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To: Taro who wrote (994347)	1/16/2017 5:38:51 PM
From: mel221	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571683

>> I don't think life accompanied the Big Bang but rather developed millions of years later. The earth was formed in part from Star guts after some star went super nova some 9 Billion years after the big bang. It appears life started about 700 hundred million years after the earth was created. >> how did life develop itself next? Not known today. Its a hard problem with a few partial theories kicking around. >> So far nobody has been able to duplicate that process This is true. The condition of the early earth are difficult to fully conceive and duplicate. >> So much has been tried and so many have been working on it to get some kind of life stepping out of the dead molecule soup. Not really. The funding for Origins of Life research is pitiful compared to Aids or cancer research. How about the Large Hadron Collider? The funding for that project was $13.25B as of 2012. Can you site an Origins of Life project of that scale? I am not aware of anything close. ibtimes.com I suspect that the laws of nature (physics, chemistry, energy, etc) will make the formation of bacterial life inevitable in ideal conditions. Discovering these ideal conditions will be a formidable challenge.

To: Taro who wrote (994347)	1/16/2017 8:12:46 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mongo2116 Respond to of 1571683

Whatever you believe in, intelligent design or life just popping up from nothing like that, ANY of that requires truly believing in something. Call it whatever you want. You're mistake is thinking that life just popped up.........popped after billions of years in the making......the pyramids are still there after 3-5K years but changes are taking place......have you ever watched a steel bridge rust? Not too swift is it, but it's happening. All the chemical elements are available and they all have electrical charges contained in them..... When something occurred, like a chemical reaction, others were occurring and so there you have evolution...... This is all stuff way over our head, way over our imagination as little creeps with but a swift guest presence on this Earth, in this Universe. But you and billions of people have the imagination to invent a god or two or a few thousand........ makes it easier on the head doesn't it, and makes it easier to control the masses... At the level we're talking in , I'm not an atheist, I'm agnostic. The woman who discovered dark matter in the universe just died a few weeks ago, she was only an astronomer, not an astrophysicist but by studying and measuring the movement of distant galaxies she was able to conclude that something else comprises most of the universe, ie dark matter which accounts for the continuing acceleration of the expansion of the universe.