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Once Upon A Time

“Once upon a time there was a single celled organism who, despite having no genetic programming whatsoever- somehow managed to live in the most inhospitable environment imaginable. Being the first of it's kind, surrounded by magma, poisonous gas, and lightening with no ecosystem at all in which to rely on, with no instincts, no intelligence, no immune system, and no precedent of replication, nor with any other creatures in which to eat or benefit from- somehow managed to survive despite the fact that the odds in doing so go against everything we know today about modern biology. It miraculously knew, without precedent or compulsion, to seek out sustenance and to replicate itself; knowing despite not precedence of death that it would not last indefinitely. The fact that none of these things had ever been done before was no problem for our courageous first single cell however, as it diversified despite there being no impetus for doing so. With an utter lack of guidance, outside force, or any internal rationale present- it not only survived but proliferated and gave birth to all of life in all its biodiversity as we know it today.

Despite the fact that the extremely violent and turbulent environment in which it spawned would have wiped it out of existence at any moment, it was of zero consequence for out little hero. This single cell kept winning the lottery of extreme odds like a champ. Its precious blueprint, which we now call DNA – getting its script from RNA- which gets it's script from information embedded on molecules themselves- carried all of life on its back to its current inception. Now that we humans, enlightened with knowledge of supreme infallibility, understand this phenomenon to be expected merely because it has been perpetuated. Now after several millennium, call it arbitrary, an accident. This is the greatest story ever told, as it is told by all of the greatest universities around the world in absolute confidence and without equivocation. May you never doubt all that you have been told. Amen and Haleighluia.

The End.

R_D_Russell 6 Apr 17
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Uh, just one question. Where did our hero come from?

What hero are you referring to?

@PhilShaw

The single cell organism. How did it come to be in the first place?

You seem to be well acquainted with the little guy, or gal, I wonder if it had a consciousness that helped it to survive?

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Believing in evolutionary science does not require a disbelief in God.

The first cells must have been much less complex than today's simple algae. The first cells may have simply been more like encapsulated bubbles of seawater, and got all their energy to divide from the warmth of the oceans or seas, or just sunlight and were surrounded by water and electrolytes--and were that way for a billion years. If,over time, they or their similar bubbles developed a way to make food out of sunlight and CO2--then Voila! once we get the first cell that can split and grow, all the rest is easy to understand. But will we ever be able to determine what that first primitive cell was like?? Probably not for a few hundred more years--it took nature an entire planet and a couple of billion years.

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I'm not sure the single cell could have even have made it to the point you describe.

Check out Professor James Tour, Synthetic Organic Chemist. He has some good lectures grounded in the reality of his discipline.

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Life comes from Life. Intelligence comes from intelligence.

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Meanwhile, in another multiverse .... (lalalallal (batman transition music)) ....

Some fun questions being worked out by the evolutionary biologists. A lot of fruit flies are going to die in the search for answers. Even results from directed macro evolution would be pretty cool.

What would happen if our vitamin C gene was corrected?

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I have to admit, I think life had a creator/designer.

Who created or designed The Designer?

@MarPep Scientists used to believe in the steady state theory where the universe itself was eternal. Then Hubble discovered Red Shift and they found the universe had a beginning. It's not that unreasonable to infer that something may be eternal. That was the scientific consensus once. Otherwise, you get into the infinite regress problem, who is the 'god' that made the 'god' that made the universe. Then who is the God that made that God ....

@MarPep the only answer to that is that God always was. Assuming there is no God, where did the matter come from that was involved in the Big Bang? How about the energy?

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