What is more likly, life began in and evolved out from the primordial soup, or God created life?
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The ingredients to make life are quite simple. They (aminoacids, nukleotides, fattyacids, sugars) have been found on many off world places such as comets, meteorites and interstellar molecular clouds. Knowing that the ingredients are common and form easily they just need to be exposed to an energy source, like a star, while suspended in a medium (water) and exposed to catalysts (like clays rich in metallic oxides), that greatly speed things up, and eventually more and more complex substances will form. The magic ingredient is time. No God is required to make life, the planets or the universe. It took some 3.8 billion years for life to evolve from the primordial soup to us. Give me that much time to toy around and I´ll build you a staircase to the moon using nothing but a teaspoon.
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The soup.  The chicken evolved from DNA soup.
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The basics on the origin of life:\nPhospholipids formed into micelles, or little circles.  They were arranged such that the polar head groups were facing into aqueous solution and the polar lipid tail groups were facing in toward the other polar lipid group:\nH---T  T---H into a sphere.  Inside these closed environments, it was possible for certain reactions to take place.  The reactions eventually needed to be self-replicating; that is, they needed to react to form something to pass the information for the reaction down to another micelle.  Eventually, the micelles evolved into actual cells.  Alberts "Molecular Biology of the Gene" has a great explanation of this process.\nThere so far hasn't been an experiment to create life- that process took millions of years naturally.  However, Stanley Miller did an experiment that showed that organic molecules, such as nucleic acids, amino acids, etc. could be formed from basic molecules under the conditions present in early Earth.  This experiment was incredibly reproducible- many people tried it, changing around different variables, trying to disprove it, but it kept working.  That's an incredible testament.
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Do you mean "Is evolution in contradiction to Genesis (the Biblical version)?"?  If so, they are not in competition.  You can believe in creation and evolution.  Evolution is the change in alelle frequency in a population over time.  It has nothing to do with the origin of life itself.  That is a matter for abiogenisists to worry about.  Evolution works no matter what the origin of life actually is.
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Biogenesis is the fact that life only arises from life. \n\nId love to see what the evolutionists make of this. And I dont wanna see a bunch of links in the place of a proper answer too..
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"Until the second half of the nineteenth century, it was generally believed that life could arise spontaneously from nonliving matter, a process known as spontaneous generation. An early opponent of spontaneous generation, Francesco Redi, demonstrated in 1668 that maggots, the larvae of flies, do not arise spontaneously from decaying meat." (see source) In other words, life comes from life, cells come from cells, and it is generally thought that living matter cannot come from unliving matter.
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Origins of life were initially suspcted to be of creation from God.\nThen the Theory of Evolution kicked in, suggesting all life came from a single cell.\nNow life came from a stone that banged into earth 4 billion years ago.\nBut are any of them true if we keep finding more truths. If breakthroughs always happen, wouldn't there be an endless amount of breakthroughs? So what we all know now is not the truth?\n\nThe origins of life on earth?\nDon't even think about it.
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If you believe that God created animals from scratch from the dust of the earth, then the chicken came first.  If you believe in evolution and the mutation of species over time, the egg came first.
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it has beeen therorized that the sigle cell was born from primitive proteins that comingled together in a primordial ooze of amino acids and that is how life was thought to be formed on our planet so many years ago
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god created the universe and god created himself.
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Here's something I found on the internet that might answer your question:\n\nScience and Spirituality: An Islamic View of Creation & Life\n\nAccording to Islamic tradition, life is God's creation - regardless of whether life was specially created or resulted from evolution. Evolution itself is a process of creation as admitted by Darwin in The Origin of Species. \n\n \n\nCreation falls into four categories - inanimate matter, plants, animals and human beings. According to Islam, all four are separate creations. Among living things, a number of species co-exist, all having been created separately. There is doubtless some similarity in physical attributes; yet, each has a permanent, separate existence. There is no concept of a missing link in Islam.
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Both. \n\nWho did it?  God.\nWhat did God do?  Create the heavens and the Earth.\nHow did God do it? By using techniques available at such a high order that only today are scientists beginning to understand some of the complexities of it all.\n\nSee, scientists and theologists are climbing up the same hill, but on different sides of the hill.  Once they get to the top, they will be able to see that they were both achieving the same goals and truths.  \n\nThe fact that the things God created are believed to be from magic is amazing.  Understand that the "Big Bang" theory does not exclude God's presence, but only accounts for the forces at work to produce the universe.  This is the "science" of God.  Remember, God has Angels to assist in accomplishing the Will of God.\n\nThe method God used to create the universe appeared to later scientists as the "Big Bang."  Liken this to the explosion of a kernal of corn that creates a different looking product called "popcorn."  Now, imagine yourself as a fly on the wall.  Could you understand what just happened to that kernel of corn?  Would you call it magic because you didn't understand the series of events taking place to alter the kernel's appearance?\n\nWell, this is far from the relativity of human's intelligence compared to an entity that has been around for before the beginning time as we know it.\n\nJust remember, the "Big Bang" theory only explains the processes to produce the universe, not the authors of those processes.
