Anonymous A started this discussion 15 years ago#15,120
What being a non-believer is all about - The understanding that at the point in space-time that the singularity occurred, quantum potential collapsed into sets of virtual particle/anti-particle pairs due to vacuum fluctuations occasionally producing a non-zero value after which solar and planetary accretion condensed the remaining gases into stars and planets the composition of which often includes organic chemicals which naturally form molecular bonds and in our case autocatalytic feedback loops i.e. simple replicators which proceed to fill the oceans of early Earth eventually increasing in sophistication, forming lipid membranes around bubbles which protect the RNA and eventually DNA core of early single celled organisms, which evolved the capacity to live in colonies, becoming simple multicellular organisms like sponges, which became intermediaries like polyps which became early invertebrates which branched into vertebrates, some of which became fish, then amphibians, one of which (Tiktaalik) is famously among the first to crawl onto dry land, where amphibians branded off into reptiles, which branched into both birds and mammals, some of which survived the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, became arboreal primates, later descended and learned to walk upright in order to carry food/tools/young and of course these pro to humans eventually became us.