The first life on earth

[rainforests1]

Even after the planets were created, you'd still have no life on any of them. In your own words, how do you think life was created?

 

[beancounter]

By a lucky roll of the dice.

In other words, all of the conditions and materials necessary for life were present at the right time and in the right quantities

 

[Blobbenstein]

life at the quantum level organising the first cells, or maybe supernatural fields organising the first reproducing cells.
I can't see something that complex, and capable of reproducing, just emerging by chance.

 

[Spang]

God clicked on the organism icon and dragged her mouse all over the world. Upon completion she saved her game, just in case.

 

[Second Summer]

The universe is teeming with (primitive) life. We just don't know it yet. Primitive bacteria arrived on Earth on meteors.

 

[yakherder]

Agnostic. The guiding principle behind my beliefs is don't know, can't know, won't guess. And science can only prove a hypothesis to be flawed. Nothing can ever really be proven true.

But if I had to guess, I'd say the first forms of life emerged from melting frost from Niflheim... Because I'm a self proclaimed follower of Norse paganism, which automatically makes it probably true.

 

[beancounter]

But if I had to guess, I'd say the first forms of life emerged from melting frost from Niflheim... Because I'm a self proclaimed follower of Norse paganism, which automatically makes it probably true.

But was that before or after the ice giants?

 

[Blobbenstein]

But if I had to guess, I'd say the first forms of life emerged from melting frost from Niflheim

I did read an article once, about how ice forming forced chemicals to concentrate in the remaining water pockets, and that that is where life might have started.

 

[rainforests1]

It amazes me to think the Tyronasaurus Rex and the ant both originated from the same animal. One of life's many mysteries.

 

[yakherder]

I like to ponder the fact that Kim Jung Un and the banana I just ate are distant cousins.

 

[Mischief]

By a lucky roll of the dice.

In other words, all of the conditions and materials necessary for life were present at the right time and in the right quantities

This.

I don't think anything was "created."

 

[FortyTwo]

God clicked on the organism icon and dragged her mouse all over the world. Upon completion she saved her game, just in case.

She had accidentally undone it all with the "autofill" function moments before, and didn't want to make the same mistake again, not after getting it back to pretty much the way it was.

 

[beancounter]

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense - Scientific American

 

[Captain Caveman]

Energy oozed through a "gap" in an adjacent universe teeming with too much life and hitched a ride on passing meteors, and went kersplat into awaiting planets.

 

[beancounter]

Energy oozed through a "gap" in an adjacent universe teeming with too much life and hitched a ride on passing meteors, and went kersplat into awaiting planets.

Meteorite Theory suggesting Asteroids as building blocks for planets may have been totally wrong

 

[Blobbenstein]

Of course you could say that there are an infinite number of possible universes, some of which the atoms would come together to form life, simply by chance, and hey presto, here we are. This could also mean that Earth is the only planet with life on it, in the whole Universe.
That random chance might be so small that it would only happen once in most universes.

It could be that....but I'll go with life itching to emerge from the atomic level, which means that the Universe is probably teeming with life.