First Life In The Universe?

Question

For as old as this Universe is, there obviously was some point in time where it was void of all life. Of course we know that life arose here on Earth, but that does not mean that life developed here first, or even, that it actually started here. So, traveling back into the history of the Universe, there was a moment when life sprung up out of nowhere.

Now, here's the question........what made life happen? And when it happened, what did the very first life-form do? What did it think, did it move, look around, hear, react, sense, taste?

Put yourself in this position. One moment you are here, and the next second you are suddenly catapulted somewhere off into the distance of the Universe, magically reappearing on some strange barren planet. What is the first thing that you as a living entity will do after having arrived in this new world. Here's likely what you might do......

You'll look around
You'll listen
You'll smell
and......you will move.

Now ask yourself, why is this so?

Anything living thing that is conscious of it's own environment has to maneuver through it, but where does this entity acquire the know-how to understand that it even needs to do these things?

@ John H.

If simple self-replicating strands of DNA were the first forms of life, they weren't replicating themselves for the sake of it, it was being done for a reason, so that it could survive. What made it know that it had to survive and therefore replicate, what brought even the ability to replicate about. Also, what about an entity without vision, sight, or sound sensing it's environment through vibrations alone? The first living thing had to have had some sense of where it was in order to move on to the next step. How was this acquired?

@Turner T.

This question is exactly about evolution, that's the main point here, hence the title of the question. I've side-stepped nothing.

What's really being addressed here is the first simplest lifeform vs., say, a brickwall. Which one is likely to take a journey in it's place of the whole scope of things. Now, the very first, simplest of all life-forms didn't just sit there obviously, else we all wouldn't even be here, they had to have embarked on a journey of discovery, a discovery of their own environment. Furthermore, whether the first lifeforms just sat there or not, it had to have been a very harsh place to live. Which brings up another question....Was there just exactly one lifeform, or several existing within the same immediate community at one time? Now, if there was just one entity at first, but then it replicated itself, why did it do so, what made it know that it had to copy itself, and how did this process of replicating occur?

@ Dragongml

What you are saying is something akin to having a huge stove with pots on a million burners, in anticipation of a recipe raining down from the sky to create the EXACT recipe for chili in just one pot. I hear ya. :)

Answer 1

To understand life you could study organic chemistry

Organic chemistry tells us that the first organic material is composed of "SPONCH" sulfer, phosforus , oxygen , nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen.

If this is how life is created, then the question becomes, how is it possible that all these atoms got together in such a complex way to create the first life.

Atheist tend to say well it just happened randomly over time, but if you consider the improbobility of this happening it is infinitly small.

And if we know that space has a time of origin then for life to form it would be comparable to having a quater land heads billions of times within about one week from one persons toss.

Answer 2

Dude ur Q is one which is everybody's mind
Let me tell u what i think about it~
Life was started due to lots n lots of chemical n physical reactions, n gave way to a new kind of thing called Mental reactions.
There the life comes, adjusting the environment around it. It stays for sometime till its energy is fully utilised for the purpose of Energy Conservation n dies. This happens only in a few planets, cause it might be that in only in these planets there are fluctuations in their atmosphere n they need back up of other sources called a "LIVING CREATURES" which do work for their own n the benifit of the planet.
There's a bit of magic n a bit of logic in this right.
The first creatures would not have been as good as the creatures now, n the future creatures might get worser or better in days. Each n every move of a smallest to the biggest creatures of any planet is affectin the total energy of that particular planet, n so we move.
Hope u liked my opinion of a planet with LIFE in it. If u agree with me u can let others know about or also modify this thought if u want to.
See ya!!!!!

Answer 3

You've sort of side stepped a little thing called evolution. The first life wouldn't have been a thinking, seeing, smelling, hearing creature. It was probably something akin to blue-green algae, a plant. It would simply live, not for any purpose except to spawn offspring. Our evolution is what gave us the ability to sense things around us. It took us millions of years to learn how to do this, it didn't just happen all of a sudden.

Answer 4

Okay, if you read the Bible you will get the answer to this. God and the Word (later to be Jesus his Son) existed and they created us, our world, our universe, everything. Keep in mind, before we existed, there was no matter (only anti-matter). Our universe was the fist time that matter existed. God did this after the war with Lucifer and his followers, who were anti-matter as well. With all matter, it has a limited life span and we were made this way to see if we are actually worthy of reaching the next level. After the war, it was a better alternative, just in case our lot decided to join up with Lucifer (Satan).

Answer 5

Uhhh....what?

Life started as simple self replicating strands of organic material... it couldn't see, hear, or smell and was subject to the forces around it.

And for billions of years... it never got more interesting than that.

Answer 6

I believe that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics was instrumental in the formation of life, mainly due to the idea of entropy.

Answer 7

Even though your questioning and pondering is legit, marijuana is a terrible thing. Put the bong down and slowly walk away.

Answer 8

First life aliens last life i don't know. They gonna kill us all,sh1t