If life started with a Big bang or from this life forming soup, who made the bang and who made the soup?

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Also, to follow up another question I asked regarding why life didnt somehow develop on other planets in our solar system; someone said that the environments did not support life. Well, why didnt they support a different type of lifeform that can tolerate those conditions?

Answer 1

Questions beginning with "Who" or "Why" are best left to theologians and philosophers.

Real scientists are concerned with "What" and "How".

You seem to be confusing, as most creationists do, the Scientific Theory of Evolution with Big Bang theory which belong to two totally different scientific disciplines (Biology and Physics).

You're also confusing the Scientific Theory of Evolution with the origin of life on this planet. Evolutionary biology seeks to explain the changes in life forms over long periods of time. Evolution by natural selection is currently the best explanation we have to fit the observed facts.

Scientific study into the origin of life on this planet is another area of study altogether. There are several hypotheses to explain how it might have happened and not all of them involve 'soup'.

As for why life hasn't developed on other planets, that is a question of biochemistry. Complex life forms need to be able to replicate themselves by creating new cells and require energy to do this. Because of their chemical composition, it would be impractical for lifeforms to based on elements other carbon (except perhaps silicon, ammonia and nitrogen). This is because of the energy required to form bonds with other elements, and the reactivity of those bonds to other common substances.

Another important factor is the distance to the nearest star. Light and heat are fundamental sources of energy and without the right levels, life would be unlikely to develop.

Answer 2

Nobody did. Why are you so anxious to come to conclusions that don't have sufficient data to support them?

They can't support a different type of lifeform because there is too little or too much heat from the sun. Life in our solar system is carbon-based and could not tolerate the extremes of the other planets which are beyond the extremes on Earth. Life cannot be based on silicon, germanium, tin, or lead because those are unstable elements. Other planets in our solar system also generally do not have an atmosphere and most do not have liquid water.

Answer 3

1) Life on Earth began 3.5 billion years ago.
2) The big bang was 13.7 billion years ago.
3) That's a long time inbetween. Life did not start with the big bang.
4) The basic building blocks of life as we know it are proteins, which are made up of amino acids - and we see amino acids even in space. They are common, easy to form.
5) Maybe they do. We don't know, we haven't really been there yet. Or maybe there's really only one way life can form.
6) No one 'made' the big bang. It was a natural phenomena.

Answer 4

Nobody made the big bang, it was a spontaneous introduction of pure energy which quickly condensed into particles that make up everything that exist today. there is no reason to believe that life did arise on other planets under different conditions than those on earth.

Answer 5

Please post creation vs. evolution or Big Bang vs intelligent design questions in the religion section.

Have we proven that life does not exist anywhere else? Why must we try to find ways to criticize that which we do not understand instead of simply learning to understand it?

And even if you can't do that, you still need to stop trying to pigeon-hole all of creation into your view of reality.

What about all of the other religious views the population of this world has? By making a blanket assumption that your God created all of these other people who believe differently (some of them are a part faiths that predate Christianity!), it shows arrogance and close-mindedness. Who's to say that the Christian version of God has to be the one that made everything, IF there is even truly a God at all?

I know that poster tried to hide his religious leanings in the way he phrased the question, but it's still clear. This is not a science question.

Answer 6

If a god or gods made it, where did that god or gods come from? Why should the first cause be a complex being, far more complex and intelligent than we? It is only your wish to be protected and guided by an omnipotent father figure that makes you believe it is so. It is far more likely that compexity evolves from simplicity, and that the first cause, whatever it is, is the simplest of all.

Answer 7

My granny made the soup, and when I didn't like to eat it she gave me a big bang

Answer 8

Ok, it's real weird, but I've been having this idea: what if there's another universe just between our lives? I mean that maybe, just maybe, there might be another just created - oh, never mind!

Answer 9

There was absolutely no such thing as a big bang! God created the earth some thousand years ago. It is His creation, not just some thing that happened from NOTHING! That's right, some scientist say that the Big Bang just happened and "Oh, look the universe!". It's stupid! God created the Earth. He created humans. He created animals. He created EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!! That's what universe means, He created in all in one verse!

Answer 10

The long gap between between amino-acids and life can not be bridged by a long time, billions of years, and changing environmental parameters. Time does not create anything more complex. It can be one of the causes that things decay.

Then there is a huge difference in what's needed to support life vs what is needed to create life. Bio science KNOWS that life does not start spontaneously.