I am new first off so be nice. If people believe in evolution then they must believe in how the first living creature was put on earth. What facts are there of how the first creature showed up on earth. I mean all I read on this forum is "where is the fact, where is the fact", so I am going to do it too. I personally believe God created everything and I am interested in how you believe that it all started.Im sure that this has been brought up, but it isnt the easiest thing to find where it is posted. If you know just let me know you dont have to respond.
For those who care to entertain a paradox I happen to have pretty strong beliefs about where first life came from. It may be hard for those who have read some of my other posts to believe but I do believe in God I just don’t think that God had first hand conscious interaction with our species. A much higher form of evolution may have interacted with our species thousands of years ago and was interpreted as God but the God of the Universe is unlikely to be conscious of our existence or have had any direct interaction with our species.
The paradox is that I believe in a form of creationism in that God may have had a master plan and evolution is the method that God choose to populate inhabitable worlds. The paradox is that I believe in an infinite Universe and that our pocket of spacetime is one of an infinite number of similar pockets of spacetime that have existed for an infinite length of time. There are an infinite number of pockets that are infinitely larger and an infinite number of pockets that are infinitely smaller.
First life on this planet evolved through the atomic layer and crossed boundaries from being one of the largest macroscopic conscious life forces inside a single subatomic particle to becoming one of the smallest microscopic conscious life forces in our relative pocket of spacetime. Evolution is an infinite progression that can continue unabated as long as habitable conditions are available for the length of time needed before the evolutionary process no longer requires biochemical processes to sustain existence.
So to me it is a paradox to believe that we are the byproduct of an infinite chain of evolution that could have been part of some type of intelligent design so I don’t put much effort into thinking about God’s plan since it really has little bearing on what really matters. Whether there is a God or not and whether God planned any of this or not does not really matter. Our purpose on this planet is to do all in our power to come as close as possible to seeing our evolutionary chain survive the inevitable destruction of our solar system by our own Sun and being well distributed amongst the stars. To do that we have to bond as a species and set aside all our petty differences and begin to recognize how close we may be to self annihilation. Where are we likely to be 200 years from now if we don’t as a species begin to make some global decisions that matter? If we continue on our present path I feel that 200 years from now we will be far past the point of any hope of eternal salvation.
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