Life From Lifelessness

Let us investigate this natural phenomena and how it could possibly have happened. This short essay also represents some of the data from a debate I had against a catholic priest of some sort. We debated the question: “Was Life Created, Or Did It Evolve?” He lost. Big time. I swung the audience ON hostile territory from 78% Created, to a final vote of 57% Evolved. At least that audience was educated enough that my argument seemed the most plausible. What may you think?

How can LIFE come from that which is literally “lifeless”?

First, we shall need to define what is meant by LIFE, living organisms. What exactly is LIFE? Religitards will tell you it is the soul their God-Thing puts into the blastocyst as soon as egg and sperm come together. Really? Guess what you stupid Religitards? You just also admitted that ALL eukaryotic life is given a soul by your God-Thing. That means upon death, everything goes to that 7734 y’awl call heaven. Well, I just proved those Religitards are retarded. Why would their powerless God-Thing put a soul only in humans. You Religitards are always saying how it takes a soul for us to be alive. Thus, ALL life would require this magic soul-thing. Enough, let me define how I define LIFE.

MY Requirements for Life

After much research, a lifetime, I have concluded these:

Going by the above, human babies do not qualify as life. Think real hard about this one. Babies are not self-sustaining without help. But, I ignore this fact because not all life is born like its mother fully grown, fully capable, fully functional, with full genetic memories. Prokaryotes do that. They split in two, but do not grow in size. Thus, as with all Principles held by science, just as with Laws of Civilization and Society, there are exceptions to the “rules”. Think.

And T…H…I…N…K… on this. There is only ONE purpose for Laws. So they CAN be broken. Rules and Guidelines can be bent. But, Laws are ONLY created for only one purpose: to be broken.

Virtually all eukaryotic life goes through growth stages: infant, juvenile, and adult. Well... I should say I define three growth stages. Then adult could be subdivided into young, mature, old. In a list:

Plants are the exception. As long as a plant lives, it also grows in size, until killed. All other life does NOT continue growing in size once an adult.

What are the most common elements in ALL of existence?

Ten most common elements in the Milky Way Galaxy
Z Element Mass fraction (ppm)
1 Hydrogen 739,000
2 Helium 240,000
8 Oxygen 10,400
6 Carbon 4600
10 Neon 1340
26 Iron 1090
7 Nitrogen 960
14 Silicon 650
12 Magnesium 580
16 Sulfur 440

Z = shorthand for “Atomic Number”. Also number of protons.

Additionally, excepting Helium, all others are required for life.

Most abundant elements in Earth’s (continental) crust
Z Element Symbol Abundance (ppm)
8 oxygen O 461,000 (46.1%)
14 silicon Si 282,000 (28.2%)
13 aluminium Al 82,300 (8.23%)
26 iron Fe 56,300 (5.63%)
20 calcium Ca 41,500 (4.15%)
11 sodium Na 23,600 (2.36%)
12 magnesium Mg 23,300 (2.33%)
19 potassium K 20,900 (2.09%)
22 titanium Ti 5,650 (0.565%)
1 hydrogen H 1,400 (0.14%)
15 phosphorus P 1,050 (0.105%)
25 manganese Mn 950 (0.095%)
9 fluorine F 585 (0.0585%)
56 barium Ba 425 (0.0425%)
38 strontium Sr 370 (0.037%)
16 sulfur S 350 (0.035%)
6 carbon C 200 (0.02%)

Z = shorthand for “Atomic Number”. Also number of protons. Funny how oxygen is the most common lithographic element. Silicon dioxide is quartz. That is where most of the oxygen comes from. A gas, but dissolved in solids.

The two most common elements in the Earth’s crust, oxygen and silicon, are the sand you walk on in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

Top Elements in the Human Body
Element % mass % atoms
Oxygen 65.0 24.0
Carbon 18.5 12.0
Hydrogen 9.5 62.0
Nitrogen 2.6 1.1
Calcium 1.3 0.22
Phosphorus 0.6 0.22
Sulfur 0.3 0.038
Potassium 0.2 0.03
Sodium 0.2 0.037
Chlorine 0.2 0.024
Magnesium 0.1 0.015
What the 7734 do we use sulfur for?

