Life needs nurishment..to survive....where did the first life form get it's food
2006-06-29 08:13:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Most likely through photosynthesis. Billions of plants can't be wrong.
2006-06-29 08:16:55 · answer #1 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first life form was most likely a single celled organism, and chances are it was chemosynthetic. We don't know exactly what the cloud cover/environment was like when the first real organism manifested, but there are many life forms in the sea today (where life first developed as well) that live off of chemical energy in and around volcanic vents. There are large mats of primitive bacterial that are found all over these hydrothermal vents, on which other animals feed, and mind you this is in total absence of sunlight and most of the organisms in this ecosytem feed on the bacteria. Hence, it now seems highly likely that the first life-form survived on chemical energy. I'm assuming you're asking this question because it's leading question, meant to make evolution not seem credible and that God created everything as told in the Bible. I'm a Christian myself, but I also believe in evolution and that God was behind evolution just like he created physics, chemistry, etc. The science is accurate, and there's no reason to say that God couldn't have worked this way. Granted, science can change as we find new things, but God desires us to seek the truth, and in doing so doing put God in a box, for He could have brought about life on this planet in a way that no one has yet imagined or contemplated.
2006-06-29 08:21:52 · answer #2 · answered by b_switek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blue-Green algae was the first life form. This life form has been recreated in labs and was able to get food from the sun, the salt in sea water, and other algae that had died. Algae is a very resilient thing, it can go months without food, and it creates special spores for it's offspring. These spores are capable of surviving years and years without food or water. They simply it and wait until conditions are right for growth and then they spring to life. This is what made the blue-green algae such an important first step in evolution. They were able to spread across the globe and find every source of food. The spores would come to life in an area very different from where the parent algae lived, this younger algae would then have to adapt, or evolve, to find how to get new food it's it's new environment. This is how evolution started.
2006-06-29 09:45:02 · answer #3 · answered by MED_SCHOOL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This answer is simple. Evolution, as you are speaking of, never occurred. All you have to do is look around. The chances of evolution being the way life began is about the same as the chance they will find a gene that makes people gay. (aka. NEVER) The idea of evolution was even disputed by it's poster boy, Darwin. Most evolutionist will read his first book and it becomes their Bible. However, they never care to read his second in which he utterly and totally destroys even the notion that his first book should be taken as anything more than a theory. Darwin himself accepted Christ on his death bed ultimately proving once and for all the Truth. God created everything, and what's funny is that it takes more faith to believe in the terribly false idea of evolution than it does to believe in creation.
P.S. God is awesome!!!!
Also the Bible is very clear in how God created man. He spoke everything into existence..... Let their be light.......Let their be water.....etc, but in Genesis, when he created man, it is very explicit about what he did. He got down and FORMED man from the dust of the earth. That is awesome. God took the time to get his hands dirty for his most precious creation........US (humanity)!!!!!
God didn't use evolution to create man. It happened just as Genesis 1 and 2 describe it.
2006-06-29 09:10:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plant life only need sunlight, carbon dioxide and nutrients, such as nitrogen, phosphorous, and a bit of minerals such as manganese. Through photosynthesis they convert sunlight energy and carbon-dioxide to a form of carbohydrate, which is useful for lifeforms that eat the plants, which are right here on earth.
2006-06-29 08:20:22 · answer #5 · answered by Mickey S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first life forms likely relied on chemical energy from sulfur and phosphate compounds
2006-06-29 09:09:15 · answer #6 · answered by Ted 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first life forms were in the ocean microscopic algae, and they got their nutrients from sunlight shining on the water.
2006-06-29 08:16:29 · answer #7 · answered by alwaysbombed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it came from the lightning bolt that brought the ooze to life.
I wonder why it didn't fry the ooze to a crisp?
2006-06-29 08:18:34 · answer #8 · answered by hercules 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and after that, plants were on the either before any beasts of any sort were here, so they beasts would have been herbivores.
2006-06-29 08:18:12 · answer #9 · answered by d p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some type of energy. possibly solar
2006-06-29 08:19:53 · answer #10 · answered by thiswasneveranemailaddress 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