no one can say 'who' was the first life on the earth... unless you give single celled organisms or basic proteins personalities and names... and there probably is but it depends what you mean by 'like' because if there is life on other planets (and there probably is) it's probably not like us.
It all comes down to maths- if we say the chances of life existing are.... 1 in 10 billion (just a made up number) well there are hundreds of billions of planets in the universe so life becomes almost a certainty- therefore the chances are also good there are two planets with life on and so on depending entirely on what the chances of life existing are to the number of planets in the universe.
2007-09-05 08:37:53
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answered by Anonymous
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It would be very difficult to draw the line in the developing chemical processes and say "this is the first living thing".
The first things to reproduce most likely were simple replicating polymers, but we have enzymes that duplicate themselves today and we do not consider them to be living. However, reproduction is the point at which evolution starts, so one could say that evolution predates life.
Developing life probably went though a long evolutionary stage of ever more complex chemical cycles in the open ocean with no discrete living cells. Deciding which stage in the development is efficient and complex enough to be called living would probably be completely arbitrary.
Even if you choose a milestone, such as an indpendent and fully functional cell, you would still have a hard time drawing the line. Is a collection of insulating proteins that aggregate around the group of chemical that produce it considered a cell wall? Or does it have to be a contiguous membrane?
The living cell is a product of millions of years of sub-cellular development. It did not assemble by random chance.
2007-09-05 15:42:22
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answered by Anonymous
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The first life on earth probably ocured under the ocean, when amino acids were changed due to an interaction with energy. Scientists have been able to produce amino acids in a lab environment using common elements and electricity, all of which were available when the earth was still young.
There is a very great likelyhood that the same events have taken place on other planets or moons due to the incredible amount of stars and planets in the Universe.
2007-09-05 15:35:37
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answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7
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Wel there might be but not any that have been discovered of everyone would know. Some people say they might be life on Mars because they spotted some river lines or some sh-it i'm not sure but who knows and i didn't get the first part of the question, atheists are people that don't believe in god, but i'm not sure if the first ever human beings were aethiests because human beings back then didn't know who made them and stuff so they would just worship anything, and that's how different religions were formed and it was passed on, having said that i'm not contradicting other religions..
2007-09-05 15:39:08
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answered by yasmin_2hot 1
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I believe the most accepted theory is blue-green algae was among the first life on earth, but even that is in question lately with the recent discovery of extremeophiles at the bottom of the ocean.
I absolutely believe that life exists out there somewhere. I doubt they look much like us, but I would imagine that some basic forms of life would be similar.
If we do find life on another planet, don't tell teh Christians, they'll ship a bunch of bibles out there.
2007-09-05 15:36:58
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answered by Anonymous
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If I was to investigate it, I would say no. Because God is still in the first week of making this one and all hell has broke lose.
The angels were good guys just watching the theatrical spectical of the earth. 1Cor. 4:9
Genesis 6: when they saw the daughters of men that they were good looking and wanted to come down and have sex with them. Satan was a covering Cherub a high position in heaven. But then he saw these women and he is a spirit person with out sex. So he makes this human body a man.
Jude 6 says they forsook their original positions in heaven and came down to the earth and committed fornication excessively. taking all the wives they wanted. I mean they could look however they wanted. After doing this they were rejected by God and this war broke out in heaven where they were cast out and down to the earth. Revelation 12:7
To await there destruction by God. Or abyssing anyway.
Rev. 20
So if he had made a planet before this one and there was women and men and plants and animals. Wouldn't this have come up before now?
also something said in JOb 38:7 When all the morning stars or angels cried out together and all the sons of God began shouting in applause. When he made the earth.
If he had done it before why would it have been such a big deal? God lost a third of his spirit sons over this earth.
Which I have come to believe it is not an exact third to many places in the bible it just means a sufficiant number.
2007-09-05 15:47:57
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answered by Anonymous
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Cells were first, and yes it's possible that there's life somewhere else. Why would life on another planet be human? It's a different planet, and different factors would cause a different path of evolution. It's probably not little green men either.
2007-09-05 15:37:32
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answered by mathaowny 6
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Nobody knows. Some think that life began by a series of chemical reactions. Who knows if there is life on other planets. Odds say yes since there are infinitely many planets.
2007-09-05 15:36:09
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answered by wayner122 3
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the first life was probably virus like, complexer amino acids that interacted, and later formed cells. after microorganisms, plants came first, then animals then humans.
i do think theres a high probability that theres life on other planets. i doubt its going to be very similar to life here. definately not humanoid. and i definately dont believe theyre visiting the earth.
2007-09-05 15:37:23
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answered by mrzwink 7
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Life developed over billions of years. There have been stars and systems in existence since before ours coalesced into a system. The chances of the same elements coming together similarly are millions or billions to one but then there are trillions of possibilities out there. Yes life exists in other parts of our universe. We are only too arrogant to accept it.
2007-09-05 15:41:30
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answered by bocasbeachbum 6
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