Besisdes evolutionary theories and creationist theories....?

Question

are there any other theories that propose how living organisms came to be??

Answer 1

Jim, where on earth do ytou get your ideas from!
Evolution is most certainly not proved.
It is a hypothesis. No ideas about origins can ever be proved scientifically since they were not observed, cannot be tested or repeated.

Either someone created the universe (creation), or it appeared from nothing (evolution from Big Bang), or it has always existed.
This final steady state option has its proponents, but is not popular now.

Both of the final options violate the observed laws of physics (increase of entropy) We see vast amounts of information around us (DNA etc). Information does not increase on its own, it requires an intelligent source, namely a designer.

What a lot of baloney Tentafield. Show us the evidence that demonstrates evolution.
People like you sholdn't be allowed to make such bald-faced claims without demonstrating that you know what you're talking about - which you clearly don't!

Answer 2

Evolution is the change in organisms over time. It is not the formation of life in the first place. Evolution kicks in once life has appeared. Evolution is supported by all the evidence and has been observed. That evolution occurs is fact, how it occurs is one of the great scientific theories. Theory is as good as it gets in science.

Abiogenesis is the most likely scenario for the origins of life on Earth but Panspermia has its supporters. There is wiggle room there for those who want an original creation with a god providing the first living cells.

Answer 3

The creationists have something of an advantage here in that they have an already-made answer to this question, so they don't have to do any more thinking. God created everything, including life, and there's an end to it (unless you worry about what or whom created God...).

The evolutionists struggle here, because evolution (certainly in Darwinian terms) has nothing much to say about what was likely a one-off event during an unimaginably long period of time i.e. the formation of replicating cellular life from some kind of primeaval molecular soup thousands of millions of years ago. Scientists have tried and tried again to reproduce this event in the laboratory, with no success.

Some people argue that life could have originated by extraterrestial dust somehow "seeding" the planet say during meteorite showers. This might explain how life originated on earth but it avoids the far greater question of how it originated in the universe / outer space.

Ultimately, whichever way you look at it, it's pretty much shrouded in mystery.

Answer 4

There was another theory besides evolution and the belief in creationism back in the middle ages that proposed that life could spontaneously come into existence. That how people explained maggots and and other life forms suddenly appearing on rotting garbage. I'm not sure what the oficial name of it was.

Answer 5

Theres a theory that seems quite unbelievable but some say we were droped here on earth by other types of inteligant life on other planets. We also could have evolved from a single cell organism that has been transfered to earth on a meteorrite.

Answer 6

First a clarification for better understanding. There is but one Theory of Evolution. It has been fully tested, all hypothesis are fully supported by facts. Evolution is fact.

Creation is not a theory. It has failed all attempts at hypothesis testing and is not supported by facts. The only thing Creation can be called is a idea, and a bad one at that.

No. There are no other theories that support why life exist on Earth.

Answer 7

I don't know what else there could be other than the science of how God created the universe.