evolution state that we evolved from a single celled organism. So were did this organism get life?

Question

The thoery that life magically appeared is nonsense to me. Life cannot evolve from nothing or a bang somewhere in the universe nor can an imploding star create the never ending universe. How woudl it be possible for a single celled organism to create a brain or a heart or lungs and assign them a specific purpose! If there is no God then how did that organism get life? There is a God!

Answer 1

You clearly have never been well acquainted with the details of the Theory of Evolution.

For the record, evolution does NOT claim that there is no god. It makes no such religious statements. Rather, it provides a provable mechanism for the origin of life on earth: genetic change over time and the selection of favorable changes by environmental conditions. This mechanism has been (and continues to be) consistently validated by evidence in multiple fields of science: There is molecular evidence, cellular evidence, fossil evidence, and embryological/developmental evidence that prove that organisms change subtly over time, from generation to generation, and that certain groups originated from others. To deny this on any level shows great ignorance, and I strongly advise people with less than a 12th grade education on the topic to think before they speak and realize that they do not have the intellectual credentials to make any statements or decisions as to whether it is true or not. The verity of evolution is not up for debate in the scientific community, nor should it be in society. To a biologist like myself, hearing someone deny that evolution occurred is as laughable as if he were insisting the earth is flat. It's essentially an embarrassment.

Evolution is MUCH more complex than non-biologists understand it to be. Instead of misunderstanding it and disbelieving based on misinformation, you need to instead realize that there is much more to it than you currently understand....You should then either devote 6 years of study to understanding it or at least realize that you cannot doubt or deny something if you don't have the right information. I hold a BS and MS in biology, and it took me all of that time to really be able to grasp fully and appropriately the mechanism of evolution. It's certainly not as simple or as ridiculous as so many non-scientists mistakenly think it is.

Science has been under persecution by the church for offering theories in contrast to religious teaching since Galileo. Science was the first to claim that the earth revolves around the sun and not the opposite and that the earth is a sphere and not flat. Both of these "theories" initially were contradictory to church teaching, and the early scientists who made the discoveries were persecuted by religious zealots much the same as Darwin has been for the last 200 years. I am dismayed that the minds of some members of today's society are as intellectually underdeveloped as those of the Dark Ages.

Science has given society medicinal cures and technologies that have done nothing but benefit the quality of human life for centuries. People like myself have dedicated our careers to understanding and learning complex concepts to help people live better and to help society advance. If it weren't for scientific discovery, we would still have a polio epidemic and there would be no such thing as aspirin to cure a headache. I personally don't understand HOW anyone in modern times could doubt the ability of science. Haven't the sciences proved credibility by now? Science has never been wrong. Science is unbiased, and all of its statements are based on fact, not folklore. It is the most credible source of information humankind will ever know, and just because it may not agree with one's personal religious ideology does not mean it is untrue.

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And here's a bonus for any Catholics who may have missed the memo:

In an October 22, 1996, address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope John Paul II updated the Church's position to accept evolution of the human body:

"In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950), my predecessor Pius XII has already affirmed that there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of the faith regarding man and his vocation, provided that we do not lose sight of certain fixed points....Today, more than a half-century after the appearance of that encyclical, some new findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as more than an hypothesis. In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies -- which was neither planned nor sought -- constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory." (John Paul II, Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Evolution)

Answer 2

It's difficult to fathom, actually. Now, I'm a scientist, and I do believe that evolution exists - complex organisms from less complex ones. However, the creation of a cell, or, rather, a proto-cell from chemicals just swimming around in little pools of water in primordial earth seems a little far fetched. It would take an unbelievable amount of time just to randomly create a fragment of a nucleic acid strand or a protein molecule, let alone the whole thing. Even the RNA (ribonucleotide) type enzymes that are postulated as one of the first in existance are extremely complex polymers.

So, one tends to believe in something of a higher complexity than us (or at least, than a single cell). What could this be? It's hard to put a name on it - call it god if you will, but it definately seems that something is out there guiding life.

Answer 3

The current idea is the RNA world hypothesis as described above.

