Origin of the Earth Itself?

Question

Ok let me know how this sounds to you, Christian or atheist. It seems that so many people are believing that we came from monkeys. Period. You believe in evolution. Thats fine and all, but that means every organism on the face of this earth is the descendant of one single solitary single cell organism. Every plant, animal, and fungus, etc came from the same cell according to your own logic. And furthermore where did the earth come from? Where did the dirt and the water and our lush atmosphere come from? You say "big bang" I say, well why Earth? Why did all this water and lush forest and all form on Earth but a harsh hostile environment on Venus? Does it not seem like way too many coincidences to be here by chance? Let me know what you think.

Ok single cell organism...;back up. The single cell organism does the whole cell division and becomes two cells. Then one could be for the mammal and one could be for the plant. I know one cell didn't create a monkey or whatever. Jeez I try to be intellectual and...wow

Ok to clarify...I believe in God. Nuff said. This is a pro-creation argument...or its trying to be lol

Answer 1

That sounds good and so true, you prove a point there....*applause* YAY! I really like it....i wanna show my friends...we've been discussing this matter....and this basically sums it all up!

Answer 2

Yes that's right, we are all descended from single cell organisms. In fact, the vast majority of Earth's organisms are still, by weight and number, single cell organisms. We are just the current stage of a mutation process which began about 4 billion years ago. We are fortunate that the Earth is at a position which allows for water to be a liquid, gas and a solid. We are fortunate to have a large Moon, giving us tides, volcanic activity, continents etc. This gave Earth both the stability and the dynamics to stimulate and maintain life processes.
Given the same or similar conditions, life may exist on other planets in the Universe, it is a matter of whether such conditions exist. We will never know, I imagine, because, not only is it too far away, but, like Earth, much of the time was spent as single cell organisms.

The Big Bang is not disputed by any of the mainstream churches. In fact, it was a Catholic priest who first worked on it, and presented it in a scientific paper. Nor is evolution disputed by the Catholic Church, so there is no problem there, either. What is in dispute, perhaps, is the mechanism which initiated these processes.

As to why Earth? Well, there is no answer, we are here because we are here. The coincidences which led to all this happening are certainly not unique. There must be millions of Earth like planets in the universe. We just happened to have developed on this one.

Lucky aren't we?
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Answer 3

Couple of things:
No-one says that humans came from monkeys. Humans, and all modern simians evolved from the same common ancestor that is now extinct.
However, if you go back far enough, then in all liklihood you would find one "type" of organism that all current life (animals, plants, bacteria, fungi, etc.) evolved from. What that organism was like, no-one knows; this field is called "Abiogenesis" (how life began) and has nothing to do with evolution (how life changes).

Asking where the Earth came from would be better done in the Physics and Astronomy section. It is not a question biology can answer.


I'd suggest looking up the Anthropic Principle; you may find it interesting. This states that if any of the universal constants (the gravitational constant, the strong nuclear force, etc.) were even *slightly* different, then matter as we know it, and therefore life as we know it, could not exist. Therefore (it concludes) the universe is created *in order that we can exist in it*.
Another thing you may find interesting is the idea of Theistic Evolution: God, being omnipotent and omniscient, could very easily have created the universe at the Big Bang with the intention that it would develop in such a manner as to create the earth, with life on it, and that this life would be capable of evolution in order that humans could arise on it: humans capable of free will, capable of rationality, and capable of salvation. We can never know if this actually occured, but we can be pretty damn certain that the earth was not created 6000 years ago in the space of 6 days.
Neither the Anthropic Principle nor Thistic Evolution contradict science (though neither is actually science itself), and neither of them require you to believe that it is mere chance or coincidence that we happen to be here now.

Answer 4

you are asking many questions and all of them can not be answered in such a short space. your questions are valid, but about the origin of the first cell, or life on other planets, the big bang, atmosphere, etc are NOT evolution. they are other fields of science. I recommend you ask those questions one at a time in the appropriate category.

regarding evolution... no scientists say humans came from monkeys. that's creationist propaganda and shows you haven't really done any research of your own. humans and apes had a common ancestor which did not look anything like modern apes or modern humans. that's well documented and 99% of the world's scientists believe it. care to provide evidence against it to them?

regarding evolution from the single cells organism... yes, biologists believe the first life was probably single-celled and other life evolved from that. however, consider that there are many single celled organisms, many simple multicelled organims and a whole spectrum of increasingly complex multicellular organims around today. it's not so hard to imagine that over billions of years a single-celled organism gave rise to a very simple multicelled organism (take a sponge for example- may not be the best example, but anyway) which went on to more complex ones.

I don't see what is so unrealistic about it. if you combine that with DNA evidence, the case is very compelling.

i will also correct you in that evolution is not solely about chance. natural selection does not make evolution random.