From this Great Wiki page.

What is the most common “COMPOUND” in the Universe?

Remember, a compound is made from two or more elements.

The most common compound is: Water. Dihydrogen monoxide. H2O. Hmm... T…H…I…N…K…

The most common compound in the universe is water. And we have known this since the 1950s. A compound required by all KNOWN Life. T…H…I…N…K… This suggests that if conditions are correct, life just may be inevitable.

OK. Now that those lists are over, who would agree that ALL the above listed are “lifeless”. However, LIFE on Earth processes almost every last element listed above.

What are the most common gaseous compounds emitted by volcanos, magma lakes? Lava flows? Not including the rock material.

Most Common gases emitted by Volcanos

THINK Critically about this. It is the volcanism of Earth in the Hadean Period that created Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere. It is also the source of almost all water on the planet. Water is dissolved in magma in the form of hydroxyls within the magma. As the magma rises, pressure lessens, then allows all those gases dissolved within to escape.

Earth Fart. Earth Belch. Loads of gases.

  1. water vapor (H2O; ≅ 60-70%)
  2. carbon dioxide (CO2; ≅ 20-30%)
    • Water vapor and carbon dioxide combine to be 80-95% of gases emitted by volcano, magma, lava.
  3. sulfur either as
    • sulfur dioxide (SO2), or
    • hydrogen sulfide (H2S)
  4. diatomic nitrogen (N2)
  5. argon (Ar)
  6. helium (He)
  7. neon (Ne)
  8. methane (CH4)
  9. carbon monoxide (CO)
  10. hydrogen as
    • hydrogen chloride (HCl),
    • hydrogen fluoride (HF),
    • hydrogen bromide (HBr), and
    • hydrogen cyanide (HCN)
  11. sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)
  12. carbonyl sulfides (OCSs; precusor to hydrocarbons)
  13. ⇒ organic compounds ⇐

Of all the lists I found, I did avg(), mean(), and r2mn() on all the lists to get the above list. Water vapor and carbon dioxide account for 80-95% of the gases emitted by volcanos. And the 13th compound is “organic! compounds!!”. Is it any wonder that life formed from the lifeless?

BTW: Organic Compounds was 12, 13, 13, etc. on the lists I found. IT was 12 or 13, but mostly 13 on all lists.

Basically, the Earth farted like 7734 in the Hadean Period into the Archaean Period, and after 4½ billion years came us humans. :-P

AND, notice #5, #6, #7. WT7734? Completely INERT chemical elements. Huuh?

If you remove water vapor from the above list, you are left with compounds that readily and easily combine with water vapor. As all those gases mix in the tumultuous atmosphere, perhaps also with GVAmps of static electrical potential energy, guess what happens? You end up with a plethora of acids dissolved into the water vapor: carbonic acid, nitric acid, cyanic acid, sulfuric acid, bromic acid, fluoric acid, chloric acid. However, carbonic acid would account for nearly 98% of all the acids. That is the way it goes with acids: weakest will be common while the stronger acids are more rare. Table below matches the gas with acid(s) created.

Gas Acid
carbon dioxide carbonic acid
sulfur dioxide sulfuric acid
hydrogen sulfide sulfuric acid
nitrogen nitric acid
methane carbonic and
cyanic acids
carbon monoxide carbonic acid
hydrogen chloride hydrochloric acid
hydrogen fluoride hydrofluoric acid
hydrogen bromide hydrobromic acid
hydrogen cyanide isocyanic acid
sulfur hexafluoride sulfuric and
hydrofluoric acids
carbonyl sulfides carbonic and
sulfuric acids
organic compounds precursers to RNA,
DNA, cells, bodies

Basically, the “acid rain” of today is NOTHING compared to the acid rain 3.9Ga ago. Give or take. And when that acid rain hit the surface, guess what happens? It SHALL dissolve other minerals and metals into the already highly acidic water. Carbonated water. Sound familiar? Read the label of your next Pepsi. Preferably, Cherry.

