Volcanic lightning may have sparked life on Earth

I hope that's true. That just sounds like such an awesome way to come into existence.

How'd you get here? Oh you know, volcanic lightning. You?

Why must it be so dramatic? Couldn't it simply be like a rock falling over and what do ya know an organisms under it!

By the beard of Zeus!

Guess what, we're all the same after all.

The book of Muslims called "Holy Quran" says following about origin of life.
Note: Holy Quran is about 1400 years old book.

Sura 15 - Al-Hijr [Al-Hijr, Stoneland, Rocky City] Verse 26-26:
26. We created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape;

Sura 32 - As-Sajda [The Prostration, Worship, Adoration] Verse 7-8:
7. He Who has made everything which He has created most good: He began the creation of man with (nothing more than) clay,
8. And made his progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised:

Sura 71 - Nooh [Noah] Verse 13-17:
13. "'What is the matter with you, that ye place not your hope for kindness and long-suffering in Allah,-
14. "'Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?
15. "'See ye not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another,
16. "'And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?
17. "'And Allah has produced you from the earth growing (gradually),

Sura 21 - Al-Anbiya [The Prophets] Verse 30-30:
30. Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?

is that image real?

To quote Urban Gypsy: "I can hear the creationists screaming in frustration". I can also hear some fear and rejection in that scream. I soon see this astonishing and very credible theory being childishly refuted by the ( we think who we call God is) Right.

golly, so Dr Frankenstein was right all along - and what a monster that lightening bolt ended up creating...

i wish i could find the article again ... but magnetite has been proposed as allowing a framework for the formation of genes ...

God was just a good a chemist.

Hmm, seems that he might well be onto something here. That is one wicked picture included with the article.

jess
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volcanic lightning or hand of god - both sound far fetch to me

someone should show this to sarah palin...

im a creationist who beleives in evolution. if it seems so it is so. i loooove this study. it is soo cool! but i still want sarah palin and people like her to get this article on a peice of paper and choke on it.

have a great day!!

Hold on your a creationist that believes in evolution???? Evolution takes millions of years?

IT'S AAALLLIIIIIVVVVVVVE!!!!!!!!

I don't think I'll ever quite understand why it is that creationists stick to this ideal so hard. Even if you were to prove without a shadow of a doubt that life was created in this manner and that evolution was an undeniable fact would that truly shake the foundations of your belief system? Is your faith so weak that the thought of the bible being wrong frightens and angers you?

Now I'm not a religious person... I accept that the bible is a great book of interesting stories that often teach a great set of moral values but I would never attempt to defend the idea that all that is written there is fact.

Personally I think that evolution will eventually just become the accepted theory of how things came to be, much in the way people slowly accepted the fact that the Earth was round and orbited the sun. I'm just not a fan of people standing in the way of scientific progress because their personal belief system differs from it. Religion and science just need to be kept apart.

Hey, God works in mysterious ways... possibly that's one! Yeah, I'm going with that.

I find the comment about being a creationist and a believer in evolution intriguing. I applaud your ability to reconcile the two.
I suppose that is similar to my own belief that fate and choice are inextircable
It seems that in present times the two camps of creationists and evolutionists represent polar opposites and are each extreme in those parameters. Given that, when and if we ever find out where we come from we will likely discover that the answer lies somewhere in the middle where balance almost always resides.

More theory on the existence of the world, I wonder if it actually matters how the world was created. The only benefit that I see would be to finally resolve these lifelong arguments that religions seem to instigate. However, even with proof I bet there would continue to be religious battles. People seem to need to fight and argue about something, and religion seems fill that void.
Interesting none the less, and what a photo!

There is no debate between scientists as to whether evolution took place. If anything, the debate is **how** evolution took place, not if. Evolutionary theory does not intend to explain the origin of life. But anyways look at this.

Here's a short list of societies that oppose ID on grounds that it is not science and links to their statements:

American Association for the Advancement of Science: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2002/1106id2.shtml

American Association of University Professors: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/newsroom/prarchives/2005/AMResolutions.htm

American Astronomical Society: http://web.archive.org/web/20061206093237/http://www.aas.org/governance/council/...

American Chemical Society: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/acs-acs081505.php

American Geophysical Union: http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl0528.html

American Institute of Physics: http://www.aip.org/gov/gov/policy7.html

American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org/science/rcr/id.html

American Society of Agronomy: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/asoa-sss081505.php

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: http://www.asbmb.org/ASBMB/site.nsf/web/D4AFF85E256FB0FB85257053006BDB10

Botanical Society of America: http://www.botany.org/outreach/evolution.php

United States National Academy of Sciences: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309064066&page=25

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: http://ottawa-rasc.ca/science/index.html

Royal Society: http://royalsociety.org/publication.asp?id=4797

If anyone believes that Intelligent Design is even remotely credible, then your argument is not against me but against the entire scientific establishment...

the lighting looks so beautiful for it to come from something so dangerous.

But wait! I didn't read that in my Bible!?!? BLASPHAMY!

Aren't we supposed to be calling for all scientists to be nailed to boards now?

Hahahahahahaha