Please explain the origin of life. How does non-living material assemble itself into living matter? Does this happen often? What is the probability of linking together in the right sequence just one hundred amino acids to create one protein molecule by chance? Then you have to bring together by chance a collection of protein molecules--maybe two hundred of them--with just the right functions to get a typical living cell.
2007-09-15 15:54:41 · 13 answers · asked by jubka1 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How would we know it took billions of years to make a cell? Why wouldn't it take faith to believe it happened over billions of years?
2007-09-15 16:24:56 · update #1
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2007-09-23 15:28:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, no obvious insults. Wow. Anyway, the whole chance thing is why we haven't found any signs of intelligent life near us; it's pretty rare. We were just the lucky one-in-a several billion that got hit by a natural pattern of carbon atoms that didn't burn up in the atmosphere and was able to grow due to the nice placement in the solar system and the early earth's atmosphere. And it wasn't just "Whoah, it's a cell!" No. It took billions of years to develop a cell, then another 2 billion years to have more than one cell working together. Another 1.5 billion years later, us. So it takes a while. Christians, ont the other hand, say "Oh, one day God decided to create life. Bam, that's it." Now which takes more creativity to fill in the gaps?
2007-09-15 23:14:54 · answer #2 · answered by dukeleto360 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would quibble over your use of the word "faith". I guess I'd call it "imagination". It takes more imagination to fathom a complex process happening over billions of years. Any idiot can understand the simplistic explanation "god did it." Why is the sky blue? God did it. Why do dolphins have lungs instead of gills? God did it. It's an easy answer, but it doesn't really explain anything.
I would define "faith" as the ability to ignore evidence and keep believing in things that are clearly not true. Understanding the laws of nature doesn't require that kind of faith, it requires you to stretch your mind and tackle complicated questions without resorting to the easy answers.
2007-09-23 22:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by dogwood_lock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because faith is difficult to measure, and is subjective in that two rational people can define it and measure it differently, the answer to your question depends on who is answering it. Atheists believe that there is no God. If this is true, they would then believe that life came from nothingness or that it arose by chance. Those who believe in a creator, God, believe that God spoke life into existence. Belief in the theory of evolution, in natural selection, and in science is not mutually exclusive of a belief in God. There are many who hold both truths to be truth.
Rather than ponder the question of what belief system requires more faith. Consider the implications of the belief system you aspire to. If you believe that there is no God, then you are here by chance, an accident of probability. If you believe in God, then you are here because He spoke you into existence. He has a purpose for your life and He loves you. I prefer to believe that God wants me here.
May God bless you.
2007-09-23 22:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by Docmase 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has taken me years, make that decades, to understand the theories that provide the most plausible explanations for the ascension of the species. There is no way to explain to you here the origin of life. You have a ton of study ahead of you if you want to begin to understand and your first step is to close that bible. And faith is not involved when it comes to the sciences. Only the study of evidence and the testing of theories using scientific methodology is used to determine the validity of a phenomenon.
2007-09-15 23:11:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
These are very good questions.
They are the same questions that I have sought answers for myself.
People will present you with different takes on the info.
You will have to decide yourself when you are satisfied with the answer.
For me, I decided to question the act of believing itself, and have found it useful only as a temporary form of knowledge - not a place to live.
We can KNOW things, if we get enough evidence.
2007-09-23 05:07:10 · answer #6 · answered by smkeller 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is an acceptance of something despite contradictory evidence. Because all the life sciences that exist in our world point to evolution, there is plenty of evidence. Because the only evidence we have of creationism is the bible, which is a piece of crap filled with lies and fables, I'd say no faith is required whatsoever for evolution
2007-09-22 06:39:52 · answer #7 · answered by asourapple100 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Creation forms when energy bits (quarks)
explode and interface with invisible forces
we know as Laws Of Physics.
Time and space are merely by-products
of this reaction.
The genetic centers, the energy and The
Forces have been there all along.
Eventually, any real space travel will hinge
on quantum mechanics.
2007-09-15 23:04:04 · answer #8 · answered by kyle.keyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly. That is why two Popes including the current Pope have said that evolution has validity but God played and plays a role.. The intelligent cause is God.
2007-09-15 23:07:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says that you have to have a complete cell to have a living thing? The boundary between life and non-life is not as clear cut as you seem to think.
2007-09-15 23:06:17 · answer #10 · answered by sfbcaptain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