Origin of Life - A big problem
By kpisgod
@kpisgod (994)
India
December 10, 2006 3:32am CST
Well a big issue and a challenge for atheist and scientific minded people is the problem of Origin of Life. Till date there has'nt been a satisfactory theory which explains the formation of life. The common scientific idea is the darwin-urey-oparin hypothesis of spontanous generation. However there is lots of problem and inspite of the famous stanley miller experiment in which he managed to synthesize amino acids no substantial progress have been made.
In this problem the creationists have a big edge.
But my question is how do you explain the origin of god or creator?
10 responses
@alchemistrx (2547)
• Philippines
11 Dec 06
There is a discussion here that was started and talks about asking why do we believe in GOD and one user name got information and posted that link here in mylot. I look it up and it fairly and supportively explains the existence of God and they have prove it. They have directly measured the universe. I come to think that I have more reasons to believe that God exists and this organization that Dr. Hugh Ross had founded may would end about creation/evolution wars.
@mtbkanata (248)
• Canada
11 Dec 06
Do you have that link? As far as I know there is not evidence that a god exists.
@alchemistrx (2547)
• Philippines
11 Dec 06
The following links could be useful for you.
www.reasons.org
www.cosmicfingerprints.com/audio/newevidence.htm
www.oneplace.com/ministries/Creation_Update/archives.asp?bcd=2006-11-14
www.cosmicfingerprints.com/atheists_riddle.htm
@alchemistrx (2547)
• Philippines
11 Dec 06
here's another useful link.
www.thercg.org/books/dge.html
@chatuti07 (23)
• India
11 Dec 06
there is no satisfactory theory for life because every one know that theory all of them success in their life so be responsible and hard working is important theory fo life
@vishnukompella836 (160)
• India
11 Dec 06
firstly a species of living contents are identified in it and was pased in the rivres topass it to rest of the world and it is passed in away that i t is identified in asmilar way that it can be also a species in which the living matter exists.
@anne_143god (5387)
• Philippines
10 Dec 06
I dont think so it should be treated as big problem but let us just contented that God created the man kind for us not think where we came from.
@mbs730 (2147)
• Canada
11 Dec 06
It's one of those big questions that can give you a headache trying to figure out. Where did we come from? Why were we created? Hmmmm the questions can go on.
@cyberhacker665 (92)
• Greece
10 Dec 06
History of the concept
In a letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker of February 1 1871, Charles Darwin made the suggestion that the original spark of life may have begun in a "warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, lights, heat, electricity, etc. present, [so] that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes". He went on to explain that "at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed." In other words, the presence of life itself prevents the spontaneous generation of simple organic compounds from occurring on Earth today – a circumstance which makes the search for the origin of life dependent on the sterile conditions of the laboratory.
An experimental approach to the question was beyond the scope of laboratory science in Darwin's day, and no real progress was made until 1936 when Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin demonstrated that it was the presence of atmospheric oxygen and other more sophisticated life-forms that prevented the chain of events that would lead to the evolution of life. In his The Origin of Life on Earth, Oparin argued that a "primeval soup" of organic molecules could be created in an oxygen-less atmosphere through the action of sunlight. These would combine in ever-more complex fashion until they dissolved into a coacervate droplet. These droplets would "grow" by fusion with other droplets, and "reproduce" through fission into daughter droplets, and so have a primitive metabolism in which those factors which promote "cell integrity" survive, those that don't become extinct. All modern theories of the origin of life take Oparin's ideas as a starting point.
@pondle (3)
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10 Dec 06
As I understand it, scientists believe that time is a characteristic of our universe and does not exist outside it. Therefore cause and effect don't exist outside it either and the question of the origin of god doesn't even arise. God simply is.
As for how life started, I think it's the same whether god exists or "he" doesn't, and spontaneous generation does indeed seem like the best guess. Although I'm a theist, I don't believe that god molded us all out of clay or anything like that. I think he created (out of himself) this thing which we call universe, a system in which all possibilities - life included - arise.