Bible Thumper gets thumped

[Viper_Fujax]

More like, no time for evolution to play a big enough part in making any really complex life

[Evi]

More like, no time for evolution to play a big enough part in making any really complex life

Google Cambrian Explosion.

[Viper_Fujax]

exactly.

"Prior to around 580 million years ago, organisms were on the whole simple, comprised of individual cells occasionally organised into colonies"

The cambrain explosion took time, which the earth didnt have when ginormous asteroids was hitting it and causing global destruction

[Titan]

That all just doesn\'t make any sense to me. I feel evolution is a slow and long drawn out process.

[Viper_Fujax]

thats exactly what i\'m saying. Because it was long and drawn out, complex life could not form/evolve. However, it\'s been tested that the beginnings of life start out almost immediately when the conditions are right.

It\'s probably my lack of being able to explain it. Only reason I understand it is because i heard a professor explain it.

[Paul2]

you guys and your theories are way over my head.  I am lost, but its getting interesting.  so continue as you were.

[Evi]

thats exactly what i\'m saying. Because it was long and drawn out, complex life could not form/evolve. However, it\'s been tested that the beginnings of life start out almost immediately when the conditions are right.

It\'s probably my lack of being able to explain it. Only reason I understand it is because i heard a professor explain it.

It\'s been...tested? Tested how? And what sources do you have for this information? This is all a bunch of theorizing.

[Viper_Fujax]

Im more reiterating what my professor said. And theorizing might even be too strong of a word, it\'s probably still a hypothesis, meaning it doesnt have enough proof to call it a theory.

I still find it very possible. Doesn\'t really change too much if it\'s true or not.

We\'ll never really figure out how life started. Just another one of those things we can\'t explain like what was before the big bang.

found a reliable link talking about it: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/life.html

[Titan]

thats exactly what i\'m saying. Because it was long and drawn out, complex life could not form/evolve. However, it\'s been tested that the beginnings of life start out almost immediately when the conditions are right.

It\'s probably my lack of being able to explain it. Only reason I understand it is because i heard a professor explain it.

I understand what you are saying and I seriously doubt it. What professor said it? I usually approach theory like that critically. Just because a prof said it, doesn\'t make it true.

[GmanJoe]

It\'s a monkey house in here! (Day of the Dead reference)

[clips]

clips had a hand in it too by bringing up the Big Bang Theory (which was first theorized by a Catholic priest) and the Let There Be Light comparison.

They\'re basically the same.

BWAHAHA!....*sinister laughing*.....:stirthepot:.....seriously tho,..i believe that there are other forms of life on other planets...it has to be,... i can\'t believe that throughout the entire universe that we alone are the only forms of intelligent life, but i also agree with Evi in that just because there might be other intelligent lifeforms out there, it doesn\'t necessarily mean that they are waaay more advanced than we are, it could very well be quite the opposite.

I know this thread is already past the stars / galaxies discussion and what not BUT the Hubble Ultra Deep Field never fails to amaze me





and no I don\'t know whats up with the Numa Numa shit in the middle.

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

that vid pretty much sums up my idea that earth being the only planet with life is pretty much a retarded idea.

I got a theory of my own. I think life is not something that exists in reality, but it is just an idea, the processes in our brains "telling" us it is real. When you think about it, life in itself is nothing more than a couple of chemical and physical processes combined. Just like how a mountain eroding, or salt dissolving in water are processes. How is life any different from any of those processes? This way, shouldn\'t we have to call an eroding mountain "life" too?

One might say, that life has the ability to choose it\'s path, or have a "self" if you will. But is this actually true? I would have to say no. Our brain "decides" for us what we\'re gonna do. This in itself is what causes you to think you decide for yourself. However the brain is formed by those same processes I was talking about earlier. Our existence is nothing more than the sum of these processes...

It\'s hard for me to explain this clearly, but I hope atleast someone gets my point...

discuss

[Viper_Fujax]

I get what you\'re saying, and it\'s definitly hard to define what life is. Looking for life on other planets raises that exact question. It seems like one of those things thats like \'if it\'s life, well know it when we see it.\' kinda like porn...

anyway, I think we\'re the only beings on earth with the mental capacity to make those choices your talking about..probably monkies too since theyre amazingly smart. But the majority of animals, i think, react purely on instinct, so they dont really have a choice in what they do.

I think the best description is something that eats and poops,lol. or at least digests and processes things to survive, which includes plants and microbes. Also leaves out the mountain eroding

It\'s definitly hard to define what life is though.