who, what, where, when, why, and how? Thread

how did life originiate?
how is it possible, even feasible that the incredibly complex structure of DNA might become randomly formed, and even then, how did life stem from it?
and if it was some freak coincidence, how possible is it that life originated on other planets? if yeh think about it, the fact that i am sitting here pondering this question, and typing on my computer could all from some freak occurance that may never have happened before, and will not individually happen again?

so what is your "theory" on how things originated?

my purpose was to gather what other ppl think, but i am of the opinion that it may have been possible for some freak event to have started life somehow. i jus dont like the idea that someone else is out there, more infinitely powerful than myself, and if he is out there, whered he come from?

1. Everything which has a beginning has a cause.
2. The universe has a beginning
3. Therefore the universe has a cause

- Edited By M@t On Fri 11th, Oct 2002 @ 6:58pm

Did the world really have a beginning? If it did, what happened before its beginning?

Anywho, to answer the topic, I think that for complex life to start you definitely need a bit of luck and the odds of it are really, really, really small. However, look at the sheer size of the universe...does it have an end? I think, even though the possibilities of complex life are tiny, there has to be more of it out there somewhere, it's just so huge and vast and unpredictable.

There are many theories about life on earth and how it started. Many people believe many different things. Whether it's true, no one really knows for sure. The theory I guess I believe is that an asteroid impacted the earth and it had some sort of life forms on it. These life forms originally were developing in the oceans, then, as time went on, moved onto land and to where we are today.

It's an amazing journey, I wonder how it will all end...

Greg

PsychoFarmer wrote: how did life originiate?
how is it possible, even feasible that the incredibly complex structure of DNA might become randomly formed, and even then, how did life stem from it?
and if it was some freak coincidence, how possible is it that life originated on other planets? if yeh think about it, the fact that i am sitting here pondering this question, and typing on my computer could all from some freak occurance that may never have happened before, and will not individually happen again?

ok, just to add a twist to this discussion (it is prolly something stupid) but hell i don't quite know what to add to this...

anyhow, what if we are not living, but just a dream... or matrix styles? does that make us real? what makes us real? the fact that we have emotions.. feelings, senses which something we consider 'non-real' such as a robot does not posses...

what if we make a robot that posseses such qualities? does that make it real.. and well what if we are such a creation made by someone else? a robot with feelings..

i dunno what i am quite trying to say here.. but when i thought it up, it sounded good

INtense! wrote:
...and well what if we are such a creation made by someone else?...

EXACTLY!!

We could damn well be and we wouldn't ever know, until they wanted us to find out.

I mean think about this. What if our world, our universe as we know it was simply in some other superiour life-forms petri-dish? What if they were just experimenting with us, seeing what we will do. I mean it could well be the truth.

I, however, think that's all bulls**t, but you never know, we can't exactly prove that it ain't happening.

I mean what I'm talking about is exactly the thing that's in The Simpsons - when Lisa created that experiment in a petri-dish and this other life-forms are created. I think it happened cos Bart electricuted her tooth or something...not sure. Anywho...they attack Bart and stuff...

So yeah, it could be what we are living in. What happens when we discover the boundary of this petri-dish...if we ever do? Will these people kill us off or what?

Aaaaaaah, the universe, you gotta love it's largeness. It's friggen huge and I doubt we'll ever find out what's beyong it and whether it does have boundaries. We got a long road ahead, but I feel our road will end way, way, way...wwaaaaaayy before the road of the entire universe. We are so insignificant compared to the entire universe that it's not even worth talking about. We are microscopic on a large scale...non-existant almost.

The questions I have...all unanswerable by us humans...such a wonderful and mysterious place this universe is, you gotta love it.

Greg

EDIT: I wanna buy myself a telescope to watch the night sky and get a closer look at what is out there. If anyone has any experience with this, can you PM me (so as not to disturb this wonderful thread) and I'll chat to you. I basically wanna know what telescope to go for - whether it's really better to go for a friggen pricey one.

It is my belief...

*me watches people leave the room...

...that humans/life/the universe/everyhting were neither created nor random, but random style events were 'guided' by something, call it a God.

WHO: the first life forms
WHAT: were formed
WHERE: on Earth
WHEN: 4 billion years ago
WHY: becuase of a collection of nutrients... ("BLAH, BLAH, BLAH" is all I remember from the rest of my science book)
HOW: complex chemical reactions (read a science book if you want to know more)

it is possible, however unlikely, life was exists elsewhere. guess we're the lucky ones

'nuff said

- Edited By robo_ronald On Wed 25th, Feb 2004 @ 4:35:07pm

it is possible and HUGLY likely exists elsewhere you mean

considering there is 50billion starts in our galaxy... and there is prolly a couple billion galaxys with 50 billion stars in there galaxys

we are just one little planet beside one of these 50 billion stars

Well, I mean unlikely for each location. It is collectively likely, but I don't think it's very likely we'll meet them any time soon.

yeah.. true

omg....this thread is so old

Enough old thread bumping. You guys arent equiped with the intelligence to handle how we were and what we discussed.

- Edited By azz0r On Wed 25th, Feb 2004 @ 10:59:12pm