Could life have originated by chance?

Answer 1

We can never know! There may have been billions of other universes in which life never developed, but obviously only those in which life developed can ever be observed.

If you're asking was there a maker, everyone here will give you a yes or no, but they're all full of crap. We just don't know.

Answer 2

Life didn't evolve by chance. No I'm not saying god did it, but even evolution isn't just luck.

Chance, in the form of mutations, provides genetic variation, which is the raw material that natural selection has to work with. From there, natural selection sorts out certain variations. Those variations which give greater reproductive success to their possessors (and chance ensures that such beneficial mutations will be inevitable) are retained, and less successful variations are weeded out. When the environment changes, or when organisms move to a different environment, different variations are selected, leading eventually to different species. Harmful mutations usually die out quickly, so they don't interfere with the process of beneficial mutations accumulating.
Life didn't start, in the very beggining, by chance either; atoms and molecules arrange themselves not purely randomly, but according to their chemical properties. In the case of carbon atoms especially, this means complex molecules are sure to form spontaneously, and these complex molecules can influence each other to create even more complex molecules. Once a molecule forms that is approximately self-replicating, natural selection will guide the formation of ever more efficient replicators. The first self-replicating object didn't need to be as complex as a modern cell or even a strand of DNA. Some self-replicating molecules are not really all that complex (as organic molecules go).

Answer 3

Yes, try reading richard dawkins book the blind watchmaker or climbing mount improbable which discusses the possible origins of life, one of possible origin is of course it happened by chance. If i remember correctly his book the the selfish gene also discussed the chance origin of life from the "primordial soup" that existed on earth millions of years ago and the role of survival of the fittest and evolutionary pressures which lead to the advance ment of the basic life forms, ultimately leading to many different species we ha today

Answer 4

let us assume that life and all these wonderful things in this universe were created by an higher intelligence -this we assume because we cannot digest that something so complex came to existence by chance -but once we assume that we face an even more confounding problem! who created this being of much higher complexity.
The question before us is did thing get less complex like a higher being creating lower life forms
Or as the scientists say ,did things get more complex as time goes on creating life from non living things, creating higher life forms from lower life forms?

Answer 5

Anything could be possible, But not by chance. I think it all happened by a well arranged series of accidents. Not forgetting the odd visit by beings from other Galaxy's. I have seen much evidence of this brought to earth by channelers. Lets not forget that in biblical times channelers were classed as profits.

Answer 6

I don't think so because everything in the natural world is so ordered/ It is only man that messes it up.
Just look at how complex man, animals, plants etc. are how could this all be an accident. No computer in the world is as complex as the human brain.

Answer 7

Yes, it could. I think the problem is, many people do not properly understand the concept of chance

Answer 8

Everything has to have a maker. Even the house you live in so its logical to beleive something as complicated as life needs a maker.

Answer 9

It certainly could end by chance

Answer 10

Are you talking about
Spontaneous Life???