Chris: If you want an example of a being born from a being less intelligent than they are, it happens at least 1/2 the time on average, for some definition of "intelligent". Or is there actually some meaningful pont you are trying to make?
Well yes, that is an example of evolution, i.e., change over time. What I wanted was an example of an inorganic forming into an organic. The distinction is not irrelevant unless you've preconceived that such is religious talk.
>> If you want an example of a being born from a being less intelligent than they are, it happens at least 1/2 the time on average, for some definition of "intelligent". Or is there actually some meaningful pont you are trying to make?
>Well yes, that is an example of evolution, i.e., change over time. What I wanted was an example of an inorganic forming into an organic. The distinction is not irrelevant unless you've preconceived that such is religious talk.
So, intelligent=organic, and I'm supposed to have figured that out from your question?
There are multiple natural ways for organic compounds to form for inorganic, and these scenarios can be replicated in a well equipped high school science lab. And if you don't beleive that any of these methods correspond to the early
earth, organic compounds have been found in multiple space-based sources, so they could have come from meteors or comets if not formed here.
Since you ask. Friedrich Wöhler did exactly this in 1828.
[From the article]: " Until 1828, it was believed that organic substances could only be formed under the influence of the vital force in the bodies of animals and plants. Wöhler proved by the artificial preparation of urea from inorganic materials that this view was false."