JackG

These musings have been sent to the New Scientist magazine, as well as, a number of eminent scientists over the past year. To date I have received no responses. I was hoping that some one on this forum may feel able to discuss and contribute to this.

 

 

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For the last thirty years I have woken up at night wondering how life began.

why this should happen I don’t know. As a layman I do not have the knowledge

 

or information afforded to yourselves, and unable to go any further than my

 

thoughts. If you could give me some answers I would be most grateful.

 

 

 

THE BIG BANG THEORY

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We are told an explosion in space released chemicals that fell to Earth and

 

completed its journey in a deep-sea hypothermal vent. Some scientists say

 

these chemicals formed a soup from which one-cell creatures came into being.

 

Such an explosion would spread residue from one end of the Earth to the other.

 

This for me is a problem, falling from different heights weighing various amounts

 

into a tidal salty sea ending up together, undiluted and uncontaminated.

 

The odds this coming together must be astronomical, in my humble opinion can

 

Only be accepted if you believe in miracles. This hypothesis goes further these

 

one-cell creatures came on land and were responsible for all life. It is hard to

 

believe those one- cell creatures were so diverse they eventually changed into

 

millions of different species.

 

Another aspect to consider, this life created by chemicals cannot be

 

copied in clinical laborites. What abilities would a one –cell creature have?

 

compared with a common fly that is multi-cell creature. Lord Kelvin [William

 

Thomson} Said:

 

“ I confess to being deeply impressed by the evidence put before us by professor

 

Huxley, and I am ready to adopt, as an article of scientific faith, true through all

 

Space and through all time, that life proceeds from life, and from nothing but

 

life.”

 

Two such redoubtable minds of their time almost unsurpassed in achievement

 

say, indirectly, the big bang is not possible.

 

 

 

ANIMALS, PLANTS AND MAN

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Webster dictionary puts vascular plants, such as ferns, began life 390 million

 

years ago; Insects, reptiles plus amphibians 230 million years ago, flowering

 

plants 160 million years ago and birds 100 million hundred years ago life of

 

man estimated to have begun 70 million years ago. Plants are very interesting

 

since it could be argued they were the first life. How did plants get to Earth? The

 

only theory I have heard is that meteorites from another world crashed on this

 

Planet-exposing seeds trapped inside. To travel millions of light years with the

 

harmful rays in the cosmos and the longevity of the journey make this theory

 

unlikely. Ferns and flowering plants were separated by two hundred million

 

years so it would have to have happened twice If however this feat was managed

 

it evokes another thought, whatever

 

time it took to reach Earth, for instance, a million light years, where it came

 

from would have been at least that amount of time ahead of life on Earth.

 

 

Darwin wrote his famous theory on evolution, but evidence shows us it might be

 

true, or might not. If you can imagine millions of one-cell creatures emerging

 

from the sea, subject to the same environment changed into billions of different

 

species. Taking this a step further, there would have been thousands of these

 

creatures that chose exactly the same place to live and became so different as an

 

Elephant is to a Ant. Man gave many other species millions of years start in their

 

Evolution and achieved wonders. They built cities, wrote music, great works of

 

art and most of all complicated languages to communicate. Other species, in

 

millions of years, have achieved nothing in comparison. We tend to be amazed

 

when an animal uses a stick or a stone as a tool, we are dumbfounded when

 

animals are taught to do complicated tricks, it took them millions of years to

 

reach this state. If it is accepted that man came from apes, then why do these ape

 

still exist? In 70 millions years they should have all have changed. If the same

 

species of ape lives today all it says is that environment may or may not change

 

appearances. In billions of different species it is most likely that many will have

 

related features. One can surmise man was never an ape but ape like. He would

 

have been hairy to protect him from the climate but as time elapsed things would

 

change. Wearing animal skins for protection, discovering fire to keep warm, and

 

living in caves all of these elements over time would eliminate the need for hair.

 

This cannot be claimed as environmental change, this is progress.

 

 

 

GOD AND RELIGION

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If you can believe in God then nothing is impossible. To accept the abilities

 

attached to such a being creating life would be a simple task. One might ask

 

one self,” how can there be a God when so many evil people are allowed to

 

prey on the innocent unhindered? Why are people starving ? Including children

 

that could hardly be classed as sinners”. These thoughts are further mudded by

 

religion. Often people are told ”IT IS THE WILL OF GOD” you must not question.

 

A more intelligent thought might be why is it God’s will? If man never questioned

 

he would still be living in caves, wearing animal skins and using flints to make

 

fires. The bible is so contradictory almost impossible to take seriously. Tells of

 

life beginning with Adam and Eve, does this mean sexual interaction between

 

brothers sisters, mothers and fathers? We know that medically this is unsound

 

and hardly likely to produce a healthy race, which by survival to modern times it

 

must have been. The bible then condemns such sexual interaction between

 

direct families as a terrible sin and should not be tolerated. How do intellectual

 

Scientists who are also devout Christians gather their thoughts? The bible says

 

life began with Adam and Eve yet fossils gathered prove life began millions of

 

years before. There are so many contradictions in religion too numerous to

 

comment on, except one, if you truly believe in God religious leaders were meant

 

to help people and not rule them and certainly not to live in luxury while millions

 

starve.