Why would life form and why reproduce?

[ajdaha]

Firstly, I was always wondering how on earth life would form. It seems incredibly coplex in comparison to everything else in our universe, like rocks.
Also, what is the point of reproduction. Why does the single living being feel the need to reproduce?

Anyone?

[Monketh]

1.)\"Chance.\"  Comforting, isn\'t it?  Creationism can\'t have the scientific method applied to it, however.
2.)Any species which did not feel the need to reproduce would die.

[Robinmagus]

1) the scientists say we do.
2) god says we do...


Well..I think that sums it up.

[Keyaz]

Evolution, we didnt start like this
the series of events to reproduce, ie intercourse is very pleasurable, why the hell not if it fees good!

[MaidenIndigo]

Originally posted by Demarthl
why the hell not if it fees good!

This coming from someone with a magical banana in his avatar

This topic is silly.  It\'s the kind of topic for postcount++ing because just about all of the philosophical arguments behind it are old and hackneyed.

If you need to ask this question I need to ask this: didn\'t you take biology in high school? =/  Evolution entails that the better genes of an individual will be passed on for generations, eventually creating a more superior being.  That\'s all.  No magic or wonder - it\'s just a race to be the best of the species.

~Indi


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postcount++; o.o

[Sarrow]

1. Who said things were simple? I mean the creation rocks is also as complicated as to the creation of water from non living / non existed meterial. A theory states that life was simply created from a chemical reaction forming a single cell organism.
Why is it complicated? I dont know, but as humans we somehow have the need to know everything that doesn\'t need to be learned. (go figure)

2. Instict. Most animal species are driven on their natural insticts to reproduce. Us humans can choose if we are to reproduce. But it doesn\'t mean we dont have the same animal instict. Ill just go in the detail of the word \"attraction\". and before it starts, please dont pull up the topic of natural selection and how death tolls even with reproducing.

[Uloim]

How would life form?  God was lonely, he wanted some company.

Creationism is the only explanation.  If you have no religion, your life is worthless.

Why reproduce?  In some families, it is to keep your honor.  Some people just want their names to live on.  But if I ever get married and have a child, it\'ll be for one thing.  Love.

Well, we all have our own beliefs.

[Keyaz]

Originally posted by MaidenIndigo

Originally posted by Demarthl
why the hell not if it fees good!

This coming from someone with a magical banana in his avatar

actually thats Naruto performing the \'Kage combo Henge mane wonder twin banana-fana bunshin no jitsu\' seal

don\'t diss :p your just jealous cos oyu can only turn into a grape!

>.>

[ajdaha]

OH yeah, the question is a bit stupid. Though I care not for the post-count.
The answer to question 2 is so obvious, I have no idea what I was doing last night that caused me to ask it.
Obviously, as someone else said, when the first living-beings were somehow being formed, those that could reproduce (most-likely a-sexually) survived, those that couldn\'t, died.
Do people still call evolution a theory? I mean, its not a theory anymore, I\'m sure. Evolution is just a name used to describe the very logically sound, but sometimes very complex process of what happens. Its very rational, so its not a theory anymore is it?

[buddha]

Well, you just missed this:

http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/cseol/

it was awesome.  So, this is a subject dear to my heart.  I love the \"origins\" debate, but I don\'t like making enemies that way.  (Other ways are fine)

Look, many people will claim to have some sort of answer they don\'t really have. Noone actually knows how life started.  If you\'re interested, examine all the available data and draw a conclusion for yourself.  If you do this mystically, fine.  However, if you want to be able to make predictions and have a useful model at the end of the day, you\'ll want to do this scientifically.

Of course, the term \"useful\" is subjective.  I take here to mean something like curing disease or extending life, which the theory underlying evolution and modern biology has been able to do.

If you want to go into science, you are needed.  We have plenty of pundits who want to tell you what they think about the origins of life, but there are far fewer people who can actually prove what they say.  Do you want to be the former or the latter?

[ajdaha]

Former, sir.

[Uloim]

Originally posted by ajdaha

Do people still call evolution a theory? I mean, its not a theory anymore, I\'m sure.

Since it cannot be proved, it is a theory.

[buddha]

Respectfully, Uloim, you are incorrect.  It is a theory in the scientific sense of the word, like gravitation and electromagnetism.

[Uloim]

Ah.  Curse you smart, non-scientifically challenged people!:P

Well, it\'s a theory nonetheless, I was half right!

[Karyuu]

Originally posted by Uloim
If you have no religion, your life is worthless.

I sincerely hope that was a bad attempt at humor :D

Anyway. Is everyone ready for the truth? The truuuuth! It will astound you.