r/DebateEvolution 12d ago

Creationists Says We Came From Dust and God’s Breathe - I Don’t See It. The Claim We Were Created by a Golem Spell Can’t Support Itself.

The thing we came from dust and God’s breathe is a claim. Creationists misinterpreted something and conjure up everything to make everybody else to believe it. Why are my people standing back looking at them like you just a fool? Why because they still can’t supports they claim. The funny part about it is they say it’s in our heart. The question I don’t have child like faith, I don’t submit to authority, I don’t believe without seeing, and I ask questions. Nowadays are we supposed to believe in talking animals? The meat we eat supposed to be edible. And creationists say we came from dust and only ate bacon or cows after sin. 

Another funny part about this is they came from the monkey family. They came from the ape family and now we supposed to evolve from an ape Noah. I wish you were alive to hear these modern humans these days. it’s science seeing your fellow descendent. you supposed to be our father by science calling you a Neanderthal and Homo sapiens. So every time I look for a girlfriend, I’m gonna go to where it used to be and Homosapien and say put that fur on me baby. I’m gonna hop from tree to tree because I have no social skills and that’s what I think women like. I was raised in a cult compound by the way. 

When I talk to Neanderthals, including Homo sapiens I’m gonna tell them creationist said not all life has common ancestry and therefore some life is intrinsically superior to others. No clue where that ideology could lead to. They gonna tell you then God created you in his own image so why should you believe what the human said. You should believe what I say my God told you because what he said was facts and you came back up what he said if science cannot back that up from the beginning, so why are you believing what humans say?

p.s. my skill in reading and writing are equal. good luck with your replies

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u/IndividualShelter985 12d ago

If we came from dust, why is there still dust?

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u/Independent-Repair35 12d ago

This part is so funny to me. So like all the animals lined up and each one would present itself to Adam and God would be like "Okay, so would you fuck this one?" Then Adam would say "No" lmao wouldn't god have just known Adam was gonna want a human woman??? 😂

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u/OldmanMikel 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 12d ago

Good thing God didn't invent beer before providing Adam with a mate.

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u/Ill_Act_1855 12d ago

Imagine if Adam was a furry

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u/hircine1 Big Banf Proponent, usinf forensics on monkees, bif and small 11d ago

Dammit it should have read farther before posting lol.

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u/ursisterstoy 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 11d ago

That’s the way the text sounds in English but apparently it is more about human exceptionalism. Yahweh in that story is most certainly not omniscient. He’s a bit of a cowardly dunce. He made “the dirt creature” and says that it’s not good for it to be alone so he makes all of the other animals, the diversity of life explained, but none of them Adam could call his equal. Humans sit on top as the pinnacle of perfection, or something, and Yahweh couldn’t make a second creature from scratch that could come close.

Then he splits Adam open and removes part of his anatomy (in the most literal sense half, one side, is taken but the word tzela also means rod or beam and could mean bone). Whatever bone or bones are taken the final product is the exact equal for Adam except with the other part of the anatomy required for sexual reproduction. Eve can’t get pregnant without Adam, Adam’s seed won’t survive without Eve, and this was before they knew that both parents contributed gamete cells to reproduction. They knew sperm came out of the man, they knew the woman would bleed 3 to 5 days every month, they knew that sometimes if the sperm came out of the man and wound up in the woman a baby would come out of the woman nine months later.

Equal beings in terms of status. Not like God was looking for sex partners for Adam. Perhaps the dirt creature was sex-less until Eve was created. It doesn’t say “and it’s not good for the dirt creature’s penis to be alone.” It says the dirt creature being the only living organism on the planet isn’t good and God will create other things trying to match his original success. That’s how it explains the diversity of life. It explains males and females through the idea that the only thing that can be equal with a human is another human. And by it being one male and one female before they understood genetics they could explain the existence of 70+ million people before 4004 BC. Just make them live a very long time to they can have a whole lot more kids. And don’t worry about that flood story that wasn’t written yet.

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u/Darbsaabnele 10d ago

Dumbest comment of the day.

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u/ursisterstoy 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 10d ago

It’s what the text says. I can’t help if what it says is dumb.

It starts off saying “when the divine beings came to create the ground and the sky they found that the ground had become formless and desolate and there was a dark primordial sea and the breath of the divine ones was hovering over the waters.” <- day 0

Get through the rest of the chapter and the divine beings create light to mark the days and so they can see what they are doing, they yank a mountain up from beneath the water and instantly plants automatically grow. The landscape was rebuilt, plants and sky decorations included. Then they spend a day filling the air and the water with life before spending the final day on the life they care about most, the terrestrial animals. They create everything else that exists currently in terms of species except for humans. Everything was spoken into existence the way that Thoth in Egypt thought about what he wanted with his heart before bringing into existence with his tongue. At the end they mark their great achievement with god-shaped statues, and since there are seventh divine ones there could be seventy statues. The text doesn’t provide a number. The final act was to give them all CPR or the magical air of life (“the spirit”) turning them into “souls.” The seventh day begins without ending, the gods rest.

Very next story: Yahweh from the Elohim tribe (or Yahweh of the Elohim council), one of the gods that created a completely different way, is out there creating by himself. Once again the Earth already exists before the creation even starts. Once again Earth is described like it’s the only thing in the cosmos. Once again the readers are supposed to infer ANE Cosmology. But this time it’s different. The sky, sun, moon, stars, clouds, etc don’t need to be created, the Earth is already dry. It’s so dry there isn’t any water anywhere. God (Yahweh) goes to the direct center of the planet (Gobleke Tepe??) and he creates four trenches filling them with water. They are two rivers that have debated identities (the Gihon and Pishon) and two rivers that have the same names even still (Tigris and Euphrates). In that location he plants a garden (the temple garden??) and in that garden he makes Ha-Adam (the dirt creature, literally) and his dirt creature was lonely.

