Posted on 08/18/2016 6:34:03 AM PDT by fwdude
I’d present this a little differently because their are multiple biological miracles here.
I think the first cells were expected to live off sunlight. So, right out of the box they somehow mastered photosynthesis.
But later one cell decided that sunlight wasn’t good enough and it decided to chomp on the plant next door. That’s a huge change. plants don’t have digestive systems but animals that eat plants do. WHAM! It just happened.
Evolution requires more miracles than any other religion.
They lived on Gaea’s farts! (kidding, kidding, kidding)
Think of the sudden and catastrophic consequences of a sudden bloom of a bacteria which aggressively eats plastics. Talk about the ultimate weapon?!
Or a “rust bug”
>scientists who believe that life could have come about through natural causes
Why would anyone believe God is unnatural?
The first living cell would probably occur in a veritable soup of organic matter that it could use to grow off of. However that isn’t strictly a requirement as we know of a number of microorganisms in extreme environments that live off of inorganic matter with sufficient CO2 available to synthesize their own organics. The objection is so simplistic as to be laughable and demonstrates the ignorance of the writer.
Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
It’s a “scientific explanation” but in the context that insisting that what we know as natural processes must be the only thing that makes it go, or go in the direction that it goes.
Whatever kind of “evolution” this may be (and we can use the term figuratively of something that is manifestly discretely designed and built, as in “the evolution of the car from the Model T to the Mustang”) it does not act like anything Darwinian. It seems to thumb its nose at Darwin.
The technical term is “supernatural.”
The first living cell would have been formed of existing complex carbon and protein structures, so there would likely have been ample digestible “food” in the “primordial soup” that it lived in, IMO.
ahem, sunlight? organic chemicals (** life is not a prerequisite for organic chemicals... see comets) around volcanic vents or cometary impact sites?
** http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33720951
Carry out?
And thus may have existed our “Cellery.”
A huge argument for this having required supernatural help, is that whatever got a move on, somehow had to keep from getting digested, or decaying, itself while it did so.
I’ve never assembled a jigsaw puzzle yet by shaking it around in its box.
My question would be when did the first living cell decide it was more fun to “meet” other cells rather than dividing itself?
First cell? The first cell was caused by incarceration!
Im working on one of those. So far, I can transport them in, but nothings come back yet...
I wish you would hurry up and finish the darn thing! They've been piling up in my garage!
And of course their DNA is similar to what?
“Bacteria in motion, baby, I’m gonna have to penalize you,
“Bacteria in motion, baby, you know that’s against the rules.”
;^)
Methane is derived from organic (living) material.
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