I have a jar full of nothing, how long until life evolves inside it...?

Question

Maybe I should light a firecracker and throw it inside the jar.

Man this is FUN!

Answer 1

LOL
This is classic!!!! Great question. I want to know the answer to because i think unless God makes it so life will never happen.

Answer 2

You must be a creationist, because only creationists are this ignorant of science. Maybe you should do some research before making an idiot out of yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment

The famous Harold-Urey experiments showed that an electric current passed through various non-living elements could produce amino acids, which are essentially the building blocks of life. And these elements did not come from nothing, because due to the conservation of mass and energy, all of the mass and energy (matter) which makes up our universe has always existed. So, you're right, it is not possible for something to come from nothing, and I have never heard any scientist make this absurd claim.

And now that we have established that something does not come from nothing, how did your god get there? Did your god always exist? And if so, then it is also possible for the universe to have always existed, and since this idea is supported by scientific research, we can logically conclude that it is the correct idea.

Answer 3

A jar full of nothing?
I don't think that's scientifically possible, because there is always something.

Anyway, it is a proving fact that every living thing do evolve in their own time frame.

I'll tell you what, leave your jar somewhere for a few months, then go back and look, you'll see if the inside still look the same.

Answer 4

Your jar is hardly full of nothing - it has oxygen in it or carbon dioxide if it is now sealed up. It if is an open jar, it won't be long and it will have dust particles, which means at my house it wouldn't be long and it would have a family of dust bunnies in it - and given a little longer time it would have a spider or at least the remains of its web, so at my house the process of evolution wouldn't take long at all in an open jar. A sealed jar on the other hand, at my age I probably wouldn't wait around to see how long it would take!

Answer 5

Well, I suppose you could try to evolve the microscopic lifeforms in that jar some other way then evolution. After all, cold hard scientific facts, fossils, genetics, the majority of scientists, and pure logic don't hold a candle up to a magical creator that made everything in six days.

Answer 6

Actually Andrew Crosse did something very much like that in 1837, an experiment that was replicated by him several times and also by Faraday.

Apparently under the right conditions it didn't take very long at all--and the firecracker was not required.

Answer 7

Your question is nonsense. Evolution is about change, not formation.

As an experiment you could put another jar of nothing next to it and see how long it takes for god to cause a fully formed complex multicellular animal to come into being inside it. and the beauty of it is you only have to wait six days.

Answer 8

It already has 'evolved' into something! I call it "junk". I got one of those silly "nothing" jars from one of my friends. She asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I was dumb enough to say "oh nothing". Well, that's exactly what the cheap skate got me. Jars of "nothing" suck! Firecrackers are fun though. Wish I had one to throw at my "nothing" giving friend. *s*

Answer 9

You can not have a jar full of nothing.Some sort of life forms at cell level might already be inside the jar.Life is universal but wisdom/civilisation is rare.

Answer 10

ok 1st of all you need to have some form of something in the jar to create anything. Air cant create into something with out something else, if that made sense. I think i have achieved in confusing myself thro. Hangon your question in confusing thro, ok so perhaps but like a piece of bread crum in the jar. Soon it will create mold and WOW perhaps you might even create lil people. hehehe

Answer 11

Thanks you. For all the evolusionists out there, Im sure they are expecting some species to emerge perhaps a different world.

LOL! Good one. But accorfing to them, it will take, hmmm, trillions of years at their favor. They wont be around to turn bright red out of embarrasment after seeing that the jar still has nothing in it.