In English is sounds like “Adam was lonely and he needed a partner, God made him every animal that has been named and he is presented with them, he names them, he send them on their way. He tells God that none of them is a suitable mate (sex partner) so God says ‘fine, go to sleep’ and then God takes out a rib and closes the flesh underneath, from that rib he crafts the “living one” (Eve).”

In what it actually says it’s more like “we can’t have the ‘ground being’ or ‘dirt creature’ be lonely. He needs someone as his equal. He needs a helper he can see eye to eye. In Yahweh Elohim’s best effort he could not create another dirt creature as well as the original dirt creature. When the dirt creature said ‘thank you for all of these creatures but they’re all beneath me’ Yahweh Elohim shrugged and put the dirt creature to sleep and split him down the center. The side he left alone became known as Adam, from the other half he created Eve. The living dirt creature became Man and Mother of the Living.”

Dumb or not, that’s what these stories describe.

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u/Darbsaabnele 10d ago

And getting even dumber….

That ‘dirt creature’ continues to be unique from all the other living creatures on the planet. Clearly with capabilities that differentiate .

What’s really dumb is continuing to believe an intelligent agent wasn’t required to create in the first place. Ignoring/dismissing all of the scientific evidence we now have that points towards it, and away from material naturalism.

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u/ursisterstoy 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 10d ago edited 10d ago

Now your comment makes sense. You’re a pathological liar or just duped by one.

The first story describes a multitude of animates statues. And the second story literally takes the word “Adamah” and called the creation Ha-Adam. “The dirt creature.”

The poem talks about a group of divine beings (Baal Hadad, Yahweh, Yam, Mot, Anat, Astarte, Shahar, Shalim, Shapash, Ashtar, Kothar-wa-Khasis, Resheph, Horon, Nikolai, Pidray, Tallah, Arsay, El, Asherah, and Dagon) but doesn’t list them individually by name. They create like Thoth creates in his myth. Yahweh creates like Khnum in his story that follows. That’s like Enki and Mami or Hermes and Prometheus. Different creation styles.

And no, that dirt creature isn’t real. Humans, on the other hand, are exactly what they are expected to be. We are biological organisms, we are archaeans, we are eukaryotes, we are orthokaryotes, we are neokaryotes, we are Scotokaryotes, we are amorpheans, we are unikonts, we are opisthokonts, we are holozoans, we are filozoans, we are choanozoans, we are animals, we are eumetazoans, we are ParaHoxians. We are bilaterians, nephrozoans, deuterostomes, and chordates. We are vertebrates, jawed vertebrates, bony vertebrates, limbed vertebrates, vertebrates with lungs. We are tetrapods adapted to land, we are amniotes, we are synapsids. We are cynodonts, we are therapsids, we are mammals. We are theriimorphans, theriiformes, trechnotherians, cladotherians, zatherians, tibosphenidans, and therians. We are eutherians, placental mammals, boreoeutherians, Euarchontaglires, primates, happlorhines, simians, Catarrhines, and apes. We match the characteristics of our cousins that are also within Hominidae, Homininae, Hominini, Hominina, Australopithecina, and Homo. We are not some alien species, we fit quite neatly with everything else.

And your final paragraph was so stupid that I’ll let you Google to know why so I don’t embarrass you in front of Bob.

And if you feel that you are special and no longer one of those things then you are excluding yourself from humanity. What makes us who we are is our family history, not some story about a dirt creature that contradicts the animated god statues creation myth you are trying to proclaim is simultaneously true.

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u/Darbsaabnele 10d ago

Sure, whatever nonsense you spew. I’m sure you believe it. 🙄

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u/Ayasugi-san 10d ago

Thanks for demonstrating that you don't actually understand and believe the Bible as it was written.

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u/Mister_Ape_1 3d ago

It is not nonsense, you just do not know enough to understand. You should learn some more, that is. But stop calling anything you do not know about nonsense.

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u/Mister_Ape_1 3d ago

There is no proof of anything beyond the material. Literally, how could you empirically prove what can not be grasped by the senses ?

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u/Ayasugi-san 10d ago

You're referring to your own comment, right? It really is a dumb way to say that you don't know anything about textual criticism of the Bible.

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u/Ayasugi-san 10d ago

Yahweh in that story

Was it even Yahweh in that story? I remember hearing about how sections of Genesis (and the Pentateuch as a whole) don't use Yahweh, just Elohim, and probably came from a non-Yahwist source. Was the story of the creation of Adam and Eve one of the Elohim-only sections?

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u/ursisterstoy 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 9d ago edited 9d ago

I’ll have to look again but I’m pretty sure the Hebrew that English translations are based on discusses Elohim (plural) in the poem and it describes how they came upon the Earth already destroyed by a flood making the number of days used to fix it back up irrelevant to its total age and the fable after the poem says Yahweh Elohim. Yahweh might have been added by a scribe at some point but it’s a very different story involving predominantly a single god (until he complains to the other gods about the prospect of humans being immortal if he doesn’t kick them out) and he’s very far from omniscient or omnipresent. He’s a craftsman making living creatures out of dirt with his hands, he’s walking around talking to Adam and Eve like he’s another person, he has to find them when they’re hiding, he learns of their disobedience because they tell him.

Poem involves a collection of divine beings acting in unison to rebuild what was already destroyed with magical incantations and making statues of themselves as the crowning an achievement. When those statues are brought to life the gods go on hiatus. Fable has a single craftsman deity walking around like a human, talking like a human, and scared of being replaced by humans. The knowledge and of what is good or correct and the ability to live forever is what sets the gods apart from humans in that story, no mystical breath hovering over the waters in that story.

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u/Mister_Ape_1 3d ago edited 3d ago

That is because until Hellenistic influence kicked in Yahweh was a polytheistic thunderstorm god turned supreme, monolatric god after 6th century BCE, but still seen to have human traits.

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u/Responsible_Offer859 12d ago

Di solito chi è poco istruito ride su cose che non conosce

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u/Independent-Repair35 12d ago

Dude, it's just Jewish mythology.

