Atheists: When, where, why and how did life come from non-living matter?

Answer 1

The science books don't have a really good answer for this one. There are many theories on how life could just start from basic elements. None of them are very plausable and none of them have been re-created on the small scale in the laboratory (last I checked) although many scientists still try to get it to work. God laughs.

Answer 2

The first life was one-celled life formed in the ocean. But does it really matter? We certainly don't know how many billions of years ago the first live was formed, and we don't even know whether life was also formed on other planets. But why does it matter if we don't know everything. Should we make up stories, as in a religion, just because we don't know and never will know everything?

Answer 3

There isn't "living" and "non-living" matter. Matter is matter. It's like trying to ask how a car can be made out of non-automotive metals. That just doesn't make sense.

But to answer your question about how life came about, originally started with simple carbon chains. They naturally formed organic compounds, which just means they formed chains with hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen atoms on them. Some types of chains can replicate. When that happened, different chains competed for resources. That was the start of life. It was much much later that actual cells and such came about.

Answer 4

I have no idea. There's been a great deal of research about this recently, but I don't think they've reached definite conclusions yet about the origins of life. Something to do with the organizations of proteins into functioning cells, I think.

Answer 5

I am not a rocket scientist. I can't answer this question accurately. But just because I can't answer it, doesn't mean that by default your god exists. Eventually science will be able to answer this question, however. It's only a matter of time.

Answer 6

What created God? What created that? What created that? What created that? And finally what created that?

it goes back infinitely. The human mind is not capable of understanding how we got here. That's the problem. People keep trying to understand it and come up with religions to explain what they don't understand.

Answer 7

Easy. A lil' ol thang called Fusion.


You see the sun....makes things. Like Hydrogen. From that we get Helium....all the way up to Iron.


Your question is borderline hate. Learn2read a science book, nooblet.

Answer 8

I can't answer your question. therefore, there must be a God.

if that your argument? it's pretty lame. our scientific discovery of the world is not perfect, but it continues to give us answers to all kinds of questions, each and every day. without science, the answer is only "I don't know, so God must have done it". that's a serious cop-out.

you can read here and educate yourself about "abiogenesis" if you're really interested: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/

Answer 9

If I'm not allowed to say "I don't know" then I'll radomly pick one of the hundreds, or thousands, of creation stories found in cultures around the world and in history. One is about as well substantiated as another.

Answer 10

go here:
http://www.talkorigins.org

and look up abiogenesis, start reading papers
the details may never be known for sure.

Here is a link to the abiogenesis papers:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/