evolution did not start life.

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The process of evolution started after life started. A common misconception about evolution is that it started life. Evolution did not start life. Life started evolution.

Ever hear of chemical evolution? It's where Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen ("CHON") evolved from their elemental forms into ever-more complex molecules, into amino acids, then into proteins, then into ever-more complex arrangements of proteins, and eventually into single-cellular life.

this is a strawman, evolution has nothing to do with abiogenesis.

Genau!


The oldest living organisms *in the fossil record* are cyanobacteria(that green pondscum). All the evidence suggest that life on Earth began in the tidepools of volcanic islands that rose out of the primordial ocean and involved photocatalytic RNAs anchored to ZnS substrata.


Nucleotides are actually synthesized in extraterrestrial gas clouds and were brought to Earth via comets.

I don't even know what this means.

I think it's one of the many elaborate ways to say, "Science isn't all it's cracked up to be".

Exactly the process of life coming to be is called abiogenesis.

Evolution was never about life coming to be. It is something that confuses creationists.

I think creationism makes no sense. I don't believe that there is any evidence to support it as a valid scientific theory.

Heck, facts confuse creationists!

that's nice. abiogenesis still has nothing to do with evolution, and vice versa.

Nothing makes sense since something came from nothing at one point which is not possible, there is no way to know the secrets of the universe so there is no reason to feel to strongly about it one way or another.

What do you mean by "something came from nothing"? There's nothing more "nonsensical" about the Big Bang than there is about the fact that, on the Earth's surface, you can always find more surface, with well-defined longitude and latitude, by going north, except if you're already at the North Pole. At the North Pole, all directions are south; at the Big Bang, all directions are future.

Something came from nothing or how did existence come into existing? Why are there forces that do anything? What set everything in motion? There is no comprehensible explanation, I understand the big bang theory but it does not explain to me beyond since you can always ask what came before. It's not knowledge we are meant to know since it is impossible to know, I think it is silly to have strong feelings either way.

We don't know. Anyone who claims otherwise is a charlatan and should be studiously ignored.

That's actually called abiogenesis, not evolution. Strictly speaking, when we talk about evolution, we are generally talking about biological evolution.

Yes, strictly speaking ... and the end result is the same - Life arose from CHON.

(Edited for spell-check error.)

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