On top of that, what caused it to mutate?
2006-10-11 08:41:22 · 18 answers · asked by WhiteHat 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You know who ~ God.
2006-10-11 08:45:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are two answers. The first is from the God perspective. God decided to have offspring, and so created us along with a food supply and all the necessary support for this planet. He made it so that it would pretty much run itself. I'm presuming by the wording of your statement that God himself is excluded from it just because you used the word 'creature'. If by 'creature' you just meant 'being'...then this world is the outcome of His doing....but we don't know how He did it.
Scientists believe that groups of chemicals that we call 'organic' because they are used for/by and in the process of life ...first came together as a reproducing molecule. How did it reproduce... it would not have been alive if it had not reproduced ...that is one of the definitions of life.
The upshot of all this is that scientists don't know how it was done.
Religionists can only say that they don't know how God did it.
2006-10-11 16:07:58 · answer #2 · answered by eantaelor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watching erotic movies and drinking wine does it for me.
All things are charged with that ol' biological imperative -- "be fruitful and multiply" if you want the biblical version of it. : ) Make as many little yous as possible, whether through conscious choice or not.
*Did* the first living thing mutate? Seems like it would have been a while before mutation came into play.
2006-10-11 15:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mutation happens entirely naturally in the presence of DNA. Keep any DNA around in aqueous solution long enough (few days, week or two) and it will start to merge at the ends if they've not been properly chemically capped. Once you get transcriptionase, you get all SORTS of base pair substitution errors.
2006-10-11 15:43:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Take a class in genetics and come back. You can't learn anything of value with a minute's effort. That's primarily why creationists still exist. Understanding reality takes mental effort and intellectual curiosity, as opposed to a desire for one minute solutions to the questions of existence. Which is easier, working out the theory of infectious disease, or declaring "it's black magic" and ratlling beads? Which is more likely to produce value for humankind?
2006-10-11 15:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it didn't reproduce then it would go extinct. If it couldn't mutate then it wouldn't evolve and would go nowhere. So it was simple 'survival of the fittest' that 'life' or molecules which could do both evolved onwards. 'Life' or molecules that couldn't do both went extinct. It's pretty obvious really.
2006-10-11 16:06:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ah, got this one. Wait a minute, chicken or egg, chicken or egg, and just what came first?
Long ago from a galaxy far, far away came a mutant, teenage mutant, and the rest is history, sort of.
Life so confusing.
2006-10-11 16:00:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at simple life forms today- spontaneous asexual reproduction and cell division all occur now just as they occured in the most primitive lifeforms in the past.
2006-10-11 15:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its DNA, like modern unicellular animals. They split and its the DNA that causes it - this is one thing both Intelligent Design proponents and evolutionists can agree on.
2006-10-11 15:46:39 · answer #9 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are assuming there was a"first" if the universe is eternal as your gods are, then life always was. It changes and changes form every moment.
2006-10-11 15:44:52 · answer #10 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the worm was cut in half's and 2 were now 2
2006-10-11 15:44:11 · answer #11 · answered by cal_luck2000 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