(March 11, 2012 at 12:56 pm)Jocenel Wrote: Me and my husband are thinking we might be atheist. What is bothering me is if there is no God I don't understand where did the first cell come from? If we just existed fine, but what started it all? If you guys have an opinions please share.
The first cell? The first cell of what?
We have the ability to know how Earth and our galaxy was born, because we watch other galaxies being born. Most likely, everything that is now our galaxy was just a dense cloud of cosmic dust. We don't know exactly what caused the big bang, but it might have been something like a very close by star that went supernova. The energy from whatever the source, condensed the cloud of cosmic dust, forming the planets, stars and suns- including our own.
There were a lot of little planets at first, but over an extremely long period of time, they smashed into each other, forming fewer and bigger planets, like the ones in our solar system.
The atoms that make up the cells in our body are traceable only to the cosmos. Every atom in your body and on earth was born in a star. How it all came together to form life is an unraveling mystery, as well.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/0...cleotides/
There is no need for tales of gods to explain things anymore. When science doesn't understand something, it doesn't just make up an answer. To be a person of science and reason, you have to be willing to admit that you don't fully understand something, or else how will you ever come to understand it. To be a person of faith, you have to be willing to deny reality in favor of what people made up a long time ago to explain what they didn't know.
Where the first cell came from? I don't know. I do know that from chemistry, biology was born. That's something we didn't used to know, and would have never figured out if everyone on this insane planet just accepted the answer "goddidit".
I hope this helps.
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