Before anyone comes for me, I grew up southern baptist – went to a private christian school & was homeschooled for a few years. The extent of my “science” education when it came to evolution & the origin of the universe was “if we came from monkeys why do monkeys still exist?” and “look at this galaxy that’s shaped like a cross, isn’t god amazing!!” I’m an atheist now and would like to have some sort of understanding of how our world came to be, but trying to figure it out as an adult with no real foundation has been incredibly difficult, and none of it’s making sense. I also know I’m asking a lot as all 3 of those subjects are pretty extensive, so if you know any good videos or books I’d love some recommendations!
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Evolution is simply things changing over time, that’s all. Some animal is randomly born with a slightly longer neck -> it gets to eat a few more leaves than others around it -> it’s slightly more likely to survive long enough to breed -> fast forward a million years and we have giraffes.
No one knows how the big bang happened; we just have a pretty good idea that it *did* happen. The “why” will result in someone winning a Nobel Prize someday.
Kinda the same with abiogenesis; we mostly have a good idea that it *did* happen but the specific “how” is still being figured out.
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