• Question: what really created life ???

    Asked by 9jackm to Antonia, Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by conchod123.
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      Antonia Hamilton answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I don’t think anything created life. Once a self-replicating ‘something’ forms in a primordial soup, it will keep replicating and evolving until it gets complex enough to be considered as life.

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      Matthew Hurley answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      9jackm – I don’t know and no-one can tell you for sure. It depends on who you ask and what you believe. Many people from various religions think that God or similar created earth. Others think that there’s a perfectly rational scientific argument for gases exploding and earth being created and out of that came a proteinaceous sludge from which early life evolved. If you ask me, I can’t understand why the first can’t have caused the latter.

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      Hugh Roderick answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Nobody knows for sure, but the theory I find most convincing is that chemicals that where naturally around in the environment on the newly formed earth were able to self assemble into larger units by the input of energy, like lightning strikes, and because so many of these units were produced just by chance one or several were created that had the property of self assembly and so produced lots of copies of themselves. Then at some point these units may have ended up protected within an oily sphere, which created the first ancestral cell. And the rest was history…

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