Assuming the evolutionary view. I want to know the mechanism for this hypothetical cell's formation. What mixture of chemicals/light/heat can create such a cell? Can we do it in a lab? Surely it can't be that complex if it all happened on it's own right? Are there any examples of scientist creating cells?
Christians and others with a creationist view, please let the evolutionists talk on this one. I already understand your view.
2006-09-19 04:52:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Are you trying to suggest that just because some things are currently beyond the capability of mankind to reproduce that it must have come from some divine origin?!?
Maybe we will be able to create life from simple matter at some point in the future (and I'm not saying we should). Maybe it will always beyond our grasp. Either way it is all really irrelevant to whether something can occur on its own in nature.
Case in point electricity. Lightening occurs in nature. Hundreds of years ago, people thought they were firebolts from God or something. They couldn't explain what caused them and they certainly couldn't reproduce it. It seemed complex and so the simple explanation was that God caused them.
A few hundred years ago no one knew how to harness electrical current. Today it is an integral part of our lives. If a person from that era saw what we've been able to do with that one breakthrough (everything from powerful computers to the simple lights that illuminate our homes after dark), he might think WE were the Gods. But he would certainly be wrong.
As to how to create living cells, sure there's some combination of heat, light, amino acids etc. that we don't fully understand today. But I would add a couple of other ingredients. Billions of years for the right combination to appear somewhere amongst the billions of planets spread throughout the universe and random chance. We're just fortunate that all those factors came together for us here on Earth.
2006-09-19 05:06:10 · answer #1 · answered by mrcma 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Darwin's theory of evolution has been supplanted by modern evolution - a theory known as the Modern Synthesis. So Darwin might have said anything, that's beside the point here. Evolution is now a part of modern science, Darwin was just one of the authors and a very distant one at that. If all you understand is Darwin, then you don't understand evolution at all. The first sex to evolve in single-celled populations was hermaphrodite. In fact, because individuals do not evolve (that's only for populations), there was never a first male or a first female or a first hermaphrodite! You have no idea what evolution is and what it isn't.
2016-03-27 08:59:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolutionists don't even need to answer the question. Evolution is about how organisms and species develop through time and the mechanisms involved and I wouldn't necessarily need to address the question of how micro-organisms first formed to accept evolution. However some chemical reaction involving amino acids occured that led to the creation of single celled organisms and it would be difficult to create in a lab because certain pre-conditions, including a long period of time are required.
2006-09-19 04:59:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is something we don't know - yet. There were self replication amino acids first - they have been able to produce those in a lab - perhaps due to their molecular formation some had different proteins and other chemicals start sticking to them and that offered protection. One day they may be able to reproduce that in the lab and we can know for sure.
2006-09-19 05:14:18 · answer #4 · answered by Sage Bluestorm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amino acids tend to attract new material and reproduce themselves like crystals do. Lipids in sea-foam form cell-like bubbles. Trapping some reproducing amino acids in a sea-foam bubble could have been the mechanism to create the first cell, but really "life" started before the cell wall was introduced.
2006-09-19 04:58:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are not sure. There are amino acids that have been found in space so we know that that step is possible.
It would be a shame though if we were to give up now, just think of where modern medicine and science would be today if scientists just stopped pursuing difficult questions b/c the answers were in the bible?
2006-09-19 04:56:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of various experiments attempting to do this, but I think the big problem is the time it takes. Even if you get the right chemicals at the right temperature, et cetera, no one really knows how long it would take.
2006-09-19 04:56:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
alien spaceships with those blimey beams of light. the flying spagetti monster let down his noodly appendage
2006-09-19 04:54:42 · answer #8 · answered by psychstudent 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
argh that be the flying spaghetti monster who did that.
'an I have as much data to support this as them christians got, savvy?
2006-09-19 04:57:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One thing you are missing!
DNA, does not just form!
2006-09-19 05:30:43 · answer #10 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