The most important event in the history of life

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Heard this old Radiolab while I was driving to the store today. It's a fascinating story about how, after life appeared, it was basically the same for 2 billion years. Tiny, boring, simple. And then something happened. Two cells somehow came together, one inside the other, and while this would normally result in death for one or both, in this case, it worked, and this partnership - this single cell - was the ultimate Genghis Khan, the progenitor of all complex life on Earth today.

Cellmates

There’s a black hole in the middle of the history of life: how did we go from tiny bags of chemicals to the vast menagerie of creatures we see around us?

radiolab.org

 

[CO. Hoosier]

Heard this old Radiolab while I was driving to the store today. It's a fascinating story about how, after life appeared, it was basically the same for 2 billion years. Tiny, boring, simple. And then something happened. Two cells somehow came together, one inside the other, and while this would normally result in death for one or both, in this case, it worked, and this partnership - this single cell - was the ultimate Genghis Khan, the progenitor of all complex life on Earth today.

Cellmates

There’s a black hole in the middle of the history of life: how did we go from tiny bags of chemicals to the vast menagerie of creatures we see around us?

radiolab.org

Do they know where this happened? Not physically but under what environmental conditions? I’ve read that the spark of life happened in a very inhospitable place in a volcano deep on the ocean floor.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Do they know where this happened? Not physically but under what environmental conditions? I’ve read that the spark of life happened in a very inhospitable place in a volcano deep on the ocean floor.

I don't think so. At the time, all life lived in the ocean, so it's a given it happened in the ocean, but I doubt we know much more than that.

 

[vesuvius13]

They don't know where it happened but the closest, they came up with was a mixture of chemicals being zapped by electricity like lightning. They found after a length of time that amino acids were formed but couldn't advance it more than that.

The simple story that goat heard can't create life, so it needs to be forgotten as more is needed to go from no life to creating life. This is why many scientists accept God or intelligent design.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

They don't know where it happened but the closest, they came up with was a mixture of chemicals being zapped by electricity like lightning. They found after a length of time that amino acids were formed but couldn't advance it more than that.

The simple story that goat heard can't create life, so it needs to be forgotten as more is needed to go from no life to creating life. This is why many scientists accept God or intelligent design.

My post wasn't about the origin of life. It was about something that happened 2 billion years later.

 

[MyTeamIsOnTheFloor]

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.

Then Man ruined everything.