I asked evolutionists where they think life came from. They said "organisms". An organism is a life...

Question

I'll ask again. Where do evolutionists believe that life came from?

Answer 1

No one knows. Maybe God was the big bang. Then again maybe you are just fishing in an effort to to argue the evils of a legal procedure called abortion.

Answer 2

Life was sparked from the Universe. We are just one of those things that the Universe creates, and wants, seemingly, for some reason,
Perhaps we are the "soul" and the "eyes" of the universe. WE belong to the universe. All is one. All is life. There is no doubt many other planets who once had inhabited life on it, and have died off, and there will be life somewhere in the universe in the future, billions of years from now.
Perhaps there is some type of divinity outside the universe. Or perhaps all is divine, the universe, and all the contents within it. We are the creation, as one, we are all part of God (the spark of life, creation).

Mike:
Well, let's go before the planetary "insemination", where did these "spores" come from?
I would like to explore where this "spontanious DNA" originated. Everything has to come from something, in reality. So, lets say we are at the beginning of time, there is some seed that sparks life in the beginning, before it is all set in motion, what is this thing?
It really is a lot to ponder, I wish people would be more open minded, believers and non-believers as to the origins of the universe and WHY is there life within it, where did it come from?

Answer 3

I'm sorry to break it to you dude, but the answer to one of life's greatest mysteries (if not THE greatest) is not available on Yahoo! Answers forum. So basically you are asking this question to ruffle feathers and pick a fight, and I'm done chasing the philisophical tail that is the evolutionists vs. creationists controversy. Besides, evolution has nothing to do with the origin of anything, it's a theory regarding the EVOLUTION of what was already there. And by the way, when it comes to inexplicable and seemingly improbable solutions to enigmas, creationists are the kings...

Answer 4

The story of evolution starts long before Planet Earth was formed. Ever since the Universe began, exploding stars have scattered atoms through space. Sometimes these condense into solid planets and burning stars. Earth grew from dust 4.5 billion years ago. For a billion years, it spun around the Sun, hot and empty of life. It collided with giant asteroids, melting the land and turning oceans to steam. Lighting and radiation from the Sun made cyanide, which rained into the seas. It was a hellish, poisonous world- yet these conditions led to life.

The young Earth’s atmosphere had no oxygen gas. Very few modern organisms can survive without oxygen, which they use to release energy from food. But for life to begin, a lack of oxygen was vital. Oxygen is reactive. It combines easily with other atoms and changes them- and it would have destroyed the first delicate cells. But instead of oxygen, the early atmosphere was filled with unreactive gases, which protected early life and gave it a chance to survive.

No one knows for sure how life began, but life’s most important molecules contain carbon. To start with, carbon molecules must have been concentrated together, at the edges of seas and pools, or even on ice or lumps of clay. Then, by chemical reaction in the sea or atmosphere, these made life. However it happened, the first life must have been simple. Perhaps they were fatty bubbles floating in water, able to absorb molecules and split in two.

In 1953, Stanley Miller, a student at the University of Chicago, collected in a bottle the gases he thought covered the early Earth. He simulated the violent atmosphere of the time, by sparking electrodes inside the bottle. After a few days, he found a brown smear inside. In it were amino acids- carbon molecules essential for living things. Miller showed how a few of life’s molecules might have formed on the early Earth. But this is not the same as making life.

Meteorites often contain chemicals important for life, including carbon. The space debris that showered the early Earth may have been a vital raw material for the first simple life forms.
Life arose 3.5 billion years ago. The temperatures were similar to todays, but volcanoes and lighting made the planet a violent place. Yet these conditions were vital for life. Only later, once algae had released oxygen into air, did the atmosphere resemble our own.

Today’s simplest cells, like blue-green algae, can survive without oxygen. They are descendents of Earth’s earliest cells. However, the first life must have been simpler still, perhaps lacking a surface membrane or even DNA.

