Atheists: do you have a certain theory you agree with, that explains the creation of life?

Question

just a christian trying to learn.....

( also I have been told many times that evolution doesn't cover this, that theory only covers evolution of life not the creation )

also, if you know, are there many theories or just one formal theory?

Answer 1

I didn't know what Abiogenesis was, never heard of it, so I went to www.dictionary.com and looked it up ... here's the definition:

"the now discredited theory that living organisms can arise spontaneously from inanimate matter; spontaneous generation."

If it's been discredited, then why do people still follow it?

Answer 2

Not really. Non of them are complete or really testable so far. We are getting closer though I think. The clay cell theory holds some promise, the black smoker is interesting.
However keep in mind that if scientists ever figure out how to create life in a lab that still will not be proof that the way the did it is how it really happened.
It might have been something else entirely.
The search is not really for the ultimate beginning of life the universe and everything. The search is for how life might be created.
Nobody even knows yet what the original form of life would have been. It might have been a virus, not a bacterial cell at all.

edit. to Arewethereyet, look up the Wikipedia article, it is far more informative.

Answer 3

Well, abiogenesis is the obvious one... possibly panspermia.

Of course you're correct re the ToE, and I'm not personally convinced we'll EVER know with any degree of comfort - the evidence was far too fragile and the earth in too much turmoil some 3.9 - 4.2 bya.

And to put pespective on not knowing OOL, it's *my* feeling that that is precisely as intellectually unfulfilling as "Goddidit."
But at least science is still *trying* to uncover the details.

[Edit]: Re Your Add. Dtls.: The two I mentioned for OOL are the main ones, I believe. For the diversity of life, the ToE is almost universally considered FACT, due to 175 years of unrelentingly supportive data (not *one* challenge.) Note that in the past ~30 years, DNA analysis has confirmed almost everything from a brand new direction. The few things it failed to confirm dealt with placement of a small handful of species in a wrong branch of the "Tree of Life" - this was easily folded in without any change whatsoever to the theory itself (i.e. Descent with Modification, Random mutation, Natural Selection...)

For "better", more reliable, more informed and more current answers, try Usenet's < sci.bio.evolution > NG. (Also, often, more technical.) ... Googling is of course, also useful.

Answer 4

I have not done much research into the theories of abiogenesis.


You are correct about evolution; it pertains ONLY to how life changes after it came about. It has NOTHING to do with the creation fo the first form of replicating life.

Answer 5

No, no one knows how life was created. Everyone has a theory, but no one can prove it. I like to think of it as a snowball effect. A speck of dust turns to rock to minerals and so on. But who knows? And who cares? You should be a good person because it's the right thing to do, not because you're afraid of a beast with horns that wants to torture you for eternity or some god who is good but will send you to be tortured if you don't believe in him. Hasn't god ever heard of live and let live?

Answer 6

creation of life..... male inserts penis into female vagina.... baby is formed after incubation period..

mother nature has been healing nature... the reason she is not worshiped under a religion is because religions do damage to nature.... religion is 100% man made. And anyone daring to make a religion on behalf of mother nature would be cursed.

humans along with other life forms have evolved over time usually to serve a purpose according to the needs of nature.....

Mother Nature works for the good of life on earth not just the humans.... diversity exists in everything even human development this is because the world is diverse itself.... so people living near the ocean have a different perspective than one living in a rain forest...
Nature itself is a growing learning entity so changes come and go.... mother nature works for the balance in nature what ever than balance is needed that day... EX: lady bugs eat aphids.... no more aphids no more need for lady bugs unless mother nature gives it another job... she likes lady bugs... nature keeps what is needed.... be careful human race... she finds that you are quickly not being needed if you continue to create imbalances on earth she could command your destruction... she's often close to it. the planet is for life givers not life destroyers...

Answer 7

The theory that covers the origin of life is abiogenesis.

Answer 8

The big bang theory/evolution

Answer 9

Abiogenesis explains the reason life is found on this planet. Not the CREATION of life. Life wasnt created.

Answer 10

Life was created from the process of methane and other gasses plus the addition of enrmous bolts of lightening. They have created these processes in the lab and created the building blocks of life. A few billion years later you would get one celled animals and then it is a long process from there.