The earth is not alive. It is a spinning ball of molten nickle and iron with a slightly cooled crust.

4000 years ago, you were lucky to live to 25 if you survived childhood. So yea, we know quite a bit more nowadays. We live to 80 all because of a little thing called science. :)

And what's up with demonizing atheists now? Atheists are people too, you know.