Where did life originate?

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Most scientist agree that all life today evolved by common descent from a single primitive lifeform. However, there is no consensus on how this early lifeform evolved. Ever since the discovery of organic molecules in a meteorite that landed in Australia about half a century ago, scientists have been tantalized by the possibility that the building blocks of life originated in space? However, a more common hypothesis that life originated near a deep sea hydrothermal vent.

Goforit1010 · Accepted Answer

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

I guess it's too hard to believe that this is the actual origin of human life. But y'all will believe some ridiculous idea that somehow in a primordial puddle of ooze, the right combination of enzymes just "happened" to form and because of that, life began. It takes a LOT more faith to believe the wild claims of aliens, evolution, or any other crazy theories, than when it's written right there for you.

Oh yeah, it also says He created them male and female. That's it! No other genders, sexes, trans-garbage, or anything else y'all wanna pretend to be.

abc3643 · Accepted Answer

The more fundamental question is "What is life?"

Consider reading the 2008 nonfiction book "13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time" by Michael Brooks

The book is ___slightly___ dated now: one of the 13 things - The Pioneer Anomaly - was explained in 2012, so we are now down to 12 things that don't make sense.

Life is discussed in Chapter 5.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Things_That_Don%27t_Make_Sense

Hrumf · Accepted Answer

All we have are theories. Unfortunately I wasn’t there so I wouldn’t know with 100% certainty which one is correct.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Nobody really knows for sure, not even the scientists and yet they know more then the average person.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I’m not so sure there is life. Let’s say “gods” are real. Sentient beings that can create, although magically because they have no physical properties per se. Now imagine they were thinking about creating “life” but they decided to run some models on their computers first. That’s what almost everything we are and almost everything we experience is, part of a simulation. There’s some speculation that we can see the “strings” and even the “creators” while using potent hallucinogens. I’m reserving a fuller judgment until i can test the theory myself.

AviatorTom · Answer

There is no one answer for this... lots of theories and beliefs, including:

A Supreme Being created life on earth

The basic chemicals that became life were deposited by meteorites that crashed in the young Earth billions of years ago

Chemicals in the oceans and seas randomly came together to form the initial single-celled creatures that evolved into more complex life

Human-like creatures from other planets landed on Earth many thousands of years ago, bringing with them their animals and plants

There is no life, this is all just one big computer simulation that we're part of

007kingifrit · Answer

it seems as though life may have originated many times on the same planet, that viroids (simple viruses) form with great regularity.

which is disturbing as it implies we are very much alone in the universe even though life is supposedly easy to make

Anonymous · Answer

There are some serious questions about how sugars formed abiotically, how they were phosphorilated, and how the base-pair molecules were formed without life. Sugar phosphate is the double-helix backbone of RNA and DNA. Guanine, specifically, hasn't shown any real promise in abiotic formation and is also 0% soluble in water (which kinda rules out the underwater geothermal vent theory)

In short, we have no clue. And at least in my opinion, until they can create a functioning, replicating strand of RNA from scratch in an abiotic laboratory process, it'll be hard to convince anyone of anything.

Anonymous · Answer

I am intrigued by the "Panspermia" theory.

Considering the relatively young age of the universe (in comparison to the theorized life of the universe) I also think it's entirely plausible that Earth is the only life in the universe. I mean yes when you look at the sheer magnitude of stars out there and their corresponding planets. As well as habitable ones. It would seem life could be everywhere. But if our planet wasn't tilted at precisely the right angle we wouldn't have seasons. Or if the atmosphere wasn't just the right mix of oxygen and nitrogen etc.. what I'm saying is consider the possibility that Earth is just cradle of life.

MCheetah · Answer

From the archaic one, Arceus, of course. There can be only one Arceus. Guide us with your wisdom, bestowed from the Psychic Plate.

TallAnon · Answer

As far as I know single-celled organisms could only develop using water, hence why life started in the ocean. It's extremely likely life started existing millions of times and instantly died off again. The last universal common ancestor developed about 3.5 billion years ago. But there were likely other beings that died before this. Are we talking about where the luca originates from? Because life before that could be anywhere in the universe.

Guy13 · Answer

One Thought but many questions about that vent please. How did it get there? Did it self-conceive, self-form, spontaneously regenerate, or self-start?

exitseven · Answer

life evolved from organisms that lived in the ocean.

Adronicus · Answer

Life on earth originated from bacteria. Anyone with any clue on how vast space is knows it's a mathematical impossibility for earth to be the only planet to harbor life. Light travels 186k miles per second & we think something like 14 billion years of time has passed, in all that time light hasn't had enough time to travel everywhere that exists.

DWornock · Answer

Most people believe life originated on earth. Some believe life came from outer space. I would like to know which.

Anonymous · Answer

There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans...

slatyb · Answer

I think that’s going to be hard to determine. We can conduct experiments but we have little idea what the conditions were.

genericname85 · Answer

life on earth originated on earth. easy as that. the building blocks of life don't make life by themself. or else there would be life all over the observable universe.

Likes2drive · Answer

I think a comet billions of years ago with organic material and water

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

If they’re (idiotic) monkey theory was true then why don’t I see Archaeopteryx’s gliding around some place?

RedThread · Answer

We don't know. There are several hypotheses but that's pretty much it.

Shamalien · Answer

natural selection does not account for the origin of species

RuthlessAggression · Answer

life began, wherever you want it to have originated

Anonymous · Answer

It still make more sense than "God snapped his fingers and life exists" kind of bullshit you find in the bible.

Adaeva · Answer

Probably in the ocean.

rachel776 · Answer

it was probably from another planet somewhere

userxvi · Answer

"Intelligent infinity became aware" is the best answer we have

jshm2 · Answer

Does it matter?

QuietVerbena · Answer

I like the more common hypothesis

Gangactivities911 · Answer

I think abiogenesis is the most likely theory.

Honpulubrh4 · Answer

God is the creator. Read the Holy Bible.

lpoots · Answer

one place that life did not start is in the bible

Guy__ · Answer

It never did.

goodgirlsteven · Answer

In the womb

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