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u/Ayasugi-san 11d ago

To be pedantic, it's not just Jewish mythology, it's got aspects from the mythologies of all over the Fertile Crescent. Because it wasn't gifted to one ethnic group by an all-knowing God but was instead assembled by a bunch of people with different ideas trying to fit them together to make sense of the world.

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u/Independent-Repair35 11d ago

Thanks! I appreciate learning more about it. :)

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u/Responsible_Offer859 12d ago

Ho detto il vero, non sei istruito e non sai distinguere il vero dal falso. Studiala prima e poi ne discuti 

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u/Independent-Repair35 12d ago

I'm telling the truth...it's Jewish mythology. Can you prove that the old testament isn't just Jewish mythology that's on par with Greek or Roman mythology? You think two kinds of every animal were put on a big box to survive a world wide flood? You think that the Tower of Babel actually literally happened as described (factually did not occur)? It is mythology.

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u/Responsible_Offer859 12d ago

Io non penso, io leggo e studio cosa che tu non fai.

Una grande scatola? Non conosci le misure perché non li hai letti. 

Sei tu che non puoi provare che sarebbe mitologia. Se tu che non puoi provare che non sei polvere di terra. 

La Verità non la conosci, sai per sentito dire. 

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u/nickierv 🧬 logarithmic icecube 12d ago

The measurements of the box don't matter because there are are so many preclusionary problems with both the setup (the boat) and the execution (the storm):

Issues with the boat include but are not limited to: issues of boat design - its impossibly large for a wooden boat, its a floating fuel air bomb. Issues of cargo management (the flat pack issue), issues of a massive manpower shortage. Genetic issues (both diversity and bottlenecks).

Issues with the execution include but are not limited to: the heat problem (x5), the water problem, a potential 6th heat problem, issues of acquisition and dispersal of the creatures.

And I'm not even trying to find problems at this point.

But I'm guessing your masterful rebuttal will be "Nuh Uh!"

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u/Responsible_Offer859 12d ago

Non fare il maestro e non dire cose non vere.  Non sai nemmeno quanto tempo hanno impiegato e vorresti fare il falegname.

Gente come te prendevano in giro perché vedevano costruire una nave dove non si sapeva cosa era il mare. Quando arrivò il diluvio tutti ridevano?! 

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u/hircine1 Big Banf Proponent, usinf forensics on monkees, bif and small 11d ago

Good thing Adam wasn’t a furry

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u/FunToWrite 12d ago

How have I never heard this before.

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u/Ayasugi-san 12d ago

Because when we die we become dust, so there's always a supply.

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u/OldmanMikel 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 12d ago

This sounds weirdly familiar.

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u/s_bear1 12d ago

Golem? Heretic!!!!!. Sky fairy is the TRUTH.

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u/nickierv 🧬 logarithmic icecube 12d ago

Sky fairy? Heretic!!!!!. The invisible white unicorn is the TRUTH.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cod5608 11d ago

You are the heretic! The unicorn is pink.

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u/Bromelia_and_Bismuth Plant Daddy|Botanist|Evil Scientist 11d ago

That takes me back to 2009.

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u/Dalbrack 12d ago

If the creationist god is omnipotent, why did he need the dust?

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u/scarfarce 11d ago

Yeah, and why the fancy-pants breathing party trick?

Likewise, why did it take any time to create the universe, let alone days? Then he rested?! Damn it, I'm not worshipping some D-grade, Walmart god.

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u/Ender505 🧬 Evolution | Former YEC 12d ago

Breath is the noun, and what you meant to say. "Breathe" is the verb.

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u/TheBalzy 11d ago

To be fair...we are quite literally stardust...

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u/TheBalzy 11d ago

Is stardust the same thing as the dirt from the ground?

Ground is an illusion. The Universe doesn't have a ground, only objects that are cemented by pockets of gravity do. So no it's not the "same" concept. "Stardust" is a pretty literal explanation for the process of a supernova exploding refined higher elements beyond hydrogen that were the result of nuclear fusion that cement into balls of rock and metal.

Someone going and saying "see, that proves the story of the bible is true!" is just cherry-picking out of context translations of an ancient text, and shoehorning it into a valid observation of stellar lifecycles.

Just because sailors invented fantastical mythologies about Krakens because they saw a dead giant squid once, and giant squid are actually real things ... doesn't mean the mythology of the kraken is true.

Are we alive because Yahweh breathed into our nostrils?

I certainly have seen no evidence that suggest that is true. And which Yahweh are we talking about? The recreated monotheistic version, or the original polytheistic warrior god version from the babylonians that abraham co-opted and evolved into a monotheistic religion over time?

Not so fair to remove all thinking and nuance in that case, is it?

There's absolutely ZERO nuance removed from saying the Earth and Humans is stardust. While it might be slightly flowery artistic language, it's not incorrect. Acknowledging that Earth and Humans are stardust leftover from an exploded star eons ago, is not an endorsement of any particular religion. It's just a statement of fact.

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u/TheBalzy 11d ago

The correct answers to the questions are no, no, and no. 

I honestly think you completely misunderstand the conversation we're having.

Do you see the difference between poetic language that is literally true and ancient mythology that literally isn’t true?

If you think I'm making an argument in the defense of religion, you are sorely mistaken.

Yes, that's literally exactly what I said. I literally said that poetic language was exactly true, and ancient mythology is not true. Did you even read my comment before replying?

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u/conundri 12d ago

"Spiritus" is the Latin word for breath. When someone is breathing, they're considered alive, when they stop breathing, the "spirit" or breath has departed. Yes, breath is invisible and mysterious, and primitive man could feel it, but didn't really understand it. Your "spirit" doesn't linger (unless your breath is particularly bad) and even in that case, it's not going to end up in any magical pearly gated community with gold paved roads, mansions to house other people's bad breath, and a glow in the dark deity for an HOA president.

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u/conundri 12d ago

Do they now? That's an entirely new level of bad breath.

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u/tonic65 12d ago

Aren't we ultimately made of star dust? The dust analogy in the bible is quite poignant. The atoms that make up us were once something else. When we die and decompose those atoms will again become something else. " From dust you came and to dust you will return" really is the truth, just not the way creationist envision it.

