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Nearly all religions have had creation stories to explain
the origin of life. These stories tell how the world and
all living things were created. There are two basic
arguments on how we got here, and those are simply
Scientific and Religious ( keep in mind that there are many
beliefs and it is impossible to speak for every one, this is
based on my research alone). The religious side says in one
way or another that a greater being, or god, created man
and all other life. Almost contrary to the religious story,
the Scientific side says that life came from chemical
reaction that started the evolution nearly 3.5 billion
years ago. I am going to tell about one idea from each
side.
In the Western world, the best known creation story
comes from the Book of Genesis in the Bible. This is the
way Genesis explains to us in the Bible how God made man: ”
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And
the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.
And God Said, Let there be light: and
there was light.
Ð.. And God said, Let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the
dry land appear: and it was so.
Ð…..And God said, Let the
waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that
hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales,
and every living creature that moveth, which the waters
brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every
winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
Ð…..And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them.”Some religious
thinkers interpret the Biblical story of creation in
various ways. Some believe it occurred exactly as Genesis
says it did. Others think that the story is a symbolic
account of creation, which is a mystery which will never be
fully understood.
Alternate to Genesis story, but not
totally non-religious, is the Scientific explanation, also
know as ” spontaneous generation”. This theory originated
in ancient times and remained a common belief for thousands
of years. The theory claimed that lower forms of life could
arise from nonliving matter. For example, people believed
that flies developed from decaying meat and that mice
formed from piles of old rags. But in modern theories,
scientists have proposed two major theories of the origin
of life. They are (1) the theory of panspermia and (2) the
theory of chemical evolution.The theory of panspermia
states that spores from some other part of the universe
landed on the earth and began to develop. However, some
scientists doubt that spores could survive a journey
through the harsh conditions of outer space. But even if
the theory is true, it explains only the origin of life and
nothing of how life arose in the universe.
The theory of
chemical evolution was developed independently during the
1920s by a Soviet biochemist