Yes ok, I get what DNA is, how cells work together to make us and all, but how did that actually pop up, from literally metal and rocks and dirt?? Like how does a germ fucking exist and WIGGLE and MOVE, and how did the universe “KNOW” to make it exist, as stupid as that sounds???
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Okay! So, imagine you have a big soup made of tiny, invisible stuff like metal, rocks, and dirt, but also some other special ingredients like water and gases. A long, long time ago, the Earth was like a huge kitchen where this soup was being cooked.
Now, when you stir a soup, sometimes random things bump into each other and mix, right? Well, in this Earth soup, tiny bits of stuff started bumping into each other a *lot*—and after a really, really long time, some of these tiny bits happened to come together in a way that made them start *doing things*, like wiggling or copying themselves. That’s basically how germs, and eventually living things, started.
The universe didn’t really “know” how to make life; it was more like throwing a lot of ingredients together and just hoping something cool would happen. Over time, some of these little wiggly things, which we now call “cells,” got better at surviving and making more of themselves. That’s how life got started—just from tiny things bumping around in the big soup, finding ways to stay alive!
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