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How did Life itself Begin?

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I think there must have been a superior being/race who created us all, because how could all this possibly happen by Chance?

Please, give me more Scientific evidence that Religious beliefs, I hate people who think EVERYTHING can be solved with Religion.

Yeah, I know those two statements kinda contradict themselves....

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  1. The only unexplained phenomenon is the creation of energy. Everything flows nicely from that point on, without the delusions of religion. Take for example the periodic table of the elements. They represent all of the variations obtained by taking hydrogen and adding energy to it via forceful collisions, ie one proton, two protons, three protons, etc.

    Given the HUGE amount of time successful associations remain together and reproduce with changes, those positive changes accumulate and grow. That is why we share so many functions and attributes among the species


  2. here's the scientific proof !

    Please consult http://religiousfreaks.com/2006/07/09/ev... to see a goos summary of the two opinion about evolution ...

    nothing better then to laugh in order to solve the world's problem  

  3. i would like to know to!!

  4. Well, no one is suggesting that life spontaneously came into existence by "chance," at least not for the last few hundred years. There are all sorts of ways that nature creates a vast array of organic compounds and other components of life, how and where these combined to produce the first "life" isn't known, but it seems pretty clear that the boundary between what isn't alive and what is is pretty fuzzy. IE at what point can a self replicating chemical be called alive? In any event, there's tons of scientific evidence and research on the topic, and no need to invoke a supernatural being:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_l...


  5. One problem with the question is precisely defining what "life" is, and also defining a precise criterion for "begins".

    From this end of the evolutionary tree, it seems pretty simple.  We're alive, a rock is not.  A tree is alive, but a pile of firewood is not.  But when you start looking closer and closer at the edge, the picture turns out to be not quite so clear cut.

    Medicine has had the same problems.  Is someone with zero brain activity dead, even if their autonomic nervous system still functions, so their heart beats, their lungs breath, etc.?  Or are they dead the moment their heart stops beating?  This used to be the legal definition of dead, until they started resuscitating so many people whose hearts had stopped.

    At the roots of the evolutionary tree, though, the question is really hard to answer.  

    Is the definition of life the ability to replicate?  How about a patterned clay surface that causes the next layer of clay to mirror the same pattern?  Is that replication sufficient?  How about computer viruses?

    Does life require metabolic functions?  What about biological viruses?  They don't metabolize, only take over the function of other cells.  Are they alive?  If they aren't, what are they?  What about prions?

  6. Saying that life had to be created begs the question of who created the creator.  It is not all chance.  Once a molecule that stimulates the creation of similar molecules comes into existence, by chance, a chain reaction will follow, and that is not chance.

    Look up abiogenesis for the details.

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