Evolutionists/Atheists: How did the first living cell begin?

Question

Asking me how God begain is NOT an answer it is obviously dodging the question and I'll assume you don't have an answer for my question if you do that.

As a Christian I believe that God has always been here. Do you believe that there was just a cell always here and one day it started evolving??? Otherwise where did everything come from?

Please I am trying to understand, don't attack me.

Bertyl I will have you know that I've tried to ask this before and have only been attacked. people just say something like "well how did God begin?" and that's not really an answer to my question

ACid zebra; this is exactly the kind of answer I am looking for thank you for just answering my question and i'll look into it, no i don't have an answer for your questions

Answer 1

Where does life begin? What are your lower limits? Is a virus alive? Is a string of RNA? There were plenty of raw materials around at the time, and speaking of which, plenty of time.

Whatever the case, it happened such a stupendous amount of time ago that evidence will be hard to come by. I doubt we will ever get beyond hypothesis here, personally.

That said, since we have a good picture of everything that happened after that, how do you resolve that with events as described in your religious book?

Answer 2

Life could have begun in a number of ways. And it's not that improbable if you think that the "experiment" could have been going on in at least one planet of each of the millions of galaxies, and that on each of those planets the "experiment" would have had millions of trials. In fact, it's inevitable that one of those planets would have produced a self-replicating molecule that could have formed and then evolved into a self-replicating cell. It's just lucky it happened on this planet. Take the lottery. It's improbable that you (an individual) will win the jackpot, but if enough people play, it's inevitable that *someone* will win it. And that person is considered lucky. It seems much more improbable that the omnipotent, invisible lottery creator just decided that that one person deserved to win, and so it happened. And, more than likely, these early cells that formed did not need to use oxygen. Your body's cells can get energy from food without oxygen--they do it quite often...it's called glycolysis. So they didn't need oxygen, but they probably produced oxygen as a by-product of metabolism, which would eventually fill the atmosphere with oxygen, which would eventually allow for other forms of metabolism. So you don't have to make a choice. The only choice that seems unreasonable is that everything "popped" into existence in a span of seven days, which hasn't been supported in science anywhere...ever.

Answer 3

I simply do not know what all of this means, although the best inference which might be drawn is that new species apparently "evolve" suddenly and fully-formed, a concept, known as "saltation", which has been advocated in the past, and which was recently revived, at least in part, in the late Stephen J. Gould's theory of "punctuated equilibrium". The mechanism which brings about these sudden, fundamental changes, however, remains (so far as I know) completely unknown, but must be marked by a high order of creative ability. The drawn-out transitional process suggested by Darwin, however, does not appear to accord with the facts, coolly considered.
If you want more on evoiution try here
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Darwin's+theory :)

Answer 4

Asking "where did everything come from" and "how did the first living cell begin" are two different questions. God is the answer to the question "Why is there anything at all?" That may or may not have anything to say about god being the efficient cause of evolution.

HTH

Charles

Answer 5

Why is God any more relevant than a living cell?
this is a question that can't be answered..have an open mind to all possibilities. Their are many people with different religions why yours/ god the only possibility?

Answer 6

I am not a biologist. Why do you spend so much time attacking others theories, why not come up with the slightest bit of evidence for yours? You don't find Evolutionists/Atheists worrying about creation now do you? Thats because its beyond ridiculous and completely without evidence. Have a nice day.

Answer 7

The first cell exists the same way God's existence began. Now... how did the space that holds the first cell or God begin?

Answer 8

Nobody knows. Just hypothesis.

Basically that energy (heat, lightning, pressure, etc...) caused the critical combination of amino acids to create a protein. all life on earth is based on amino acids and proteins.

It is possible to create amino acids in the lab and replicate early conditions. But the random event that could have caused the creation of "life" from protein is still unknown.

Answer 9

It is widely belived that a bolt of lightning struck the ocean somewhere the nergy resulted a chemical reaction which formed a single celled organism.

This explanation is straght off my mind and could be inaccurate

Answer 10

Well they can do it in the lab
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_29/c3792082.htm http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1072266v1

But you need to realize that even if we didn't have the slightest idea, that would not be evidence against evolution or evidence for god. Evolution is only about how life diversified. Just like illness wasn't evidence for demon possession, not knowing doesn't mean that it had to be a magic god. That is exaxatly what your type of thinking led to in the Middle Ages.