Obviously, the point here is to say that it is all unlikely if you go far enough backward. And of course that is hard to show either way, without experiments that difinitevely show how RNA can be made and how RNA can act as a catalyst to reproduce itself. That may take awhile since it isn't exactly pertinent information.

But if we life in a world infinite in time or in one direction of space or in one of many other ways. Or if all possible universes exist in their own way, then their only needs to be a chance for life to begin and it must begin because of the infinite possibility that it could begin. Those very likely possibilities would mean that we basically had to have evolved somewhere at some point.

Answer 4

After you read mine, please re-read girl biologist's response.

There may very well be a God.
But just because you can't wrap your brain around the idea that we evolved over billions of years does not mean it can't happen--or that it didn't. The universe for some strange reason spawns life. This is a vast universe which is BILLIONS of years old, There are billions of stars in our own galaxy and God knows how many planets, outside our TINY galaxy, there are BILLIONS of galaxies each containing BILLIONS of stars with god knows how many planets swirling around each of them.
Now, that is a hard concept to grasp, but it is absolute truth. What is the truth is that our big home we call earth is a tiny drop in a vast ocean. ---and if the earth is but a tiny drop, we are like millions of teeny tiny microscopic molecules.--so you can imagine how the tiny microscopic mite feels!
The kind of belief system that you sound like you subscribe to sounds too much like the world is flat and the solar system, the universe, revolves around our planet.
How do you know what can and can not be done? YOU alone know the greatest mysteries of the universe?
You should listen more to people who have have credentials and know more about the facts of the universe than you do. I don't understand nor does it make sense to me that creationists, because some old dudes in a cave wrote some wisdom of men on scrolls only several thousand years ago, know more about the astounding mysteries of the universe than astronomers and astrophysicists. are you kidding me? the guys who jotted down the bible (the remainging retranslated text), had no clue about the universe. Their knowledge of such things was limited to following certain stars to know what direction they were in.

Answer 5

According to current biological theory, life did not simply 'appear' just like that; it developed over time, from molecules of RNA that could self-replicate and catalyze other reactions. These got trapped in lipid bubbles which grow and divide through physical processes. All it took was only one of these many bubbles to gain the right capacities to become the first true single-cell organism. And we don't have purposes 'assigned' to anything... they get made and they work. Simple as that.

Answer 6

It's fairly obvious from the way you ask your question that you think you are asking a rhetorical question. I think the most important thing you could do if you truly wish to increase your understanding of the issue is to make sure that you are hearing modern and respected explanations of evolution. Sometimes, older and less accurate explanations persist and lead to a great deal of confusion.

The source I've listed is not intended to be a conclusive source, but is definitely not a bad place to start if you really want to find out what evolution is really all about.

I hope you find the answers you're looking for.

Answer 7

Remember, evolution explains past, present, and futre diversity, it says nothing about the start. That's where something, like God, can come in.

Some scientists have shown experimentally that with a primodial atmosphere and lightning, certain organic molecules can be formed. This, in theory, could lead to life, though this is controversial.

Answer 8

I do not know about your last statement about presence or absence of God.

But it is possible for complexity to be build from simplicity. If you believe that human beings evolved from organism with lower number of senses, then extrapolating takes us to the single celled organisms.

There are theories that comets might contain the seeds for this single celled organism.

Answer 9

See Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale for a detailed discussion of this. It can be shown that no theory requiring the intervention of a god to do something has any predictive power. The theory of evolution enables the making of numerous predictions, which in practice prove to be true. So, do you want to believe in a theory that is useful, or one that is not?

Answer 10

There are some questions that can't be answered, yet. I am not going to conjure up some kind of answer 'ie. god' to give me solitude like the billions of minions out there. I will continue to look for the answer.

btw, god didn't design the shape of the rain drop, nature did through the laws of physics. just remember that things have been going on for billions and billions, trillions of years. Over that length of time who knows what can occur when the laws of physics are playing tug of war with nature.

Answer 11

I disagree also that life just magically appeared on earth. God must be fake!