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He came riding on the donkey, following the Yellow Brick Road.zenzero said:How did man appear on earth?
Yay! a new game. i'm going to post this in games+ area and see where it goes.He came riding on the donkey, following the Yellow Brick Road.
Key words... "Let the EARTH bring forth"
God didn't blip them into being, the Earth did.
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How did man appear of earth? How about this? - We evolved from being seeded. Goodness...hasn't anyone seen the movie "Mission to Mars"? Now, I'm not saying that's what happened of course, but the general idea isn't that absurd. If you figure that the small planet that struck Earth and slowly became our moon might have carried with it something else frozen in the ice that was deposited here...the concept of being seeded isn't that off base to consider.
Yes, that is why I don't follow a religion. Animism and shamanism both are more of an understanding of the world we can not see and the natural world around us. Even the primitive cave dwellers understood that everything that existed had some form of energy. They just called it "spirit". Scientists are just beginning to realize that this "animate" energy is in all things. The early primitive animistic people were right all along. It was the organized religions that came after that rejected science. The early animists could not reject something they did not know. They just came up with their own understanding of what was going on around them.
Read the Silmarillion.
The Egytians called matter "frozen music".
I like your field of comprehension, friend.
How did man appear of earth? How about this? - We evolved from being seeded. Goodness...hasn't anyone seen the movie "Mission to Mars"? Now, I'm not saying that's what happened of course, but the general idea isn't that absurd. If you figure that the small planet that struck Earth and slowly became our moon might have carried with it something else frozen in the ice that was deposited here...the concept of being seeded isn't that off base to consider.
And which heavenly body seeded the moon, and from which heavenly body was seeded the heavenly body that seeded the moon, etc, etc, etc? You would be well advised to listen to 'Painted Wolf.'
Holy crap! Who cares? You honestly think it is impossible for there to be any matter in this universe that could result in life forms given certain conditions? You have to be able to trace us back to one specific moment in time? A specific peice of matter and action? Your need to know is so great that you are willing to accept "goddidit" as an answer?
The answer to the original question of the thread is simple. Man appeared on earth through the evolution of a pre-existing species. If you want to know how life originated on earth that it another question entirely and has any number of possible answers, none of which we know definitely. We simply cannot travel back millions upon millions of years to the exact moment the first lifeform developed to find out how it happened. Needless to say, however, it happened. At this point it really makes no difference as to how it happened as we can't find out. Why does that fact seem to bother some people so much?
edit: nevermind, I know why it bothers some people...they think of it that way and they think "accident" and they refuse to believe that we came about by mere accident and chance. Maybe we did and maybe we didn't. We can't know. So live with it.
Panspermia is an interesting idea. Amino acids likely did arrive from space, but I'm not sure it goes any further than that.
On a similar note, one has to wonder if we have accidently seeded other worlds with bacteria from Earth as we explore the solar system.
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S-word, I honestly haven't a clue as to what you are rambling on about but I am sure I don't want to know. As I don't think I want my mind to go that loopty-doopty so as to understand you.
My whole point is that we don't know the origins of life. We can't know. There are limitless possiblities, but no possibility of knowing for sure. So why fret over an unanswerable in the first place? Considering all the possibilites is one thing, but asking for or claiming to have a definite answer is absurdity.