Questions for Evolutionists?

Question

1. Where did the space for the universe come from?

2. Where did matter come from?

3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?

4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?

5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?

6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?

7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?

8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?

9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)

10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)

Answer 1

Questions for Evolutionists?
1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
This is cosmology and physics, not biology or archeology. It is also an unanswerable question. Time was the beginning, to posit "before time" is to speak irrantionally.

2. Where did matter come from?
From energy created in the Big Bang. E=mc^2.

3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?
As a result of mass. Matter bends space, this is what gravity is.

4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?
In what way?

5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
Current theories suggest that the balance between positive and negative energy is zero. There is also the possibility that this energy has always existed.

6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?
Abiogenesis. Lots of research in this field. The first life was probably a simple RNA enzyme. Why did this occur? Because out of a billion billion planets it was inevitable.

7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
That's the definition of life.

8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
It was much slower than that. There are species today who can reproduce sexually or asexually.

9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)
Wants have nothing to do with evolution.

10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)
That is not the definition of mutation.

Answer 2

Seriously friend, it's fine to disagree with the Theory of Evolution,
but at least take the 10 seconds required to understand it. OK?

Evolutionary theory states that when random changes (mutations) occur in life,
The changes that improve reproduction are reproduced more often, than the changes that do not.
So it doesn't matter that most mutations are bad, because it's the good ones that get passed on.

Please reread these last two sentences until you understand them.

Evolutionary Theory does NOT say God cannot create life or influence its development. It ONLY states that life CAN develop as part of a natural process.

Now look at you list of questions. 1-7 are not about Evolution because Evolution begins with the first thing that could reproduce, and does not address where it came from.

The answer to questions 9 and 10 IS the Theory of Evolution. The whole point is that 'design' is not required. Life doesn’t plan it's reproduction to match the environment, it reproduces until the environment restricts it. The fundamental survival drive is individual, but the development of group strategies, is inevitable. Random changes improve the species because bad changes are naturally eliminated via impaired reproduction.

So, you have asked 9 questions that make Darwinists think you are and idiot, and the one legitimate question, #8, is phrased as a mockery.

However, since I KNOW you would never do anything so un-Christian as asking a question purely to mock, I will answer it.

In broad terms sexual reproduction is a condition where an offspring contains the DNA from more than one individual. More than 20 years ago, scientists found some bacteria were capable of swapping DNA. So the theory is the first pseudo-sexually reproducing cells were also capable of asexual reproduction. Over time the advantage of gene swapping became genderdized and subsequently co-dependant. Still a large number of insects are capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction.

Curiously enough Jesus himself was purported to be the product of asexual reproduction. Strange world.
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Answer 3

1. Where did the space for the universe come from?

Always there

2. Where did matter come from?

Matter cannot be created or destroyed- any idiot can come to a rational conclusion that IT WAS ALWAYS THERE.

3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?

Motion and space- lack of friction? Are you serious? Haven't you ever seen a MAGNET?

4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?

HAHAHAHAH Perfectly organized- riiiiiight....

5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?

Well- you have heat cold chemicals and rocks and collisions and drifting material colliding in space-... and who said anything about organization?

6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?

water, lightening, chemicals, changing matter...

7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?

practice makes perfect... life devours material and builds upon itself- you should really listen to your science teacher

8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?

the first cell capable of sexual reproduction... yeah- kid back to the textbooks you're really missing out on a lot of 5th grade material

9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)

Ask a plant that sometime...

10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)

sigh... every one of these questions suggests that you have much homework to do- here's my suggestion... start by bringing your list over to the science section and let them fill you in on the RIGHT answers (you know- the ones your church didn't let you in on). Then go buy a book and read something... NO BIBLES UNTIL BEDTIME.


By the sound of this set of questions, I assume you'd be a CHRISTIAN... perhaps a Muslim, but they're usually better at these. Look- the answers you seek aren't going to be found in a church. If they are- I would question them. Does YOUR priest have a degree and a track record in Astronomy? How about Evolutionary Science? Abiogenesis? Anything?

Instead of repeating the same lame argument you were told to repeat, grow up- and find some answers for yourself.

watch them thumbs DROP.


EDIT: to noholdsbarrcanfer

I highly doubt that anybody with an IQ above 80 could read "all the bboks about evolution" and not understand it... if SO- that's called willful ignorance... do you know what that term means?

Answer 4

Only the last 3 questions have anything to do with evolution (the rest have to do with physics, genesis of life etc.)The simple answer to these questions is "i don't know". I wouldn't even call myself an expert on evolution, but I have a decent grasp of the theory, so here goes:

#8) There must have been some room for variation and mutation in asexual reproduction to allow cells to reproduce sexually. Cells that could reproduce both ways had the advantage of greater possible combinations so that became the "preferred" method. Obviously there must have been more than one organism capable of it at the same time.

