These musings have been sent to the New Scientist magazine, as well as, a number of eminent scientists over the past year. To date I have received no responses. I was hoping that some one on this forum may feel able to discuss and contribute to this.
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For the last thirty years I have woken up at night wondering how life began.
why this should happen I don’t know. As a layman I do not have the knowledge
or information afforded to yourselves, and unable to go any further than my
thoughts. If you could give me some answers I would be most grateful.
THE BIG BANG THEORY
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We are told an explosion in space released chemicals that fell to Earth and
completed its journey in a deep-sea hypothermal vent. Some scientists say
these chemicals formed a soup from which one-cell creatures came into being.
Such an explosion would spread residue from one end of the Earth to the other.
This for me is a problem, falling from different heights weighing various amounts
into a tidal salty sea ending up together, undiluted and uncontaminated.
The odds this coming together must be astronomical, in my humble opinion can
Only be accepted if you believe in miracles. This hypothesis goes further these
one-cell creatures came on land and were responsible for all life. It is hard to
believe those one- cell creatures were so diverse they eventually changed into
millions of different species.
Another aspect to consider, this life created by chemicals cannot be
copied in clinical laborites. What abilities would a one –cell creature have?
compared with a common fly that is multi-cell creature. Lord Kelvin [William
Thomson} Said:
“ I confess to being deeply impressed by the evidence put before us by professor
Huxley, and I am ready to adopt, as an article of scientific faith, true through all
Space and through all time, that life proceeds from life, and from nothing but
life.”
Two such redoubtable minds of their time almost unsurpassed in achievement
say, indirectly, the big bang is not possible.
ANIMALS, PLANTS AND MAN
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Webster dictionary puts vascular plants, such as ferns, began life 390 million
years ago; Insects, reptiles plus amphibians 230 million years ago, flowering
plants 160 million years ago and birds 100 million hundred years ago life of
man estimated to have begun 70 million years ago. Plants are very interesting
since it could be argued they were the first life. How did plants get to Earth? The
only theory I have heard is that meteorites from another world crashed on this
Planet-exposing seeds trapped inside. To travel millions of light years with the
harmful rays in the cosmos and the longevity of the journey make this theory
unlikely. Ferns and flowering plants were separated by two hundred million
years so it would have to have happened twice If however this feat was managed
it evokes another thought, whatever
time it took to reach Earth, for instance, a million light years, where it came
from would have been at least that amount of time ahead of life on Earth.
Darwin wrote his famous theory on evolution, but evidence shows us it might be
true, or might not. If you can imagine millions of one-cell creatures emerging
from the sea, subject to the same environment changed into billions of different
species. Taking this a step further, there would have been thousands of these
creatures that chose exactly the same place to live and became so different as an
Elephant is to a Ant. Man gave many other species millions of years start in their
Evolution and achieved wonders. They built cities, wrote music, great works of
art and most of all complicated languages to communicate. Other species, in
millions of years, have achieved nothing in comparison. We tend to be amazed
when an animal uses a stick or a stone as a tool, we are dumbfounded when
animals are taught to do complicated tricks, it took them millions of years to
reach this state. If it is accepted that man came from apes, then why do these ape
still exist? In 70 millions years they should have all have changed. If the same
species of ape lives today all it says is that environment may or may not change
appearances. In billions of different species it is most likely that many will have
related features. One can surmise man was never an ape but ape like. He would
have been hairy to protect him from the climate but as time elapsed things would
change. Wearing animal skins for protection, discovering fire to keep warm, and
living in caves all of these elements over time would eliminate the need for hair.
This cannot be claimed as environmental change, this is progress.
GOD AND RELIGION
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If you can believe in God then nothing is impossible. To accept the abilities
attached to such a being creating life would be a simple task. One might ask
one self,” how can there be a God when so many evil people are allowed to
prey on the innocent unhindered? Why are people starving ? Including children
that could hardly be classed as sinners”. These thoughts are further mudded by
religion. Often people are told ”IT IS THE WILL OF GOD” you must not question.
A more intelligent thought might be why is it God’s will? If man never questioned
he would still be living in caves, wearing animal skins and using flints to make
fires. The bible is so contradictory almost impossible to take seriously. Tells of
life beginning with Adam and Eve, does this mean sexual interaction between
brothers sisters, mothers and fathers? We know that medically this is unsound
and hardly likely to produce a healthy race, which by survival to modern times it
must have been. The bible then condemns such sexual interaction between
direct families as a terrible sin and should not be tolerated. How do intellectual
Scientists who are also devout Christians gather their thoughts? The bible says
life began with Adam and Eve yet fossils gathered prove life began millions of
years before. There are so many contradictions in religion too numerous to
comment on, except one, if you truly believe in God religious leaders were meant
to help people and not rule them and certainly not to live in luxury while millions
starve.
