I'm just wondering... How did the original cell (DNA) survive until it got its protective cell membrane? Also, DNA/LIFE can only come from other DNA/LIFE so how did the first DNA strand form? Does it take more faith to believe that this cell somehow survived in a chaotic environment to flourish into all the amazing life on earth today or that God created life?
thanks for your answers.
2007-01-31 08:39:57 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
amino acids have formed under certain conditions, but forming proteins is a totally different leve.
2007-01-31 08:46:56 · update #1
I think it doesn't matter.
2007-01-31 08:43:30 · answer #1 · answered by gelfling 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Don't know. Original life almost certainly was not DNA based -- RNA, quite possibly. We are reasonably sure that it arose rather quickly -- within the first few hundred million years after the earth formed. The conditions prevailing at the time were wildly different than they are now -- methane and CO2 and nitrogen in the atmosphere, enormous tides, much shorter days than now, so there would have been a lot of stirring of the ocean. It took about two billion years before life turned the atmosphere into the oxygen environment that we see today. You are free to believe that god did it, if you wish, but that's a cop-out: it actually explains nothing, and has no value as a predictive tool.
2007-01-31 16:53:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
DNA is quite capable of self-assembling if the nucleotides are available, and of doing so in aqueous solution (after all, you are over 75% water).
In fact, it was BECAUSE of that chaotic environment that it was able to form, not in spite of it. A highly chaotic environment is a highly energetic environment, one capable of building amino acids and nucleotides from the various raw elements.
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Yes, forming amino acids and forming proteins are vastly different.
Protein formation is a cinch. It's just a simple peptide bond formation, a good jolt from a photon of the appropriate energy while the amino and carboxyl groups of two amino acids are adjacent, they'll reduce and the peptide will form, releasing a water molecule.
Amino acid formation is a much more complex process with lots of intermediate steps.
2007-01-31 16:44:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well first off we got to know what life is before we can ask where it came from like is a Virus a life form? if we can create a machine with good AI that has feelings is that a life form?
Organic compounds are relatively common in space, especially in the outer solar system where volatiles are not evaporated by solar heating. Comets are encrusted by outer layers of dark material, thought to be a tar-like substance composed of complex organic material formed from simple carbon compounds after reactions initiated mostly by irradiation by ultraviolet light. It is supposed that a rain of material from comets could have brought significant quantities of such complex organic molecules to Earth.
2007-01-31 17:00:52 · answer #4 · answered by Justin L 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The soup we call Earth is a perfect concoction for life. What was the spark? I don't know, and I may never know, but that doesn't mean I have to have an answer and give credit to God. I'm more than willing to say that we don't have all the answers. I don't need it all wrapped in a nice little book that says that God, or Zeus, or some other creature gets the credit.
Evolution is a fact.
God is a theory.
2007-01-31 16:44:22 · answer #5 · answered by S K 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think that it takes more faith to believe in God. The chances of life happening the way that it did are very slim. Consider that space and time are infinite. That means that if there is any chance at all that it could happen, it will happen at some point. A miniscule chance becomes certainty when comparing it to infinity. We just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
2007-01-31 16:45:21 · answer #6 · answered by robtheman 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
in the beginning...... but how did the beginning start ? what i don't like about this question is this, who created god ? any argument you can place against science and evolution you can also run against god and religion, so rather than have this same argument over and over again, why not solve it ? we look at metaphor all over the bible but not in geneses ? that's ridiculous,
who's to say Adam and eve weren't single cell organisms
remember the bible was written by man , not god and man has been flawed since creation
2007-01-31 17:14:15 · answer #7 · answered by eyesinthedrk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravitation is the reason for the very existence of the Earth, the Sun, and every objects in the universe; without it, matter would not have coalesced into masses and life would not exist.
2007-01-31 17:07:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder about this all the time but then when i go to write a reply to these questions i can't because it is one of those questions that most be answered verbally. Not over this lol. Do you know what i mean? Like in a discussion form..
2007-01-31 16:46:02 · answer #9 · answered by chris c 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
umm, you want a really wild answer, don't cha? Read Barbra Marciniacs book, "Bringers of the Dawn".. She writes about us going from a 12 strand dna to what we are now.... If anything its a bit of a trip, on the matrix view of things.
2007-01-31 16:47:06 · answer #10 · answered by intense 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe in both evolution and God...it happen out of space dust and continued to grow from the primal ooze but God was the guy that made it ALL happen.
2007-01-31 16:47:02 · answer #11 · answered by Lovely B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