Me and my brother had a argument one time over how life was started. He was saying that the chances of life starting itself with the atmosphere, lightning, water and everything else on the planet on the time, was an incredibly large chance that it couldn't happen. We will say the number he used was a "trillion to one" I said "well if you have forever to try to make life, wouldn't you eventually be able to do it even with those odds?" He wasn't happy with me.... I don't have anything against religion, I just hate how all religions are right in their eyes and usually no one wants to listen to other opinions or beliefs.
2006-09-06 11:54:10 · 16 answers · asked by sheltz32tt 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So your basically saying that you dont disapprove of religions but dont like how their handled. You have to remember that religion is just mans interpretation of God. Many people blame God for what people do, please dont do that. Remember that people are stupid and cocky... everyone is. So when a person has a religion, it usually shows. I came to my own realization about God. I know that it is impossible for all this to come from nothing. The whole evolution thing is a nice guess, very creative.. but then again it was created by man. We established that man is just stupid so there is no way that man just thought of it one day. Nice try but try again. I think we all know deep down that there is a higher being. Im not trying to be all stuck up or anything but I know with 100% of my heart that God exists. That is the one thing that evolutionists cant claim.
2006-09-06 12:16:16 · answer #1 · answered by A* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your brother isn't good at science huh? Life can be srung out of water today. All I have to do is get it out of the tap and let it sit there. And depending on how long I leave it will start growing microscopic organisims. Even if I seal it off from the environment. And since the planet formed trillions of years ago, imagine what that water will be in the jar a trillion years from now. Will it have evolved into an animal, or something else? More than likely. All you need is a basic mircobiology class to teach you that.
2006-09-06 19:06:15 · answer #2 · answered by niks_mom7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're 100% correct -- cosmologists suggest an infinite cycle where a universe starts, expands, collapses and ... the cycle starts all over again. With this, EVERY single possible combination can occur and the 'trillion to one' scenario is not so special. Now, on the other hand, taking god out of the equation does not solve the ultimate mystery of something ALWAYS existing (the something being process, whatever). Most people I talk to miss this completely and miss the implications of this even more. Think about it and it really consider it and it will make your mind spin and make you feel very very humble and in awe.
2006-09-06 19:01:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that scale of odds was correct, then we could expect maybe one instance of abiogenesis in every galaxy, and there are many billions of galaxies, so we should expect life to have got started many billions of independent times in the universe.
In reality, no-one can really calculate odds like this, but the fact that life got started on Earth only about 500 million years after it formed (compared to the current age of around 4.5 billion years) suggests that it is not a very unlikely event.
2006-09-06 19:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chances against winning the lottery are pretty high. But someone always wins.
It's the same with evolution. Yes, it's incredibly improbable that it happened, BUT it only had to happen once.
Also, I'm curious what the odds are that some higher being lives in the sky and created us out of dust. To me, that seems even less likely. :-P
2006-09-06 19:02:55 · answer #5 · answered by Kate F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. The problem we have is usually if someone disagrees with our own opinion. Instead of respecting each other's individual opinions we get all defensive. Just listen and learn from someone else's point of view. We learn many things that way.
2006-09-06 18:57:44 · answer #6 · answered by Starla_C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You might ask him where he got his numbers from. Like all other "odds against life forming" figures, his were certainly just pulled out of thin air.
In fact life did form, and there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that anything supernatural was involved, so those "odds against it" calculations are just so much mental masturbation.
2006-09-06 19:03:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well to be honest with you it sound like your brother needs to study up on his 5th grade science it he wants to debate anything with you. I have studied up on religion, I find it only fair that someone who is religious and doesn't believe evolution is possible. As for his statement about lightning, well that was one of the things needed for life to get started, that highly electrical environment was ideal for helping amino molecules to combine in to higher forms of protein, but you would not know this unless you paid attention in science class.
2006-09-06 19:02:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting story... you have a point, and yes people should be tolerant and willing to listen to others opinions/beliefs... (personally I don't see how any one group could have all the right answers and no one else have any) but what's your question?
2006-09-06 19:00:14 · answer #9 · answered by cb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I said "well if you have forever to try to make life, wouldn't you eventually be able to do it even with those odds?" Who made it.........It didn't make itself........You have no ground to stand, you just contradicted yourself.
2006-09-06 18:58:05 · answer #10 · answered by tallica1331 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