(January 18, 2017 at 7:04 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: She's 14 and in advanced and accelerated classes in 8th grade, with one class being Advanced honors algebra One.
And she wanted to clarify that using logic and reason does make sense.
And she's still going on about explosions not creating life. She gave an example of "if this house exploded, would it create life? The answer is no, it wouldn't."
I can't win.
(January 18, 2017 at 7:00 pm)Alex K Wrote: Ultimately, we don't know where the energy of the big bang came from or if it even had to come from anywhere. But - it wasn't an explosion, it was more like akin to a vessel of hot water expanding and cooling, and in the course of that, the water condenses and complexice crystals and snow flakes form. The cooling atoms fused together to form more and more complex matter.
I read this to her. Her question is:
How do we have any proof that this happened?
I wouldn't be too harsh on her. Even if she's clever I tend to notice 14 year olds being crazy and argumentative as fuck because of hormones and puberty, from my own experience and my friends kids.
The big bang didn't really create life. Saying the big bang is how life is created is like saying people have sex by opening the hinges of a door. Technically people probably will have to open a door at some point in order to get in and out of bedrooms or to get in and out of cars or just to actually go somewhere. But as an explanation for how sex happens it's a bad explanation.
The big bang is an explanation as to how the universe went from being a singularity to being open space with lots and lots of rocks, energy, gravity, materials and whatever else.
So she's right an explosion doesn't create life.
But let's use her example of a house exploding. What would happen is the house explodes rocks fly everywhere and when those rocks are left lying around moss does grow on them, plants grow underneath them, entire ecosystems will arise around the remains of the house in the absense of humans.
Scientists don't know what originally created life on earth but you can take your pick in using examples of evidence for evolution. And evolution seems to point towards one life form that all other living things evolved from. Although what that is and how it came about is a mystery.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