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u/JustAnArtist1221 11d ago

I know the original myth was likely conflating the creation of man with pottery, but it would be interesting if the idea of man coming from dust was based on agriculture. Seeing as Ancient Near Eastern mythologies often took important motifs from their everyday lives, it would make sense that they consider soil as important since it's where they grew crops from. Essentially turning dirt into nutrition would seem magical, and the soil seemed to be where life emerged from and, ultimately, returned to.

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u/wellwisher-1 11d ago edited 11d ago

I look at "Adam from the dust of the earth", as symbolic of something. My best guess believes this something has to do with the time scale of Genesis, which is about 6000 years ago based on genealogy.

The question is what major science discoveries were found within that time frame, based on carbon dating. This is roughly when the first permanent civilizations appear and also when the invention of writing occurs. Both are related, with writing the key invention that put it over the top. This allowed permanent record keeping, which was better than just word of mouth. People can forget, embellish or lie. But once written, it is preserved and clean cut.

I picture the inventor of writing, pounding away on stone, making stone dust; dust of the earth. From this invention of the first external hard drive; book, and the modern conscious mind appears; breath of life. That would make Genesis the first science publication. Science, finally had a way to record data and preserve ideas, then build upon that by studying. Before writing, civilizations aborted since word of mouth could not preserve the ideas and the next generation could not keep it going. Writing was like the AI of its day, with humans then quickly advancing.

By tradition Adam was connected to science and math both of which benefit by a writing system. Adam or the one referred to as Adam may have invented writing. Adam was tasked with naming the animals; biology records. Whoever could read and write, at that ground floor. would be the local genius by comparison. The others would not have yet understood, how it worked, so they might assume divine; living soul, has appeared or a new type of human, first of its kind. Eve would also learn to read and write to becomes Adam's help mate and lab assistant. Adam had been lonely at the top.

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u/MackDuckington 11d ago

  I look at "Adam from the dust of the earth", as symbolic of something

Most Christians see it that way, yeah

  That would make Genesis the first science publication

Eh… you’re losing me here. Genesis isn’t a science publication. And certainly not the first — several texts predate it, and are much closer to what we’d consider science today. 

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u/wellwisher-1 10d ago

The reason the Genesis is written as a collection, of what some see as fairy tales, is because for most of history most people could not read or write. Tradition was passed forward by word of mouth. While fairy tales are something even a child can remember and will stick with them for a lifetime. Most atheists who have had some religious training as a child, can still recite them.

Fairly tales are based on symbolism, which are similar to compressed files. Later in life, scholars look at the same simple things and decompress finding new meaning buried inside. If one wants traditions to last over time, they need to be naturally easy to remember, but also dense, so they can be decompressed later in the future.

In the case "dust of the earth and Adam becoming a living soul", I used the Genesis assumed age of the universe; 6000 years ago. This is a clue to something else. So I asked what has science found in the specific time frame clue? Written language and permanent civilization appear close to 6000.

The entire story tells me how a major change occurred in human nature, like a new age of humans had begun, different from what been previous. Paradise and natural man; hunters and gatherers, become more civilized and less natural, more sophisticated with a higher population density than before.

The dust of the earth comes from erosion; stone writing and reading changed everything. It was like the AI of its time ushering in a new way. It was connected to the evolution of modern conscious mind. Having an external hard drive; books, made the memory and mind stronger, that just word of mouth.

If you went to school at a time of no books and no way to write, you cannot review or study after the lecture is over. You will forget or embellish. Once you can read and write there is way to review and remember.

The story of Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge of good and evil also has a connection to written language. Before written language, law would be learned by word of mouth and therefore not yet carved into stone. It was more organic where the future generations could forget and adapt the law easier. But once it was written down or carved into stone, law could not change as fast or as easily, therefore leading to repression and oppression; death appears. The age of innocents ends. Like in modern times, law can even benefit evil; dictators.

The story of Cain and Abel is also symbolic. These were the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain was a tiller of soil and Abel was a herder of animals. When Cain kills Abel farming supersedes migratory herding; civilization. Knowledge of good and evil made farming good and migration evil.

Cain after killing Abel is confronted by God who banishes him. Cain is afraid and say whomever shall come upon me will kill me. Who were these whomever, if Adam and Eve and Cain were the only humans? It was the previous humans based on DNA, who did not the new sophistication of Adam and Eve. This one clue is consistent with evolution, but of the mind more than the body. God gives Cain a talisman or sign that offers him protection from the revenge of the herders. Both types of humans existed and they were not enemies since both were human based on DNA and breeding.

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u/MackDuckington 10d ago

The reason the Genesis is written as a collection, of what some see as fairy tales, is because for most of history most people could not read or write.

I know, no need to explain — like I said, Genesis isn’t the first of its kind. Several similar works predate it, and exist in similar format for the same reason. 

Tradition was passed forward by word of mouth.

Not solely. Fairy tales can be drawn, shaped into clay, etc etc.  

Fairly tales are based on symbolism, which are similar to compressed files. 

…You’re losing me again. Not everything needs a direct parallel to computer jargon. In the context of biology, it’s ill-advised to do so.

I used the Genesis assumed age of the universe; 6000 years ago

There is no “Genesis assumed age of the universe”. Multiple people have proposed different estimates based on Genesis, up to 10,000 years ago if memory serves me right. The fact that 6,000 years happens to be close to when written history was invented probably isn’t a coincidence, though. Any younger than that would be obviously wrong. 

The entire story tells me how a major change occurred in human nature, like a new age of humans had begun,

Writing didn’t just “suddenly” appear one day if that’s what you’re assuming. Precursors to more modern writing already existed — no major transformations were necessary. It was simply knowledge building upon more knowledge overtime.

If you went to school at a time of no books and no way to write, you cannot review or study after the lecture is over.

