Where did life begin? (Merged)

Do you believe we have a creator, aka "God"?

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#276
#276
IMO, it would take a pretty large "miracle" for all of this to happen by chance.

You can quote whoever and whatever you like, but the bottom line is: it all happened by chance.

Why is that so difficult to admit to?
 
#277
#277
Count your blessings. See how many you have compared to the tragedies of the world. It's those times that truly test us the most and it appears countless people are failing...miserably.
 
#281
#281
GoBigOrangeUT said:
L.O.L. Two entirely different scenarios, but I'll bite. The one has to do with someone 'trying' to soothe me by saying God took my loved one because it was 'his plan'. The last thing I want to hear is a justification for them dying. Especially that one.
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Justification for physical violence?
 
#283
#283
In the beginning there was only darkness, water, and the great god Bumba.

One day Bumba, in pain from a stomach ache, vomited up the sun. The sun dried up some of the water, leaving land. Still in pain, Bumba vomited up the moon, the stars, and then some animals: the leopard, the crocodile, the turtle, and, finally, some men, one of whom, Yoko Lima was white like Bumba.
 
#284
#284
volsforever27 said:
IMO, it would take a pretty large "miracle" for all of this to happen by chance.

You can quote whoever and whatever you like, but the bottom line is: it all happened by chance.

Why is that so difficult to admit to?
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Contradictory statement to what you've been arguing. I admit it all happened by chance, you're the one arguing for creation - which wouldn't have been by chance.

BigPapaCat said:
Count your blessings. See how many you have compared to the tragedies of the world. It's those times that truly test us the most and it appears countless people are failing...miserably.
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What? Where did this come from?
 
#287
#287
rjd970 said:
Pretty much. Sometimes people die, and there is no rhyme or reason to it. It is much easier for me to swallow that then it is to believe somebody had a plan behind it.
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swift do not always have the race nor the mighty the battle for time & unforeseen occurence befall us all - Eccl something: something
 
#288
#288
Thrasher865 said:
In the beginning there was only darkness, water, and the great god Bumba.

One day Bumba, in pain from a stomach ache, vomited up the sun. The sun dried up some of the water, leaving land. Still in pain, Bumba vomited up the moon, the stars, and then some animals: the leopard, the crocodile, the turtle, and, finally, some men, one of whom, Yoko Lima was white like Bumba.
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Epic fail
 
#294
#294
golfballs03 said:
Say hi to Satan for me
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Yep, Satan is stolen from African lore, as well. Egyptian mythology, certainly. I'm sure some others have their own counterparts.

I really don't know that much about African creation myths. I studied them for a paper in middle school, so I'm trying to recall them.
 
#295
#295
Iron-Sulfur World Theory

The fundamental idea of the origin of life according to the iron-sulfur world theory can be simplified in the following brief characterization: Pressurize and heat a water flow with dissolved volcanic gases (e.g. carbon monoxide, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide) to 100 °C. Pass the flow over catalytic transition metal solids (e.g. iron sulfide and nickel sulfide). Wait and locate the formation of catalytic metallo-peptides. Some crucial aspects of this theory have been confirmed experimentally.
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#296
#296
Thrasher865 said:
Yep, Satan is stolen from African lore, as well. Egyptian mythology, certainly. I'm sure some others have their own counterparts.

I really don't know that much about African creation myths. I studied them for a paper in middle school, so I'm trying to recall them.
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So life began in africa, that is a huge relief.
 
#298
#298
Yes, you should know this, OE.

Human evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Models of human originsToday, all humans belong to one population of Homo sapiens sapiens, undivided by species barrier. However, according to the "Out-of-Africa" model this is not the first species of hominids: the first species of genus Homo, Homo habilis, evolved in East Africa at least 2 Ma, and members of this species populated different parts of Africa in a relatively short time. Homo erectus evolved more than 1.8 Ma, and by 1.5 Ma had spread throughout the Old World.

Anthropologists have been divided as to whether current human population evolved only in East Africa, speciated, then migrated out of Africa and replaced human populations in Eurasia (called the "Out-of-Africa" Model or the "Complete-Replacement" Model) or evolved as one interconnected population (as postulated by the Multiregional Evolution hypothesis).
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