the atheists here are so I don't think you'll get the answers you want in terms of the first few questions. I can give you what I've read or have heard.

Mix some amino acids with some water and a little spark from lightening, and you have yourself life. Takes awhile but it can happen.

Who cares how the universe came to be? Did you ever think that maybe it was always here? Always expanding and contracting?

As for the earth being in the spot it is - well.. ever hear of gravity? It kinda sucks. Here's one for you - if the planets are supposed to be where they are and all of that, why is the moon moving AWAY from the earth at 1 inch a year?

I've thought about the god concept, sure. Then reality sets in and I slap myself for thinking such silly thoughts. To think that god is "pursuing" me by planting those thoughts in my head is simply absurd. With over 6 billion people on this planet, he should be talking to us all at once, if that's the case. Why am I more special than all of those people?

Answer 6

Science already has answered these questions with the big bang theory as the chief idea which I too doubt that the planet we live on was made from that a simple question to ask is how do you know that life ever wasn't there how do you know it hasn't always been how do you know that time ever just started and hasn't just always been there you can't answer that all we know is how old our planet is and it very well isn't just 6,000 years old as the bible gives supposed proof as to since we have proof against it where does the bible say that dinosaurs were on earth before man it doesn't yet we have proof they were so many problems with your flawed faith isn't there and if the universe did come into being by some supreme power how do you very well know that it was your so called god just one creature why couldn't it be more than one you can't answer most of the questions I have asked you can you.

Answer 7

Life can come from none living mater.
The best and simplest way to show this is by the disease CJD. This is not an organisam like viruses and bacteria. It is the inbetween state a self replicating protein, known as a protzone.
This is the missing link you are seeking between life as in an organisam and the chemical object..
All it needed after that was a little radiation, like from a meteor crashing on earth, and bingo we have motive lift off.

As to god pursueing me. I think I`m slow enough that if he wanted to catch up with me he could do that easily..!!

Answer 8

I tend to believe that BECAUSE the earth was in an ideal position, it left the possibility open for life to develop and evolve - life originating around the conditions rather than the conditions being designed around life.

I have, and do still occasionally, think about whether there MAY be a God, but I have yet to read or hear any version of God that doesn't sound completely mythological and hence silly to me. So, I am atheist by default.

Answer 9

It's not even that. Everything, I'm talking about all the chemical reactions and physical laws, JUST WORK. Who decided that animals would have teeth? Did the Universe just know what every organism needs to survive? That's complete BS. Anyone that doesn't believe the Universe was intelligently designed is an ignorant fool.

God Bless you.

Answer 10

firstly- animal and plant life came from evolution, from the tiniest of particles, that grew to become everything that we are today

to your second question- in ancient greece people didn't know where lightning came from, so they said that zeus threw it down from the sky, and now we don't know where the universe came from, so you say that god did it, and i think that just as we found out about lightning, we will at some point discover a scientific origin of the universe

lastly-we adapted to our place in the universe, our bodies created mechanisms that allowed our existence under the temperatures and climatic circumstances on earth

Answer 11

Honey, I was a Christian for many years and I also practiced a Pagan religion before I became an atheist. So yes, I have given it much thought.

I don't rely on religion to tell me how the universe came to be, I rely on science. And what does it ultimately matter how we got here? We are here. We might as well make the best of it and try to make the world a better place.