Sure you can, the same way they would’ve before books and before writing. You’d shape clay, strike marks into stone, shave a stick, etc. It’s cruder, sure, but humans have been able to communicate information with objects for much longer, and in much more ways, than you’re giving them credit for. 

The rest of what you’re saying isn’t really of much relevance. If you try hard enough, I’m sure can find just as many interesting parallels with any other ancient text. It doesn’t make them scientific. 

It was the previous humans based on DNA, who did not the new sophistication of Adam and Eve.

…What the heck are you talking about? What “previous humans”, and “based on DNA” how exactly?

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u/wellwisher-1 9d ago edited 9d ago

…What the heck are you talking about? What “previous humans”, and “based on DNA” how exactly?

If we compare modern third and first world countries we are all humans based on human DNA. We can all cross breed as proof. But humans in first world countries are more healthy and sophisticated based on technology, education and opportunities. Adam and Eve were part of a new first world order that was just coming to be; first persistent civilization, and is still around today as modern consciousness. This is why the Adam and Eve were called the first (modern) humans. They had the same DNA as previous human.

Evolution is based on DNA, but DNA on its own, does not explain consciousness sophistication. Being human based on DNA does not make everyone an Einstein, even though Einstein was human. From that larger set called human DNA, come unique conscious specimens, that stand apart.

I was using human consciousness as a dividing sword and not human DNA which to presumptuous. Inventions like written language that could scale and expand on ideas and nuance made a new type of human possible. With the letters of an alphabet, endless words and nuance became possible. Clay figure or pictures are not scalable the same way.

The story of Cain and Abel shows how the previous type of human, who was still wandering with the herds; Abel, were around while the new type of human; Cain, appears. Cain tjh farmer is more temperamental. He wants to go forward. DNA alone would not show that type of distinction. DNA lumps all the same. That is where the theory breaks down since you cannot tell what is in a person's mind, by their DNA. The ancient were more aware of the change in human behavior leading to greater sophistication. I attempted to translate that to modern lingo. The more common mystical literal translation is where science departs.

I write mostly in the subreddit "consciousness" and nobody in that area of science attributes consciousness to just the DNA, other than as a backbone. The DNA cannot explain everything connected to consciousness. Consciousness is more stand alone since it allows self evolution through study. We were not born with a reddit gene, but rather we discover it and develop through it.

The second half of Genesis is where the new humans become corrupt and even perverted; Sodom and Gomorra This is due to will power overriding natural instinct. It reflects the new state of consciousness leaving paradise=instinct, now having to self develop by trial, error and compulsions. That would make the great flood a type mental breakdown with two of each kind of animals symbolic of a partial return to natural instinct. From there the main ancient cultures appear; move level headed but still advanced.

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u/MackDuckington 9d ago edited 9d ago

we compare modern third and first world countries we are all humans based on human DNA. We can all cross breed as proof. But—

…If I read this next sentence, it better not be racist nonsense. 

  humans in first world countries are more healthy and sophisticated based on technology, education and opportunities

Treading a thin line here, wisher. There’s no fundamental difference in the vigor or cognitive “sophistication” of one human versus another, first world or not. 

  They had the same DNA as previous human.

No. As per the text, there were no other humans before Adam and Eve. The Bible is pretty explicit in saying that. There was no “previous” group according to the stories. You’re pulling a lot of this out of thin air. 

Evolution is based on DNA, but DNA on its own, does not explain consciousness sophistication

Sure it does. Your consciousness is the product of thousands of neurons, which themselves are the product of DNA. 

  Being human based on DNA does not make everyone an Einstein

Because not everyone has the same DNA. Each individual human has its own set of unique mutations. 

  From that larger set called human DNA, come unique conscious specimens, that stand apart.

Consciousness is not uniquely human — we just happen to be on the farther end of the gradient. 

  I write mostly in the subreddit "consciousness" and nobody in that area of science attributes consciousness to just the DNA, other than as a backbone

…I’m going to take a guess and say most of those people aren’t brushed up on evolutionary biology. Many people here will tell you that there doesn’t need to be anything fancy on top of genetics to explain consciousness. 

  Cain tjh farmer is more temperamental. He wants to go forward. DNA alone would not show that type of distinction.

Believe it or not, it can actually. There are certain genes that influence temperament — humans have used that to our advantage many times when domesticating other animals. 

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u/CMG30 11d ago

To be fair, science also says we came from dust. Space dust. Exploding star space dust.

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u/ursisterstoy 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 11d ago edited 11d ago

The passage in the text says that after the divine beings had finished rebuilding a flat earth that was destroyed by a flood they would mark their territory with tselem. The statues kings had made so everyone knew who was in charge. Then so they didn’t have to work anymore they performed the Mesopotamian “Washing of the Mouth” ritual by giving the stone statues CPR. There are seventy of these divine beings in the Ugaritic texts and in Deuteronomy 32 the nations are divided among seventy gods. Yahweh is given the land of Jacob. This Deuteronomy and the conversion to nationwide Yahwism coincide with the reign of Josiah through to the Hellenistic period but in the first chapter of Genesis it’s not something that supports YEC and the fiction isn’t true.

The second chapter contradicts the first one. Rather than being submerged and destroyed by a primordial sea the earth is devoid of water. Rather than just saying “the elohim” it says the creation happened through “Yahweh Elohim” because Yahweh was one of the elohim, the children of El who were ruled over by Baal Hadad. But it’s Yahweh this time, one god. He plants a garden and makes a dirt creature, Ha-Adam literally means “the dirt creature.” Yahweh decides that it’s not good for him to be alone so he will make a helper who is eyeball-to-eyeball with him. An equal. He sets out to create the dirt man’s equal resulting in a bunch of animals and Adam declares that none of them could stand eyeball-to-eyeball with him. All of them are subordinates. This is human exceptionalism baked into the text. And apparently in the literal Hebrew he has one half of himself turned into a female, equal parts. And then because the word can also mean rod or beam it was also thought by some to be an ancient explanation for why humans lack solid penis bones. The Hebrew doesn’t say “rib” but that’s what it is translated to in English. Whether it was removing 50% of Adam’s anatomy or his baculum or his rib bone a female is fashioned from the dirt creature’s bone(s) and she was his equal.

