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I hear primordal soup was where life started. What is this mix and can it be duplicated in the lab and will life start again? Is this testable or pure speculation?

2007-07-04 11:18:56 · 5 answers · asked by james h 2 in Science & Mathematics Chemistry

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There seems to be much confusion over the Miller-Urey experiment, even today. Life was NOT created. What was synthesized was a few of the compounds that are necessary for life as we know it to exist. This fact is experimentally testable and often repeated.

Chemical compounds usually associated with lifeforms are not alive.

No human has ever created or re-created any life form from non-living reactants. This also is testable and often repeated. Humans are very good at killing life in the lab, but so far, nobody has ever created it (not including having children).

The concept that because organic compounds can be synthesized, then this must have been the origin of life is pure speculation. Also realize that the exact composition of the original primordial soup is also guess work. No human has ever gathered a sample and analyzed it.

2007-07-08 10:08:48 · answer #1 · answered by Richard 7 · 6 0

If the primordial evolutionary event of abiogenesis was indeed true, it had continue if it was to be successful. Here is a first-time scenario for your studied consideration :
When the conditions were just right- enough for a beginning, some carbon, some nitrogen, some oxygen and some hydrogen elements individually decided to either divorce themselves from their existing inorganic chemically bonded relationships which they felt to be too confining or else to relinquish their unattached free ionic states because they were unfulfilling. This was intended both independently and coincidently in order to mutually form themselves into an as yet unheard-of collective, autonomous entity. So they convoked and did succeed in creating a confederation both philosophically and physiologically to become the very first living cell of protoplasm. Then by mutual consensus, following the ever- popular one- gene-one- vote principle, this unique primordial cell decided to address itself as "John". However, the conditions were just not right enough for it to continue because there was no other protoplasm around for it to ingest nor with which to propogate because there was no "Marsha" for it to to, er, ah - , well, you know, spawn. Alas, poor John soon died hungry and horny.

By the way, life has never been produced in a laboratory other than by the goot Doctor Fronkensteen. The renoun Miller-Urey experiment only produced a couple of amino acids. Mr. & Mrs. Amino then raised a family and currently operate a vitamin store in Kansas where they sell amino acid food supplements.

2007-07-04 15:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by Bomba 7 · 1 0

Google
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Current thought is that the oceans were slimed with primordial chemistry but life itself kickstarted near deep sea black smokers rich with sulfur, exotic minerals, and clays - and protected from raw solar UV penetrating the oxygen-free atmosphere.

2007-07-04 11:23:20 · answer #3 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 0 2

from Miller-Urey experiment life was createed from carbon, nitrogen and water with sugars forming the first proteins on earth.
for more information visit Miller-Urey experiment at www.wikipedia.org

also those molecules came from space in very complex forms as speed tends to never destroy amino acids but rather transform them into big complex forms.

2007-07-04 11:24:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

The element of God.

2007-07-04 13:42:28 · answer #5 · answered by hev_72388 3 · 1 2

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