gnostic
The Lost One
There are several non-life elements that can make life. All they need is the right mixture of carbon, oxygen, possibly iron and some other elements. Life can start primitively as a single cell created from these mixture of elements.joeboonda said:Life cannot come from non-life, that is a proven principle of science. So where did life come from? I believe in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. God, being outside time, has always existed, and we finite humans cannot understand all that. But we do know we cannot get life from non-life.
A divine being creating the world in only 6 days and the creatures, including the first man straight from the dirt, is far more of fairy tale than any scientific theory.joeboonda said:So, for me, evolution is a fairy-tail: billions and billions of years ago...long ago, in a land far away...It is much easier for me to believe that God created us than to believe in evolution. But if folks want to believe the fairy tales, that the princess kissed a frog and it became a prince, or we came from a frog or monkey or some such nonsense, that is their choice. I will trust in the Lord who loved me and died for me, and saved me freely, and in eternal life, and in a purpose for life. You believe we came from an evolved animal, go live like one. But I assure you, God is real, and death and judgement are, too. I myself wish to be clothed in Christ's righteousness freely imputed to me, rather than in my own, which is as filthy rags before a Holy God.
The biblical creation is a myth. Long before any Hebrews wrote any part of the bible, the 3rd millennium Sumerians had described the creation of man, made out of earth, thus clay. This has become the myth, which the Akkadians, and later the early 2nd millennium Babylonians had absorbed into their own religions. By the time Moses, or someone else composed the Genesis, they had used the myths of the original Sumerian, for their own purpose.
So in essenece, the ancient Hebrews of the late 2nd millennium or early 1st millennium, have stolen the idea of creation from the original Sumerian myth. The Hebrews have also stolen and adapted the story of the Flood including how mankind was saved in the Ark, from the Sumerian Ziusudra, Akkadian Atrahasis and Babylonian Uta-naphistim.
You can trace the sources of where the Biblical stories of creation and flood to the original sources. So essentially the Genesis, particularly that of the Creation and the Flood, is nothing more than myths.
So which is fairy tale, joeboonda? The Genesis from the Bible? Or science?
Sorry, joeboonda, but your use of fairy tale on science can actually be used against your faith.