Can anyone here explain how life got started in a watery primordial soup?

Question

And please don't point to a website, just explain it in simple language.

Souper Nachoral.........I never used the word evolution, and I do know what abiogenesis is, so I don't have to write it down to remember it.

Looks like most of the answers here are professing a faith. Faith is a belief in something which can't be observered or proven. Since abiogenesis has never been observed, and it can't be proven, than abiogenesis isn't science, but faith. Now there is nothing wrong with having a faith, I have one. But please, don't call you faith science., while making fun of my faith.

John Q.......what you're talking about is the Miller experiment where he took ammonia, nitrogen and some other elements, zapped it, and obtained some amino acids. What he left out of his mixture was oxygen, because he knew the oxygen would have oxidized those acids, and life wouldn't have been able to start. Also, without oxygen, there would have been no ozone, so any early life forms would have been killed by radiation. Also, Miller created both left and right handed amino acids. All life has only 100% left-handed amino acids. One right-handed amino acid would destroy life. Scientist have no idea how you get all left-handed amino acids out of a soup containing both.

Answer 1

Try asking in Biology if you really want to know. Otherwise quit wasting your time and our time.

By the way, your question is about abiogenesis, not evolution. You might want to write that down so you can remember it.

Answer 2

They're working on it -but no definitive answer YET. So far, researchers have been able to duplicate the early earth environment in a jar, zap it with electricity and radiation, and get new compounds which are closer to what's in "life," but not, themselves, living. Like radio waves, airplanes and atomic energy, probably just a matter of time. It took mother earth millions or billions of years to do it -so success in the lab is probably a bit "out there" as well.

What's fascinating about this is that the stuff in the environment of early times on earth was very much like the stuff that's known to be "in" living cells today, at a molecular level. Today, the earth's environment is vastly different, largely due to a "settling" of the solar system and geological processes on earth, but also in no small part due to environmental changes brought about by life ITSELF.

And so, what was originally "out there" in a very violent and corrosive environment is now "in" us, and life -that marvelous chemistry that reproduces itself- is "out there." A flip-flop, as it were. Whether or not this is the direct action of the "Almighty" is neither (in my mind) affirmed nor invalidated by any of this -it is simply that the playing field has been somewhat narrowed down. The BIG questions are still the BIG questions. But, the above-described "flip-flop" has, to me, a certain symmetry and balance to it that would make sense in terms of the work of a most able master architect and I personally take it as evidence that it is not a coincidence.

Answer 3

It was a habitat fit for bacterial breeding ground.

One way that it could've possibly happened is through a meteor. They have found bacteria in outer space that is "in a state of hibernation", almost to the point where it's not living. When it comes in contact with an environment that can sustain life, it then comes alive, or wakes up. These bacteria could have just used the meteor as transportation.

Answer 4

Really, really simple language:

The right chemistry was sitting in the primordial soup. Lightning changed the chemistry of the primordial soup a little. The chemistry changed a little more over billions of years due to things going on in the environment.

It's hard to fathom changes ocurring over billions of years, which is one of the reasons about half of all Americans are skeptical that human beings evolved just like all other species.

Answer 5

"We do not know or claim to know all the answers yet all we have are theories. When we get it you can be sure we will let you know. Not that most will believe it even when confronted with proof. "

And here in another questions someone said evolution was fact, not theory. I wish you guys would make up your mind. :(

Oh yeah, show me proof and I'll accept it.

Answer 6

Evolution.

Answer 7

Why would you want a huge, vast problem explained in a paragraph? This isnt' one of those "Goddidit" answers, it's not an easy question. Pointing you to a website is the best resource, because it lets you do your own research at your own pace.

Answer 8

The field is called abiogenesis.There are several theories about.We don't know for sure.Because we do not yet have an answer is no reason to say "GODDIDIT!!!!"Remember that money you lost?You never found it?Did you?Does that mean "GODTOOKIT!!!!"?Of course not,it means you don't know what happened to it,but there is surely a SANE explanation.THINK!!!!!

Answer 9

We do not know or claim to know all the answers yet all we have are theories. When we get it you can be sure we will let you know. Not that most will believe it even when confronted with proof.

Answer 10

same way life has evolved on mars, atoms splitting and reproducing then evolving to adapt their surroundings.