The origin of life has been hotly debated for as long as man has existed. Even before modern man appeared on the scene earth's inhabitants must have wondered and speculated about all that they could see and where it came from. The sights and sounds must have been overwhelming, both frightening and marvelous. What, if you knew nothing, do you think you would have thought or invented to explain it all?
If evolution is the premise, was one creature first or did they appear at the same time? If one were first, there would have been no food to sustain it. Did "food" precede? Were things already in place to sustain life? If not, the first life would have vanished as quickly as it appeared. In the beginning, many species must have become extinct almost immediately because they could not function in the environment. If that first creature did not already possess the ability to reproduce itself, it too would have become extinct. The imagination is hard pressed to accept that some single cell which found itself alive had evolved in such a way that it could immediately perform the act of reproduction. It was barely alive itself, had no knowledge or instinct about food yet we are to believe it found just the right food and, without direction or history, was able to replicate what had taken eons for it to become a living organism.
Different kinds of creatures reproduce in different ways. How convenient that we all should have evolved in different ways yet somehow the ability to reproduce is common to all of us. Becoming something from "nothing" would have been hard enough but being able, in a short period of time, to produce others like ourselves must have seemed miraculous. In the case of primates and some others, how did "mother evolution" know we needed different kinds of people to produce the next generation? What if only a single sex had made it to life? Why didn't we simply split into two beings as some life forms do?
These questions lead us to conclusions which include some kind of plan in the origin of all life forms, each serving a purpose in continuing life on earth.
If evolution is the premise, was one creature first or did they appear at the same time? If one were first, there would have been no food to sustain it. Did "food" precede? Were things already in place to sustain life? If not, the first life would have vanished as quickly as it appeared. In the beginning, many species must have become extinct almost immediately because they could not function in the environment. If that first creature did not already possess the ability to reproduce itself, it too would have become extinct. The imagination is hard pressed to accept that some single cell which found itself alive had evolved in such a way that it could immediately perform the act of reproduction. It was barely alive itself, had no knowledge or instinct about food yet we are to believe it found just the right food and, without direction or history, was able to replicate what had taken eons for it to become a living organism.
Different kinds of creatures reproduce in different ways. How convenient that we all should have evolved in different ways yet somehow the ability to reproduce is common to all of us. Becoming something from "nothing" would have been hard enough but being able, in a short period of time, to produce others like ourselves must have seemed miraculous. In the case of primates and some others, how did "mother evolution" know we needed different kinds of people to produce the next generation? What if only a single sex had made it to life? Why didn't we simply split into two beings as some life forms do?
These questions lead us to conclusions which include some kind of plan in the origin of all life forms, each serving a purpose in continuing life on earth.
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