On the ocean floor, hot vents spew out minerals from underground. Vast colonies of bacteria live beside these vents, forming nourishment for a food chain of organisms that never see the light. Some scientists speculate that life may have originated around such vents, or even underground.

So basically, no one knows where life came from. It is just simply because no one was there to witness it. They are simply theories backed up by scientific evidence.

Answer 5

We have some of the Chemistry down, but not the exact answer. There are things in the middle. Viruses for instance are arguably both alive, and not alive.

Not having all the answers is not evidence of magic. All that means is we haven't figured it out yet. Any valid theory has got to explain the fossil record that is very clear. Life started simple and got more complex over a long period of time. This fact is inconsistent with Creationism.

Answer 6

Go back to biology class to learn the answer. I'm no scientist but I believe that water made the collection of molecules easier to connect and build more complex organisms. Given enough time and natural selection to do it's work. Those molecules are made of amino acids that are made of proteins. Those proteins are made of atoms of the four elements in ALL life on this planet, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and the star Carbon. Those elements are made on the insides of stars are abundant in the universe and when stars form, the planets soak up the left over stuff. Other chemical reactions also made the stuff of life, maybe even brought to earth by the early bombardment.

Answer 7

Evolution does not attempt to describe where life first came from. That's a completely different science. Evolution only explains how the different species that exist came about AFTER life began.

Current theory posits that life came about as a result of various chemical reactions that produced the basics of life. Some chemicals, such as those in DNA are able to reproduce themselves. These could have assembled themselves into more complicated structures that may have given rise to life. There is no proved theory to demonstrate absolutely that this sort of thing did happen, and as yet, there are only hypotheses, and nothing approaching an actual theory (at least as far as I know).

Answer 8

Cosmic Ancestry is a new theory pertaining to evolution and the origin of life on Earth. It holds that life on Earth was seeded from space, and that life's evolution to higher forms depends on genetic programs that come from space. (It accepts the Darwinian account of evolution that does not require new genetic programs.) It is a wholly scientific, testable theory for which evidence is accumulating.

The first point, which deals with the origin of life on Earth, is known as panspermia — literally, "seeds everywhere." Its earliest recorded advocate was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, who influenced Socrates. However, Aristotle's theory of spontaneous generation came to be preferred by science for more than two thousand years. Then on April 9, 1864, French chemist Louis Pasteur announced his great experiment disproving spontaneous generation as it was then held to occur. In the 1870s, British physicist Lord Kelvin and German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz reinforced Pasteur and argued that life could come from space. And in the first decade of the 1900s, Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius theorized that bacterial spores propelled through space by light pressure were the seeds of life on Earth.

Answer 9

You're asking non-biologists a biological question. If I asked you to explain what role nuclear decay plays in a nuclear reactor, could you do so? How about how to manufacture the lenses a stage spotlight?

I'm not a biologist, but in my reading it has been theorized that life sprang from the presence of amino acids near an energy source (probably near sub-sea volcanic vents). As these acids began to interact in the presence of the energy, some formed RNA (ribonucleic acid). This chemical is the building block for chromosomes, and its molecules are capable of self-replication.

Over the course of time, RNA (and later DNA) began to collect together to form chains. The chains, in interaction, began to further duplicate as a group. Over time some of them began to develop fields around them like a bubble, and as time and mutations went along, this bubble became a cell nucleus, and began to develop other characteristics that we now think of as cellular structure.

Some of these cells began to develop the capacity to draw energy from sunlight and transform it for greater cellular nourishment. From that point forward further speciation following the evolutionary pattern of mutations that are naturally selected due to environmental pressures carried life through the eons to our present condition.

Answer 10

There was an experiment that put an electrical charge(lightning) through basic elements that were on primal earth and it created complex proteins. These complex proteins are belived to be the building blocks of life. I belive this to be a possibility.

Answer 11

I remember many years ago, I had an organism and the next thing ya know, I was a daddy.

Its true, a good organism when your with your wife can result in a new kid.

God created us to reproduce after our own kind.