How Did Life On Earth Happen?

[Bonzi]

What's your personal belief/theory?

Why?

 

[Taz]

So the aliens would have something to experiment with.

 

[yiostheoy]

There are various scientific theories that the wiki article covers. None of them is plausible although any one of them could be feasible.

Evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

 

[yiostheoy]

The philosophers and in particular Aristotle, Aquinas, and Scruton simply postulate the existence of a God whom we call The Philosophy God and then take it from there.

 

[Cellblock2429]

What's your personal belief/theory?

Why?

/----/ So DemocRATS would have someone to tax and boss around.

 

[yiostheoy]

Each of the dozen or so major religions of the world (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox and Protestant Christianity, Sunni and Shia Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Tao, Confucianism, Shinto, Judaism, Native American shamanism, Zen, Ba'hai, etc.) posit their own God/Gods and take it from there, mostly with a major guilt trip that you must accede and bow to.

 

[yiostheoy]

Religion, Philosophy, and Science each addresses creation and as a result God-ness/hood in different ways.

 

[ChesBayJJ]

Spontaneously here on earth, not from elsewhere, not created by some supreme being.

 

[yiostheoy]

Spontaneously here on earth, not from elsewhere, not created by some supreme being.

Yup that's one of the major hypotheses in the wiki article.

It's an ancient idea that dates back to Diodorus Siculus in 60 BC.

Back in those times they thought frogs evolved from the mud of the Nile River.

Diodorus Siculus - Wikipedia

 

[Auld Phart]

God, billions of years ago.

He started with Adam and Steve, but that got boring, so he got rid of Steve, and created Eve.

Or, aliens...


which would seem like Gods

 

[fncceo]

A drunken prom date in the primordial soup.

 

[alang1216]

What's your personal belief/theory?

Why?

No evidence for an alien or supernatural intervention and there are plenty of theories that have only natural causes.

 

[petro]

Only stating I have no clue. And grow tired of the conventional threads that pit religion against science, where self appointed experts bestowing humans lousy couple hundred years of science and theology seem to solve all the riddles of existence turning discussion into an either or conversation. We have no clue how our own capacity to reason and have sentient thoughts came about. Nor any clue as to the catalyst that triggered life to take hold here. Could be accidental and could very well be a seeded world. Best way to seed the universe? Asteroids.

My gut feeling is there is far more advanced intelligence than us considering the age and size of the known universe. God may be nothing more than a scientist or farmer for that matter.

My hope is that Earth isn't a farm as we would be the cattle.

 

[miketx]

Nibiru.

 

[norwegen]

Carbon, i.e., exploding stars

 

[miketx]

Carbon, i.e., exploding stars

It would seem like to me that from all the sci-fi movies I have seen, exploding stars usually have a detrimental effect on life.

 

[Mac1958]

My guess is that we're here as the result of chemistry and not divinity.

How? I dunno. The Big Bang Theory isn't satisfying. We just don't know. Yet.

 

[norwegen]

Carbon, i.e., exploding stars

It would seem like to me that from all the sci-fi movies I have seen, exploding stars usually have a detrimental effect on life.

Back up at least 15 feet from them.

 

[miketx]

Carbon, i.e., exploding stars

It would seem like to me that from all the sci-fi movies I have seen, exploding stars usually have a detrimental effect on life.

Back up at least 15 feet from them.

The TV?

 

[Windparadox]

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The Space Gods put us here.