Im agnostic, but to you atheist...?

Question

i have just about given up on religion. i still believe we were created, but thats all i believe about it (god), i want to know where or how do you think we/it all came to be. i just have endless questions on the subject and want a lot of other views on it. thanks

Answer 1

I don't know, science hasn't figured that out yet.

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Answer 2

I choose to believe this.

- The big bang was not the start of it all, but possibly the start of the universe that we now "know".

- I believe that the energy from the expansion in the form of heat created matter or atoms by the ineraction of protons and neutrons forming nuclei. Electrons combined with the nuclei to create atoms as we know.

- The huge amount of energy and density of atoms in particular areas caused gravity which formed nebula (gaseous clouds).

- As more atoms were pulled in to these nebula the gravity became so dense that stars were formed.

- The gravity of these stars formed galaxies.

- The stars gravity eventually pulled in clusters of atoms that began to orbit. These grew as more atoms joined the clusters and "planets" were formed.

I'm not a physcist, but this is what I choose to believe. I'm a exercise scientist and my focus is Physiology, so my belief on how we were created is...

- We are essentially made up of atoms (Carbon, Hydrogen etc)

- These compounds of molecules were formed by the sharing and exchange of electrons.

- We may have started as a simple cell like organism that evolved slowly to gain eyes, respiration, digestive system. Eventually over millions of years we becames what we are now.

This is a very broad view with little explanation. And it is a belief, open to criticism, and my view on scientific theories can change with other peoples opinions.

Answer 3

I still think god was a rogue alien scientist that was going around cloning little evil creatures much like himself and planting them on various small planets and watching to see how they fared. He died when his spaceship crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. His remains are in area 51.

Answer 4

The creation story is one of the least logical ideas to spring out of religion.  There is more evidence for natural origins than for all of the creation stories combined.

BTW, I am also agnostic.

Answer 5

All the answers to your questions are in your nearby Public Library, or even better, University Library. The evidence for how this world works, and how it came about are available at different levels of difficulty. Go the the library, talk with the librarian, check out a few books that can get you started.

Answer 6

It is fantastic that you still have questions. o question is good and even Jesus Himself expressed as much to Thomas (one of the disciples)

One of the places where I have found a great deal of answers with a huge amount of science to back up what is being said is the answersingenesis site.

Go there and ask away. God has the answers for us we just need to look.

www.answersingenesis.org

Answer 7

I reckon the universe constantly expands and contracts.

Carl Sagan once said that the Hindus were the closest to what cosmologists thought.

Hindus believe that the breath of Brahma (in and out) is what causes the universe to expand and contract. It's a good story if you need to believe something 'cause' it.

"Big Bang - Big Crunch?

Some scientists think it not impossible that the universe is oscillating between eras of expansion and contraction, where every Big Bang is followed by a Big Crunch. Stephen Hawking (born 1942) pointed out the possibility that such an oscillating universe must not necessarily start and end in singularities, i.e. questionable points in space-time where physical theories, such as General Relativity, break down while energy and density levels approximate infinity. Although everything points towards Big Bang, the future reversal and contraction of the universe is rather uncertain. Big Crunch is at most a hypothesis, because only about 1/100th of the matter needed for Omega=1 can be observed.

In spite of this, galaxies and star clusters behave as if they would contain more matter than we can see. It is almost as if these objects were engulfed by invisible matter. This "dark matter" that cannot be accounted for is one of the open questions in cosmology. Dark matter makes is thought to make up 23% of the universe."

As the universe 'explodes' (expands) the chaos eventually becomes ordered and 'things' follow 'the law' (physical laws).

Have a look at the "The Origin of Life made easy" - it's fairly easy to follow and VERY informative ... IF you're really serious about finding out stuff.

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Answer 8

There are lots of theories.  I am a unitarian universalist pagan, and I personally think that Deity sort of 'got the ball rolling' and made some minor adjustments along the way, but pretty much lets us be now that we are developed.  I also am a strong believer of life on other planets and the idea of multiple lives for our souls.

Answer 9

Like most scientists, I'm an atheist. When one adopts the scientific worldview, one learns to be tolerant of ambiguity and not afraid to say "I don't know." That's because scientists do come to know things bit by bit and consider what they don't know as a field for the fun of further investigation instead of a frustrating fog.

This contrasts with the attitude of many people who cannot stand not to know, and are therefore willing to accept trivial, curiosity-killing "explanations" (Goddidit) in place of real, fruitful inquiries.

Answer 10

I am an atheist, and I don't know where everything came from. I am not arrogant enough to say I know the answer to that. What I *DO* know is that it didn't come from a deity, and if it did, the deity obviously is incompetent or doesn't give a f*ck about us.