RE: Evidence for atheist claims
May 3, 2016 at 4:55 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2016 at 5:04 am by robvalue.)
That isn't anything to do with atheism, it's cosmology and abiogenesis. You can be an atheist and still think the world was made out of jelly by someone's ghost yesterday. You're conflating atheism with scepticism/scientific approaches.
I'm no expert in this field, but I believe the earth used to be part of the sun, a long time ago. It broke off and cooled down. You can research this stuff all over the internet, but I can find you some links if you want.
Saying God did it because "you don't have an explanation" is a logical fallacy called the argument from ignorance which I explain on my website here. If there is no good answer yet supported by evidence, then it's unknown. It's not "make up whatever you want".
Just google "how did the earth form", there's loads of articles. Here is one:
Our resident scientists can do better, I'm sure, and maybe link you some decent evidence sites. Abiogenesis (the origin of life) is still an open question, but scientists are getting pretty close I believe.
I'm no expert in this field, but I believe the earth used to be part of the sun, a long time ago. It broke off and cooled down. You can research this stuff all over the internet, but I can find you some links if you want.
Saying God did it because "you don't have an explanation" is a logical fallacy called the argument from ignorance which I explain on my website here. If there is no good answer yet supported by evidence, then it's unknown. It's not "make up whatever you want".
Just google "how did the earth form", there's loads of articles. Here is one:
Quote:The Earth is thought to have been formed about 4.6 billion years ago by collisions in the giant disc-shaped cloud of material that also formed the Sun. Gravity slowly gathered this gas and dust together into clumps that became asteroids and small early planets called planetesimals. These objects collided repeatedly and gradually got bigger, building up the planets in the Solar System, including the Earth.
The details of how the Earth formed are still being worked out. Scientists study meteorites and the oldest rocks on Earth to understand what happened in these earliest times in the Solar System. They also observe other solar systems in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Our resident scientists can do better, I'm sure, and maybe link you some decent evidence sites. Abiogenesis (the origin of life) is still an open question, but scientists are getting pretty close I believe.
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