How Did Life on Earth Get Started?

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the origin of life

if there is a god why would he grant us the ability to analyze and question if we are not supposed to try to figure out how it all happened?

donald terral of NC @ Jul 29, 2008 17:28:27 PM

How Did Life on Earth Get Started?

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.

And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

Bill of MO @ Jul 29, 2008 14:41:46 PM

Creation

You try to prove the existance of God. How sad! You too will see him face to face! And you will face the reality of the True CREATER!

Lynda Higgins of CO @ Jul 28, 2008 10:56:46 AM

How Did Life on Earth Get Started?(or at least create new drugs and fuel)

"claims of older evidence of life have periodically surfaced. But none have been universally embraced, and Buick's claim is so new that other scientists haven't fully reviewed it."

"his discovery would leave unanswered one of life's biggest mysteries: how life actually arose."

"creationists attribute that spark of life to the hand of God, scientists are convinced there's a natural explanation."

"To solve the riddle of genesis, biologists, astronomers, geologists, and chemists are attacking the problem from all angles—even trying to re-create life from scratch."

" "The field is going through a minirenaissance," "

"rocks that might harbor traces of such genesis events simply don't exist"

"According to scientists"

"Scientists widely suspect that life began during that long, undocumented interval."

"Theories about where and how life began range from the sublime to the bizarre."

"One camp says that deep-sea vents "

"could have"

"Another camp believes that ice—not boiling water—served as the cradle of life."

"the genetic material that was probably the forerunner to"

"spontaneously string themselves together "

"Still other scientists point to the skies."

"A wilder offshoot of this theory, called panspermia,"

"the one claim of fossil bacteria in a Martian meteorite, made by NASA scientists in 1996, has been almost universally rejected."

"Perhaps the leading theory focuses on"

"If"

"most likely did"

"could have"

"Eventually"

"could have"

"Scientists favoring one or another theory have tried to boost their case by"

"Such work sparked to life in 1953, when two researchers cooked up a "primordial soup""

"experiments done over a period of 50 years give us confidence"

""The big question is how do you go from there to something that can replicate itself.""

"A pile of lumber, after all, is not a house."

"transition might have"

"what look like primitive cells"

"hoping"

"none of these primitive cells have"

"Joyce and Szostak contend, would constitute life"

"such a feat may not exactly recapitulate how biology began"

undesireabull of TX @ Jul 26, 2008 12:25:15 PM

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