Post by shrar on Aug 24, 2009 1:23:12 GMT 1
First off, evolution does not attempt to explain how life originated on Earth. Only how we got to the diversity of life that we see around us today.
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The other suggests that life originated on another planet, such as Mars. Some sort of impact on that planet kicked up lots of rocks, containing microbes within. These rocks went into orbit around the sun in such a manner that they eventually crash landed on Earth. The microbes they carried survived, and since Earth was so hospitable, they flourished and diversified.
that still doesnt explain the origins of life, just pushes the problem back further. I'm personally an abiogenesis. During one of my agnostic phases i accepted and understood evolution, but not how it all got started in the first place. I assumed single-celled organisms to be the simplest forms of life but even they are so immensely complicated i couldn't see how they could just "happen". but of course they didnt. as far as i know, chemistry became biology when RiboNucleic Acid was first formed (in simple terms, like DNA but deoxygenated and only a single strand so it has the ability to fold in on itself) and was able to form a globular protien structure to catalyse it's own reproduction
the only problem is, they've never been able to reproduce this phenomenon in the lab. but i guess earth's conditions were grossly different back then
I don't believe in god(s) for the simple reason i don't think we need one. I don't think that the existance of a god adds any more meaning or clarification to the universe's own existance than not having a god.
Back in the day, we used "gods" to explain phenomenons we didnt understand, such as assuming lightening was a god's anger. that need to find truth (and fill ignorance with fiction if fact is unreachable) is a simple evolutionary trait. as is the offspring's gullibility to anything the parent tells them