Can anyone give me a scientific explanation on how life just happened ?

Question

..or is all im going to get the old " have faith in the heat vent theory" that it just happened ? ... seeing as how there is no evidence whatsoever that even the simplest rna can spontaneously form ... only amino acids which are far simpler than rna ..

Answer 1

God is so powerful he can do the impossible
(create something from nothing)

Answer 2

This is the 'why' department. You may want to check out the 'what, when, and how' department. Go to the elevator, and press 'down'.

I can understand how someone would mistake this for the 'I doubt it' department. But honestly, the doubters you hear most in this department haven't seen a test tube, or a lab smock since high-school.

p.s. modern chemistry is not taught to actually give people information, it is taught to keep people from blowing each other up with a-bombs, h-bombs, n-bombs, etc. Do you really think science, as taught in public schools is anything more than dis-information? I know you don't.

The creation story in the Bible is given, to explain the origin of sin. If somebody doesn't think sin is relevant, then the book is irrelevant to them. The point you're making is mute.

Buy I aggree with you, nothing just happens, not now, not in the beginning. 'Why', is the question....

Answer 3

If amino acids can form spontaneously, by common chemistry, then why not more complex organic molecules? Why not, by chance, a self-replicating molecule? Why not, ultimately, life? Even if the chance occurrence of a self-replicating molecule is a very low probability event, what does that matter in a universe of a billion trillion suns and billions of years for chemistry to have its effect? And one such event might be all that's needed to kick-start life.

Think about this though: What's the alternative? If life didn't start by an unthinking, undirected natural process then it had to be the result of an intentional act by an intelligent entity that *already exists* with absolutely no cause, no origin, no explanation, no history, no antecedents of any kind, and that possibility is infinitely more improbable than a particularly complex form of the chemistry that we already *know* exists.

For more information about abiogenesis, start here:
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/chapter26/page01.htm

Answer 4

There are some question which have no answer, some answer with no question. So,
There is no explanation for that just go through this

Three people who were passing in a small caravan saw a man contemplating the sunset in the Sahara desert from the top of a mountain.

“It must be a shepherd who has lost a sheep and is trying to find it,” said the first.

“No, I don’t think he is looking for something, especially not at sunset - that confuses your vision. I think he is waiting for a friend.”

“I bet he’s a holy man looking for enlightenment,” commented the third.

They began to discuss what the man was doing, and got so involved in the discussion that they nearly ended up fighting with one another. Finally, to find out who was right, they decided to climb the mountain and ask the man.

“Are you looking for your sheep?” asked the first.

“No, I don’t have a flock.”

“Then you must be waiting for someone,” claimed the second.

“I am a lonely man who lives in the desert,” was the answer.

“Since you live in the desert, and in solitude, then we have to believe that you are a holy man in search of God, and you are meditating!” asserted the third man, content with this conclusion.

“Does everything on Earth need to have an explanation? So let me explain: I am here just looking at the sunset: isn’t that enough to lend a meaning to our lives?

Answer 5

150 years ago, we didn't know about bacteria. No clue. It wasn't understood until Louis Pasteur determined that germs caused disease.

You are asking the same questions that scientists ask. You have, however, asked this in the Religion & Spirituality section, where we are mostly humanities majors, not biologists or physicists. Would you come to R&S to find out what opus number was Mozart's 40th Symphony? I think not. You're asking us to play to our weakness. Quite frankly, you're being unfair.

So let me suggest two things:

1. If you are serious about wanting to know the current evidence-based understanding on the origins of the universe and on evolutionary theory, there are excellent descriptions found at http://www.talkorigins.org .

2. Consider that you are proposing (not so subtly) that anything that is not explained is a place for God to be discovered. This is commonly referred to in ontology as "the god of the gaps" theory. It typically assigns God to any blank space that science has not yet reached useful conclusions. Remember what I said about disease? Before bacteria were discovered, it was assumed God was punishing the ill, or that they were demon possessed, or some other supernatural phenomenon caused sickness. This is the same god of the gaps.

Science never assumes, and should never assume, anything is supernatural. The purpose of science is to discover through measured observation, testing, and repetition what natural causes lead to our natural world. If you impose a statement "God caused it," then this stops the search for knowledge, because God is ultimately unknowable. This is the reason that the "god of the gaps" theory is discounted among learned ontological academicians, and is ignored by science.

Answer 6

Amino Acids eventually form self-replicating proteins. It doesn't have to jump right to complex organisms. If you run computer models of primordial soup's probability to produce life, it's pretty much inevitable.

Answer 7

Science cannot explain that. Scientists have never been able to replicate, or bring life from, lifelessness. Those that talk about "self replicating molecules" still cannot answer the point of where matter came from in the first place. Matter cannot appear from nothing, it too had to exist first.
The answer to it all: it comes from God.

Answer 8

i will give you something better , how about the truth,,,gen.1;1 in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth..as far as science is concerned,,,in the world of humans and animals, nothing dead or not living has ever produced something living,,,bury a piece of wood or metal, in 10 years or 100 years it will not be more than it was when you put it there,,,if anything it will be gone,,,,life has to come from life,, that is a scientific fact,,,,science just reinforces Gen. 1;1 dont you think ?

Answer 9

Yes, but liposomes and microspheres have been formed. That is much more complex than amino acids. Soon, creationist, soon.

Answer 10

Scientific proceedure requires we have repeatability in experiments, but "the begininning" cannot be repeated, hence cannot be proven scientifically.

Both "creation" and "evolution" are not proven, instead, they are correctly called 'models'. Some facts fit each model, some don't. When you state one is true, it is by faith or belief.

Answer 11

The scientific word to describe this seems to be spontaneous.
Spontaneous. Things happen spontaneously?