I'm STILL CONFUSED :o/!?

Question

this is the best answers out of both my Q's so far:
Answer to Q. 1: the one-celled organism started the life of everything:monkey,ape, & us. Who put the one-celled organism here?.....
Answer to Q. 2: the one cell organism was formed by proteins which was formed by amino acid which was formed with basic elements.

Which brings me to Q. 3: Who put the basic elements here that formed the amino acid that produced the one-celled organism that created the monkey that we evolved from?!!!

Answer 1

Good Questions!

The answer to your Question 3 is: Those particles were brought in by random gravitational pull of small particles that gradually formed earth.

The answer to your question 4 is: Those small particles were likely the result of the big bang, which leading physicists have all but recorded as occuring. Based on Einstein's theory, all mass is actually a form of energy. The big bang can be thought of as a spontaneous conversion of unstable, concentrated energy into stable mass.

The answer to your question 5 is: There is controversy over where the big bang came from. One of many theories is that it is a cyclical event. That the big bang came from a previous universe that folded on itself. As the universe's own gravity pulled itself closer, it eventually became so concentrated that there was a massive conversion of all the universe's mass into energy. This energy was unstable and exploded into a new universe...our universe.

We have mounting evidence to support these answers. The evidence to support answers 1,2 and 3 is compelling, though upsetting to many (unfortunately). There is a strong case for 4. For 5, the big bang now has a LOT of evidence. What happened before the big bang... we have very few definitive answers.

There is one last question, and it is the most important:

Assuming science can explain everything about our existence, including the start of the universe, can it explain why the universe exists?

Answer: It cannot. Science cannot go beyond observation of things that exist. It cannot, and does not claim to answer why there is existence. Why there are laws of physics. It only knows them to exist, for some reason.

It is up to all of us, spiritually, to interpret our own existence and existence around us. It is up to all of us to ask about it, but most importantly appreciate it.

Whatever religion we are, it is time to separate science's explanation of how this world is from the spiritual appreciation of existence itself.

I am not providing links because individual, disputable facts are not the point. The point is that there is a real need for both science and spirituality. There always has been, and there always will be.

Answer 2

The basic elements are oxygen, nitrogen, phosphates, and other elements that exist all throughout the universe. They reacted with each other and bonded together to make molecules called amino acids. These in turn gathered together to form large strings of amino acids called proteins. These bonded together to form a one-celled organism. The driving force was heat, which causes matter to move around and "bump into" other matter at a very fast rate.

Answer 3

Before I answer your questions, let me just set a few things down on the table. Science is based on empirical, observable facts. The fundamentalists will try to convince you that science is just theory or claim that it's a religion. Both poppycock! I know of no proof of God or of any myth (that is if myths, like the Bible stories, are taken literally). A lot of fundamentalists (and the impressionable people they influence) don't know what the word "theory" means in science. A theory is something that explains a scientifically proven fact. The explanation for WHY a fact is true may be wrong, but the fact it intended to explain remains true.

Evolution, by the way, is a FACT. People have heard of Darwin's Theory of Evolution. It's a FACT that organisms evolve over time and that we evolved from apes. We not only have the fossils to prove this, but scientists have actually observed microscopic organisms under microscopes with extremely short life spans evolve under observation. Darwin's theory to explain this FACT is called the Theory of Natural Selection. He believed that over time, some organisms with certain traits die out before they reproduce and don't pass these traits on to their offspring. Others DO pass their traits on. This is NOT necessarily "survival of the fittest", as many people assume, because a sex drive has always been passed down, regardless of whether or not its good for survival, because sexual organisms without strong sex drives died before they had sex. But, regardless of whether or not his theory is true, the FACT remains that organisms evolve over time.

Now, where did all this come from? Well, the Big Bang, ultimately. (The Nobel Prize was recently awarded to scientists who conclusively proved the Big Bang hypothesis.) Where did the Big Bang come from? Nobody knows; not even scientists. Was there some divinity or divinities that caused the Big Bang? Perhaps.

To me, however, what's a lot more important is our values and how we live our lives. I think that what religion really provides us with are these values. I think "love your neighbor"[1] is a good value. I also think that "subject to impermanence are all things"[2] is also a good thing to remember.

Joseph Cambell[3] believed that myth is metaphor. In other words, you can take myths, like Bible stories, the Greek myths, and so forth and get symbols out of them. For example, he saw God as being a metaphor for whatever is best for all humanity. Another, related concept is that myths teach wisdom as opposed to knowledge. Jesus's teachings, for example, have inspired many to basically be nice people. Even if he/He isn't/wasn't divine... even if he/He was never an historical person, his teachings remain in the Gospels. From Greek mythology, we have such concepts as the Apollonic, representing our rational side and the Dionysian, representing our mad side. The Greeks believed in balancing these two sides of ourselves. Does it matter whether or not Apollo and Dionysos really exist as Gods? The ideas they embody remain. The same is true of many myths around the world and throughout time.

I also think that religion can provide us with practices. Prayer, meditation, forms of mysticism like Kaballah or working with chakras are all useful things to do, because there are values attached to all of those things and those practices help reinforce our values and ethics. THAT affects how we interact in society.

In a lab experiment with rats, it was discovered that rats will start killing each other when food became scarce. When scientists hypothesized ("hypothesis", not "theory", BTW, is the correct word for something in science that has not been proven) that humans would do the same thing, it was pointed out that the English during World War II were remarkably peaceful and waited in line without a fuss for their food rations when food was very scarce during the German Blitz. Why? Rats don't have religion, art, ethics or many other things we humans possess. So, I don't know if that was the answer you were looking for, but I hope it helps.

Answer 4

What I don't understand is why do people insist that someONE put anything here? Ever think that the stuff just formed naturally? Things sometimes happen without anyone getting involved, such as the rocks on earth dissolving over thousands of years to create soil. NoONE did that. It happened by itself.

Answer 5

Is this going to go on forever? No one 'put' them there - or at least no one needed to. Amino acids can form naturally.

Basic elements are formed in stars and in collapsing stars. The universe started out (a little after the Big Bang) with hydrogen. Hydrogen clouds collapsed gravitationally into stars, which fused hydrogen in their cores to produce other elements, from helium all the way to iron. When the star exploded, it produced heavier elements in the explosion through r-processes and all the elements were spread throughout the universe, to make other stars and planets and eventually people.

Yes, we can see this happening today. Look up 'spectroscopy', 'supernova', and 'nucleosynthesis'.

Answer 6

RNA, the basic elements that you are describing, when interacting with energy sources, becomes self-replicating. This molecule evolved over time into DNA. RNA is not an uncommon molecule. (Molecules are combinations of elements, such as water (H2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and other chemicals that make up the planet.) Most viruses genes are still based on RNA molecules.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

Q 3: It is just a theory that we evolved from a
monkey, they are not yet sure. Some says
we evolved from a monkey some do not.
Watch National Geographical Channel.

And the other, God made evrything...

Answer 10

Ahh, very good! When they say they form naturally, once again from what? Nothing can form itself. That takes more faith to believe in than God.