2006-12-16 21:09:20 · 6 answers · asked by prabhu 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Mr.Alan Turing is absolutely right (& it's good to hear from you, I was always taught you had died a long time ago!)
To expand on what he said, a number of experiments have been conducted passing large electrical discharges through a sealed glass vessel containing a mixture of methane, ethane, oxygen and other "simple" molecules to imitate lightning in an early earth atmosphere, and it has proven fairly simply to create quite complex organic molecules this way. Given even time, lightning and gas, it seems entirely plausible that molecules could be created in this way which would begin to "self-organize" *, and it's not a giant leap from there to simple life. Given enough time, it would be almost odd if life or something like it did not arise!
* There are many, many self-organizing structures that show extraordinary complexity without being alive, and it's no mystery how they arise. A good example is snowflakes, whose hexagonal symmetry is just a function of the angle between the two hydrogen atoms in a water molecule.
2006-12-17 03:24:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everything that lives is entirely dependent on light, whether directly or indirectly. This is true even if the light is not at all produced by the sun. For example, there is enough light created by exposed magma in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean (divergent zone) to support life.
Because all life depends on light in some form, it is safe to assume that life began with light being an essential ingredient.
As far as the other sources, they would be chemicals -- such as water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and a few metals. Electricity may also have been a factor.
2006-12-17 03:37:01 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_s19 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To try to explain things in terms of a God is not to explain anything. All you are saying is that you don't know and you are ignorant.
That said, no one knows what the process was for the formation of the first life on earth. As it was so quickly produced after the earth was formed indicates that the process is pandemic to any planet with the necessary chemicals and is a natural process that doesn't need any supernatural God to explain things, any more than you need God to explain why water runs down hill.
Light is energy, and energy is important to life, but it cannot be the sole source of life. There has to be material components as life is material. No one has ever identified a "spirit" or "soul" in any life, body, or person and we have no verifiable evidence that there ever was.
2006-12-17 01:50:51 · answer #3 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it is not The First living things on this earth Came and were made from JESUS. and nothing else cuz if light and other sources made them than that means that it made you also and it didnt JESUS made you and everyone and everything
2006-12-20 12:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by shipswanna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first ever living species evolved from bacterium and single celled creatures.
2006-12-17 00:04:17 · answer #5 · answered by rango 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created every living being.
2006-12-16 21:18:15 · answer #6 · answered by bear4141usa 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