How do you think life got started?

Question

Im interested in a non-religious answer. Im also not asking about how different species evolved from one to another, etc etc. What im curious about is the viewpoints non-religious individuals on how exactly "the ball got rolling" so to speak.

Answer 1

it started like this:

Genesis 1
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

Answer 2

I subscribe to Richard Dawkins' theory:

British ethologist Richard Dawkins wrote about autocatalysis as a potential explanation for the origin of life in his 2004 book The Ancestor's Tale. Autocatalysts are substances which catalyze the production of themselves, and therefore have the property of being a simple molecular replicator. In his book, Dawkins cites experiments performed by Julius Rebek and his colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in California in which they combined amino adenosine and pentafluorophenyl ester with the autocatalyst amino adenosine triacid ester (AATE). One system from the experiment contained variants of AATE which catalysed the synthesis of themselves. This experiment demonstrated the possibility that autocatalysts could exhibit competition within a population of entities with heredity, which could be interpreted as a rudimentary form of natural selection.

Answer 3

Well life like everything else is made up of a certain mixture of chemical elements These minute elements over billions of years was brought together quite by condolence in a cauldron of warm soup the perfect environment for growth. so a monkey was formed. Wait, wait first a dinosaur. Yes and then the monkey that's the way it was.

Answer 4

Any answer is falsely correct!

God was there and no one else was around. We can only use our own flawed hypothetical thesis on how it may have happened.

Evolution and time is the best answer proven by science and Religion.

So you guess is as good as mine, but I see a supreme being in all of this. Don't you?

Answer 5

I think I don't care. Without a life to think about I would not care either. What can we do with this kind of syrupy invitation? Chemical soup, instant existential bliss?

Answer 6

A shock hit the primordal ooze...perhaps a lightening bolt or something like that, and caused a chemical change so that something could reproduce itself.

Answer 7

I'm pretty sure they aren't sure. I believe there are competing hypotheses.

The "ball" is self-replication -- the question is, how did THAT start?

Once you have self-replication, the rest makes sense.

You could try UC Berkeley's site

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/

Answer 8

The mother ship send down the science project billions of years ago.

Answer 9

God started the universe

The non-religious will say the Big Bang,but they cant explain the Big bang itsself

Answer 10

Life was inevitiable. There was a probability. Any time there is a probability, given enough chances you will get the result.