Answer 5

i do no longer comprehend which you will hear me in this one, or take it heavily, however the Bible says that God created the heavens and the earth. He positioned particular emphasis on earth. As for issues eroding away, the Bible additionally info what's elementary as Noah's Flood, the place the full earth replaced into lined in water. The question is the place did this water come from? the respond is that there replaced right into a thick vapor layer around the earth only before the flood. This water presented the water for the flood that lined the earth. some evidence pointing to it somewhat is the gaining information of of vegetation frozen alive in polar areas, which could be achievable through fact this vapor layer would stabilize earth temperatures by using all factors of the earth. i'm particular somebody will say that it somewhat isn't something greater beneficial than a non secular nut speech, yet my challenge would be to take it upon your self to attempt the medical accuracy of the Bible. you will discover that the Bible is amazingly plenty precise in all factors.

Answer 6

First, there is what is called the materialist view. People who take that view think that matter and space just happen to exist, and always have existed, nobody knows why; and that the matter, behaving in certain fixed ways, has just happened, by a sort of fluke, to produce creatures like ourselves who are able to think. By one chance in a thousand something hit our sun and made it produce the planets; and by another thousandth chance the chemicals necessary for life, and the right temperature, occurred on one of these planets, and so some of the matter on this earth came alive; and then, by a very long series of chances, the living creatures developed into things like us. The other view is the religious view. According to it, what is behind the universe is more like a mind than it is like anything else we know. That is to say, it is conscious, and has purposes, and prefers one thing to another. And on this view it made the universe, partly for purposes we do not know, but partly, at any rate, in order to produce creatures like itself--I mean, like itself to the extent of having minds. Please do not think that one of these views was held a long time ago and that the other has gradually taken its place. Wherever there have been thinking men both views turn up. And note this too. You cannot find out which view is the right one by science in the ordinary sense. Science works by experiments. It watches how things behave. Every scientific statement in the long run, however complicated it looks, really means something like, 'I pointed the telescope to such and such a part of the sky at 2:20 a.m. on January 15th and saw so-and-so,' or, 'I put some of this stuff in a pot and heated it to such-and-such temperature and it did so-and-so.' Do not think I am saying anything against science: I am only saying what its job is. And the more scientific a man is, the more (I believe) he would agree with me that this is the job of science--and a very useful and necessary job it is, too. But why anything comes to be there at all, and whether there is anything behind the things science observes--something of a different kind--this is not a scientific question. If there is 'Something Behind', then either it will have to remain altogether unknown to men or else make itself know in some different way. The statement that there IS any such thing, and the statement that there is NO such thing, are neither of them statements that science can make. And real scientists do not usually make them.

Answer 7

My own logic? Where do you get that? One type of single celled organism could evolve into mammals, one could evolve into plant life etc... I don't think anyone thinks fungus turned into animals. There could have been many types of one celled creatures which evolved into different things. Why Earth? Son, there are a LOT of planets in the universe that are like Earth. There are lots that aren't. Venus, Mars, Mercury etc... are all different distances from the sun, which makes ALL the difference in the atmosphere.There are as many stars (like the sun) in the Universe as there are grains of sand on every beach in the world. You don't think there's another star out there, with a planet JUST LIKE OURS rotating around it?

Answer 8

I agree with you that there is just too much that had to occur in perfect order without error for all of this to be random chance. In fact it requires more faith to believe in random chance than Divine intervention. If the Earth were just 1% closer or further from the sun, would it sustain life? What are the chances of a human eye developing by random chance and connecting to the brain via the optic nerve through a million year process of random evolution? It just doesn't add up on either a macro or micro level.

Answer 9

arguments like this make me cringe every time i explain just how special the Earth is.

NOT because some old man in a dress cried "Let there be Microwave Pizza!", but just sheer wonderous coincidence.

Many scientists to avoid standing on the same side of the argument with religious lackwits often skip half the more interesting occurances (cough- Drake), solely to distance themselves from Christians.

Yup, the Earth is sure a wondrous place. Possibly unique.

Still not gonna worship an old dude inna dress tho.

Answer 10

Study a little more about the theories of Earth's formation and come back. Venus is not the same distance from the sun as Earth is. That makes a major difference in the sequence of events that takes place.

Water? Many scientists believe that water has been delivered by comets. Cometes are sometimes referred to as "dirty snowballs" because they are full of dust and lots of water ice. Wouldn't that take a lot of comets? Yes, it would. Wouldn't that take a lot of years? Yes, it would.

Lush forest? Those kinds of environments had to develop over many long periods in Earth's history.

Read something like "The Secret Life of Dust" for more answers to your questions.

Answer 11

I agree with you that there is just too much that had to occur in perfect order without error for all of this to be random chance. In fact it requires more faith to believe in random chance than Divine intervention. If the Earth were just 1% closer or further from the sun, would it sustain life? What are the chances of a human eye developing by random chance and connecting to the brain via the optic nerve through a million year process of random evolution? It just doesn't add up on either a macro or micro level.