TheFunPolice wrote on Sep 2
nd, 2018 at 1:28pm:
issuevoter wrote on Aug 15
th, 2018 at 6:52am:
Yadda's opening post is worthy better responses than the mean spirited and foulmouthed ridicule preceding. And for once, he is posting a philosophical question instead of Christian dogma.
However, the biblical quotes at the end of the OP, furnish nothing more than the opinions of dead people, and tend to imply that he's looking for a way to bring his bogus notion of a "God" into this.
The question is essentially, "What is life," its older than dirt, and it is not going to be answered here.
How can life be older than dirt? If you consider the timeline below, the earliest possible life was 4.2 Billion Years ago. Only 120 Million Years after the water arrived. So there has been plenty of dirt created through the various processes (erosion ...etc). I would say most of the dirt was created since life appeared. Therefore, Life is older than most of the dirt.
4600 Ma - The planet Earth forms from the accretion disc revolving around the young Sun with organic compounds (complex organic molecules) necessary for life having perhaps formed in the protoplanetary disk of cosmic dust grains surrounding it before the formation of the Earth.[13]
4500 Ma - According to the giant impact hypothesis, the Moon was formed when the planet Earth and the hypothesized planet Theia collided, sending a very large number of moonlets into orbit around the young Earth which eventually coalesced to form the Moon.[14] The gravitational pull of the new Moon stabilised the Earth's fluctuating axis of rotation and set up the conditions in which abiogenesis occurred.[15]
4404 Ma - First appearance of liquid water on Earth.
4280 Ma - Earliest possible appearance of life on Earth.[16][17][18][19]
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_history_of_life