• Question: How did life begin?

    Asked by anon-224982 to Simon, Selen, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Simon Brown

      Simon Brown answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      Ah, a philosophy question. That greatly depends on who you ask.

      Did it just ‘appear’ as a single cell and then two cells, then four etc? The darwin theory of Evolution?

      Did protein building blocks fall to a sterile Earth in a asteroid (and where did they come from) or

      Is there a supreme-being who created it all?

      I’ll leave that one up to you

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      I’m afraid you’ve asked an agnostic so my first response is “I’m not really sure” but almost certainly has a scientific answer rather than a religious one. I’m with Simon on this one!

    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      Let me direct you to some really fun science: an experiment in which a group of scientists made simple amino acids, the building blocks of life, using what they thought were the conditions of ancient Earth. They showed this could be done.. but it is a huge stretch between simple building block and moving, thinking organisms..
      Simple answer, I don’t know

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