We know living things come from other living things. But how did the VERY FIRST living thing get here? Did it just pop out of nowhere? Can scientists make new life from scratch? If we took all the ingredients for life and put them on another planet, would life start there too after a long, long time?
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We don’t know but consider a simple example of a chemical reaction. Reactions release energy. If reactions occur they can be perpetuated when surrounded by the right ingredients.
This process can produce solid masses that simply go through a repetitive process of chemical reactions.
At some point these reactions become standard and plentiful. Eventually these simple bodies of chemical reactions begin to touch each other and due to there similar chemical components they spark the same reaction and thus produce a copy of the bodies.
These bodies had to have had road blocks such as chemicals that dissolve them. After many iterations some bodies picked up other chemical defenses that counteracted this.
So now you have a mass that can replicate and defend itself without any conscious agency whatsoever. Now the process of life has been set in motion. The rich life we see today is due to the billions and billions of repetitions that became more and more complex over an indescribable amount of time.
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