How do you get the first cell? What’s the information-transfer molecule in early life? Does metabolism come before or after the genetic element? How do you get rolling with this life business? according to me the integrated answer to all these questions may be the final answer for the asked question.
It seems that only reliably predictable thing about scientific enquiries is that there are rarely, if ever, final answers!
Origins of life on Earth, how come? Probably all our and future scientific answers are encoding in just two pages written in simpler human language: The Genesis (Bible), the most complex scientific document in the Earth?
To begin with: “Big-Bang Question” Who was at the beginning of the universe and life on Earth and how this magnificent infinite information conveyed to us. Impossible to know it.
However, recent breakthroughs in the fields of physics, technology and biology would serve to compare the non-scientific information in the Genesis versus XXI C (Century) scientific information:
Genesis [1:1] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
XXI C: For the first time, we may be seeing what happened in the first billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second of the universe (Prof. Meg Urry, President American Society of Astronomy, March 17, 2014).
Genesis [1:2] the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
XXI C: Astronomers have discovered a gigantic, 12-billion-year-old cloud harboring 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth's oceans combined. The discovery shows that water has been prevalent in the universe for nearly its entire existence (Prof. Alberto Bolatto, Department Astronomy University of Maryland, June 22, 2011).
Genesis [1:3] Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
XXI C: (NASA) The Universe was a very dark place. About 400,000 years after the Big Bang, free electrons were now bound to protons, light could travel freely frequent scattering off the free electrons. The Universe went from being opaque to be illuminated. Figure from dark to light Universe in http://jwst.nasa.gov/firstlight.html
Genesis [1:11] Then God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it."
XXI C: Dead city Pripyat near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster, 1986 (High Level of Radiation, 2014). Plants were the only major evidence of life surviving and, growing as high 7-8 floor buildings. See Video
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoY896nMJh4 Video.
Hope all of you enjoy to live in the Earth, the only Planet named in the Genesis,
Antonio
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