How did life on earth start?

Question

was it the big bang or God?

Answer 1

Refer to Genesis chapters 1 and 2 for insight.

Answer 2

The Big Bang has nothing to do whatsoever with how life on earth started. The Big Bang deals with the start of the universe. This universe could have begun without life ever coming into existence on the planet. How do we know the Big Bang happened? We can still detect the residual heat and radiation from the explosion (or, rather, implosion, as we're inside it).

That said, life came about through chemical reactions that took place on a scale that covered the entire globe. Once these chemicals got moving, they began to self-organize and then evolution began.

Answer 3

Yeah, and which came first? The chicken or the egg?

Questions like this are just meant to stir controversy.

Everyone wants to believe that something bigger exists and that's fine. That's where religion steps in. If you don't believe in a God, you're an atheist and damned to burn in hell for eternity.

If you approach it from a logical, reasonable, scientific perspective you're considered Godless and the above applies.

Voicing ones religious opinions does nothing but start wars. Look around. How many are started and fought in it's name because my God is better or more righteous than yours? Religion should be kept in the home where it belongs and not out on center stage where people can debate it's veracity and judge others for their belief pro or con.

The only thing I have to say is that if it were proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt that God does/does not exist, what would that do to the everyone's arguement?
All society needs is irrefutable proof of one way or the other and the controversy will stop.

Answer 4

Life on earth didn't start with the big bang. The big bang happened long before the earth was created (If I remember, the current estimate is 14 Billion years).

The earth is 4.5 billion years old according to dating methods and mathmatics.

Life on earth is roughly about 4 billion years old.

Unless, of course, you dismiss physics, geology, biology, chemistry, paleontology, genetics, etc and go with the Christian point of view which says life is between
6000 - 10 000 years old.

Now your question itself is very difficult to answer and would take far more pages and time than anyone would be willing to put into YA. The best thing to do is to research it yourself. Look on the internet, read books, perhaps go back to school. Because the answer is long and involved and if you don't understand the sciences, it won't make sense to you anyway.

Answer 5

For those who based their belief that life started from inorganic matter to organic matter, I as a science student know that their is no scientific explanation for something as tiny, yet intricate as the cell.

Here are your proofs so that you may be guided.

When describing the creation of the "heavens and the earth," the Qur'an does not discount the theory of a "Big Bang" explosion at the start of it all.

In fact, the Qur'an says that "the heavens and the earth were joined together as one unit, before We clove them asunder" (21:30). Following this big explosion, Allah "turned to the sky, and it had been (as) smoke. He said to it and to the earth: 'Come together, willingly or unwillingly.' They said: 'We come (together) in willing obedience'" (41:11). Thus the elements and what was to become the planets and stars began to cool, come together, and form into shape, following the natural laws that Allah established in the universe.

The Qur'an further states that Allah created the sun, the moon, and the planets, each with their own individual courses or orbits. "It is He Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; all (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its rounded course" (21:33).

Expansion of Universe

The Qur'an also does not rule out the idea that the universe is continuing to expand. "The heavens, We have built them with power. And verily, We are expanding it" (51:47). There has been some historical debate among Muslim scholars about the precise meaning of this verse, since knowledge of the universe's expansion was only recently discovered.

Six Days?

The Qur'an states that "Allah created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six days" (7:54). While on the surface this might seem similar to the account related in the Bible, there are some important distinctions.

The verses that mention "six days" use the Arabic word "youm" (day). This word appears several other times in the Qur'an, each denoting a different measurement of time. In one case, the measure of a day is equated with 50,000 years (70:4), whereas another verse states that "a day in the sight of your Lord is like 1,000 years of your reckoning" (22:47). The word "youm" is thus understood, within the Qur'an, to be a long period of time -- an era or eon. Therefore, Muslims interpret the description of a "six day" creation as six distinct periods or eons. The length of these periods is not precisely defined, nor are the specific developments that took place during each period.

After completing the Creation, the Qur'an describes that Allah "settled Himself upon the Throne" (57:4) to oversee His work. A distinct point is made to counter the Biblical idea of a day of rest: "We created the heavens and the earth adn all that is between them in six days, nor did any sense of weariness touch Us" (50:38).

Allah is never "done" with His work, because the process of creation is ongoing. Each new child who is born, every seed that sprouts into a sapling, every new species that appears on earth, is part of the ongoing process of Allah's creation. "He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself on the Throne. He knows what enters within the heart of the earth, and what comes forth out of it, what comes down from heaven, and what mounts up to it. And He is with you wherever you may be. And Allah sees well all that you do" (57:4).

Answer 6

"Doesn’t the Big Bang theory disprove the Genesis account of creation?"

Try to think of any explosion that has produced order. Does a terrorist bomb create harmony? Big bangs cause chaos. How could a Big Bang produce a rose, apple trees, fish, sunsets, the seasons, hummingbirds, polar bears—thousands of birds and animals, each with its own eyes, nose, and mouth? A child can see that there is "grand design" in creation.

Try this interesting experiment: Empty your garage of every piece of metal, wood, paint, rubber and plastic. Make sure there is nothing there. Nothing. Then wait for ten years and see if a Mercedes evolves. Try it. If it doesn’t appear, leave it for 20 years. If that doesn’t work, try it for 100 years. Then try leaving it for 10,000 years. Here’s what will produce the necessary blind faith to make the evolutionary process believable: leave it for 250 million years.

"New scientific revelations about supernovas, black holes, quarks, and the big bang even suggest to some scientists that there is a ‘grand design’ in the universe." (U.S. News & World Re-port, March 31, 1997)

"The universe suddenly exploded into being...The big bang bears an uncanny resemblance to the Genesis command." Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal science writer

Answer 7

Neither.

The big bang was the start of the universe.

Emergent order was the start of life on earth.

Answer 8

Big Bang started the beginning of the universe. Life on earth started by evolution of protein and RNA and the like.

Answer 9

It was God using the Big Bang. Life on earth started when God created it, of course. But the evolutionists will tell you that there were oceans filled with God knows what chemicals that spawned to life and created everything, even though there is not a shred of evidence that those chemical oceans, seas, or whatever existed.
Go figure.

Answer 10

The big bang.

Many people assume that the big bang isn't true because they use the "something from nothing" argument.

What they don't know is that the formation of the universe from nothing need not violate conservation of energy.

Matter is positive energy, and seeing as how all matter has a proportional amount of gravitational energy, which is negative energy, the total sum of energy is still ZERO.

Answer 11

Oh God here we go...wait for the three thousand cut and pastes from the bible...

Maybe God created the Big Bang.