Athiests - If there is no God, is planet Earth itself a living entity?

by EndofMysteries 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  EndofMysteries

  Inside our own bodies there lives an entire world of living things. Inside just a single cell there exists an entire world as well.

  To me, the general description of evolution just does not make sense if you factor in everything combined. One life form adapts to its surroundings.

  On the Earth, everything has a purpose to promote healthy life and destroy unhealthy life. If you look at how bacteria for digestion, ants cleaning up dead insects and rotton fruits, birds canvasing the skies to clean up dead animals, worms to make soil better, trees to make oxygen and eat carbon, animals to breath oxygen and release carbon, if you don't believe a God created it all, then it atleast appears that such as within our own bodies there exists a world of life to keep us alive, that perhaps the planet or something else is a life and that's how there is such a diversity of life on this planet with a purpose.

  Even if you don't believe in God, the current explanations for life on Earth are just as hard and don't answer all questions.
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  EndofMysteries

  If the above is the case, then humans have become a virus.
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  prologos

  there is a theory to that effect Gaia ? the planet is a living, self-regulating entity.

  I have yet to read a convincing explanation how this functioning complexity, living and not came about from nothing, spontaneously, randomly.

  life has a life of it's own, and

  It all good have been 'build-in' from before the beginning and not leave a trace of the instructions.

  sorry to butt in on the Atheists, am I stealing their thunder?.
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  jgnat

  You are missing a whole bunch of IF => THEN connections.

  "everything has a purpose to promote healthy life and destroy unhealthy life" - EOM

  No it doesn't. Every organism or group of organisms are in a race to survive. Seeing the furious clean-up activity does not necessarily imply it has meaning or purpose.
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  Witness My Fury

  This thread is a fail.

  
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  jgnat

  Breathing earth:

  
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  EndofMysteries

  that's a cool picture jgnat.
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  EndofMysteries

  and everything being in a race to survive still results in the survival of the fittest. viruses and parasites kill off weaker ones or reduce populations. predatory animals catch the sick and weak the easiest.

  Aside from that, trees for example, we take in oxygen and give off carbon, they take in carbon and give off oxygen. If water always remained in liquid state and never water the earth, if it was always in a solid state, the same thing.
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  Giordano

  In your posts your still trying to work around the facts and maintain that god created life that life has to come from life. Look a little closer to home......... who created god? If no one created god then we don't need a creator to create life it can happen naturally. If something superior to god created him then you might have something.

  http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/02/hawking.god.universe/

  God did not create the universe, world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book that aims to banish a divine creator from physics.

  Srephen Hawking says in his book "The Grand Design" that, given the existence of gravity, "the universe can and will create itself from nothing..........."

  "Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," he writes in the excerpt.

  It was the discovery of other solar systems outside our own, in 1992, that undercut a key idea of Newton's -- that our world was so uniquely designed to be comfortable for human life that some divine creator must have been responsible.

  But, Stephen Hawking argues, if there are untold numbers of planets in the galaxy, it's less remarkable that there's one with conditions for human life.

  And, indeed, he argues, any form of intelligent life that evolves anywhere will automatically find that it lives somewhere suitable for it.

  From there he introduces the idea of multiple universes, saying that if there are many universes, one will have laws of physics like ours -- and in such a universe, something not only can, but must, arise from nothing.

  Therefore, he concludes, there's no need for God to explain it.
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  Heaven

  There are many living entities on and in planet Earth. I am not sure you can say 'Earth' is a living entity but it certainly is home to many.

  This Paul Stamets (mushroom biologist) TED talk has some excellent information about mycology and mycellium (Earth's fungal Internet) and is worth a watch :

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNRFxmfQNbo