What evidence is there to support the theory that life came about on its own and was not created by God?

Answer 1

You cannot really prove that there is NOT a creator God. Also, you cannot prove that there is. God can not be subjected to the scientific method. So, when talking about the evolution of life, you cannot introduce factors that cannot be tested by the scientific method.

There is faith in believe in a God. There is also some faith involved in science.

Answer 2

Really, it can never be fully proven that life wasn't created by God; it's just the nature of faith; you can't disprove it, but you CAN point out the inconsistencies in their scripture.

We do have more and more evidence that life came about through natural phenomenon that we can still see though. The fossil record, in which we are still working fill in the "gaps", studying developmental biology and genetics to see how evolution could have and is still taking place, geology to confirm that the evolution and fossil record is consistent with the climate and terrain changes over time, etc.

Because the nature of religion prevents us from complete disproving it, we can only prove that life COULD HAVE been created on its own and have working, consistent hypotheses.

Researchers working with NASA's Astrobiology Institute have created "proto-cells" that mimic the membranous structures used to create the living cells found on our planet. They subjected icy dust particles that are rich in organic compounds (i.e., water, methanol or wood alcohol, ammonia, and carbon monoxide) that are found in dense molecular clouds of interstellar space to the harsh conditions found there, such as intense cold and ultraviolet light. An abundance of such structures raining down on wet areas of Earth during its early years could have been important in protecting self-replicating molecules (i.e., the precursors of RNA and DNA) that became encapsulated within them, and eventually such proto-cells could have evolved into primitive lifeforms. (See NASA summary and a New Scientist article.) In 2006, two scientists argued that the development of life on Earth was the necessary consequence of available energy built up by geological processes (including polyphosphates made in volcanic processes) on the early Earth, in the same way that lightning relieves the accumulation of electrical charge in thunderclouds (Morowitz and Smith, 2006; and Phillip Ball, Nature, November 14, 2006).

The problem (or maybe advantage?) with religion is that they can change their writings to "be up to the times" so even if we do continue to point out new inconsistencies, they'll just say that it was a mistake that has been fixed. A classic example would be how the church maintained that the Earth was in the center of the solar system (and universe) until it was absolutely impossible to keep denying that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Even the pope has said that evolution is compatible with faith now, even though many christians still refuse to believe it.

One way to combine the two is to compare God to a clockmaker, who set the rules the universe to run by and allowed it to run without intervention. There's really no way to disprove this theory, but then again, it may not be necessary.

Answer 3

each one chooses what he or she feels like believing;
first life forms are considered to be the Halophile bacteria.
here's some examples to sustain the evolution of organisms:
- our imunity system is believed to be the consequence of a prehistorical infection: a virus infected a marine creature, but it landed on it's reproductive cells and integrated it's genome in the species whole genome; why is that important?when the next generation was infected by the same virus, a new mecanism was triggered: the organism recognized the virus and produced specific antibodies to fight against it; cause it was recognized, it was no longer necessary to fight against the virus with all the resources, which up to that point was a dezastrous method; from that moment on, organisms learned how to defend themselves using specific "munition" and memorized stored the information about them in the genome, gaining imunity. amazing, huh?

- all human males have on their Y chromosome a certain gene
; it is believed that all of you guys inherited it form the same ancestor; so there was a single male(Adam) that is the father of all humans today....
i think that the truth lies somewhere between...we just need to make peace with both of theories, don't we?

Answer 4

good question. how does life come from non-life? its doesn't. science tells us that. there had to be something outside of our dimension of time that was able to put life into the dimension of time. look at the human body with all of the irreducibly complex systems (blood clotting, breathing, mitosis, the eye, the heart, the brain, etc.) I'm sorry but a mixture of chemicals sparked with electricity can not make such systems. It had to be Intelligence that made it. I call that Intelligence God, a creator that made a beautiful world