How Did We Get Here?
This is one of the questions that has always fascinated me, it seems that no matter how much research you do, you never find a clear cut answer. Scientists all over the world have theories, but no matter how plausible the answer is there's always a new question. It's a question that we can never agree on, because of our beliefs, or because it doesn't seem logical, but its a question many of us have asked before.
There was nothing and then the big bang happened, it set forth a series of events that has led us here, but how does life come from nothing? Life is an amazing thing, so saying it came from nothing just doesn't add up to many. Did the energy generated from the big bang spark life? Maybe, but where did the energy for the big bang come from? How did the dominoes fall perfectly in place for earth to support life? The popular answer for this is that we have adapted to live on earth, its clear that as a species we're always evolving, but why hasn't life evolved on other planets? If its simply because life is so adaptable, you would think other planets would be inhabited by some form of life, but so far we haven't found any.
Another popular belief is that there is a higher power that created the earth and then us. That would help explain why there's no life on other planets, but scientific evidence shows the world is over 4 billion years old, not just a few thousand. A popular question for this theory is "who created the higher power?" The answer to this is not so simple, because there are numerous faiths, but the creator is the first essentially, and is eternal, we only know of time because the higher power created it.
I was raised in a christian household, but I was given the freedom to look at things from all perspectives, I personally believe that there are things that are unknown and they may always be that way. This isn't an attempt to try to sway anyone away from their beliefs, I'm just a curious person, and I enjoy knowing how others feel about these sort of topics. At the end of the day we will always be divided on this question, but its a question that we will always want to know the answer to.
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I don't believe in the Biblical God, or the Bible. And I believe in science when it comes to nature, humans, evolution and most of the Universe. But at some point my logic stops working. Where did the Universe come from? And if it just suddenly started to exist - why? What is the Universe? What is it's purpose? I try not to think about these things too much :) But fun article! Very very interesting
Yea, that's how I look at it, every answer brings a new question. Thanks for the comment!
Does truth need belief?
Not necessarily.
So, for truth, it doesn't really matter what one believes. Moreover, what one believes acts as a superimposed veil over truth. And, thus, one misses that which has the quality of omnipresence. For one to ask the question "How did we get here?", he must first believe that he is a body, on a journey through time and space.
Although no definitive answer has been provided to the origin of life, the vast majority of scientific data seems to support the ideas that, under appropriate chemical and thermodynamic conditions, a number of simple molecules tend to follow a self-organizing and self-replicating path towards growing complexity, in some sort of slow molecular evolutionary process which, over time, gives rise to the organic chemistry that we find today in almost all living organisms. Of course that many of the details of this process are still under active research, but the general idea that biochemistry and biological structures (like cell organelles) can very well emerge from simple precursors evolving under adequate conditions is the common thread joining together the various lines of research.
You extend the problem of origin to the origin of the universe itself, which I consider to be a rather distinct matter. While observations seem to be consistent with an infinitely dense and pointlike origin to the universe (the big bang singularity), several questions remain essentially unanswered. For example, was there something before the big bang? What brought about such extreme conditions at the beginning? Is the singularity real or just a mathematical artifact? How to understand the singularity if the laws of physics break down at that point?
Very simply answer timbot606 - God.
That's the belief I was raised with, but I have always had a curious mind, so I question everything. Thanks for responding!
I am very curious, analytical and love science. I have seen allot and been through allot in my life. Some things are not meant to be questioned. God and creation is one of them in my opinion. Interesting topic though.
I understand, most in my family feel the same way.
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I believe in God, but sometimes scientist will screw your mind making you believed for something and even makes you believed there is no God ever existed.
Yea, the are so many unknowns, things science can't fully explain.