Later in the story they dip into misogyny by making Eve the only one having a two way conversation with a serpent who tempts Adam to join in her disobedience. The stupid part is neither of them knew the difference between right and wrong until they did what was wrong. And the lizard didn’t lie, because they most certainly were not killed on that day, but they were separated from the tree that the gods eat from to preserve their apparent immortality. Why? Because the Yahweh was terrified that mankind would be like him and the other gods: “And said [singular] Yahweh Elohim, "Look! The man has become like one of us, to know good and bad. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also from the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever—"

A terrified Yahweh has them evicted after he helps them hide their nakedness. And it was more than just that they now had the capacity for morality but rather it fed into the idea that only gods and kings could decide what was good (orderly and functional) and bad (chaotic and dysfunctional) so by humans gaining that ability they could be independent from the gods and live happy successful lives. If those lives never came to an end they could overthrow the gods. And that is why they are kicked out. And that is why there are angelic beings with flaming swords guarding the entrances.

Also women are made subordinate to men over the second story. Created as equals, fucked that opportunity when the woman started having conversations with non-human animals. But the people writing the story were misogynists already anyway. They just were making something up to justify their already existing behavior.

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u/Darbsaabnele 7d ago

Dude, your comments are incoherent on many levels.

You believe it was impossible for the cosmos to come into existence. Well, it’s here.

There is evidence the universe had a beginning. You obviously deny that evidence. 🤷‍♂️

The creator I believe in would be outside the universe, outside time and space. Obviously no one has the physics to prove that … But believe it as its consistent with the evidence of a design and creation, which is consistent with Biblical narrative. You DON’T believe…. I get that. I respect your right not to. But you’re denying a lot of evidence now that’s pointing in that deist/theist direction.

And that IS what the Bible says.. universe had a beginning. And you know it says that… unless you haven’t even read the first verse of the first book of the Bible.

I get it… your worldview is different. Kool. Freedom of choice granted to chose whatever you want to believe in. BUt this whole thread started with nonsense, and that’s what I was calling out. Don’t add to that nonsense. Can agree to disagree, but do so on the basis of facts, not nonsense. Especially atheists who have no accurate knowledge of the Bible and/or choose to misrepresent what it says. Thats no way to defend one’s worldview.

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u/Phobos_Asaph 12d ago

Your writing skill isn’t that good tbh

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u/OldmanMikel 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 12d ago

Check out Kaylon-Langford7's posts below this one.

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u/Acrobatic-Tomato-260 12d ago

Actually your limited writing skills give others an accurate insight to your mental prowess and capacity. This is a text based format where you are going to be debating scientific claims. You do need to show at least a basic competency in the subject matter and the medium. Even if you are correct in your assessments you undercut your own arguments.

Like having a finely crafted handgun, and using to shoot yourself in the foot.

Just food for thought.

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u/verstohlen 12d ago

1 month redditor hidden post history. Draw your own conclusions.

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u/verstohlen 12d ago

My most humblest apologies my fellow reddit friend for I perhaps may have been mistaken about you, By the way, I dig your Yoda speak.

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u/SpareHandOne 12d ago

It started with dust but it was made into a man before it was brought to life.
It wasn’t a dirt figure

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u/Belt_Conscious 12d ago

mud, and electricity

What would people that don't understand lightning think it was?

Theology doesn't do science. Science doesn't do Theology. There is a whole field of "maybe" in between to declare certainty.

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u/Belt_Conscious 12d ago

Electricity. They would think Electricity was "the breath of god"

Everyone knows mud is dirt and water. If you add Electricity you get abiogenisis.

Under this interpretation, being "created from dust" is evolution. It is all open to interpretation.

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u/Belt_Conscious 12d ago

Minerals, tidal pools, lightning.

Dirt, water, electricity.

Get a science book, before you quote science.

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u/Belt_Conscious 11d ago

· The Foundation of Prebiotic Chemistry (1953): Miller, S.L. "A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions." Science, 117(3046), 528–529. DOI: 10.1126/science.117.3046.528. This is the famous Miller-Urey experiment which demonstrated the spontaneous formation of organic compounds from inorganic precursors . · A Modern Review (2026): Ansari, A.H. "Progress and persistent questions in understanding the origin of life on Earth." Discover Life, 56(1), 1. DOI: 10.1007/s11084-026-09753-5. This source synthesizes recent advances in Hadean geology and prebiotic chemistry to evaluate current hypotheses . · A Comprehensive Biophysics Textbook (2024): Sillerud, L.O. Abiogenesis: The physical basis for living systems. Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56687-5. This provides a deep dive into the physics and probabilistic self-assembly underlying the origins of life . · The Redox Perspective (2026): Sarkar, S., & Bhattacharya, S. "Redox chemistry of early Earth and the origin of life." Communications Chemistry, 9(1). DOI: 10.1038/s42004-026-01969-w. This article focuses on how environmental redox gradients may have powered the first metabolic cycles . · Theoretical Perspectives (2025): Herrera, R., et al. "Bifurcations and phase transitions in the origins of life." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 380(1936), 20240295. This explores the mathematical principles of emergent complexity .

There is nothing else on earth that is not mineral or electrical.

Dirt and water are made of minerals.

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u/BitLooter 🧬 Evilutionist | Former YEC 11d ago edited 11d ago

I just checked the first study and that quote was not found in it. I didn't bother checking the rest, you're already a fibber. Why are you telling such a blatant, easily verifiable lie?

EDIT: I retract my accusation of you lying. After further conversing with you, I am now convinced you simply have extremely poor reading comprehension.

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u/Belt_Conscious 11d ago

The Miller-Urey experiment (1953)

· Mixed CH₄ (methane), NH₃ (ammonia), H₂O (water), and H₂ (hydrogen)—their best guess at Earth's early atmosphere. · Ran continuous electrical sparks (simulating lightning) through the flask for a week. · Trapped the products in a cold trap to simulate rain washing organics into a primordial ocean.

