A_Wanderer
ONE love, blood, life
The first "beings" were single celled organisms. They are a set of metabolic reactions and constuction tools in a cell. Their "food" or more specifically energy was obtained by the splitting of hydrogen sulphide to generate ATP - a chemical which stores energy that can be used in the cell.coemgen said:A.W., you're right on man. Monkeys, dogs, rats and frogs have brains, hearts and lungs!! As a Christian, I'm with you on this one. : ) (I'm just teasing you by the way, not attempting to urinate you off. I honestly respect your opinion and can tell that you're an intelligent person.)
If you want to play the evolution card, consider this: all these parts, the brain, heart, lungs, circulatory system, etc., had to have been in the first "humans" or animals or whatever anyway. So really, you don't have much of an argument in bringing up evolution. The first beings on Earth still had to have food and it just so happens, it was right there on Earth for them to eat and enjoy! If there was no creator behind all of this, even with evolution in place, there still would've had to have been a proverbial jigsaw puzzle thrown up in the air and it still would've had to land perfectly in place. In fact, if you want to include evolution, I would argue that puzzle would have even more pieces in it than the one without evolution.
As far as the morality thing, you didn't really answer the question. Why is it there? Why do we seek to be moral beings? If there's a basic right and wrong that humans agree on, it must be there for a reason too.
They had no hearts, lungs or brain - they were prokaryotic organisms that lacked even internal membrane stucture. All of these attributes are created by slight variation, the heart for instance may have formed in early sea worms as a piece of tissue inside the worm that helped move around blood in its cavity, of course there were no cappilaries or such at this point. Eventually this strip of tissue would show slight differences in different worms because of mutation and sexual variation, if the variant strip benefitted the worm then it may have a greater chance of survival therefore it will have more of a chance to breed and its offspring with that same variant strip of tissue would have an advantage over their compeditors without the tissue until the entire population of sea worms have variant strips of tissue which by this point give maximum advantage, the tissue strip has been varied in so many permutations the best one resembles a pump, the first heart. That is just an example off the top of my head but I am just trying to show that it is not impossible for these things to happen without God.
This is not an instantaneous world as we know it, the atmosphere was vastly different to what we know now, there was no free oxygen, blankets of volcanic gasses prevailed; hadean earth, literally hellish earth.
It was not like some fully formed generic organism just popped into existence bones and all. It was a process of trillions of chemical reactions taking place and of those a very small fraction would produce the seeds from which life could form and as those seeds were arranged in various permutations eventually the right ones were reached. The life that may have formed through this process would just be very basic compared to life we see today.
The first forms of life were sets of organic chemicals that were able to relicate themselves and undergo reactions with the inorganic chemicals around them to obtain energy ~ very, very basic.
The best idea of what these life forms were like can be found around volcanic vents were you can find "extreme thermophile" microorganisms.
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