Besides evolution/creation, are there any other theories attempting to answer how life came to exist on earth?

Question

I hear only of those two, but i've yet to hear any other explanation. Perhaps those are the only logical ones, or perhaps NEITHER is correct and the real answer lies beyond the abilities of human processing capabilities? What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Concerning the debate going on about intelligent design and evolution: is it possible that the final answer about which of these two seemingly opposite ideas is correct could simply be yes?

With one position firmly held by the believers and the other just as fearlessly defended by the non-believers, if you happen to be in a position somewhere near the middle, it does not look all that complex. From this position, you wonder why either-or has to be the answer.

If you believe that some higher being created the universe by intelligent design, what more elegant and intelligent design could there have been than a self-regulating system that continually checks its own errors and makes its own corrections in mid-stream as an integral part of the process.

This all seems quite logical to me although it probably won’t satisfy the believers because they are afraid to see any truth other than the one they have been told to believe in. Inversely it certainly won’t satisfy the non-believers because it leaves them stuck with a god that they are so obviously terrified of.

To sum up this view from the center, it might be most easily be explained by saying perhaps the designer was intelligent. Problem is, the designer was likely so intelligent that those seeking to prove that it is intelligently designed may be incapable of ever understand it well enough to see it for the elegant self regulating design that it has always been.

The nonbelievers will be similarly handicapped due to the internal terror the have about the idea that there may be a God. Neither side being able to leave their entrenched position for fear they may have to admit they were wrong. While the rest of us stand by trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. Personally I don’t think anyone is wrong, I just feel both sides are about half right.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

The big bang created a universe in which energy is concentrated more in some places than in others. Since then, energy has been flowing from the areas of greater concentration to those of lesser concentration. But the flow is not perfectly smooth; it is entirely possible (even inevitable) that some energy will build up, temporarily, in some places even while the general flow is in the opposite direction. Chemical reactions are a very good example; given a good energy supply (the Sun serves perfectly), molecules that are more and more complex are bound to come into existence. At some point a molecule will come into existence that will, using available energy and raw materials, serve as a "blueprint" to make copies of itself. From that point on the appearance of trees, insects, dogs, human beings, etc., is a foregone conclusion.

Answer 3

Loads, but they are all creation myths. Evolution is only a theory in so much as some people will always deny reality and science. You can't test, see, touch or feel the Theory of Gravity either but it is only a theory until we have the technology to demonstrate it, there is no question that it isn't done with strings by a puppet master.

Answer 4

Evolution does not actually try to explain how life came to exist. It sort of starts from that point onward. What you are talking about is biogenesis. (Don't get excited about the genesis bit).

So
1) Life was spontaneously generated by a mixture of chemicals, with perhaps electricty
2) Life was created by a god
3) Life arrived here on a comet (panspermia)

None of them sucessfully answer the question. The last two just push the point of prime origin back a stage.

Answer 5

Have you ever read what Scientologists (like Tom Cruise) believe? Something about an alien capturing spirits and throwing in a volcano which spewed and cast evil spirits in each of us that causes us to believe in false gods, etc. The whole thing is so far-fetched, it's comical! And the best part? The folks that believe all this don't even care that the guy that came up with this was a sci-fi writer! Duh-huh!

Answer 6

Well creationism is only one of many religious answers to this question, so if you're going to give creationism the same weight of authority as evolution, you should also consider the Norse, native american, hindu, shinto, and every other religion's creation story as valid alternatives as well.

As for scientific theories. Evolution is a fact... like gravity. Nobody disputes that gravity exists. The debate would be what flavor of evolution is more perfect.

Answer 7

Creation is not a theory, it is a faith-based belief.

Evolution is voodoo science that was never proven, or else it would be called a scientific law, that's the way science works.

Life can't evolve from non-life, and evolution can't explain how that very first life form came into existence.

Well, it was created! As was everything else!

Answer 8

There are more theories out there. You got to talk to the right people. Here is one that you might have heard

COSMIC NOMADISM

where people came to earth from another planet because the resources were exhausted. And yes it is beyond my processing capability.

Answer 9

Evolution DOESN'T attempt to answer how life came to exist on earth. It only refers to how life changes. Really it refers to how all life we see today is descended from single celled ancestors.

As to how life began, other than God did it and Abiogenesis, there is also "life landed here on a meteor" (but then how did that life start?).

Answer 10

Well, there's the Matrix theory lol.

Let's see, there's also an old Chinese one about bird mating with an ape to form a human, but I just don't see that happening.

There's also one about an egg and a chicken .... no wait, wrong debate lol