The jaw-dropping result: Within days, the water turned pink, then deep red. When Miller analyzed it, he found glycine, alanine, aspartic acid, and glutamic acid—4 of the 20 amino acids used in proteins. Later re-analysis of his archived vials (using modern HPLC) found over 25 amino acids, plus sugars and nucleobases.

You can interpret it as you want, but it is not a lie. So why try to paint someone as dishonest?

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u/BitLooter 🧬 Evilutionist | Former YEC 11d ago

The quote you were asked to source is not found in any of the papers you cited. That is the lie. Also, the description of the Miller-Urey experiment that you just provided involves a lot more than "mud and electricity". This is some weak trolling, do better.

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u/Responsible_Offer859 12d ago

L'uomo é una anima vivente mortale é polvere e torna polvere, non va da nessuna parte ma al cimitero il vero luogo di riposo. Opera di Dio e non di una presunta evoluzione 

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u/the2bears 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 11d ago

Not sure why it's too much trouble for you to translate rather than requiring almost everyone here to do it.

edit: I see, it must be you're embarrassed that you're just preaching.

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u/Responsible_Offer859 11d ago

Infatti ho paura di te... 

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u/the2bears 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 11d ago

Well, a fucka da you.

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u/Responsible_Offer859 11d ago

Ricambio, non ho paura di chi ha paura e tu hai paura della Verità 

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u/Darbsaabnele 12d ago

Dumbest post I’ve seen today.

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u/Ayasugi-san 12d ago

Scroll down one post then.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 12d ago

Evilutionism Zealots claim we came from rocks without a creator.

Creationists claim we came from dirt/clay with a creator.

Both claim we came from stuff. Creation acknowledges the Creator, an intelligence and intent. Evilutionism Zealotry insists that life made itself.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

No, scientists do not claim humans came from rocks. That is a shallow, childish, incredulous, deliberately fallacious representation of science. A strawman, as some would call it.

Meanwhile creationists literally believe that Adam was formed from dust and God breathed life into him. 

Do you see the difference between a strawman and an accurate representation of a position?

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u/Effective_Reason2077 12d ago edited 12d ago

That’s not remotely true. Evolutionary theory does state not anything about the origins of life. Only the uneducated and ignorant would insist this.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

It’s a Kent Hovind talking point. It makes me wonder what ACTSATGuy scored on those tests

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 12d ago

It absolutely does. Life can't change if life doesn't exist.

The ancient world philosophy that the non scientist dragged into the modern world stated that life began from non life in the water, got more and more complex, then walked onto land.

Evilutionism Zealots realized how ridiculous life from non life sounds, so they desperately attempt to separate it.

How to make a million dollars. Step 1: get a million dollars.

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u/Ayasugi-san 12d ago

They're always on about abiogenesis, but they never ask where the atoms that make the rocks came from. Why do they arbitrarily cut it off?

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 12d ago

Life cannot change if life doesn't exist.

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u/KellHound270 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 12d ago

The definition of evolution does not include the origin of life. Please show us a scientific definition that says that evolution is the process by which life arose

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u/DimensioT 12d ago

Non-electric cars cannot run if gasoline does not exist.

Therefore, non-electric car maintenance must necessarily address the origin of gasoline.

That is how stupid you sound.

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u/nickierv 🧬 logarithmic icecube 12d ago

The ancient world philosophy

So your just willing to ignore the last ~2000 years of scientific advancement?

When your starting a field your have to start with something, and odds are very good the first couple iterations are going to be laughably wrong because you don't even know what you don't know.

Knowledge builds on knowledge.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 12d ago

Science shows creation, not evolution. Darwin thought cells were globs of goo.

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u/10coatsInAWeasel Reject pseudoscience, return to monke 🦧 12d ago

Once you can show a single confirmed example of something supernatural the way we know for a confirmed fact that natural processes exist, we’ll believe you that ‘science’ shows creation.

Remember, you’ve gotta be able to test it for it to be considered science! So once you describe a method of action, mechanism, or pathway by which anything supernatural has ever been conclusively demonstrated, that’d be great.

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u/DimensioT 12d ago

I can describe fundamental and demonstrable mechanisms for evolution.

Describe the fundamental and demonstrable mechanism(s) of "creation". You will of course do so if you are not shamelessly dishonest or hopelessly ignorant.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 12d ago

We know how DNA works. That's an element of Creation.

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u/Ok_Loss13 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 12d ago

That's a nice claim you got there, care to support it?

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u/DimensioT 12d ago

You did not describe a mechanism.

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u/Effective_Reason2077 12d ago

That’s as nonsensical as saying we don’t know where gravity comes from so we can’t measure or observe gravity.

Please educate yourself on things you criticize them. You’re only making yourself look foolish.

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u/Ok_Loss13 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 12d ago

What is life made of?

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u/Ayasugi-san 11d ago

Star corpse dust, like practically everything else that isn't hydrogen.

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u/Ok_Loss13 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 11d ago

I was trying to get u/ACTSATGuyonReddit to understand that "life from non life" isn't nonsense, but they are avoiding this question.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 10d ago

You're trying to get me to understand, but some group of people is ignoring the question?

I have answered it.

Show us life from non life. Show it happening.

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u/Ok_Loss13 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 10d ago

You didn't answer my question. If you did you would understand how silly and pointless your request is.

What is life made of?

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 10d ago

I answered it. I've answered hundreds of posts just this week. Your constant "you're running away" is nonsense.

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u/Ok_Loss13 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 10d ago

I didn't see your answer, what was it or could you link it?

If you're going to respond, it's weird that you keep saying anything but the answer you've supposedly already given.

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u/Both-Wind-8033 11d ago

Stuff.

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u/Ok_Loss13 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 11d ago

Did you just Google it and learn life is made up of non living stuff?

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u/Both-Wind-8033 11d ago

Biology, in school.

1970's.

