Darki, At what stage of development to you believe life came to Earth.Do you believe it arrived as a mono-cellular lifeform from which all other lifeforms evolved or do you believe different species arrived separately in various stages of evolution?
Also why do you believe it is more likely that life began on another planet rather than this one?
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Wow ellie 🙂 I honestly can't believe we all started as amoebae... yes I know they are a life form and still exist. I suppose I don't really believe that all creatures evolved on this planet from one source.
Scientists are now considering that a lot of life 'starters' are actually arriving from outer space on this planet all the time. Depending on whether the environment is good for them or not is dependent upon whether they survive or not... so we have to think that life, all of it, came from outer space.
There is plenty of thought - and some of it quite serious that humans have arrived here from other planets... this is part of the mythology of several races in Africa and in South America. They believe we arrived here as developed people, and in fact, did what we do today - migrated.
That is not so far fetched due to the thought that is what the scientists are considering trying to do now as the population continues to grow... sooner or later mankind is going to have to leave Earth and find somewhere else to continue. I believe that is not a new plan, but a very old one.
I believe that we really don't yet realise there is a whole world outside our cot... we still think that we are all we have and all we have is here... including God who, it seems started it all here on this planet... Frankly I don't believe that.
I think we are like kids thinking we are special and unique... of course we aren't and one day we will learn that in one way or another.
In my own thinking I see everything goes around and around... day and night, the seasons, life and death and life again...
I don't think we have any idea just how big this subject really is.. we are still thinking with our everyday brains and we really need to expand them before we will understand why we have been told that God is omnipotent...
Then again of course, I believe 'God' is another word for 'Life' 🙂
So there you go, and as you will see I have started most sentences with 'I believe'... no one else has to believe the same, but it is a wonderful great big place out there and we are just a small part of it.... I believe :^O
Bob wrote:"What I don't like is the arrogance of the religious claiming that God designed the whole universe just for us."
No-one I know claims that. Where do you get your information there Bob??
Bob wrote:"Oh BTW rabbit, supposely you interpret the day to be billion years in genesis right. Why are the order of creation contradictory to what scientific evidence reveals."
Firstly, I don't interpret 'the day' to be anything. I only said that the Creative Days MUST have been 'millions or even billions of years long'. Otherwise, it just doesn't make sense, does it??
Secondly, sorry Bob, you'll need to explain just what you mean by 'contradictory to what science reveals'. In what area? Please share your information. I am always willing to learn.
While you two are 'discussing' this do you think you could do away with the 'day' word? I know it's used in the Bible for the ordinary people who lived back then, but we know that the seconds, hours, minutes, days, weeks, months is a human invention to help with keeping things in some sort of order.
All these things you are discussing happened without any time limit or order on them at all, they just happened somewhere, sometime, somehow and no one was keeping an eye on them.
Those very first words in the Bible "in the beginning God..." is very much the same opening we use with children "Once Upon a Time"... that it goes on to talk about the creation happening within seven days is a simplistic form of describing things to people who way back then had little understanding of any of the things we are struggling with in this thread :^O
