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25th September 2003, 11:47 PM
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How do atheists/evolutionists explain the existance of the wide varietiy of atoms if everything came from nothing? |
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Reps: 2,470 (power: 18) | | | Atoms are just interactions between forces and particles. Why are they allegedly so difficult to explain? And who said "everything came from nothing"? |
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Reps: 5,365 (power: 28) | | 1) its not atheist/evolutionists, because Evolution is Not atheism. Evolution also has Nothing to do with the formation of atoms.
2) Maybe read up on the Big Bang, here is a good resource, http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bb2.html
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25th September 2003, 11:59 PM
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Reps: 3,202,689,982,729,637 (power: 3,202,689,982,741) | | Hmm... well God created all matter, this matter was dispersed throughout the expanding universe in the big bang, the matter "cooled" and condensed into larger and heavier particles (I think that's right; I'm not an astrophysics major  ), these particles (H atoms by now) were attracted to each other (gravity) and condensed further into hydrogen clouds which continued to attract more and more hydrogen until they formed super-massive stars. Eventually these stars couldn't support themselves any more (larger stars do this before smaller stars if I remember correctly) and it 'blew up'. This dispersed not only the tons of remaining hydrogen but also all of the heavier elements that were created in the star's fusion reactions and as a result of the star going super-nova. The remaining gasses and heavier elements again clumped together to form many more smaller stars which undertook the process again. I think we live in a third generation star system (like with all the other stuff, I could be mistaken).
If you're asking why matter forms atoms then all I can say is that's how matter works; God made it that way (I assume).
Good enough answer?
PS: please correct me about anything I got wrong in there (and no jokes about the God part being wrong! )
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26th September 2003, 12:05 AM
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If all the Atoms evolved from H atoms, why are there still H atoms?  
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26th September 2003, 12:44 AM
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pretty good as far as I can tell troodon. I was just going to say E=MC^2. Energy is matter and vice versa. |
26th September 2003, 01:03 AM
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Ask a physicist. Jack Darwin, Christian who accepts evolution 
The same way we explain the existence of anything. Well documented scientific research, Unfalsified theories, and good old fashioned lack of God of the Gaps thinking. Nancy Nonbeliever, Athiest who accepts evolution
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26th September 2003, 01:58 AM
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Reps: 6,731 (power: 21) | | Originally Posted by Northern Christian How do atheists/evolutionists explain the existance of the wide varietiy of atoms if everything came from nothing?
Nucleosynthesis.
And to reiterate what has already been said for extra emphasis:
1. Evolution is not atheism.
2. Nucleosynthesis has nothing to with the theory of evolution. |
26th September 2003, 02:07 AM
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Reps: 907 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Northern Christian How do atheists/evolutionists explain the existance of the wide varietiy of atoms if everything came from nothing?
How do christians? Scientifically they tend to reach the same conclusions - fusion. Like, what's going on in the sun right now - y'know? |
26th September 2003, 08:04 AM
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Reps: 41 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Northern Christian How do atheists/evolutionists explain the existance of the wide varietiy of atoms if everything came from nothing?
I'm confused...Didn't he marry Eve?
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