user19578: Buddha said that every living creature is subject to cause and effect.My question is what were we paying for in our first life?Well let me put forward like this,the first living creature after the earth was created was a bacteria and life originated in the sea which is a well established fact,then what was the bacteria paying for?Why didn't it take birth as a human?Also Homo sapiens came way after the extinction of many species?Then wht did the animals like dinosaurs take birth and why did the species get extinct?Doesn't Buddha's karma theory get debunked in this case?

user2282: 
Well let me put forward like this,the first living creature after the earth was created was a bacteria and life originated in the sea which is a well established fact.

You're missing a few important key words. Correction: "it's a well established OBSERVABLE fact TO DATE". Therefore, resorting to what we know as of now, given all the scopes, limits, and constraints of our senses to observe and capture fact/truth, is nowhere near sufficient to jump to conclusion that the law of causation is incomplete. And also as others already mentioned, there's no such thing as a "first life".

From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on. Long have you thus experienced stress, experienced pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries — enough to become disenchanted with all fabricated things, enough to become dispassionate, enough to be released." ~~ SN 15.3 ~~


19578: <p>Buddha said that every living creature is subject to cause and effect.My question is what were we paying for in our first life?Well let me put forward like this,the first living creature after the earth was created was a bacteria and life originated in the sea which is a well established fact,then what was the bacteria paying for?Why didn't it take birth as a human?Also Homo sapiens came way after the extinction of many species?Then wht did the animals like dinosaurs take birth and why did the species get extinct?Doesn't Buddha's karma theory get debunked in this case?</p>
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<p>Well let me put forward like this,the first living creature after the earth was created was a bacteria and life originated in the sea which is a well established fact.</p>
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<p>You're missing a few important key words. Correction: &quot;it's a well established OBSERVABLE fact TO DATE&quot;. Therefore, resorting to what we know as of now, given all the scopes, limits, and constraints of our senses to observe and capture fact/truth, is nowhere near sufficient to jump to conclusion that the law of causation is incomplete. And also as others already mentioned, there's no such thing as a &quot;first life&quot;.</p>
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<p>From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating &amp; wandering on. Long have you thus experienced stress, experienced pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries — enough to become disenchanted with all fabricated things, enough to become dispassionate, enough to be released.&quot; ~~ <a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn15/sn15.003.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 15.3</a> ~~</p>
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