#9) If a life form did not have the drive to reproduce, it would die out very quickly. Hence, only animals that have the instinctual behaviors that forward their DNA to the next generation are able to exist over time. Only the individuals who have the drive (and the ability) to survive and reproduce will continue to evolve. Those who don't will be selected out.

#10) Think of a chess game that has only 64squares and six types of pieces. Now think of how many variations there are! (How many possible ways a game could play out). The Human Genome has 46 chromosomes, each with huge numbers of genes. The possible combinations are astronomical!
As for how this can cause "improvement" that is relative to what is necessary for survival and reproduction. Only combinations that aid survival of the DNA will continue on.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

The answer to questions 1-3 is that they always existed. Basic physics teaches us this. For instance, we know that matter/energy can never be completely destroyed nor can it be spontaneously generated from nothingness. This would imply that all of the matter/energy that currently exists in the universe has always existed in some form or another. Any Christian should be able to identify with this as they believe that God has always existed. If Christians don't have any trouble believing the God has and will always exist then why is it so difficult to believe the same for all matter/energy in the universe? Regarding question four...I don't know that it is "perfectly" organized but it does seem to be quite well balanced. Since the universe tends to seek equilibrium according to natural laws then why would this be a difficult concept to conceive that the universe simply balances itself. I cannot give you a real answer to questions 6-8. Science can only conjecture and theorize regarding this and in this way is not that different than religion. The only difference here is that the theories are based upon "provable" laws whereas religion is based soley upon faith. Question nine implies that every species or life form would consciously make this deduction. As far as I know...humans are the only species capable of this so the question is rather irrelevant. However, in an effort to alieve your confusion, it is a primal instict that leads most life forms to reproduction. It is not a matter of choice but of function. Regarding question 10...mutations work both ways. Sometimes a mutation is beneficial and it helps the lifeform to thrive. Sometimes a mutation is not beneficial and contributes to the extinction of the species. How many species have we found that became extict because they could NOT adapt to their environment???

I hope this has provided you with some insight.

Answer 6

1. Space existed prior to the big bang.

2. The energy that eventually became latent energy (matter) existed prior to the big bang.

3. Laws are mathematical models of the behavior we observe, so we created them.

4. Explain perfectly organized? Why are there clusters of galaxies and clumps of matter? That's not organization.

5. See 2.

6. Google the theory of abiogenesis.

7. Self-replicating DNA. DNA that codes for its own replication could arise through the random combination of amino acids.

8. Individual cells are not capable of sexual reproduction. Most likely, sexual reproduction arose from a parasitic form of reproduction.

9. The genetic code is what has the "drive" to survive. More children means more copies of the code and increased chances of survival.

10. DNA is copied several times. Suppose I gave you ten copies of the book War and Peace and changed a bunch of words in them. You would then have ten new books similar to war and peace. Additionally, what if two of the books back-to-back formed a new book that "coded" for an entirely new story. That's an analogy to how mutations can create information from previous information. The original info was WaP and the new info is the new book.

Answer 7

1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
Huh?

2. Where did matter come from?
You just said the Universe was once chock full with matter

3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?
Why do you assume a universe with no logic is more likely?

4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?
Gravity

5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?

6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?
Abiogenesis

7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
Amoeba split

8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
Another cell

9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)
That's how Natural Selection works, numb nuts.

10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)
Your analogy falls apart because structurally our DNA is not that different from all other life forms on Earth.

Answer 8

only the last 2 have anything to do with evolution

9. they wouldn't, but plants aren't sentient beings(there is no "want" involved, plants do not choose what to do), some plants did not produce offspring (and some did) those plants who did not produce offspring died out after one generation, the only plants still around are the ones who produce offspring

10. Mutations and Recombination aren't the same thing or related in any way. Recombination is something that happens during cellular reproduction, mutation is a change in the coding of a gene

Answer 9

ooooh you are so smart...

1. Big bang singularity, impossible for anyone (including yourself) to determine whether it always existed and the BB was just a pulse or it sprang from some other reality with the BB
2. Same place, same explanation.
3. ibid.
4. Eddy in the river of chaos; life seems to violate entropy but in the larger picture it does not.
5. See 1,2,3
6. See 4. See also organic chemistry in a reducing atmosphere (google it).
7. Necessity, since life springs up from death and is therefore based on it. The only way for a species to survive is to reproduce, and also why it is so fundamental an urge (sex instinct)
8. Itself, asexually
9. See 4,7. Competition aids natural selection.
10. You entirely miss the point of natural selection. Those qualities which do not aid in the survival of the species are selected out by a particular member's relative inability (amongst other members of its species) to adapt and reproduce

Answer 10

Professor Adjineri is wrong again. (He's quite a guy!) You don't have to have a scientific explanation for something before you can use it. If it works, you can use it. The birds did not have a theory of flight, but they flew. Women did not know what made soap do what it does (many still don't), but they got their clothes clean anyway. That's the difference between a discovery and an invention. Darwin DISCOVERED what the animals and plants had been doing through time. He did not invent the phenomenon, he merely described it in a way that made more sense than people who wrote before, such as Lamarck.