Personally I think the concept of Panspermia has some credibility as well. We know that our planet was heavily bombarded in it's early years, and a young solar system would have massive amounts of debris floating around. I think the reason that a lot of creationists have a problem with the evolutionary beginning of life on this planet is because they can't understand sand turning into bacteria, in spite of the mud to man theory proposed biblically. With the sheer amount of heavy bombardment on this planet, it's conceivable that an "ark" was among the culprits. It would explain the sudden appearance of life. However 500 million years of molecular collisions probably would as well.
However they can't seem to grasp the idea that if life didn't exist here, it would simply exist somewhere else. Our existence as a species is a matter of chance, we exist because 65 million years ago some cataclysm caused the extinction of the dominant species on this planet, the dinosaurs, giving mammals the opportunity to spread out and prosper. Were it not for that series of events, it's conceivable that dinosaurs would have continued to exist. Every other successful genus that was alive then remains to this day, sharks, crocodiles, rodents, insects, etc.
However they can't seem to grasp the idea that if life didn't exist here, it would simply exist somewhere else. Our existence as a species is a matter of chance, we exist because 65 million years ago some cataclysm caused the extinction of the dominant species on this planet, the dinosaurs, giving mammals the opportunity to spread out and prosper. Were it not for that series of events, it's conceivable that dinosaurs would have continued to exist. Every other successful genus that was alive then remains to this day, sharks, crocodiles, rodents, insects, etc.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
