Deep in the primordial ocean, in a deep-sea geothermal vent, chemicals mix together.
Powered by the energy of the volcanic lava, complex chemical reactions form.
Sugars, lipids, adenine and cytosine, amino acids form.
On clay surfaces, adenine and cytosine, guanine and uracil, a sugar called ribose, and phosphate compounds form long complex molecules called RNA.
Nearby, lipids form membranes much in the same way that soap forms bubbles.
Some of these membranes come to enclose a promising collection of RNA.
God gives this enclosed collection of RNA a tiny mind.
Guided by this tiny mind, the RNA can now self-replicate.
Guided by this tiny mind, the enclosed collection of RNA is now a living cell.
Without self-direction, without a mind, the highly complex organized direction to grow, to eat, to do things like this is not possible.
For if you put a computer in a blank room and give it no input, it will simply sit there.
If you put a mind in a blank room and give it no input, it will start moving around and barking.
Unable to eat and grow, enclosed RNA without a mind cannot evolve.
With the self-direction of a mind, organized growth is possible.
With the self-direction of a mind, a cell can seek out sustenance among the chemicals around the energy source of the deep-sea geothermal vent.
Somehow, food suitable for a living cell of RNA of just this type is available.
This living cell can now eat and grow, guided by the self-direction of its mind.
This living cell can now reproduce.
Being able to eat and grow and reproduce, the cell can now evolve.
For the rest, see On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
God loves you!
How Anything Exists At All is even harder!*
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson
*Everything has a cause. What caused the Universe to exist? Especially if there is no First Mind to create itself and go on to be the source of all?
Read Aristotle for the answer! Someone must be the Self-Created Source of All!