Evolution question?

Question

The theory of evolution says that some 3.5 billion years ago there was a large inorganic soup of nitrogen, ammonia, salts and carbon dioxide bubbling away. Out of this noxious caldron arose the first single-celled algae which evolved over time to our present computer age. Where did this bubbling organic soup come from?

Answer 1

The Big Bang created everything in the universe including stars. Stars have created every single known element in the universe...this is not my opinion, this is a proven fact.
(PS-It is obvious from your question that you get your info on evolution from a creationist propaganda website written by someone that knows NOTHING about evolution)

Answer 2

"Missing Link" Still Missing

Imaginations certainly took flight over Archaeoraptor Liaoningensis, a birdlike fossil with a meat-eater’s tail that was spirited out of northeastern China, ‘discovered’ at a Tucson, Arizona, gem and mineral show last year, and displayed at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. Some 110,000 visitors saw the exhibit, which closed January 17; millions more read about the find in November’s National Geographic. Now, paleontologists are eating crow. Instead of ‘a true missing link’ connecting dinosaurs to birds, the specimen appears to be a composite, its unusual appendage likely tacked on by a Chinese farmer, not evolution.

"Archaeoraptor is hardly the first ‘missing link’ to snap under scrutiny. In 1912, fossil remains of an ancient hominid were found in England’s Piltdown quarries and quickly dubbed man’s apelike ancestor. It took decades to reveal the hoax." U.S. News & World Report, February 14, 2000

"Darwin admitted that millions of ‘missing links,’ transitional life forms, would have to be discovered in the fossil record to prove the accuracy of his theory that all species had gradually evolved by chance mutation into new species. Unfortunately for his theory, despite hundreds of millions spent on searching for fossils worldwide for more than a century, the scientists have failed to locate a single missing link out of the millions that must exist if their theory of evolution is to be vindicated." Grant R. Jeffery, The Signature of God

"There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist . . . denies that this is so. It is simply a fact. Darwin’s theory and the fossil record are in conflict." David Berlinsky

"Scientists concede that their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments and that huge gaps exist in the fossil record." Time magazine, Nov. 7, 1977

"The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing." G. K. Chesterton

Answer 3

Evolution merely describes how species change and develop over time, it says nothing about the origins of life nor how the earth was formed. The Big Bang theory and most others get to a point where there was a mixture of elements that began to exhibit some of the traits we use to describe life. The elements were born of the fusion of atoms during the formation of the planet and in the atmosphere and violent earth that ensued.

Answer 4

This famous experiment conducted in the 1950s confirmed the probability of just such a scenario. It has been repeated several times since then, I believe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment

The experiment used water (H2O), methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3) and hydrogen (H2). The chemicals were all sealed inside a sterile array of glass tubes and flasks connected together in a loop, with one flask half-full of liquid water and another flask containing a pair of electrodes. The liquid water was heated to induce evaporation, sparks were fired between the electrodes to simulate lightning through the atmosphere and water vapor, and then the atmosphere was cooled again so that the water could condense and trickle back into the first flask in a continuous cycle.

At the end of one week of continuous operation, Miller and Urey observed that as much as 10-15% of the carbon within the system was now in the form of organic compounds. Two percent of the carbon had formed amino acids, including 13 of the 22 that are used to make proteins in living cells, with glycine as the most abundant. As observed in all consequent experiments, both left-handed (L) and right-handed (D) optical isomers were created in a racemic mixture.

During recent years, studies have been made of the amino acid composition of the products of "old" areas in "old" genes, defined as those that are found to be common to organisms from several widely separated species, assumed to share only the last universal ancestor (LUA) of all extant species. These studies found that the products of these areas are enriched in those amino acids that are also most readily produced in the Miller-Urey experiment. This suggests that the original genetic code was based on a smaller number of amino acids -- only those available in prebiotic nature -- than the current one (Brooks et al. 2002).

Answer 5

Your question is related to the cosmological argument for a First Cause of everything:

One needs to have a formalized understanding of logic, something missing in most of what is written in this forum on the topic of God's existence. Here is a starting point:

Premise: Every event has a cause
Premise: The universe has a beginning
Premise: All beginnings involve an event

Inference: This implies that the beginning of the universe involved an event
Inference: Therefore the beginning of the universe had a cause
Conclusion: The universe had a cause

For something to have caused the universe it must have existed outside of the universe and time. That First Cause could only have been an omnipotent supernatural agent, God.

Another argument is one from design:

1. The universe began to exist
2. The universe has complexity, order and fine-tuning
3. Complexity, order and fine-tuning imply design
4. Design that began to exist implies a designer
5. Therefore, the universe has a designer

Premise 1: See Big Bang theorem (Hawking, Penrose) All matter and time itself began at this moment
Premise 2: Universe has complex designs, e.g, cellular DNA, Laws of Physics, fine-tuning for life on earth, etc.
Premise 3: Nothing ordered can come from chaos, an orderer is required. Laws of Nature are often cited, including Vuletic, as counterexamples, yet these very Laws are themselves ordered.

Premise 4: Self evident. If something did not exist, there is no beginner or designer

Thus, the universe has a designer: God

Answer 6

This predates evolution. Evolution is about changes in life. This is the origin of life. Prior to photosynthesis, an oxygen rich atmosphere was not possible. Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust. Free oxygen is rare in the atmosphere. A variety of gases -- based on carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, hydrogen and oxygen -- akin to the atmospheres of other rocky planets and moons cooked out of the rocks (and continues to in volcanic vents). Foremost of these compounds, in importance, was water, the combination of the first and third most abundant elements.

Answer 7

First of all, algae are protists, and bacteria were the first organisms. They did not simply come from a "soup." It took many years and involved the symbiotic theory.
PS: Where the hell do you get this pagan, witchcraft-sounding stuff. Caldron? Bubbling?

Answer 8

The soup was a much of rock, water, and protiens that formed from the planet mass, and falling stars. The heat of the sun and the cooling earth allowed molecules and chemicals to merge and form protiens. The protiens formed a cell, and from that can the first life if you belive that.

Answer 9

The Campbell Soup Company ...

or maybe it was the SOUP HOUSE, Organic Soup Company

The SOUP HOUSE, Organic Soup Company "is the first Quick Service Organic Restaurant - serving slow food fast. A privately held corporation located in Olympia, Washington;"

Answer 10

Man and his science has proven that matter cannot create itself !! Man has no idea how to create DNA . Man has yet to explain why the only thing that can create a protein molecule , is another protein molecule . You cannot create order out of disorder ! Knowledge cannot create itself , knowledge can only progress from knowledge that existed ..Genesis 1 : 1 .. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

Answer 11

Evolution is only concerned with what happened once life arose. End of story.

Your question is more accurately labeled an astronomy question or a geology question. And any question about the origin of life (as opposed to the origin of species) is a question about abiogenesis.