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its worth looking at. i mean there is some convincing evidence that we did evolve from monkeys and other mammals. of course you can say god created man and leave it at that, but how can we move on and learn new things about the origin of life with that view? So i guess i will keep an open mind to both views
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according to genologies it is ~8000 years old, but the days of creation could have been many thousands of years since God has no time, he is above everything so it may not have been 7 days in our time. (note the age of the Bible)\n\nEvolution cannot explain the existance of animals and organisms, in short if everything came from a pool of slime where did the slime come from?\n\nIf the slime came from the big bang where did the materials for the big bang come from in the first place?\n\nThere must be a God, and God created everything since the probablity of amino acids (proven to be able to form in primitive condtions[as supported by some textbooks although nasa disproved the conditions later on]) to bond WITH EACH OTHER to form a protien is very low since they would have more chemical affinity to other materials around them, such as hydrogen, or methane(under heated conditions) Even if a protien is formed then the chances of it to be a working protien is even lower.\n\nFor these protiens to come together under primitive earth conditions(to form the quaternary structure of a functional enzyme) the probablity is even lower. Then the formation of lipids and carbohydrates havent even been proven, but if possible these would not readily clump together in a phospholipid membrane but rather clump togeather in masses that are in essence balls of fat which makes the formation of cells in the first place impossible, how would evolution occour then? Without even a simple bacteria to evolve no evolution occours.\n\nSo tell me now, how did life come to be in the first place? If aliens, how did they come to be? you should consider all the facts before disproving God.
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Perhaps the most famous of these experiments is called the Miller-Urey experiment. Using water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen to simulate primordial earth, and a little electrical coaxing, Miller managed to form 13 of the 21 amino acids organisms use to build proteins, and nucleic acids, mostly in the form of adenine.\n\nThere are some caveats, whether this is actually the composition of the primordial soup has been called into question, and the presence of some molecules, oxygen for example, ceased all biological molecules from forming. We really don't know what the environment was, but the important thing to take away from the experiment is that it's absolutely possible for organic molecules to spring from a random collection of chemicals.\n\nOpponents of evolution like to use the idea of a typewriter factory exploding and forming a dictionary as an allegory for spontaneous creation of a cell. For a fully formed cell to be produced spontaneously certainly is impossible, one of the leading hypothosises is that, as with everything else in evolution, it started in steps, the explosion at the typewriter factory didn't for a dictionary, it formed a word. The first form of life was probably little else than some RNA molecule that managed to replicate, more advanced structures took more time to develop. Interestingly enough, it's now thought that mitochondria were an ancient bacteria that formed a symbiotic relationship with larger cells, a relationship that was so successful, all future life was based on it, this is why they still retain their own genetic information.
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MEIGHAN2006,\n\nIt is interesting that God created the whole universe and all the animals and plants, etc. by just speaking a word. When He made man, He got down in the dirt and planted a garden and then formed Adam from the dirt and breathed life – the eternal part – into him. Then He made Eve from one of Adam’s ribs.\n\nIt is amazing that God was able to make man and woman with a word, yet He showed love from the very beginning as He served His creation by planting a garden and then fashioning them similar to Himself. He has a heart to love and to serve and His rules for us are the same as the way He lives. He wants us to love and serve each other.\n\nIt is also interesting that He made water originate in the garden. The water didn’t flow through the garden, but came up from the ground in the garden and then formed 4 rivers leaving the garden. The garden was probably similar to heaven where there is water that flows from under His throne.\n\nIn my humble opinion, the living water in us is figurative of this water that flows from God’s throne. When we put ourselves on the throne, the flow is restricted or the water becomes stagnant. When God is enthroned in our hearts – when Jesus is our Lord, the living water flows freely. That is the abundant life.\n\nGod bless.
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Both, the wheels of life were set in motion by a supreme being at the start of the universe. We came along when the earth was ready for us. Since our arrival we've been gifted with self awareness in which we have the ability to either flourish or destroy ourselves.\n\nGod started life billions of years ago which evolved into us and now we have the chance to maintain this amazing work.