Eventually, what happens if enough acidic water falls on a molten ball? Lots of water returned to the atmosphere as steam (water vapor), making the acidic water that basins on the surface even more acidic. T…H…I…N…K…

The Basins

Simply put with least verbosity, a basin is where water pools.

I cannot put IT any simpler. But, Think...

As the acid water flows across the surface, it will dissolve minerals and metals. 7734, water alone dissolves many minerals and metals and suspends them in situ. These minerals and metals include: Li, Be, B, C, Na, Mg, Al, P, K, Ca, Fe, Ni, Cu, amongst many more. And that is just the elements and not including the compounds. Throw all that together in a warmed pot of water. IOW, the primordial soup in a warmed basin.

Again, eventually, all those acids, minerals, metals, elementary and compound, in that “primordial soup” can begin freely mixing in a basin of water. As the way I put it, the elements and molecules can begin complexification. Nice word I made when 12y old. Then 3 years later in the debate this treatise evolved. Molecules becoming more complex. But what do they need most to complexify? ENERGY. Heat. What all is in that soup? It is all listed above… Elements necessary for life today. Perhaps not all were used for the actual Inception of Life.

Now imagine the compounds that are also in that water, primordial soup. As the water steams off and heat cooks all that soup, molecules will complexify. We have seen it in experiments. Of course, with just Heat, the molecules complexify at a very slow rate. The Miller-Urey experiment used a primordial atmosphere of methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), and hydrogen (H2), in ratio of 2:2:1, respectively. They did use water heated in the experiment and did get some small organic molecules. Their experiment used electricity as the primary constituent of “input energy” that may have led to the formation of Life. But it does not.

Thus, how long did it take for molecules to complexify to a point of self-replication? If that can be answered, then you shall also alnswer the question: When did water basin in earnest on the primordial Earth?

I recently bought a person’s Library of about five walls of books, and many boxes of notebooks. Many of those hand-written notebooks dating back to 1949. This person was known as Arakish. In a notebook dated 1954, just two years after the Miller experiment, he wrote:

“I think Miller-Urey were wrong in their experiment about a primordial Earth. Their major source of “input energy” was electricity. The only problem I have with electricity is that it literally burns molecules apart. Even in low VAmp current, electricity burns. Although they did produce some organic compounds, they were not compounds that create Life. Instead, if they looked at those organic compounds more intensely, I guarantee they would have found those organic compounds were the result of burning, not formation. Thus, I feel it was the HEAT radiating more slowly from Earth’s interior that literally cooked the lifeless into Life, using the most common compound in the universe: Water.”

Arakish was born in 1941. 13! years old and he was thinking of this kind of horse hoowhee? Proof some persons are BORN a scientist. Even back then, they knew water was the most common compound found out there in the universe. Where did he get his information since he was raised on a farm and ranch? Once-A-Week trips into the nearest town and the university’s library and bookstore. He actually mowed lawns for money to buy college textbooks. AS A CHILD. If I were in the bookstore and saw a child buying textbooks, I’d’ve dropped my jaw to the floor.

According to his notes, he did write a treatise and mailed it to one of the scientists in his time. What became of it? Do not know. Perhaps that is what changed the viewpoint of biologists into heat, and not electricity. Yes, Earth’s atmosphere some 3.9Ga ago was probably filled with terajoules of static electrical potential energy every cubic meter. Terajoules = trillions of VAmps. Ever see those large transformer boxes near a building with a listing of “ 25 kVA” on the side of the box? kVA is kilovoltamps. Thousands of joules of potential electrical energy. Enough to fry you into a crispy fritter. Nothing compared to lightning which can reach 5 to 10 MVAmps. The first primordial atmosphere was filled with so many gases that produce static mixing together, THEN add all those volcanic particulates mixing in, probably produced lightning that may have hit GVAmps.

