Why are we here on this earth? The way you answer this question depends on how you view the world. You have to understand the origins to understand the reason. There are two options to explain the origins of this world. Either someone made the world (Creationist world view), or the world made itself (Humanist world view). Know this, I am sporting the creationist world view. So if you don't like what you read here, I apologize. I only speak the truth. Keep in mind, if the world made itself, there has to be a complete cycle that must take place. Evolution. Evolution is taught as one topic, but really breaks down into 6 categories, and only one of them is backed up with solid facts. Cosmic evolution, the origin of time, space and matter. (Evolutionists agree that there must be a point when there was no time.) All three have to come into existence at the same time. All three also have three dimensions. Time - past, present, future. Space - length, width, height. Matter - solid, liquid, gas. (Plasma is just a hotter gas). To some, this might point to the Trinity of Trinities. Chemical evolution - according to the Big Bang, hydrogen was the only element after the initial bang. So where did the other elements come from? Fusion in stars? Can't fuse past iron, check it out. Nuclear fusion? Unlikely method of forming uranium and plutonium, which are constantly breaking down on the atomic level. (Look up radioactive materials, and "half-life" dating methods) Stellar evolution - the stars and planets form. Nobody has ever seen a star form, nor a planet form. Yet, if things that occur today have occurred for millions and millions of years, stars forming within our visible spectrum should equal or exceed the number of stars exploding within our visible spectrum. Organic evolution - the origin of life. How does a living come from non-living material? (Please research, I'm interested in any findings on this!) Macro evolution - an animal changes to a different kind of animal. Nobody has ever witnessed this. Ever seen an orangutan give birth to a human? Ever seen a dog produce something other than a dog? If evolution is true, then why can't we breed wings on horses? Or pigs the size of a whale? (Love me some bacon!) We would be able to solve world hunger by Gene manipulation. Micro evolution - variations within the kinds. This one happens. A dog and a wolf can mate and bring forth. It works. Because they are the same kind of animal. So in conclusion, The humanist world view says there is no real purpose to life other than survival, so if it feels good, do it. If this is true, there is no way to tell right from wrong. But everyone seems to have a gut feeling that they will have to answer for what they've done... The creationist world view says that we better figure out who this creator is, find out what this creator wants, and do what the creator says. I know why I am here. Do you?
We are here on Earth because we evolved from tiny microscopic organisms, was a very simple answer to a verg simple question
So is everything that we have come to interpret as a species. Time, space, matter, religion, science, education, politics, etc. So the real question is why we feel the need to shape a universe in our view when we are only a part of a speck on a speck on a spiral arm in an ever growing "infinity."
Fair comment Wazz. I think nothing terrifies humanity so much as our complete insignificance. All quest for "meaning" ultimately results in some for of self-gratification or self-justification.
I completely agree with this. But without self-gratification and self-justification we would have no reason to do anything whatsoever.
Support Ive yet to see any atheist on here make a post 1/4 this intelligent. All they can say is " if everything has to undergo a creation process then who created god" over and over and over.........atheism is a fad and as man continues to flop on recreating life from nothing from here to the end of days eventually everyone will have to admit thers is something else at work in our creation.
saying someone made the world is only shifting the goalpost, what is the origin of the person? The world made itself is a logical impossibility. So, it either, Always existed or it poofed out of nothing. Your truth is not backed up with science, therefore you cannot claim it to be true. Not evolution. and we (scientists) do not agree on the point that there once was no time. We do not know. And plasma is indeed another phase of matter, so that makes four. Furthermore i would not say that matter came to be the way you intent it, since matter is just a form of energy. Again not evolution, Nucleosyntesis. And yes, all elements are made due fusion in stars. All the way up to iron, nuclear fusion releases energy from the atoms, thus producing heat and radiation. If you go any further you will have to put energy into the atom in order to fuse. This happens when a big star dies, during the last phases of a star's life it becomes hotter and hotter, heavier elements are able to fuse, but once it reaches iron, there is no force which keeps the star from exploding, in this explosion all the heavier elements are forged. Surprise, this is not evolution. Of course we have not seen any star or planet form, because the process takes much longer (10s of millions of years) than we have been able to see it. However we have seen different stars in different phases of it's birth. Again, not evolution. Abiogenesis. And to give a brief summary on the process: About 4billion years ago, selfreplicating molecules formed on earth, It has been that peptides can form in earth's old environment and that polypeptides can and will selfreplicate. From there onward, molecules which can reproduce faster, are suited better to the environment, will at last be more common than those who are not. And due to mutations molecules can become better. (this is an evolutionary process.) This continuous for about 1 billion years until the first cell formed. That is not quite evolution. Evolution: "Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, often resulting in the development of new species. The mechanisms of evolution include natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, mutation, migration, and genetic drift." First of all, 'kinds' has no meaning in biology, so i will go with species to give you examples of species we have observed to have arose. There is far more evidence in the fossils. A new species of mosquito, isolated in London's Underground, has speciated from Culex pipiens (Byrne and Nichols 1999; Nuttall 1998). Rapid speciation of the Faeroe Island house mouse, which occurred in less than 250 years after man brought the creature to the island. (Test for speciation in this case is based on morphology. It is unlikely that forced breeding experiments have been performed with the parent stock.) You obviously have no clue what evolution says if you say that animals should give birth to other animals. The moment that happens it will actually disprove evolution. Read the definition, each change is very tiny compared to the parent. We cannot breed a winged horse because the genetic changes are so big that it would take millions of years to achieve that. Whale sized pigs are physically impossible. We are solving world hunger with gene manipulation already, there is special wheat and rice for 3rd world countries. Apart from the term not existing, it does indeed happen. In general he humanist world view will be to make the world a better place for the future. Right and wrong is just a product of society, apart from us no one cares, or knows, about right/wrong. But in general something that makes life more pleasant for people is good, and what makes life less pleasant is bad. If i were the creator of a world and i want it's inhabitants to do things i want, i would tell them, not let them guess without any evidence. But that is just me.