Primordial soup?

Question

Who came up with that? Where's the proof?

Answer 1

No proof.

Answer 2

oparin and haldane. there isn't any proof. but here are the facts to be explained: earth is the only known environment where life exists. earth has not always existed, it is about 4.6 billion years old. there is evidence of life on earth by about 3.5 - 4.0 billion years ago. so either life formed rather quickly (in geological terms, anyway) or it came from elsewhere. the first possibility is far easier to investigate. in environments like the early earth, many of the basic building blocks of life (nucleic acids, amino acids, sugars) are produced in various ways and not easily consumed, so it's reasonable to think that there was a non-negligible concentration of these compounds, a 'soup' if you will. now it's one thing saying there was a soup, quite another to say that's where life originated... but the nice thing about the idea is that it can be investigated scientifically. incidentally, it is not the only game in town these days. some people like hydrothermal vents or clays or iron-sulfur clusters. i suppose you think that god did it. good luck testing that idea scientifically.

Answer 3

Primordial soup? I prefer chicken noodle.

If you're referring to abiogenesis it hasn't been observed. There's no proof for or against it. To believe that which can't be proven is an act of faith.

Answer 4

Don't know whose idea it was but there is little proof in science. The idea is a conjecture, a speculation, perhaps an hypothesis. The idea is not a theory, as there is no strong evidence backing it and no predictions can be made from it.

Yet.

Answer 5

It's a visual description of a body of water containing living micro-organisms; microbes that live. The microbes are one-celled, hence "primordial," and if they're teeming in a body of water ... it could be called "soup."

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Answer 6

there is no proof of primordial soup. Even the notion is absurd. Something cannot come from nothing. Matter naturally tends towards chaos, so how could matter spontaneously create life and form and design?

Don't let anyone sell you on that primordial soup nonsense.

Answer 7

Charles Darwin mentioned it in a letter to his nephew I believe it was. Then two scientists decided to test the idea. It's currently a rejected idea which has been recently replaced by the idea of transpermia.

Answer 8

Okay, I'm sorry it was my idea... I can't cook anything else and I figured soup MUST be easy right?

Answer 9

its just an example of how creatures like plankton and other ancient creatures made water look and probably taste a bit wierd.

Answer 10

Idle eyes wide: you mean PANspermia, right?

edit: whoops. don't worry about this post at all. ^_^'