I have a question

[Tentacruel]

2 reps to the first person who can explain the origin of life in a way that my brain can comprehend.

 

Edit: Answered.

[Legend Zero]

Once there was a BIG BANG!!!!

[Tentacruel]

Once there was a BIG BANG!!!!

 

Sorry, not enough info.

[Eury]

Sex.

[Black★Star]

[spoiler=lame mans terms]

in the begining of time and space there was a rock, and it went bang!

 

 

[spoiler=Nerd version]

In the natural sciences, abiogenesis (pronounced /eɪˌbaɪ.ɵˈdʒɛnɨsɪs/, ay-BYE-oh-JEN-ə-siss) or biopoesis is the theory of how life on Earth could have arisen from inanimate matter. It should not be confused with evolution, which is the study of how groups of already living things change over time, or with cosmogony, which covers how the universe might have arisen. Most amino acids, often called "the building blocks of life", can form via natural chemical reactions unrelated to life, as demonstrated in the Miller–Urey experiment and similar experiments, which involved simulating the conditions of the early Earth, in a scientific laboratory. In all living things, these amino acids are organized into proteins, and the construction of these proteins is mediated by nucleic acids. Which of these organic molecules first arose and how they formed the first life is the focus of abiogenesis.

 

In any theory of abiogenesis, two aspects of life have to be accounted for: replication, and metabolism. The question of which came first gave rise to different types of theories. In the beginning, metabolism-first theories (Oparin coacervate) were proposed, and only later thinking gave rise to modern, replication-first approach.

 

In modern, still somewhat limited understanding, the first living things on Earth are thought to be single cell prokaryotes (which lack a cell nucleus), perhaps evolved from protobionts (organic molecules surrounded by a membrane-like structure).[1] The oldest ancient fossil microbe-like objects are dated to be 3.5 Ga (billion years old), approximately one billion years after the formation of the Earth itself.[2][3] By 2.4 Ga, the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon, iron and sulfur shows the action of living things on inorganic minerals and sediments[4][5] and molecular biomarkers indicate photosynthesis, demonstrating that life on Earth was widespread by this time.[6][7]

 

The sequence of chemical events that led to the first nucleic acids is not known. Several hypotheses about early life have been proposed, most notably the iron-sulfur world theory (metabolism without genetics) and the RNA world hypothesis (RNA life-forms).

 

 

 

[Clair]

First, there was nothing.

 

The universe exploded.

 

And then there was life.

[Tentacruel]

Sex.

 

And the winner is.... Eurynome!