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  • Well the thing about atheists is that they differ from us only in that they do not believe in the existence of gods or God. So when you speak of the creation of mankind they can come to many educated guesses or conclusions other than the belief that it was God which all things came into existence because to do so would be to betray his atheism.
  • Nothing. What's creation? Atheist's equivalent is science and evolution and I can smell the bad rates comming a mile away.
  • Most atheists are firm believers in the one creation that is wholeheartedly supported by the vast majority of the worlds population in these enlightened times, the 'Big Bang', although I'll agree that it does raise other more complex questions.
  • THere isn't a proper answer to this; the only thing "atheists" have in common is that they do not believe in God (or gods) and therefore do not believe the universe was created by a god. Atheists as a group are defined by what they DON'T believe, rather than by what they believe, so there is no particular consensus. True, a great many subscribe to the big bang theory, followed by evolution in one form or another. Others believe that the universe has always existed. Many others readily admit that they don't know how the universe was created, and don't believe that anyone will ever know. Others have unique theories all of there own. It's important to remember that Atheism is not a doctrine in itself, but a term describing absence of a specific doctrine.
  • Every theory proposed by atheists has required a beginning of some form. The big bang theory requires a source for the densly packed sand particles that led to the explosion (besides the fact that no other explosion in history has ever led to a creative force. Explosions, by their nature, only lead to destruction). Evolution requires something to evolve from (eventually, if you go far enough back something had to evolve from nothing). Even string theory requires an origin for the strings. Interestingly, string theory actually raises more questions than it solves because it creates several universes even though we can't see them, meaning the creation debate has to be answered for several universes, instead of just ours. The only theory that does not requires a beginning is that our universe has simply always been here. Of course this theory is illogical because everything we see has a point of origin. For example, babies and animals are born daily, and plants sprout into existence daily. On a larger scale, we have even experienced the formation of new stars. If every theory requires something to start it, a point of origin, how can an atheist say definitively that this beginning was not caused by something larger than the creation itself, something that actually exists outside of time and space, such as God? I have never seen a logical explanation for the existence of our world by an atheist that is able to stay faithful to the worldview of the absence of a God (or at least an ultimate reality existing outside of time and space that is responsible for the creation), and I don't believe there is one. Somebody please try to prove me wrong (I only say this because I know there isn't one. One Christian biologist has offered a $1,000,000 reward for anyone that can prove this, and after several decades no one has been able to claim the reward).
  • Creation of what?
  • I don't think that a Supreme Being created everything, but thats just a logical extension of not believing in a Deity.
  • Whatever they please.
  • As an atheist - I dont believe anything about creation. I think that the theory of the big bang is probably right and it gets improved as we move froward in time. I think that the theory that life was created by chemical reactions - that lead to biology. There is no doctirne tellnig me what I have to beleive. There is no blind faith. I am not owrried that we as man have not got all the answers yet. That maybe we never will. I think it is great that we are pushing our understanding of the universe further and further. The more we find out, the more athiests there will be. The treatment of Galileo and Copernicus for saying the Earth went around the Sun, or the way Charles Darwin was treated at first for his Origin of Species - just shows the problems religion has. As an atheist - scientists could come up with a completely new theory to the beginning of life or the universe and I would not have ot start defending my position....
  • Creation is a religious term, and a religious way of explaining why the world is the way that we see it now. Many ancient peoples had such stories. Sometimes they involved starting from nothing and explaining how the world was made. (Like the greeks, where the earth and the sky hatched from an egg and fell in love with each other, and between them made everything there is). (Also the aborigines talk about how the Great Father Spirit commanded the Mother Sun to wake the earth and make it grow, and she put people on the earth to command the animals who were disobedient.) Sometimes they tell the story of how the people were once somewhere else where everything was happy and now came to be in the current imperfect place. The Iroquiois talked about how the Sky People used to live on an island in the sky, with nothing but ocean below. Everything was perfect there, and then a woman was cast down into the ocean. The water animals gathered mud from the bottom and built the land for her to give birth to her sons on. The one thing most of these stories lack is any description of the rest of the universe beyond our Earth, kind of inadequate for these times when we can look at the rings of Saturn in detail. Creation myths are pretty neat and reveal a lot about how different groups see the world. However if you're not part of that group the creation stories seem a bit silly, and not as descriptive of the world you see as your own story is. Since atheists aren't part of a religious tribe they regard all of these stories the same - nice metaphors. If you're curious about what happened at the beginning to bring the world about, and you're not religious, you probably rely on scientific evidence to describe what you see in the world and the galaxy and postulate an idea of what could have happened to make it that way. Recently we can see more clearly than ever that the universe is expanding rapidly and was once much smaller. The Big Bang theory is a good description of why this could be, and is a reasonable explanation for the origin of the universe for people both religious and not.
