How do YOU think we and all living things came to be on this earth?

Question

Do you believe god put us on this earth like it says in the bible? I do and I believe in god..my friend doe not tho and does not believe it was god who put us on this earth..whats your beliefs?

Yes, some may think this is a dumb question but i'm only 17 years old and was never taught any religion in school. I did however attend church a number of times growing up.

Answer 1

Sex. And lots of it. For a looooooong time.

Answer 2

I believe it happened the way it's described in Genesis...God created the earth and all living things on it. I do think that the story in Genesis is a simplistic explanation entirely suitable for the humans that lived at the time the explanation was given to them (when humans first asked that inevitable "why are we here" question that every child asks).

I believe the actual process of creation was more involved and complex than the story in Genesis...however, the story is entirely true and entirely accurate...just as it is entirely true and entirely accurate to tell a young child that asks the inevitable "where did I come from" question that he or she "came out of Mommy's tummy". Modern science has given us glimpses into some of the complex processes God used to create the heavens and the earth, but I also think that a good bit of what we think we "know" because of science is "nonsense" in the eyes of God.

Answer 3

I believe (and by believe, I mean know and can produce supporting studies/research) that there is overwhelming evidence in support of evolution, and none whatsoever in support of creationism. That is what you are getting at, after all. I don't know how life got started, but neither do you. The difference is that I know where it went after it began, and how. I also have the intellecutal integrity to admit that I don't know, and as such will continue to try and find an answer. Your approach means that no one would ever need to look for further explanation, never need to find the answers to life's hardest questions, because they can just say "god did it." Invoking the supernatural to explain a natural process is the biggest cop-out that someone can make.

Answer 4

Natural science has formed all of the universe, including Earth. Over billions of years, life as we know it has evolved from the first microscopic biologicals that arrived on earth during those years.

Natural selection and evolution have done the rest. There have been many life forms on planet earth durings it's lifetime....we are just one of them. Like all others, we will, no doubt, become extinct at some point in earths lifetime.

At some point, billions of years in the future, our sun will become a supernova and earth will become unable to support life of any kind.

It is the nature of the universe...... or, as my grandfather liked to say:

That's the way the cookie crumbles, it's the law of the jungle.

Answer 5

It would have been more of a miracle if life had not developed on earth. All of the necessary elements and a water rich environment made it very likely, if not inevitable. Molecules transition between ‘living’ and ‘non-living’ states regularly as a result of biochemical reactions driven by reasonably well understood natural processes. There is no great qualitative or spiritual transition between a living molecule and one that is not.

Answer 6

Yes. This body is way too complex to have not been designed. I hold with the Genesis account. The evolutionist will start with the complex and work backward in hope that it will all add up. The actual idea that an eye could be gradually developed over millions of years is ridiculous. The focus system, the lens, the iris, the rods and cones, the optic nerve, the brain to make it all make sense. And what told the evolutionary process that there was color or depth of field? What told evolution there were things to taste or smell or even hear? What frequency? What spectrum? All at the same time as the ear, the nose, the sexual reproduction system? It's ludicrous. And what of the soul? Of love? Of affection? Are these necessary for survival of the fittest? What about the search for our Creator? There is nothing evolutionary about that in the least. Why do we seek to save Eagle eggs or whales? Survival of the fittest. We are tampering with evolution by trying to save them.

DNA and the human body are far too complex to be thrown together by long periods of chance mutation, and natural selection. DNA is a very complex organic computer program that could never evolve out of such occurrences. So either you believe in the ET seed theory that such an organism was planted here by alien beings, or in a Designer who dwells in the eternal.

Answer 7

Right on schneb! I couldn't have said it better! Thanks.

Those who judge of God from His handiwork, and not from the suppositions of "great" men, see the evidences of His presence and power in everything. Wherever they turn, in the physical, mental, or the spiritual realm, in whatever they behold, apart from the blight of sin, they are brought in touch with the unseen, mighty Intelligence that is working in and through all.

Life is mysterious and sacred. It is the manifestation of God Himself, the source of all life. To those who thus acquaint themselves with God and Christ, all nature becomes illuminated. In her work, nature testifies of an intelligent Presence, an active Agency of a Being who moves in all things according to His will! Psalm 139:7; Ephesians 4:6,10.

"Do I not fill heaven and earth, says the Lord." Jeremiah 23:24.

Take a cell that is resting, for instance, a white corpuscle in the blood. It is round like a drop of jelly. In a moment it changes its form, and starts off to travel. It has no feet to travel with, but it makes a foot, and with the foot it pushes itself along until it has travelled quite a distance. Now this cell gets hungry and wants something to eat. It has no mouth, so it makes a mouth on the spot; it makes a little indentation in the side of its body, putting out one lip, and then another, and thus forms a mouth, and then takes a bit of chlorophyll or protoplasm. But it has no stomach; how is it going to digest it? It makes a stomach. All that is necessary is to get that speck of food inside, and it will digest it, because it is all stomach; it is all mouth, it is all feet; it is all brain; it is all nerves; it is all everything. It is one of those little ultimate specks of life complete in itself. It is nothing but a speck of transparent jelly, yet it has in it everything that is in the most complex animal form!

"Since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead." Romans 1:20.

Answer 8

I believe God, an eternal living being, did it as recorded in the book of Genesis.

Scientists try to tell us that the earliest life forms were very simple and came to be own their own. But the fact that they have not been able to produce anything like it indicates that the so-called earliest life forms were anything but simple.

Answer 9

have you seen the tiger with the black ring on her tail and black spots on the tips of her ears so her cubs can follow her in the tall grass. How about the variety of seeds that blow in the wind like the one that spins to the ground like a helicopter, or that are burs that connect to animal fur and are carried along until they drop of the animal and start to grow. How about the variety of fruits and vegetables. This world has intelligent design behind it and you can see Jesus personality behind some of it. God is the mighty Engineer.

Answer 10

Panspermia, where life was seeded on earth through abiogenesis on a different planet then an asteroid from said planet hit earth spreading life on earth or there's abiogenesis actually occuring on earth where self-replicating life was created by the build up of non-living matter

Those are the sexiest explanations.

Answer 11

I believe God created us out of nothing as the Bible says.