If you cannot create matter, then how do living things grow?

Question

I must me misinterpreting something here. Matter can't be created, but isn't that what is going on when an animal/plant/ect. grows?

Answer 1

No. They don't create matter. Plants TAKE matter from the environment (water and carbon dioxide = building blocks of plant life). Animals eat plants. There is no creation of matter going on anywhere, only conversion from one form to another. Water is matter. Carbon dioxide is matter. If you put a plant in a vacuum it would die.

PS: don't misunderstand how sunlight drives photosynthesis. It provides the energy for the reaction but the source of the matter is CO2 and H2O. Sun energy is locked up as chemical energy. When you eat and digest food, that is then broken down to CO2 and water exhaled through breath, and heat. See how the cycle goes?

Answer 2

Plants use substances from the earth and convert them into organic substances by chemical reaction. To prove this idea, find a plant on the ground, pull it out I am pretty sure it won't grow if plants could create matter then they should not need anything to grow.

Answer 3

The whole idea of abiogenesis is just as miraculous and God creating people. It all depends on your attitude. I am a spiritual person and choose to believe in God. I feel the evidence for creationism is much stronger than evidence for abiogensis and evolution. The Bible explains why we are here. Why good people suffer. What God has planned for the earth. It also gives hope for the future. Unlike abiogenesis and evolution. To me all life is much too complex to have just happened. At what point in abiogenesis did these life forms develop enough to procreate? How and why would they develop the ability to procreate? Even the simplest of cells are complex. If life began from nothing why doesn't it continue to do so? There are too many unanswered questions to the whole abiogenesis theory for me to believe. Even if I wanted to but I do not. Not everyone is a spiritual person and that is ok. The Bible says that most people will not gain eternal life even if they do believe in God.

Answer 4

When we eat, we are able to extract from our food the nutrients that we need to live, repair and grow. When we write an equation it has the same number and kind of atoms on each side because we cannot create or destroy matter.
We eat meat for protein to allow our body to make more cells and grow or repair. We eat carbohydrates and fats to give us energy but some of those are building blocks too. Vitamns and minerals are needed for the processes and to build bones. We need to take in these materials to use them.

C6H12O6 + 6O2 ---> 6CO2 + 6H2O
This formula shows our use of glucose, a simple sugar. We breath oxygen and eat the sugar and breath out carbon dioxide and water.
If you count you will see that there is 6 C on each side, 12 H on each side and 12 O on each side.

Answer 5

Animals eat food, and build their molecules from the molecules of the food they eat.

Plants don't eat. They build their molecules from carbon dioxide, water, and "fixed nitrogen." They get all these molecules from their environment.

No matter creation going on here.

Answer 6

Light energy is converted into matter by plants through photosynthesis. Animals eat plants and other animals. Living things decompose.

Answer 7

Living things take in matter as food, and add it to their bodies.

Answer 8

Matter can be converted to energy, ie burning coal. Energy can also be converted to matter, ie growing plants and people. A human eats matter, converts it into energy, and then converts the energy back in to matter, like cells, bones, skin and the like.

Answer 9

No, that is merely the conversion of one form of matter (food, water, etc.) into another form of matter.

Answer 10

YOU can NOT create matted , but I can

God does not play dice with the universe but I will - IQ