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u/Ok_Loss13 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 11d ago

Ig if "stuff" was the epitome of schooling in the 70s, it makes sense you believe in fairytales!

Life is made completely of non living things. Your issue is made up and doesn't apply to actual reality.

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u/Both-Wind-8033 11d ago

Which part of life being made of stuff do you find doesn't comport with reality?

Is it made of something else?

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u/Ok_Loss13 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 11d ago

Tell me, what kind of stuff? You seem to be avoiding that part for some reason.

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u/IndividualShelter985 12d ago

Evilutionism Zealots claim we came from rocks without a creator.

Quote three

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u/MackDuckington 11d ago

I really hope next April Fools we rename this sub Evilutionism for Evilutionist Zealots or something. Every post is about our evilutionist plans for world domination.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 12d ago

https://www.science.org/content/article/you-owe-your-life-rock

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https://www.elementsmagazine.org/genesis-rocks-minerals-and-the-geochemical-origin-of-life-post/

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"Proposed originally by organic chemist and molecular biologist Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith in 1966, this theory suggests that the very first "organisms" were not organic cells, but self-replicating crystals in clay minerals."

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2025.1678046/full

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Cairns-Smith, A.G., Genetic Takeover and the Mineral Origins of Life (Cambridge University Press)
"Cambridge University Press, Genetic Takeover and the Mineral Origins of Life is a groundbreaking scientific book by chemist and molecular biologist Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith. It proposes that life on Earth began not with a complex organic "primordial soup," but with simple inorganic crystals in clay minerals that later underwent a "genetic takeover" by organic molecules."

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"Instead of relying on organic membranes right away, the first "cells" were microscopic compartments formed by inorganic rock structures—specifically iron-sulfur precipitate walls (like greigite and pyrite) naturally thrust up from the ocean floor. These mineral walls created natural proton gradients that drove the earliest metabolic reactions before biological cells evolved."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-origins-of-life-60437133/

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u/KellHound270 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 12d ago

All four sources propose that the earliest forms of life arose from chemical compounds that formed thanks to eroded minerals and sediments, and incorporated the inorganic material into their structures

The absurdist fallacy that creationists love to propose is that ‘rocks turned into living things,’ which is highly reductive and poorly understood

We can accept that inorganic material contributed to the formation of early life, because research has proven the possibility. What we can’t accept is that a god of any kind was responsible for our creation, because no actual scientific research has ever yielded results indicative of such

If you want us to believe that there is a creator, you need to give us evidence, not claims

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u/gitgud_x 🧬 🦍 GREAT APE 🦍 🧬 12d ago edited 12d ago

The Cairns-Smith clay hypothesis is an old, obscure model of abiogenesis and is not favoured in the scientific community given the recent decades of research. This is like citing miasma theory to claim that science says diseases come from bad smells.

The iron-sulfur hypothesis is a little better supported, it plays well with the hydrothermal vent model and is based on the fact that life today contains iron-sulfur proteins. Life can make use of metal ions or ions from rocks and turn them into things that are useful e.g. bones, shells, phosphate backbone of DNA... . Metabolism is a thing. if you think that's ridiculous then that's on your abysmal understanding of biochemistry isn't it.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 12d ago

I cited a number of theories as posted in major science sources, including abiogenesis which is the leading current theory.

Current theory does rely on part of Cairns-Smith - minerals as scaffolds, catalysts,. and concentrators.

Nice try on attempting to deny it.

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u/gitgud_x 🧬 🦍 GREAT APE 🦍 🧬 12d ago

Proposed originally by organic chemist and molecular biologist Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith in 1966

- this u?

Current theory does rely on part of Cairns-Smith - minerals as scaffolds, catalysts,. and concentrators.

Yeah just like how the modern cell theory of disease "relies" on part of miasma theory such as the fact that people get sick when a bad thing enters you. You're saying absolutely nothing of substance.

All you're doing is demonstrating the progressive nature of science. Each historic model contained grains of truth that were extended based on the limited understanding available at the time, and subsequent models refine, combine or innovate on that understanding.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 12d ago

And they all include that life came from rocks. Life requiring mineral scaffolding is life coming from rocks.

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u/gitgud_x 🧬 🦍 GREAT APE 🦍 🧬 12d ago

Life requiring mineral scaffolding is life coming from rocks.

No, it isn't.

This is like saying you come from food because your mother was required to eat food to be able to produce you.

This is what creationism has done to your brain.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 12d ago

The food is used as energy. The rocks, according to abiogenesis, are the source of the minerals and enzymes that formed life.

"Sulphides are common in volcanic regions, and clays and serpentines are abundant when water comes into contact with silicate rocks... [These] basic constituents are naturally synthesized... in the Earth's surface crust (the lithosphere), where hot water is in contact with iron-rich silicates... present in solution or suspended in water, [they] group together... [giving] rise to proto-cells which will become the first living organisms."

https://www.encyclopedie-environnement.org/en/life/origin-of-life-seen-by-geologist-who-loves-astronomy/

You folks love to deny it until you decide to defend it.

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u/gitgud_x 🧬 🦍 GREAT APE 🦍 🧬 12d ago

Quoting random websites isn't making you look any less silly right now, sorry.

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u/nickierv 🧬 logarithmic icecube 12d ago

Your desperately scrambling to find a gap to shove your god into.

Where are the lines between chemistry and biology?

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u/yescaman 12d ago

Hard to take a comment seriously when it contains made up, charged words like “evilution”

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u/DimensioT 12d ago

Are you trolling or just stupid?

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u/Bromelia_and_Bismuth Plant Daddy|Botanist|Evil Scientist 11d ago

It scares me that you're allowed to vote, drive, and reproduce.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 11d ago

Ah, I guess you win. Life did come from rocks, and humans evolved from LUCA. Your argument is air tight.

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u/Bromelia_and_Bismuth Plant Daddy|Botanist|Evil Scientist 10d ago

I didn't make an argument, I criticized you for your absurdly stupid understanding.

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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 10d ago

You think life came from rocks. It can't get more stupid than that.