Evolution

[Jeboduuza]

I will read the articles, but before that I just wanted to start by asking a question.

From what I know life started with like plasma fusing with organic particles. Or something along those lines. Anyway, how does that make life?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Only God can answer that at this point.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Jeboduuza

From what I know life started with like plasma fusing with organic particles. Or something along those lines. Anyway, how does that make life?

From what I know, we don't exactly how life was formed but we know that proteins can be formed in the right conditions.

This could help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Jeboduuza

From what I know life started with like plasma fusing with organic particles. Or something along those lines. Anyway, how does that make life?

The Sagan video in the original post has a good explanation. In short, the first proto-life was a self-replicating molecule. Without predators, and in a vast ocean of random organic molecules, it didn't need the complex protection of a cell. When resources got scarce, competition became a factor, and things became more complicated.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

... and things became more complicated.

God.

(I maintain my position that there is no inconsistency between a religious and scientific explanation. Once you stop seeing them as mutually exclusive opposing sides, you step back and go, "Okay, yeah, it could work that way too." The Big Bang and Evolution are just as miraculous as a carpenter's son walking on water.)

[dar512]

Originally Posted by wolf

God.

(I maintain my position that there is no inconsistency between a religious and scientific explanation. Once you stop seeing them as mutually exclusive opposing sides, you step back and go, "Okay, yeah, it could work that way too." The Big Bang and Evolution are just as miraculous as a carpenter's son walking on water.)

That's pretty much my position too.

It might be coincidence, but I think if you showed a primitive person a movie of the creation of the universe and the origins of life and then asked them to tell the tale to others, I think you'd get pretty much the first few paragraphs of Genesis.

Originally Posted by dar512

That's pretty much my position too.

It might be coincidence, but I think if you showed a primitive person a movie of the creation of the universe and the origins of life and then asked them to tell the tale to others, I think you'd get pretty much the first few paragraphs of Genesis.