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Atheists only. How did inanimate objects like trees, mountains, the sun, moon, stars, etc. come into being?
17 Answers
- FredLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I do believe that you just proved the existence of god. Wow, you are good.
- SnarkLv 71 decade ago
Trees - evolution.
Mountains - Plate tectonics.
The Sun/stars - clouds with a high density of molecules collapsing in upon themselves to form balls of burning gases.
The moon - There are a few different theories about the formation of the moon. One is that it is a piece of the earth that broke off a long time ago. Another is that it was a separate body that the earth pulled in with its gravity. A third is that the moon and earth formed around the same time and in the same general area.
PS - inanimate refers to something that either doesn't live or doesn't move. Trees are alive. The crust of the earth moves and with the crust, mountains also move - and so do stars, planets, and moons.
One more thought - people who are really looking for answers about science read science books and ask science questions in the science section.
- 1 decade ago
Trees: Are living things. Relatively recently in the geological time scale (if you call 360 million years recent), one of the branches (no pun intended) of the plant lineage evolved into various trees.
Mountains: Oftentimes due to plate tectonics. For example: what would be considered India today used to be separate from the rest of Asia. A few hundred million years ago, the two landmasses collided, and are still "riding up against each other", causing the formation and continued growth of the Himalaya mountains.
Sun/moon/stars: 13.7 billion years ago, the entire universe was an infintely dense and super-hot speck. Soon, for whatever reason, this speck exploded, giving rise to a rapid expansion, and soon the first stars. More and more stars grew further and further separate from each other, one of which being the Sun. As for the Moon, it may have always been a separate mass that just got pulled into the gravitational pull of the Earth, or it may have been a chunk ripped off from the Earth by a meteor, that then started orbiting.
Hope this helped.
Source(s): And with that, I challenge you to ask this in the "Science" section, or better yet a science CLASS, or the Science section of a library, as I imagine my answer is far from perfect. - 1 decade ago
This is a joke, right? The sun, moon, stars, mountains and trees are inanimate objects?
Take some biology courses or something!
- 1 decade ago
Ouch!!! For sure atheist can't answer this thing they have so very LIMITED in thinking for boiling their state-of-the-art chemistry, because they don't know whether they're been created by a supernatural force in a precise and acurate logics or just came out from nowhere. All they know is science in their mind but they don't know who ruled over science. They don't know what makes an atom to exist, all they know is only the existance of the created things in which they had based their belief but don't know WHO's the creator for all this stuff...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You can educate yourself on how these things came to be at your local public library, or even a science class at your local community college. All you will need is an open mind and a willingness to learn. All the explanations they will give will make more sense than Creation if you are willing to take a chance and really listen. Peace out. :D
- lmn78744Lv 71 decade ago
Entire volumes of textbooks have been written on the subject. I have neither the ability nor the inclination to condense all that to a few sentences here.
If one prefers to believe an invisible magic man *poofed* it all into existance... no skin off my nose.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Since when is a tree inanimate? It's as alive as I am.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
All except 2 of the atheists were clueless. They get mad when trying to defend their religion because its nonsense.
Source(s): Sir Isac Newton - a Christian - Anonymous1 decade ago
Try read a science book once in a while. There is something called "a public library", where they usually have books on the subjects you are asking about.