In another notebook dated 1956, the Original Arakish wrote:

“I still think electricity is the wrong form of “input energy”. Electricity flows through molecules (electron shells) instead of flowing into molecules (nucleus). As the nucleus increases in energy potential, it will be shed into the electron shells. HEAT, being much less intense and sudden, being a much slower AND steadier form of input energy, would result in the complexification of molecules. Electricity tending to flow through molecules will only tend to tear molecules apart. Really think about this. Yes, there was probably Terajoules of static energy in that toxic, miasmic atmosphere. Lightning bolts today can generate upwards of 1-3 Gigajoules of energy. That is FAR! too much energy input in FAR! too short of time. The lightning bolt (Miller’s electricity) would have literally burned every last molecule in those very small basins of Primordial Soup. The Earth was much too warm to allow water to accumulate into very large basins (seas, oceans) at that time, some 3.9Ga ago. When Earth was only about 600-700Ma old.

“Thus, it is MY hypothesis that it was actually HEAT from the Earth that literally “cooked” life into existence from the lifeless. The slower, steadier; THUS, more reliable, form of input energy was Heat. Infrared Radiation. Molecules could easily complexify. Electricity, even in very low VAmp current would only produce burnt organic compounds, but never Life. Thus, they were wrong about Frankenstein.”

— Arakish

And he wrote that when he was only 15y old. Probably longer ago than many whom may read THIS treatise I am writing and editing. Longer ago before I was borned.

As those molecules mix in those small basins of Primordial Soup, they form into more complex molecules. In accordance with our current Knowledge Base, we think the first self-replicating molecule was similar to RNA. It may not have been actual RNA as we know today, but similar enough. Think about this. As the molecules complexify, more complexification will occur.

There is one FACT one must always remember about self-replication. This is nothing more than making a copy of IT, the Original. That copy makes a copy. Ad infinitum. You can see the same phenomenon using photocopies. As you keep photocopying each successent photocopy, eventually, the photocopies look crappy. Look so bad you’d rather burn them. Self-replication (cellular mitosis), produces the same phenomenon. Copies are never EXACTLY the same. Yes, the 0.0000000001% probability chance an exact copy is made exists. That is why all life ages and dies.

Cellular Mitosis is NEVER perfect. Nothing we have observed in this multicosmos, or multiverse, or whatthefuckeververse, suggests anything IS perfect. Perfection DOES NOT exist. You may as well say perfection CANNOT exist. Shall NEVER exist. Without a flaw, not even Nothing can exist. Again, want to talk about deep... Because there is still too much chaos amongst the order. Remember, amongst chaos, there is order. Amongst order, there is chaos.

If you include abiogenesis, the science of the Formation of Life, that also seems an inevitibility, given the correct conditions. After all, WATER is the most common compound throughout the universe. T…H…I…N…K…

Did you know that according to most physiologists, the human body goes through complete replication around every eight years? In other words, by the time you were 8y old, you are no longer what you were born AS. Thus, are you still truly you? Everything in your body has finally been replaced with a duplicate, or, split into replicants. It happens at about 16y, 24y, 32y, etc. How many complete replications have you been through? Me? Cannot give exact, but I will say at least 8.

OK, much eventually later, RNA becomes DNA through molecular attraction through another copy, copied a million times over, join together. Boom. DNA. DNA conglomerates/accumulates into a Nucleus. Then even some more eventually produces a cell. Prokaryotic Life. Simplest form of Life ever.

BTW: I am using eventually in the meaning of “change over time”. Also meaning, Loonngg... periods of time.

More eventually, a larger prokaryote enveloped a smaller prokaryote with the intention to eat it. Once, something went differently. Instead, the larger enslaved the smaller into being an Energy Factory for the larger. Boom. Mitochondrial Eukaryotic Life. MEL. And ain’t she so sweet?

Still more eventually, the eukaryotes invent the greatest invention ANY life could create. Bisexual Reproduction. Think about this analogy. The first bisexual eukaryote could have created an imperfect enough copy of IT self to have sex with Itself without being IT self. :-P

Without refute, the single most greatest invention of Life is “Bisexual Reproduction”. The mixing of TWO genetic sources, instead of copying one. Once that happened, Life diversified with a vengeance. Evolution, finally had a tool to explain the “Diversification of Life”. Bisexual Reproduction. THAT is what drives the Theory of Evolution Through the Process of Natural Selection. T…H…I…N…K… With us humans, it is simply two different genetic sources attracting each other to replicate. A scientifically simple True Truth. T…H…I…N…K…

As unbelievably as it may sound, with higher-order genetic technology, if a group of only men got stranded on a planet, no hope of rescue, they could literally take DNA samples and create a female. However, if the group were all females, they have no choice but to develop parthenogenesis. As said, males of the species have the inherency of also being based on the female. Thus, you could generate females from males, but not the other way around. T…H…I…N…K…

Some persons even ask, “If life goes from being simple to becoming complex, then why are simpler forms still around?”

