How did life really began accordng to evolutionist? And what is death?

Question

I am curious on evolution. I am no good in Biology. How did the first cell became alive? It started in some sudden moment!!. If I have to believe evolution, this first cell should have started dividing to form new cells. Well then how did death invaded those organisms and what was death in such a case. How did death became more complex and evolution could never overcome it.

Answer 1

the theory would allow that with enough time and the right materials and conditions that there is a propensity toward making life.

i dont think that evolution tries to understand many facets of human existence...death and where does the spirit come from and the like. i dont think that it tries to explain this.

Answer 2

Life probably started right here on earth. Though we are not sure how, we have a pretty good idea. As far back as 1953 scientists performed experiments in which they simulated conditions on our planet approximately 3 billion years ago, and successfully created Amino Acids in these experiments.

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which is what all life is made of. In 1961 further experiments produced the bases of RNA and DNA.

More recently, in 2003, scientists created artificial life. They basically made an artificial string of DNA, and implanted it into a virus. The virus then started multiplying.

Sure, a virus isn't that exciting, but a human's DNA is many thousands of times more complicated to reproduce. Remember that we had about 3 billion years to evolve from a simple organism to where we are today.

Remember, if the concept seems a little difficult to understand, everything is made of different combinations of chemicals, carbon, oxygen etc... even living plants and animals.

Unfortunately death is simply the end, no living organism on earth can sustain itself indefinitely.

Answer 3

Evolution is the change in species over time. Evolution has nothing to do with the formation of life on the planet, it kicks in once life has formed by whatever process. Abiogenesis is the most likely start for life but panspermia is also a possible hypothesis.

If you are really interested in finding out about evolution. you could start with the Frequently Asked Questions at http://www.talkorigins.org or read some of Richard Dawkins's books - The Blind Watchmaker, River out of Eden, The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mt Improbable etc.

Answer 4

Organisms so called living or nonliving are simply random combinations of prevailing elements in the universe.All combinations(Forms) have their way of existance and nonexistance.We call natural order or nature or property.To exist is life and not to exist is death.In fact life as such is not life and so the death is not death.According to Indian philosophy or logic(Which ofcourse is relative,a big subject)there exist five elements AAKASH(VACCUME)PRUTHVI(ELEMENTS)JAL(WATER) TEJ(LIGHT) AND VAYU(GAS) BY WHICH VARIOUS FORMS ARE FORMED BY RANDOM COMBINATION.THESE COMBINATIONS CHANGE FORMS BUT NEVER PERISH.NOW HOW THESE FORMS ORGANISE AND DISORGANISE (SO CALLED LIFE & DEATH)IS REALLY A QUESTION.BUT AGAIN QUESTION AND ANSWER IS THE HUMANLY CREATED LOGIC CREATED BY ITS ENVIRONMENT WHERE IT EXISTS.(Simple example is our languages.African can't understand English and vice a versa)Science to understand materials is our human logic which has nothing to do with the meaning in reality.SO AS SUCH YOUR QUESTION IS NOT THE QUESTION AND OUR ANSWERS ARE NOT ANSWERS.THEY ARE MANMADE ILLUSIONS.ASTU

Answer 5

The answers from SmartyPan… and tentofiel… are pretty good, and tentofiel is correct in saying that the theory of evolution is not really about the origins of life. Currently there is no widely accepted scientific theory of the origins of life, but this does not mean we are completely in the dark as to how it could have come about. My own preference is to focus on the self-organizing tendencies of matter. It is a basic, verifiable fact of nature that chaotic dynamic systems self-organize, which is to say, that from just a few basic elements and a few simple rules (about as complex as a game of tic-tac-toe) one can witness the growth of infinite complexity and intricate pattern-development. We currently can't say with confidence exactly which elements and which set of rules led to life on earth, but the basic principles involved are becoming fairly well understood, so I suspect it is just a matter of time and effort before we start to see detailed theories suggesting the possible pathways. I say "theories" because my guess is that there are innumerable possible paths to life and we will probably never know for sure which path (or paths) led to actual life here on earth. It is somewhat like looking at a chess board after the players have been playing for several minutes. You could come up with a bunch of theories about how the game pieces could have arrived at their current positions consistent with the rules of chess, but unless someone who witnessed the game from the beginning tells you which theory is correct, you could never really know which paths they actually followed. The problem with the origin of life, of course, is that there are no witnesses, so like I said, we will probably end up with multiple plausible theories. The only thing that I can personally guarantee at the moment is that all of these theories will be heavily based on the principles of self-organizing material systems.

As for your questions about death, I have answered several questions here on Yahoo Answers related to the philosophical/spiritual implications of death, but as for the scientific implications, the answer is fairly simple. Self-organization can only occur in systems that are have been pushed away from thermodynamic equilibrium. Basically, the sun pours energy onto the earth's surface, which provides the possibility of long-term material self-organization. But the 2nd law of thermodynamics still holds. There is still a basic tendency for complex organizations of matter to become disorganized over time. You need to keep supplying energy and materials to keep things organized. Evolution does not care about individual immortality, it only cares about the viability and productivity of off-spring. In theory we might someday develop the technology for indefinite lifespans, but since evolution was just as happy with the death/procreation model, nature never bothered to develop virtual immortality (that is, processes that continue indefinitely until some sort of accident kills them). Someday human technology might produce this, but Mother Nature simply never got around to it because "immortality" through procreation was sufficient. You might say that Mother Earth cares about species, not individuals.

Answer 6

Ultimately, what they believe is this;
Time + Matter + Chance= life.
The odds are too astonomical. It is only a theory defvised because people don't want to face the fact that God created us.

Answer 7

Why dont you go on a google search, that would make it easy for you to get a satsfying responce.