Whether you are a Christian, Atheist, Muslim, JW, Mormon...I want you to write where and when you believe life originated and then a good, solid reason why you believe that. Sources are welcome. Just don't come on here saying "Uh, duh, doofus, it's like this, 'cause I'm smarter than everyone else in this stupid forum." Educated, logical, non-sarcastic answers with firm proof, dependable sources and well-thought out sentences are what I'm looking for. Show me what you've got.
2007-01-26 01:41:22 · 10 answers · asked by Robert P 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Life seems to have started in the Upper African area and man was created out of the essences of the Earth and gases.
Seems both science and religion hold this basic view.
As to when, hard to say exactly. But if you play with the math both the Biblical 6 days and the Carl Sagan 30 day cosmic calendars can be equated to the fossil evences in terms of a time line.
Sagan says the first minute of the last day of the first month. The Bible says on the 6th day and immeidately thereafter God rested. So this could be the last minute of the 11th hour just before Midnight leading to the 7th day.
If Sagan can claim it takes 1 minute, so can God.
2007-01-26 02:31:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a start, I'm operating in a naturalist framework, because I can't observe any supernatural forces at work in the world.
Therefore I have to go with the majority of molecular and evolutionary biologists, and say that life originated in Earth's early complex stew of organic molecules.
With that said, I also think that "life" and "mind" in some sense go all the way to the roots of "physical" reality, or else they wouldn't be able to manifest in the context of increasingly complex systems. In this sense I follow the panexperientialist naturalism of process philosophers such as A.N. Whitehead.
2007-01-26 01:50:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The earliest micro-fossils show single celled simple life in rock that dates to 3.5 billion years ago.
The geologic record and astronomy agree in various observations that the earth is about 4.5 billion years old and had an early anoxic atmosphere (meaning: little or no oxygen) and a carbon rich ocean, receiving vast amounts of ultraviolet light (ozone couldn't have formed yet -- no free oxygen after all) and the storms that wouldh ave raged on such a planet would have produced massive lighting strikes.
Given these conditions, one can replicate them in the laboratory to get all the basic elements of life, including DNA nucleotides, RNA nucleotides, the various amino acids, and simple lipids.
It's all internally consistent and points to a date approximately 3.5 billion to 4.0 billion years ago.
2007-01-26 01:49:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe life originated somewhere on Earth between 3.2 and 4 billion years ago. We have extremely good geological evidence that life already existed on earth 3.2 billion years ago. Geological models also indicate that before 4 billion years ago the Earth was too hot to support life. I personally do not believe that it is at all likely that life formed elsewhere and was transported to earth.
The cyano-bacteria fossils dated to 3.8 billion years ago are in dispute. It is not clear that they are biological in origin at all. I think that at present we just have to be content to answer that we just don't know exactly when life formed. But an estimate of 3.6 billion years is highly likely to be within 400 millon years anyway.
2007-01-26 01:49:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sadly, this "question" continues to pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.
The anti-Witness arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".
In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"
(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”
(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name
So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded
Learn more!
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/
http://watchtower.org/e/20050422/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/pr/article_04.htm
2007-01-26 05:49:49 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christian point of view is based on the bible. God created Jesus, and Jesus was the first creation of God. Then angles were created. Next, planets, stars, the universe was created. Finally, based on the bible, earth was most likely already in existance when the first day of creation began. Then the 6 days of creation were completed in preperation for man, and including the making of man and woman. We are currently on day 7.
For more information or to ask something feel free to e-mail me at cary_tony@yahoo.com
2007-01-26 01:44:49 · answer #6 · answered by tony c 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life obviously began when Man was made from dirt by a Divine Being. How can anyone deny this fact?
2007-01-26 01:51:37 · answer #7 · answered by a sock 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
An alien of unknown origins landed and peed in a puddle.
Millions of years later, here we are.
tc
2007-01-26 01:46:52 · answer #8 · answered by timc_fla 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
A pool of primordal ooze that got hit by lightening.
2007-01-26 01:46:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
life orginated from fire.
2007-01-26 01:58:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