How did life originate?

The challenge: belief in God requires faith, the existence of aliens demands an explanation, life does not arise from nonliving matter (evolution assumes thus happened several times), the origin of life demands an explanation.

God created life. 30
Aliens developed life. 5
Life developed from nonliving matter. 32
Life has always existed. 11
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  • flyingnostalgia

    God created it!

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  • Dot123

    I'm not saying it was aliens but it was aliens.

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  • green_boogers

    GALACTIC PANSPERMIA. Life's most significant purpose is to fill all voids. Our intelligence obligates us to facilitate this process.

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  • dirtybirdy

    The chicken and the egg.

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    • RoseIsabella

      Which came first?
      ;-)

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      • Stamex

        Eggs would have developed earlier in the evolutionary timeline of Earth. So...

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        • RoseIsabella

          Eggs it is!

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      • dirtybirdy

        Bwahahaha, I could make up a nonsensical rhyming story or I could just assert that, contrary to popular memes, I believe the hen came first, considering the egg has no genitalia...

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        • RoseIsabella

          That's right! Chicken is such a general term. Gotta support the hen!

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  • Lonely2

    Its a false dichotomy ....evrything is alive..it just has different degrees of aliveness

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    • namredips

      How do you define alive?
      I would say that to be alive something must:
      1. Eat
      2. Utilize the energy from the food.
      3. Excrete waste.
      4. Reproduce.
      Rocks and roadkill don't do those things.

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      • Lonely2

        According to your definition a forest fire would be alive.

        Rocks can do all of those things when they are molten lava.....they " eat" , in other words they take in energy or how else would it become molten, they utilize the energy, thats how they come to the surface and move, they reproduce when they melt and merge with other molten rocks, and they excrete waste in the form of gas....

        roadkill also breaks down and becomes part of other living things...

        there is only differing amounts of energy ...no such thing as life or death...these are human made up words.....the universe is alive and so is EVERYTHIG in it....

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  • lordofopinions

    An alien jacked off into some pond scum.

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  • Tgs_I'm_a_big_douchebag

    Pretty sure life will end from this posting site.

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  • AmericanReaper

    Satan was very bored one day. So he turned to God and said "I bet you can't create a being who is so smart that even I can't f*ck him over".

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  • wigz

    It could just be a simulation...

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  • Lonely2

    All matter has movement amd consciousness, it just is beyond our measly ability to detect. Once it reaches a certain level we humans call it this made up word called life. But everything is alive and conversely to higher consciousness dead.

    So what we call life is relative, from our point of view.

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    • namredips

      But there is a difference between a rock and a cow (or insert other favorite animal here).

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      • Lonely2

        Within the cow is rocks, called minerals, are they alive?

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  • KingTermite

    "the origin of life demands an explanation."

    Well, it can damn well wait in line with everyone else.

    BTW, the alien answer is stupid as it leads right back to "where did life come from". But whatever, it's an irrelevant matter.

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  • thegypsysailor

    Victor Frankenstein showed us how to make life.

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    • Stevenā€ƒGlansberg

      Your mother showed us how not to make life

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      • NihilOmnisciente

        Why do you hate him?

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        • thegypsysailor

          Because he's totally jealous that I have a life and he has none.

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  • victorygin

    I can't help but feel that cats and the elves are behind it somehow, perhaps working together, though can't be sure.

    But I thought life only needed to arise once... why does evolution assume several times?

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  • kingofcarrotflowers

    A never ending math equation

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    • kingofcarrotflowers

      But in all seriousness I don't believe in a creator, but scientists always disagree, you can have two experts in their field who have devoted their life to this and they will have two completely different opinions on it so who am I to think I know the answer,

      Plus we always look back on scientific theories and laugh, already certain experts are disowning the big bang theory, scientific understanding is constantly changing so I accept that the current theories may be complete stabs in the dark so I'm happy to admit I don't know, I don't believe in anything supernatural so I believe it was something purely in the laws of physics but I like not knowing all the specifics

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      • Lonely2

        If you admit that there is a " creation" than by definition there must be a " creator". You cant have one without the other.

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        • kingofcarrotflowers

          No I don't believe that, I believe everything it's a creation born of the scientific laws of the universe, but by that logic if a creation has to have a creator then who created the creator

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