The Begining Of Evolution?

Question

Im not trying to put you down or nothing but im just wondering If you think that everything evolved from something else then how did the first thing get to be

Answer 1

That's called abiogenesis, and actually has very little, if anything to do with evolution. Evolution is what happens when you have something, not before.

Answer 2

That's a different branch of science than evolution. There are several interesting lines of investigation. Of course it's beyond complicated and so far back in time that it's a difficult problem. The current science is about investigating possibilities -- does this model work physically and chemically? -- and looking for new models.

One line of research that seems promising is what happens when the reactions are contained within a membrane (rather than floating freely in the primoridal soup). Membranes arise frequently and normally and the rate of the necessary reactions for life increases significantly. Life could well be a necessary outcome of such a scenario.

Where those elements came from in the first place is yet another question. I don't understand those models well enough to summarize them here.

In short, we don't know. Yet.

Answer 3

you're talking about the beginning of life, right?

Truly, this is something of heated debate. Science has no definite answer as of now. There are a couple of interesting models: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

but nothing definite. It has a lot to do with the fact that all this happened a stupendous amount of time ago (around 3.7 BILLION years) and that this early life like all life is subject to decay. Additionally, where later life had shells, or bones, the first lifeforms would have been exceedingly simple.

The thing is, if you place your god there, a god in the 'gaps' of science as it were, then you are going to have a bad day if science closes any one of these gaps.

Answer 4

Yeah, well that is a common argument that can not be answered. "What is the first cause"? This is the classic bottom line. Evolutionist will say the big bang was first cause. Creationist would say God.
This would place evolutionist in a loop. Why?- because then we must ask where the stuff for the big bang come from?-back to zero.
The creationist on the other hand has the terminal answer-God. If you believe in God (and I do), then the problem is solved-God said in the Bible that He always existed-that the final answer. No further explanation is needed. That is, unless, you do not believe-then you are back to zero like the evolutionist.

Answer 5

Once the universe spread out about a billion years after the big bang and temperatures were right, the first galaxies and stars formed. Eventually Earth formed, and then because the temperatures kept changing , eventually life was able to grow from the matter that had always existed in a changed form.

Answer 6

Evolution is the process by which living organisms more adapted to survival survived -- that's it. It describes the process after the simplest life had already arrived, not how it arrived.

We do have a pretty good idea of how it arrived, though -- carbon, on which we're based, is a wonderful atom that just loves to bond with other atoms and form large, complex molecules. Out of all the possible combinations carbon can form, one of them was able to replicate itself (presently a simple form of RNA is the best candidate) -- that's all it took, the ability to self-replicate, and you get life. Evolution took over from there.

Peace.

Answer 7

How do you know that there aren't "life molecules" in dark matter?
We are all made up of star dust. Everything, when brought down to the bare minimum, is made up of the same stuff which was there from the beginning. None new created nor destroyed.
How do you know that life is not VERY common throughout not only OUR enormous galaxy, but the entire universe?
That there are BILLIONS of other planets inhabited with life? millions of years ago and millions of years into the future?
There are many mysteries to the universe which may never and could never be explained,

But how plausible is it to you that a giant universe king came and plopped special soul animals down on a micropartical of a planet just to "test" their "souls" only for most of them to end up on the punishment side of the rewards program?

pretty small and cave-manish thinking, hah?

Answer 8

Long story about 3 billion years old. A single organism came to life in the primordial soup that was the earth back then. Slowly through mutations and billions of years and here we all are.

Answer 9

scientists figured out that the environment of early earth combined with meteor colisions and other high-energy collisions and occurences produced organic matter.

amino acids and other basic molecules essential for life were born out of the complete hostility that was early Earth. given enough time to accumulate and organize, the first bit of "life" was formed

it really all comes down to chance, but when there are billions of solar systems in a galaxy, and millions of galaxies in super clusters, and millions of super clusters thru-out the universe, there's bound to be life somewhere.

Answer 10

Most probably by abiogenesis. Once a molecule capable of catalyzing a reaction that yielded similar molecules, life became inevitable.