Thinking about the Big Bang Theory, and how it all started with non-living things, tonight, the part about evolution I do not understand, is that if there once was no life at all, not so much as any amoeba -- if there once was nothing but elements such as mercury and helium and such, then does that mean life evolved from non-life?
Are you telling me that if we hang around and watch for a few billion years, life will spring out of -- I don't know, steel or magnesium or something? What brings it about, the right mixture of elements? The right temperatures? Or, if they just sit there long enough, they just eventually come to life?
It seems either non-living things must spawn living things, or else the Big Bang Theory and the Theory of Evolution are incompatible. You can believe in one, or you can believe in the other, but you can't believe in both. But, I'm guessing they do, indeed, believe the living can be born of the non-living. Or, maybe they just believe that somewhere in that little cluster that expoded to make the universe, there was a living organism of some sort. Surely, they have some explanation, and I'm just too new to the conversation to know what it is.
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