How Did Life Begin on Earth

While it is not important to know precisely how life came to be on planet earth, it is important to know how the difference between the plausible and the implausible. Random events among forces we know existed is plausible. Miracles and imaginary gods are not. That's why it is most interesting to read about theories that involves forces that, so far as anyone can tell, existed those many millions of years ago.

I'm not a scientist, but experience in the kitchen, the college lab and my workshops convinced me the intense heat causes reactions that change things from what they were to something different. Theories have been around for a long time about the minerals and elements that existed before life on the planet earth and how, if high heat had been applied to them could have triggered reactions that eventually became something alive. The link article suggests the source of the necessary heat could well have come from the center of the earth where is now exists. Cracks or fissures in the earth's crust could have exposed the surface material to the heat. 

It seems like it may ultimately be possible to replicate the steps the theory suggests took place. This, like plotting the constantly present evolution, gives power to scientific theories of where all of us animals came from. Simultaneously, replication of long past developments takes away power from self-serving political and religious schemers who use fictitious tales to assign themselves as people to be revealed and obeyed. The latter refers, of course, to those who wrote the Bible in ancient times and those who preach from it in modern times.

While today we cannot answer authoritatively the questions, "How did life begin" or "Where did the universe come from?" certainly we are closer to answers than we were a few decades ago. I've heard Christians declare, "These questions will never be answered by science." This, of course, is what they hope. Science has tossed so many religious beliefs in the trash can religion hangs on by a thread. Experience tells us religion ultimately will lose.