How did food evolve?

Hey! With the natural question of "where did life come from?" aside, I'd like to step forward. How did organisms develop this ability to convert raw energy to "life energy"? Such a process is awfully complex, so it must have taken a while to evolve, but before that happened, how did organisms get energy to live?

Calling chemosynthesis simple is completely absurd. Taking anything and converting it to usable energy is incredibly complex. If you understand how organisms may have converted chemical reactions into life, do tell.Taking a step back (to the other question), where did all of this come from?

What's your point?

That really has nothing to do with my question. I asked how organisms developed this ability. I'm also not going to read the entire ATP article!

Ah, I see, your view of life is skewed. We are alive. We have chemical reactions going on inside our bodies. But life [I]is not{/I chemical reactions. When you mix an acid and a base, you have a chemical reaction--but you don't have life by any means. Because we are alive, we can think, feel, etc. No chemical reactions can cause cognition or consciousness. You can't live without taking available energy sources and materials and converting them into usable energy, but life is immeasurably more than that. You know, you think, you feel, you sense, but that isn't caused by chemical reactions. The chemical reactions and electrical pulses inside us are caused by life, not vice versa.The widely accepted notion that life was caused by mass and energy being under the right conditions is just as ridiculous as spontaneous generation. It never happened, and it doesn't happen. Even humans trying to make the conditions necessary have failed, as we can see from the Miller-Urey experiment. They made some proteins, but nothing near life. (And look, to make the proteins, it took intelligent intervention!)

Where did the laws of physics come from? Of course you would! Not wondering things like this is not having a scientific state of mind is having a closed mind. And I have yet to see any of these come to life and/or evolve. You see, when you have an accident happen to a living being, it doesn't get new good traits. Genetic mutation doesn't create arms, lungs, brains, the ability to think or see. Mutation generally causes cancer and death. You can't have trial and error like that. What do you think happens when you get error?

If you think that thinking is caused by chemical reactions, you're lying to yourself. Why do neutrons fire? Why do they fire when they do? By feeling, I wasn't referring to the sense of touch, I was talking about emotions. Can you truly believe that your consciousness is simply caused by electric pulses? Thought, emotions, consciousness, and personality are beyond the physical world. These things can't evolve. Identical twins have the same DNA, but they can have insanely different personalities. Different personalities aren't completely caused by the environment, either. People from totally different environments can have very similar personalities. Where did the universe come from? How would you know if it's possible to have a universe without laws? You're never tried one without them!No, asking why iron and oxygen make rust is not a stupid question. Why do electrons have orbitals? Why are negatively charged particles attracted to positive ones? How can particles have a charge? If you'd really stop lying to your self and think about this stuff, you'd find that it's really amazing. I'd like to see that.If living organisms came from chemicals, (sorry, I'm using the real meaning of "life", yours doesn't make sense) how many organisms do you get per "perfect chemical condition"?Where did the chemicals come from?The thing about mutations is that the bad ones get played, and there aren't any good ones. In a multicellular organism, how do you get mutation without death? How do you think some mutations can be good?I'd hoped that you'd be an evolutionist that doesn't insult his opponent, but you've shattered that. After all, I could insult you for not thinking like I do, too.