What caused Atoms to combine together to form molecules to create the elements that shape life?

Answer 1

Didn't you just ask this question?

Answer 2

In all likelihood:

Lightning (energy) caused a mixture of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and so on to form some basic hydrocarbons. (This has been reproduced in the lab using electrical discharges in glass jars containing methane, etc.)

Over a long period of time through random chemical interaction, some of these molecules developed the attribute of self-replication. (Google "game of life" for a piece of software that will show you how common it is for simple random low-level repetition to generate complex patterns)

Of course, complex life never "just appeared", it developed. Slowly, incrementally, and with many "false-starts" & "dead-ends" along the way.

Think of a piece of crab-grass that has grown out from the sidewalk into the road, nestled in a crack in the concrete. The piece of grass is EXACTLY the same shape as the crack! Is that astonishing and inexplicable? Or did the grass probably grow a lot of "the wrong way"s first, but those directions were squashed by traffic?

Common sense should tell you that with the vast times involved, and the vast number of chemical reactions that occur all the time throughout the universe, it would be stranger if something akin to life had not appeared by now!

Answer 3

Nuclear fusion fuses Hydrogen together. The results then fuse with other molecules to form atoms with a higher atomic number. Suns are formed. When the quantity of Iron in a sun, due to the fusing of molecules, reaches a certain level it super novas spreading debris all over space. The majority of this debris is Iron but other elements such as gold and lead exist in the debris. The iron smashes together forming planets and then God put us on Earth and blessed us with the arrival of Jesus Christ who saved our souls.

Answer 4

Dr. Harold Urey performed a famous experiment fifty years ago which gives a clue. The early earth is believed to have had an atmosphere of carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor. Urey placed these in a flask and discharged electricity through it as a spark (like lightning). A number of amino acids and other complex organic compounds were formed.

Answer 5

instability in the atoms
the electron shell needs to be full in order to be stable
by forming molecules, they do so

Answer 6

Billions of years of random motion.

Answer 7

God.