Are we made of clay, is this even possible?

Question

Al right, so here is a question that should make you think
So we were made from dirt
Hmmmm
okay so where do I find some of this impossible magic dirt? The idea of this is simple ludicrous. Let me elaborate
the chemical properties of average soil although considerably close to the elements contained in the human body are incredibly disproportionate and could not possibly in anyway, anywhere on Earth be suitable for creating anything close to human. The nitrogen content alone would not allow this creation to survive for one second. This is just the beginning, The high rate of all the similar elements in soil would be so incredible toxic, Go ahead, go eat your weight in soil if you don't believe me. you could even do it slowly over a week you would still die.
I am not an expert, but does this not at least help explain evolution. the ability to survive and multiply in an extreme environment such as this
Another thing about soil, it doesn't just happen. It is the slow build up of decaying organic material over the course of time, millions of years

Of course I already know your answer to this being God did it. but of course if any of you would like to answer this with some real thought it would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I think that's just a symbolic thing. If you really think about it, the first bacteria or whatever were created from rocks and junk (probably) right? Some people think aliens did it, blah blah whatever else interfered or something, but really I think what it came down to is this. Lots of time, million to one chance that the very first living things happen at all, and it winds up that they did. But it DID start somewhere and evolve from there. And it started from something inanimate.

Answer 2

The theory you take here does not allow for the formation of the simplest forms of supposed early life. Even Darwin believed the earliest forms of evolution had some sort of creation origin. If God is the creator of DNA, and the earth was of His creation, it is most acceptible to attribute this act to God. How could the earth have possibly been decaying organic material if it was just created? I will answer your questions briefly.
1. I answered this above.
2. Since you were not there for creation, as science dictates, you can't assume what the properties of the earth were. This isn't empirically testable. It remains an assumption.
3. If the chemical properties are similar, is it not possible, assuming there is a God, for this God to arrange the properties of these substances? After all it's done many places in nature to create certain compounds that are critical to our survival on earth.
4. You are not attempting to explain evolution one bit in your attempt for emotional appeal. You are only trying to tap away at the framework of Creationism or ID.
5. Even according to evolutionist, the earth just formed from random chance from a big bang. And if nothing was living before that bang, that kind of shoots your theory of soil being purely decaying organic material, of course, given enough time, anything can happen....Right?

So to answer your question; Yes I believed we were formed from the earth, just as I believe the earth was created into existence from nothing.

Answer 3

Friend your ideals does not hold water, First of all, God can take every chemical out of the dirt to make mankind, second man is about 97 to 98% Water, & 3rd, This does not prove one thing about evolution, You yourself admitted that & you don't even know it, If the way you try to put it was true, Then it would be the same for animals, Therefore, your thought of evolution has been killed by your own tricky question, The same chemicals would kill the animal kingdom as it would have the Humans, But God knows how to seperate those elements in both man & animals.

Answer 4

Well what did you expect the Bible teaches? That a pile of dirt just naturally, without the aid of any Higher Power, just decided to form a human being one day? You can't explain spiritually things by natural circumstances.

Answer 5

Clay like any other material is subject to outside forces.
Place a jar made of clay in a kilt and it will hard ed
Place the clay in enough heat and it will melt down to a glass like appearance.
Place the clay in God's hands and anything is possible.

Its the outside force not the chemical make up that can effect change.

Answer 6

It's simpler than that. I have a friend who is tragically Muslim and believes that load of hogwash and really thinks we were sculpted out of clay. If we were we'd be Silicon based life forms not Carbon based. We'd had to have been sculpted out of coal... except for obvious reasons that wouldnt work either outside of a fairytale... which is all religion is. A story for the ignorant.

Answer 7

If you take all the water out of the human body what is left is about three pounds of organic chemicals. So, yes, we are made of dirt, water and spirit. It is spirit that makes it all work.

Answer 8

referring to the item you have here is that Adam was made from earth and when God sent down his angel to retrieve some the first angle came back and said " O god the earth refused me and told me the it would be sad if I took it so he sent another down and it came back and said O God please forgive me but I was not able to retrieve it for you the earth said it would hurt and begged me not too. Then God sent down The Angle Israel and he went and came back with the earth in his hands and God asked him did you have any problem, and He replied the earth resisted me but I knew I could not disobey you, so I took it and brought it to you. and God was so blessed with him he appointed him to be the angle of death.

Answer 9

If you use some "real thought" you can't remove God out of the equasion. GOD formed man out of the dust of the ground.

Answer 10

God is transcendent and He is The Creator. He just needs to say "Be" and it is. If you believe that then you should be all right. Leave Darwinism to the self-denial atheists.