How Did Life on Earth Get Started?

Justine

Here's why I believe in a personal, transcendant, creating God. First, the universe began to exist and therefore must have a cause. The second law of thermodynamics can not allow for an infinitely old universe because entropy would set in and energy would no longer be usable. In the end, an infinitely old universe would be a dead universe. Some may say that there is a "god particle" or some form of eternal matter that has always existed and created/makes up the known universe. Again, such matter would go against the second law of thermodynamics and there needs to be strong evidence that such thing does exist. However, most people do not believe that this eternal matter exists, especially atheistic naturalists. Having established that the universe had a beginning, we come to my second point: the universe came from a creator.

We know that something does not come from nothing. So what existed before the universe? Atheists say nothing, but we know this can not be true. Some worldviews say there is a god, but he/she is apart of the universe. Naturally, this god couldn't be the creator because he/she is part of the creation. All we are left with is a transcendent being with the power to defy the law of conservation. This is acceptible because this being does not belong to the physical universe where the laws of nature preside. Creation also supports the idea that there is a creator. Macro-evolution is not observable and has serveral problems. (Where are the "missing-links"? Where did animals gain the different beneficial genetic information to become other species? Irreducible complexity?) Also, the odds for life occuring by chance via natural selection are very low. This doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but the likely-hood that it did happen unaided is improbable.

Third, humanity has this innate sense of justice/ethics. Atheism has no answer or explanation as to why people have this "conscience." This isn't evolution of social species because animals are barbaric. Alligators do at times eat their young. Most other "moral" behavior is just part of an animal's instinct to survive, not doing something because it is just or right. Christianity believes that the Creator, God, has given mankind this sense of right and wrong and He Himself is the basis of morality.

Fourth, the Resurrection has yet to be disproven. Many theories have developed about how it is a fraud, but none hold water.

This is not a complete testimony, but it is a good defense as to why I believe what I believe. I don't believe in God just to make God. I believe in God because the facts have led me to Him.

Dryfire of IL @ Sep 05, 2009 12:51:31 PM

my type of comment

people believe in god for reasons unkown,

example:they never found out why and how the Earth was created and I do not know too, but believing in nothing has created war ,for example terrorist and yes there will also be war if your an athiest or if the world is, but I'm not against religion so you can still believe in god, and maybe just believing in god will god only be created.

there are thousand of goddist that people believe in like:

mother nature, father time, god, the indian goddist, and that might cause war you may think but what really does.........

are the creatures who came to live for a different reason who endangered the animals and decreases the percantege of life, these creatures.......are you

justine @ Aug 31, 2009 07:30:54 AM

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George of NY @ Aug 30, 2009 19:28:50 PM

For Open Minded

This is a very interesting article, because there is no definite answer yet. Be it in Religion or Science, who knows?. Science is still very young to explain everything, let it grow. Truthseeker, i sugest you take a look at some people who have near-death experiences. Little by little youll be able to know the truth. You will learn that the mere history we have here is just a fragment of vast History of mankind's origin. If you are an open minded person, I can give you the site and some truth that the self-serve politics and religion have covered up for their own benefits.

Nan 21 of CA @ Aug 26, 2009 23:22:42 PM

Not necessarily...

truthseeker, God has often done things that went against the laws of nature. The miracles are obvious examples. Each defies science in one way or another. The creation of the universe is another. According to the law of conservation, matter and energy do not magically appear or disappear. Based on this evidence, one would suggest that the universe has always existed. However, this would contradict the 2nd law of thermodynamics which deals with entropy. Essentially, an infinitely old universe would have died long ago because energy is slowly going from useful to unuseful. If God must obey or adhere to the laws of nature, then He would be unable to create the universe. However, as we have seen with the miracles and in Genesis, God is not bound to the laws of nature. Instead, as Sir Isaac Newton believed, God created the universe and placed the laws of nature to govern the universe as we know it.

I do agree with you that science is and should be used to see how the universe God created works.

Dr. Shade of NC @ Aug 23, 2009 16:28:58 PM

God"s acts

God does not do anything secretly. Whatever he does it is according to the laws of nature. If he has made life there must be a scientific explanation to it. This is what man is searching for.

truthseeker @ Aug 22, 2009 10:53:15 AM

Primal soup

If God created everything why does spontaneous evolution negate God? That may be simply the way it was done. In 7 days, or a flash? If one day is the time it takes for the earth to go around the sun and God created the Universe who knows what His, or Her time frame is.

Gandalf87 of WA @ Aug 19, 2009 11:06:34 AM

Life is it Na-K gradient or DNA dictated Development

There are wonderful work and theories that try talk about origin of life starting from Religious to scientific theories. What to say -take the example of sodium-potassium gradient- which maintains cell volume, absorption of nutrients and excitability of membranes- can we simply say life is nothing but Sodium-potassium gradient; or electrical activity recorded developing embryo on14th postconception day or the DNA in a virus that transforms it to living in a nutrient soup provided by the host or what shall we simply say - human mind has limitations which dictates that there are certain things one need to know and certain things better not known. Whatever it is what we do today - must not harm the sanctity of life - for that life is our posterity.

dhastagir sheriff @ Aug 12, 2009 07:27:21 AM