• Question: How can simple amino acids create complex lifeforms such as us, provided God did not create the Earth and all life?

    Asked by alexbraidwood to Ed, Hayley, Jason, Nathan, Sophie on 16 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Hayley Evers-King

      Hayley Evers-King answered on 16 Mar 2013:


      We are still unsure exactly how the first life forms came to be – but there are multiple potential theories for this process, known as “abiogenesis”. Once the first simple life forms (very simple single cells) came to be, we know that the process of evolution led to more and more complex life arising, with very small changes occurring over a very long time (billions of years), until you get to us in the present day.

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