I didn't necessarily start this thread as a debate but moreso as kind of a survey. I just wanna know what people think and a brief reason why. I want to know how you think life originated on the Earth. I personally have no idea. This might sound weird but the concept of panspermia is quite interesting to me at the moment. It basically says that life is transmitted throughout the universe via germs or spores. I think that possibly a meteor or something similar already carrying life landed on this rock (Earth) and started an evolutionary process that lasted m/billions of years, but hey I could be wrong .
Evolution vs. Creation (on Earth)
by StinkyPantz 46 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Stan Conroy
Is it unreasonable to think that God started the evolution process? Why couldn't he have created the necessary conditions to cause it to happen. To me that makes sense. That way God is responsible for creation, and we don't have to ignore all the scientific evidence for evolution.
Stan
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StinkyPantz
Stan, I have considered that possibility and do not discount it. Thank you.
Edited by - StinkyPantz on 31 December 2002 19:47:54
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Beans
Personally I don't have time to even research all the info, but I believe creation aint it man!
Beans
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iggy_the_fish
My current belief is in life comming from the good old primordial soup - molecules forming by normal chemical reactions, which tend to replicate themselves, fast forward a few hundred million years and hey presto, cells!
I'm aware of the pros and cons of this argument, I believe it because it strikes me as possible that it could happen, and I've gone right off the God argument. This is just a survey thread right?
ig
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StinkyPantz
Yes, iggy this is meant to be a simple survey thread. I do want to know why you believe as you do but I don't want a debate because I think we've heard them all before.
Edited by - StinkyPantz on 31 December 2002 20:10:52
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Bona Dea
I don't know what I believe regarding how in the heck we got here. I haven't read enough about evolution to discount or to adhere to it ,so, I can't really make an informed comment about it, as of yet. It does fascinate me, though. I just don't think I am ready to let go of the "creator, big daddy in the sky, my heavenly father" kind of thing. It probably has more to do with the fact that I've always believed in god for like 30 something years now and just recently (within the last year) lost faith in my religion....I'm not too sure if I am prepared to lose faith in something bigger than me being out there...
Anyways, good luck in finding what works for you!!
Bona
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StinkyPantz
bona-
I totally understand where you're coming from. I was disfellowshipped last year and I too wanted to hold onto the concept of God, afterall how else did we get here? Now, though, I am in my third year of college and I've taken courses in Geology and Biological Anthropology and Human Development that have opened my mind to new concepts. While I still haven't rejected the possibility of a Creator, I feel that I am now more open-minded. Nonetheless I haven't made up my mind absolutely about anything and probably never will.
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peacefulpete
The recent discoveries of exteremly simple and durable bacteria in deep sea vents has shifted the focus away from shallow solar heated pools. It is very likely that life first generated there or at least was incubated there if it did initially arrive via a meteorite from another wet planet. It would have been safe there from the intense solar radiation and the extreme climate fluxuations resulting from the numerous astreroid impacts of the time.
Edited by - peacefulpete on 2 January 2003 12:58:47
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gumby
Is it unreasonable to think that God started the evolution process? Why couldn't he have created the necessary conditions to cause it to happen.
Well if he did....why did he also CREATE deadly virus? If he did do it........we have to wonder what kind of God he is? Why would he CREATE animals to kill one another?
I see God in creation........then he seems to have went on a long vacation........and hasn't came back yet. Quick....someone call 911 on the God phone and tell him there is an emergency on planet earth!!!!!!!!
Gumby