  • To be honest.. I wasnt there to witness any creations so I dont have any beliefs on the subject. I would rather have no opinion on the matter than a belief that has no hard facts to back it up. The unknown of tomorrow should concern us more that the unknown of yesterday.
  • I believe only humans create and that the universe just happens (cue appropriate music here).
  • Atheists believe that the world was bought at the Cosmic Wal-Mart and dropped into place by chance.
  • Well, I personally believe in evolution - Man evolving from apes.
  • The creation story has too many holes in it! First of all, where did this god come from? He came out of nothingness and whipped everything up out of nothingness? Seems a little far fetched to me! It is no more believable than evolution, or the big bang theory!
  • Well, we don't. You see, we don't believe in a creator so there's no creation.
  • I believe we are cosmic beings. Science shows the calcium in our bones the iron in our blood and the oxygen we breath came from stars and cosmos. Beyond that, there is no proof of any thing else, not even the big bang theory. Science shows we have two lines of electricity in our body one going up and one going down. That inside us is a ball of enery. So everything is energy. Everything that a person needs to be done they have to do it themselves, no God comes to help them. I grew up a christian and after years of studies I now am aheist. I can certaintly prove the bible to be more of a fable and a way of controlling people and getting their money.
  • Atheists don't believe in creation, they laugh at it and those who try to pawn it
  • We don't believe even a fraction of it.
  • About creation. . .nope. Can't think of a thing. Nice story, though.
  • As an Atheist, I 'believe' that creation is leading the US back in to The Dark Ages, one ignorant individual at a time
  • "In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded." (Pratchett). After that stuff just happened. The End. I don't think many atheists believe in Creation the way you're thinking of, because it implies belief in a Creator. As a result, our myths are much more simple (by which I mean mind-blowingly technical).
  • Atheists believe consciousness itself is simply an illusion -- nothing more than a bio-mechanical feedback loop created from our own perceptions. As for life itself, that emerged spontaneously from a glob of goo. They don't believe in creation. They don't really believe in having to explain where we came from, because to them, we came from nothing.
  • They think it happened, and at that point they stop thinking about it.
  • That some unintelligent force or process, for which they offer zero evidence, did it.
  • I can't speak for anyone else, but my feeling is that the universe will always exist -- and always has existed. Infinite time in both directions!
  • I don't believe anything about creation because nothing has been proven by religion or science. Though science has some very interesting theories about what and where and how creation came to be and I entertain a lot of these ideas, but until there is proof, I cannot believe in anything regarding creation.
  • Well, as to this, who can say because every atheist is different, just like every relegious person can share different views on the same exact relegion. My beliefs as far as creation go are this, I think it is immposibile to look at the universe and not think there is a higher power, but as to relegion as people think it is, I think it is insane that we believe in things that our 2000 year old ancestors wrote. They were only useing relegion to explain something they could not understand. I want you to ask your self, 1000 years ago if I told someone that there was a mystical force that holds the ROUND world intact you would tell me I was crazy, but now adays we know the GRAVITY is fact. I think if modern day humans went into the past they would think we were Gods, I mean we can talk across 3000 miles with barly a delay, but yet we go to church and woreship a 2000 year old book, that just recently admitted the world was round. I think that every person should come to their own conclusions about their relegious beliefs, not just believe something because they are told it.
  • As far as I know, many athiests simply believe in the Big Bang Theory, and then that we came from the sea, starting with tiny organisms like plankton and then fish, and the like, and developing over the millions of years, into Man. The whole thing is mind-boggling no matter how you "slice" it, because how could mammals have developed out of sea creatures? I don't know. I do presume that athiests don't believe in Adam & Eve - that is probably the thing I'm most sure about. The older you get, the more you learn, in life; but along with that, the less sure you can tend to be about a lot of things - i.e., you question things more. I should know, since was born in the 1950's. Anyway, bottom line - where Earth, the planets, stars, galaxies, and entire universe actually came from, is so mind-boggling that it's almost easier not to dwell on it!!!
  • Anything they want. I personally believe in the science and evolution route and I’m happy to argue it with anyone......but that don’t make me right.

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