Have you ever thought about how the Earth is basically...

... the greatest chemistry experiment currently known to us? Like many other planets, Earth is just a huge clump of various chemicals that make up it's mass, the major difference of course being life. Life in itself is some amazing chemistry, but when you factor that into all the other elements of the Earth and how the two forces (biotic and abiotic) interact, it really is like the greatest and most complicated chemistry equation we know of. If someone (somehow) was able to write out ALL of the Earth into a chemical equation... I can't even imagine how big and complicated it would be. In a way I feel incredibly priveleged to see the end result of chemicals just sort of randomly colliding and combining over 4.5 billion years (and many parts of it even earlier than that).

Think about it? It was the topic of my thesis for my senior year biology class.mattbbpl

When you see Earth from far away you wonder what the heck else is out there.

[QUOTE="mattbbpl"]Think about it? It was the topic of my thesis for my senior year biology class.kamikaze_pigmy

This is a great topic.

oh but to answer the actual topic. While I have thought about what it was that sparked life, I have not really thought about the whole world as the greatest chemical equation known to mankind nor have I ever felt privileged to be apart of that equation.

i more or less think about it like this,

were spinning on a little mossy rock in a medium sized galaxy in the middle of nowhere...
every couple of hundred thousand years every thing is destroyed and most of all life becomes extinct....
at any moment everything on our planet could be gone in a second due to collision...


and you guys are worried about the next i phone........................

I pity believe that the world just happened to be created by a giant boom where chemicals which didn't exist just collide together to make life :roll: It's stuff like this which proves God's existancesboyer2

To try and get this ball rolling in the right direction, I'll post some "basic" chemical processes that allow human bodies to function on basic levels.

How about starting with mRNA transcription?

Let's follow it up with another personal favorite of mine: glycolisis

I've figured out the mystery of the universe. The universe is inside a beaker of a high school chemistry student in a bigger universe.

Where's my nobel prize?

I've figured out the mystery of the universe. The universe is inside a beaker of a high school chemistry student in a bigger universe.

Where's my nobel prize?

adv_tr00per

Inside the beaker :o

I've figured out the mystery of the universe. The universe is inside a beaker of a high school chemistry student in a bigger universe.

Where's my nobel prize?

adv_tr00per

No, actually the universe is inside a personal locker, in a train station, in a larger universe.

I pity believe that the world just happened to be created by a giant boom where chemicals which didn't exist just collide together to make life :roll: It's stuff like this which proves God's existancesboyer2

[QUOTE="sboyer2"]I pity believe that the world just happened to be created by a giant boom where chemicals which didn't exist just collide together to make life :roll: It's stuff like this which proves God's existanceGunslinger_1988

Yeah, i found it amazing how such random and coincidental events could create what we know as Earth today..

[QUOTE="adv_tr00per"]

I've figured out the mystery of the universe. The universe is inside a beaker of a high school chemistry student in a bigger universe.

Where's my nobel prize?

Superbored

No, actually the universe is inside a personal locker, in a train station, in a larger universe.

[QUOTE="Gunslinger_1988"][QUOTE="sboyer2"]I pity believe that the world just happened to be created by a giant boom where chemicals which didn't exist just collide together to make life :roll: It's stuff like this which proves God's existanceShottayouth13-

[QUOTE="Shottayouth13-"][QUOTE="Gunslinger_1988"] If God created the universe out of nothing, then the real question should be who created God? munu9

[QUOTE="Gunslinger_1988"][QUOTE="sboyer2"]I pity believe that the world just happened to be created by a giant boom where chemicals which didn't exist just collide together to make life :roll: It's stuff like this which proves God's existanceShottayouth13-

[QUOTE="munu9"][QUOTE="Shottayouth13-"] If nothingness created the universe out of nothingness, then what created the universe? mattbbpl

[QUOTE="Shottayouth13-"][QUOTE="Gunslinger_1988"] If God created the universe out of nothing, then the real question should be who created God? Gunslinger_1988

[QUOTE="mattbbpl"][QUOTE="munu9"] here's an even more absurd question: prove something can't come from nothing (w/o using the conservation of mass energy law) munu9

[QUOTE="sboyer2"]I pity believe that the world just happened to be created by a giant boom where chemicals which didn't exist just collide together to make life :roll: It's stuff like this which proves God's existanceGunslinger_1988

No I can't say that i have. But I'm betting that thatXaos guy ponders that sort of thing.

[QUOTE="Gunslinger_1988"][QUOTE="sboyer2"]I pity believe that the world just happened to be created by a giant boom where chemicals which didn't exist just collide together to make life :roll: It's stuff like this which proves God's existancejalexbrown

Matter is infinite? I thought scientists believe in there being a finite amount of matter/energy in the universe.

[QUOTE="Gunslinger_1988"][QUOTE="sboyer2"]I pity believe that the world just happened to be created by a giant boom where chemicals which didn't exist just collide together to make life :roll: It's stuff like this which proves God's existancejalexbrown

[QUOTE="jalexbrown"][QUOTE="Gunslinger_1988"] If God created the universe out of nothing, then the real question should be who created God? Superbored

Matter is infinite? I thought scientists believe in there being a finite amount of matter/energy in the universe.

[QUOTE="Gunslinger_1988"][QUOTE="Shottayouth13-"] If nothingness created the universe out of nothingness, then what created the universe? Shottayouth13-