Basically I’m aware of how Big Bang led to expansion of universe, gases, atoms etc. But how did some presumably basic radiation/heat mechanisms lead to literal organisms that had life? It doesn’t make sense to me.
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There is a field of study called abiogenesis, which studies precisely this topic. In part scientists have some good ideas and have tested some elements of it successfully but the thing we can’t test is the millions of years and vast environmental factors spanning a planet to piece all the pieces together and show it happens.
Given enough time and chemical interactions with the dynamic forces (thermal vents, tidal mixing, volcanic eruptions) and minerals that we believe were present at the time it is conceivable that the simple chemical strands developed and scientists need to show that four (iirc) key components came about in environments that we have confidence existed at that time.
There is still a great deal of work to go in this field but there has been some successful experimentation showing some of the right reactions on a small scale.
The science does NOT say the creationist strawman of a bolt of lightning hitting some primordial ooze or mud or a rock. There is also a strawman of should be able to make life from a jar of peanut butter.
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