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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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How do atheists/evolutionists explain the existance of the wide varietiy of atoms if everything came from nothing?

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Ask a physicist.
Jack Darwin, Christian who accepts evolution

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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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Northern Christian said:
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.
 
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Northern Christian said:
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?
 
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Northern Christian said:
How do atheists/evolutionists explain the existance of the wide varietiy of atoms if everything came from nothing?
No one seems to have answered your question yet. Does anyone know where atoms came from, or how they are formed?

Maybe you would get an answer if you asked how the Hawaii islands were formed. They seem to think they know how that happened.
 
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JohnR7 said:
No one seems to have answered your question yet. Does anyone know where atoms came from, or how they are formed?

Maybe you would get an answer if you asked how the Hawaii islands were formed. They seem to think they know how that happened.
Ok you asked for it. When the big bang occured the universe underwent a rapid expansion and began to cool. The universe at this point consists of a sea of quarks. Cooling further as the expansion continued the sea of quarks were able to combine to form protons and electrons. These protons and electron themselves combined to form hydrogen atoms.

Over a great period of time inconsistancies in the density of the universe medium caused clumps of hydrogen to form. these clumps underwent gravitational collapse to form the first stars. within these stars fusion turned hydrogen into helium, lithium, carbon, oxygen. When thses first stars exploded the elements were scattered across the universe and new stars formed which contained these new elements. Further elements now started forming within the cores of stars including iron and silicon. Further explosions spread this great mixture of elements.

Then, once upon a time (sorry for the cliche) a cloud of dust and gas started to collapse and formed a star. Around this star the remnants of the cloud of dust and gas formed a family of planets around this star. Not too long after this, life formed on one of the planets. And you get the rest of the picture....

I find the best thing about nucleosynthesis is the fact that we are made of stardust.
 
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Mainframes said:
Ok you asked for it. When the big bang occured the universe underwent a rapid expansion and began to cool. The universe at this point consists of a sea of quarks.
So where did the quarks come from? All of your theorys presupposes the existance of some form of matter and energy.
 
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Gormless said:
JohnR7, is your problem that you have difficulty ready, or difficulty thinking?
Sense your new, I will explain the rules of the forum to you. What your doing here is being a fault finder and launching a personal attack against me. We are not here to attack people. We are here to talk about theorys and ideas.

The problem with attacking people is that it will cause the adminstrators to remove the thread and put an end to the conversation.

Mainfrane did finally answer the question.
 
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JohnR7 said:
So where did the quarks come from? All of your theorys presupposes the existance of some form of matter and energy.
They very well could have been in a Quantum Singularity before the big bang occured. A Qauntum Singularity does not require a "creation" so it could always have existed.
 
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JohnR7 said:
So where did the quarks come from? All of your theorys presupposes the existance of some form of matter and energy.
Basically the quarks form from the quite immense amounts of energy that was released at the moment of the big bang. As for the actual cause of the big bang that is still under debate.
 
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