quote:Originally posted by Bill Gray:
Hi Nagel,
That all sound fine -- except for one small detail. WHERE DID LIFE COME FROM?
Keep in mind that these were simple, LIFELESS cells floating in some primordial swamp. Since life cannot be generated from non-life -- HOW DID THE LIFE OCCUR?
Puzzling, right?
for someone who says he believes in God, you sure do spend a lot of time selling him short.
easy. when God created the matter and pattern with which he created the universe, he designed it so that when the primoradal pudding reached a certain predetermined complexity, life would spontainiously burst forth, and drive the growth at previously unobtainable speeds. what took billions of years would now only take millions.
except on little thing... the cells weren't lifeless.. is a paramicium lifeless? is an aeomeba?
the proteins and amino acids and enzymes wern't "alive" but they weren't lifeless either. they just were not alive, as in, self-cognizent.
is a tub of yogurt self aware? by no means.. but it's definately alive.
life can generate from non life. life can generate from a spark plug, if god decides that it should be so.
fortunatly, we don't have to go that far.
the protiens and amino acids and enzymes kept collecteing and combining, changing and recombining, and adding more and more until they went from inert basic building blocks to something with a purpose.
granted, that purpose was simplistic and 2 fold...
1 - eat and grow
2 - don't get eaten.
eventually it's purpose got more complex as it grew and spread.
anyway.. there ya go.