Can life come from non-life?

Answer 1

Well, given either the standard Creation myth, or the theory of abiogenesis, yes. And it happened, at least once.

Answer 2

Of course. Early earth conditions created a sort of cosmic soup filled with the organic molecules needed for life. Eventually very simple self-replicators arose from these materials.

One doesn't have to believe in men floating around the sky in order to understand that life can arise by natural, non-intelligent processes.

Many people will spout baloney about a personal god and then jump on the bandwagon of a religious book, as if ignorance were for an excuse for doctrine. But this doesn't tell us anything about the world. I know they'll vote this down, but who cares? Popularity doesn't have a monopoly on truth.

Answer 3

Research in abiogenesis has proved that rather conclusively, which is why we now have astrobiologists searching for life on other planets.

Basically, under rather broad conditions organic chemicals can bond to create molecular chains called nucleotides, which with the right sequence of nucleobases can produce replicates. Once you have a self-replicating chemistry which can also catalyze chemical reactions, the eventual evolution of biological life is mathematically inevitable.

Answer 4

In one sense, life, if viewed from a purely material perspective, is composed of entirely non-living entities at its base level: atoms. Atoms, in turn, are composed of particles, and those particles are composed of??? If the current model of physics is correct, then atoms are composed almost entirely of empty space and are in no sense alive.

What gives rise to life, viewed again from a purely material perspective, is information which has been encoded in DNA and serves as the blue print for the organism. Information can not be said to be alive; however, in every other facet of investigative endeavor, information is prima facia evidence of the existence of a living, intelligent being as its originator. When examining the origin of life, however, "science" seems to logically disconect and opts for the absurd notion of self originating, self organizing information in the absence of an intelligent originator.

On a lighter note, life seems to come from non-life every day at quitting time. ;)

Answer 5

They're the same thing - they only differ in degree (of complexity), not in kind. Somehow, somewhere, complex organic molecules must have happened to come together and made a self-replicating unit, and that's what kick-started evolution and (ultimately) all the vast variety of life that has existed on Earth. That event (abiogenesis) may have been very improbable but this is a vast universe and there is plenty of room and time for very improbable events to occur.

Answer 6

Sure. We know most of the chemistry already. We will put it together at some point.

FYI: viruses are arguably both alive and not alive. So there is stuff in the middle

Answer 7

No.
Thjat is part of why God created things (non-life) and other life; i.e. he is the original life source.

Answer 8

Science has never been able to make life. Life only comes from life. God is life.

Answer 9

Sure! Adam came from dirt.

Answer 10

Depends on whether I actually hear the alarm or not...

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