When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?

Question

I do not want "comments" or "theories"! Give me a source that proves your answer.

Ok, as I have already stated above...NO IDEAS OR THEORIES PLEASE! I asked the question if you do not know the answer then please DO NOT ANSWER.

Answer 1

Adam and Eve were the first to produce children. I'm sure you know how. God created the animals and everything else. Check it out.

Answer 2

How can anyone realistically give proof to that question. I tend to believe in theories that make more sense to me. I cannot prove how life learned how to replicate. I cannot prove the existence of God, either. Some say God's existence can be proven by the writings in a book(e.g. the Bible, the Koran). But there are other books that make more sense to me.

Darwin, bending somewhat to the religious biases of his time, posited in the final paragraph of The Origin of Species that "the Creator" originally breathed life "into a few forms or into one." Then evolution took over: "From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." In private correspondence, however, he suggested life could have arisen through chemistry, "in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc. present." For much of the 20th century, origin-of-life research has aimed to flesh out Darwin's private hypothesis - to make plain how, without supernatural intervention, spontaneous interaction of the relatively simple molecules dissolved in the lakes or oceans of the prebiotic world could have yielded life's last common ancestor.

Finding a solution to this problem requires knowing something about that ancestor's characteristics. Obviously, it had to possess genetic information - that is, heritable instructions for functioning and reproducing - and the means to replicate and carry out those instructions. Otherwise it would have left no descendants. Also, its system for replicating its genetic material had to allow for some random variation in the heritable characteristics of the offspring so that new traits could be selected and lead to the creation of diverse species.

Answer 3

One thing the first answer had right is that you can't always prove everything. It seems that even those who do not believe in a Creator put their "faith" in someones ideas and theories about existence, life, etc... Nothing else to say or add, the young lady had it right. Written, documentation explains it all. One could go even further and ask where the laws of the universe (gravity, inertia, etc...) come from or where did matter come from and HOW did it get so perfectly organized? Once again there is written documentation to explain all of this. Thanks for such a great question. Peace

Answer 4

Life almost by denfinition is the ability to reproduce. It is the essential addition to the primeaval soup of organic chemicals that existed on the early earth that separated the time when there was life from the time when there was not.

In this sense, the question becomes "when did DNA form on earth", or, as it is more likely that RNA formed first as a sort of catalyst for organic reactions, "when did RNA give rise to DNA".

The timing of this is hard to pin down, but earth was formed around 4.6 billion years ago, too several hundred million years to cool sufficiently and had microorganisms as early as 3.5 billion years ago. So some time between 3.5 and 4 billion years ago.

Answer 5

Since life occured appoximately 500 million years ago, we cannot "prove" anything. We cannot go back in time and make direct observations. So we can only theorize the time. The where was probably in the shallow warm ocean of the time and the why must be left to a higher power.

Answer 6

Since no one has "proof" of how life learned to reproduce itself, your question is unanswerable. Whether you're looking for science or religion, there is no absolute proof.

Answer 7

Who what and where.shi*t happens dude