What made a single celled blob produce life,
2006-08-31 00:40:14 · 18 answers · asked by lightning 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-08-31 00:46:05 · answer #1 · answered by ParadoX 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As has been said, a single "celled" blob is alive, so that's not where 'production' happens. Production is a matter of elementary chemistry, when proteins join together. It's like Lego - some proteins are "sticky" to themselves or others. More and more connections create a relatively tight cluster of proteins, and in the right (and yes, entirely accidental) connections, you end up with the now much-trumpeted DNA-strand. It's the gigantic, amazing accident of chemistry. Proteins are non-living chemicals, but in a complex enough arrangement, they exhibit the characteristics of life, and the cellular structure of the simplest forms of life is grown. This unicellular "life-form" then begins acting like a life-form as we know it, including the expenditure of chemical energy to replicate - to pass on its pattern and create another cell 'in its own image," as it were. sometimes, these cells remain distinct, sometimes they "clump" together - electromagnetic forces of attraction working on them to join together. And so it goes, and so it goes, like soap bubbles in running water, taking nutrients, transforming the nutrients into chemical energy, using that energy to live and grow and replicate...
Given that the unicellular life-form genuinely does make its "children" in its own image, perhaps we've finally found the identity of God? Anyone care to join me in the Church of the Spectacular Blob?
2006-08-31 09:12:01 · answer #2 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A single celled "blob" is life. And conciousness at it's smallest level.
2006-08-31 08:07:36 · answer #3 · answered by Spookshow Baby 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of a cell as a biological crystal. A crystal is non-living as you know. It is composed of minerals, yet it will grow, it 'knows' what shape and size to grow, how many facets and what angles to produce, what color, refractive index and density to have. It will even have baby crystals which will grow up to be exact copies of itself. A living cell is a vehicle created by its own DNA. The only objective that DNA has is to reproduce itself, just as a crystal does. Nature, through a process known as random mutation and natural selection, enables DNA to continually enhance its chances of survival. By utilizing this process, cells becoming more complex and specialized as time marches on, we now see the diversification of life that has evolved on this planet.
2006-08-31 08:00:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't see a single answer that answers your question in the least. Big bang can't form matter on its own. If nothing existed, it has nothing to make the universe with. They say that light or rays or w/e can make matter but if light didn't exist how is that possible? And the theory about there being no beginning. If there was no beginning, that would make time infinite, wouldn't that mean that we'd all be perfect by now? or non-existant? I mean we had unlimited amount of time to evolve.
2006-08-31 07:51:19 · answer #5 · answered by CK 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eh? A single cell blob IS life.
What created that was chemistry.
What created that was physics.
What created that was the big bang.
What created that was nothing - the big bang does not require creation.
2006-08-31 07:43:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Ahhh grasshopper....does one wonder what made a single cell blob produce life? If your kung fu is to be strong...you must focus your chi on important questions....like how many olives can you add to a martini to consider it a food group instead of an alcoholic beverage?
2006-08-31 07:45:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Obviously if you have a single celled organism, it's already alive. Duh.
What you should be asking is were the ingredients available in early earth to come together and form a single replicating molecule (not a complete cell), since all you really need to kick off evolution is the ability to replicate yourself, and all you need to replicate yourself is one molecule.
Addendum: Or maybe you're asking because you can't figure out why the matter between you ears is considered to be alive...
2006-08-31 07:46:23 · answer #8 · answered by 006 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It came from space, I remember the movie " The Blob "
2006-08-31 07:47:08 · answer #9 · answered by xenomorphic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd. I find it disturbing that because religionists can't face the fact they don't know something, they jump on the first manure wagon that passes by and call it "Truth".
2006-08-31 09:33:57 · answer #10 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