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Old 09-10-2009, 10:46 PM
 
Location: Blankity-blank!
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Take a look at the people on the subway, in the stores, at their jobs...I'm still waiting for life to begin.
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Old 09-11-2009, 06:09 AM
 
Location: Sango, TN
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How odd.
The answers are given to us already by our Creator, and men prefer darkness to Light, and would prefer an alternative creation story so they make up fables about how it came to be!
Yeah,

I believe the entire Universe, and everything in it, was created in 6 days. One man and one woman spawned the entire human race, and they had only sons? If they didn't just have sons, then there was a whole lot of inbreeding going on.

Yeah, THATS a believable story.
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Old 09-11-2009, 06:19 AM
 
Location: Oxford, England
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Take a look at the people on the subway, in the stores, at their jobs...I'm still waiting for life to begin.
I thought that was proof positive of the primordial ooze.... At least a primitive form of life surely.


You old cynic you !
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Old 09-11-2009, 07:23 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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Take a look at the people on the subway, in the stores, at their jobs...I'm still waiting for life to begin.
No, no, no...you meant intelligent life. There's evidently a distinction!
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Old 09-11-2009, 08:04 AM
 
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Yeah,

I believe the entire Universe, and everything in it, was created in 6 days. One man and one woman spawned the entire human race, and they had only sons? If they didn't just have sons, then there was a whole lot of inbreeding going on.

Yeah, THATS a believable story.
They had 33 children, sons and daughters, says the ancient records.
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Old 09-11-2009, 08:29 AM
 
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Yeah,

I believe the entire Universe, and everything in it, was created in 6 days. One man and one woman spawned the entire human race, and they had only sons? If they didn't just have sons, then there was a whole lot of inbreeding going on.

Yeah, THATS a believable story.

I suppose one way to look at that scenario is that although there would be inbreeding among the first few generations, the more noticable results of inbreeding would have taken time to develop over a period of numerous generations. That assumes the first two people would have had very weak negative traits to start out with.

However, as population numbers increase (not to mention the increase of negative traits), the choices in mate selection also increase and there wouldn't be a need to reproduce between closely related family members. In fact it becomes less desirable to inbreed because of such negative traits that would otherwise be passed on to the offspring. When you have greater numbers to choose from, negative traits are still present, but are much more diluted among a much wider variety of other traits.

That's my take on it, although I might be wrong.
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Old 09-11-2009, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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No. YHWH is LIFE/BREATH. He is uncreated, self existing, and unchanging and He exists in three Persons, and He is the father of all the spirits of all flesh.

He created earth first, as a body of water and in darkness, then light, on day 1 of his six evenings and mornings of creation week. Then He divided the water, separating the divided water by a stretched out firmament between them, on day 2 of the six evenings and mornings of creation week.
So there was no heaven/heavens until day 2, and the light "out there" is "from here", stretched out in the firmament on day 2.

Also, comets and asteroids are fragments of the destroyed earth, when at the flood of Noah, the fountains of the deep gushed forth into heaven and burst the mantle before them, hurling great chuncks of earth out into space, where they became orbiting bodies, orbiting with the firmament which orbits the stationary earth.

That is Bible language, and all creation is supernatural. All life is given to creation by the Creator, whose name is "LIFE", and all life is supernaturally sustained and will be supernaturally "melted" in its elements, and regenerated supernaturally for the new beginning of creation; which in the Word is the 8th day of creation, as to the measure of the thousand year days.
I began this thread to discuss reality, not mythology. If you have some facts or theories to add I'd be happy to see them, but can you please keep your religious beliefs out of this discussion.
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Old 09-11-2009, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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They had 33 children, sons and daughters, says the ancient records.
This is what happens when your religious tales are injected into the conversation.....We end up way off topic.
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Old 09-11-2009, 04:37 PM
 
Location: NSW, Australia
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I think a lot of people have heard of the experiments done that replicated natural conditions under which amino acids could form.

A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Amino acids are created in laboratory

Those conditions could have been present here on Earth or perhaps they were the conditions on another world that was destroyed, the fragments landing here and life evolving from those amino acids.

There are countless possibilities of how life began here, maybe we'll never now the truth. I think we should definitely keep an open mind though
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Old 09-11-2009, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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In 2004...Scientists scanning a galaxy 12 million light-years away with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected copious amounts of nitrogen containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons molecules critical to all known forms of life.

PANHs carry information for DNA and RNA and are an important component of hemoglobin, the molecule that transports oxygen through the body. They also make chlorophyll, the main molecule responsible for photosynthesis in plants, and – perhaps most importantly – they're the main ingredient in caffeine and chocolate.

In 2009 An amino acid has been found on a comet for the first time, a new analysis of samples from NASA's Stardust mission reveals. The discovery confirms that some of the building blocks of life were delivered to the early Earth from space.

NASA Researchers Make First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet

Perhaps there are lots of life forms in the universe much older than earth's, and further I think it is possible that life on earth was actually seeded by these earlier forms of life...
I think there's a good chance of that. It is far more likely in my mind that somehow life made it here in simple form (like bacteria, for example) and took off from there, rather than spontaneously appearing by chance. Maybe the planet was seeded for life on purpose?
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