Quote Originally Posted by TakeFlight
Ok so youve explained to me how we started now explain to me how other life like plants for example came to be and how they could be so diverse, are you saying it all started from one thing or what or am i not picking up on something
I haven't explained to you how we've started; I said we don't currently know how life went from organic compounds to DNA. The only reason I'm certain that this did happen is that we are here today. We don't even know how common life is in the Universe. We could be the only planet with life or there could be an infinite number of planets. But the answers to that question are very far off, after all we have only looked at our own solar system so far and there are trillions upon trillions of stars in trillions upon trillions of galaxies.

The first form of life could have been one "life form" or a whole vastly different variety of them. We don't know now, but we may in the future. The origin of life is not the same as evolution. Evolution is how life diversifies after it got started. Letā??s say you have 1 species. If you separate them (genetically) into 2 groups and allow each group to breed within itself then over enough time (though mutations and variations) they will differ so much genetically they will be unable to breed. Keep in mind this process takes millions of years and itā??s the changes in the environmental conditions and influences by other organisms that drive the selection for these new changes. This is about as much as I know about evolution, but even without this idea I havenā??t heard another way the fossil record and vestigial organs (like a pelvic bone in a whale) could be explained so nicely.

Quote Originally Posted by TakeFlight
Last could you tell me how science explains hallucinogens specifically mushrooms? i find it curiously bizzare that psilocybin found its way into such a durable rugged species of fungus
How they influence your brain? Or itā??s existence as a whole? Either way I have no idea, never studied them, never read anything about them. Could be human influence, could be a coincidence, or maybe itā??s some sort of self defense system. Not sure too many animals would eat them if they made them hallucinate. I guess this last one would make the most sense, but it certainly isnā??t the only poisonous mushroom. Plenty of mushrooms, plants, and animals would fuck you up if you ate them.

Quote Originally Posted by TakeFlight
Also if your able to understand everything you just said you have to be able to understand how someone could be so skeptical about the subject especially something like the origin of life and how science is so certain about it.
Well it's taken me 3 and a half years to understand most of what I "know" now. Yea there is still some doupt in some of the theories, maybe I shouldn't have used certain so loosely, but nothing else makes sense with the observations.