Simple. Remember that quote attributed to Darwin, “Survival of the fittest.” ? As much as us primitive barbaric monkies would hate to admit, it is usually the simpler life forms that ARE the FITTEST to survive.

SCENARIO: If us primitive barbaric monkies were to Nuke ourselves into utter extinction, guess what would, in the least, survive to begin anew? The prokaryotes. Even with that as the scenario, even bacteria would survive to re“Genesis”ize the Earth. 7734, IF any interstellar visitors came afterwards, they would find our self-extermination event. “Good. Another barbaric species we won’t need to worry about.” Earth may even be back to what it was WITHOUT humans. A peaceful (hopefully) garden of eden. Make a nice outpost to colonize.

We now have our Other Earth. We now have Life. But when does the complexification of Life begin?

The best answer I hypothesize is when the Earth became differentiated enough to produce a powerful enough GMF (Geo-Magnetic Field). It took Earth about 3.5±0.2Ga to differentiate enough to produce its current SIC and LOC. Life did not begin diversifying until about 800Ma ago, after Earth was about 3.8Ga old. However, Life could possibly have begun Diversification as far as 1.5±0.1Ga ago. Just no fossils to find since they are gone into the geomorphological anals of Earth’s history.

What is called the Cambrian Explosion is no “explosion” at all. The “diversification of life” followed a curve similar to an exponential curve. Much like the curve of population growth. As more and more Speciation occurred, more and more Speciation shall occur. Very similar to an exponential curve. Then, us primitive barbaric monkies have been doing our best to destroy that “diversification of life”. Us humans, with our biospheric modifications, is destroying Life’s Diversity. Why cannot ALL see that?

What we call the Cambrian Explosion is simply when life was complexified enough to produce remains that could be fossilized. I guarantee there are many, many, ...many other species before this supposed explosion that probably did not have enough complexity to leave fossils. Such as Jellyfish-type life forms. T…H…I…N…K…

And truly THINK Critically about this. There are fossils we shall NEVER discover. There could be a fossil in the ocean floor sediment about to be swallowed by the subduction at Challenger Deep. There are other fossils that have been destroyed by the Earth’s continuing geologic activity. Those great basaltic provinces destroyed perhaps millions, if not billions, of fossils. There are already billions of fossils that have been utterly destroyed. Thus, we no find.

Global Basalt Provinces
MapMajorFloodBasaltProvinces-Crpd

Something funny. Did you know that it was the anus that developed first? Ever since, we are all arseholes. ;-P

The GMF will deflect/absorb much, but not all, incoming radiations. The GMF allows life to diversify due to a lessened Insolated environment. Life started in water because the atmosphere did NOT block enough Insolation, thus life squalored in the microbial state, shielded by the water for 3Ga give or take. Even the water could not filter enough Insolation for Life to complexify. Any land would have been literally scorched. Irradiated.

“After cerebrating the above and rewriting about it, I have come to the most plausible conclusion that it was The Great Earth Mother that cooked and nurtured life from the lifelessness.” What thinkest thou?

— The Unknown Atheist

Everything I thunked and wrote above about “life from lifelessness” is as true as best as my memory serves. However, do not count on it. I have TOO much data in there. Some may be outdated. As a scientist, I SHALL tell you to NOT believe my horse hoowhee. Do some True Research. And, remember this, in me ancient years, I am a combination of too damned lazy to get off me arse anymore to hunt down specific information in this Library I now have, and too damned lazy to search the WWW, which has almost become entirely pure garbage. Weren’t like that even as I remember.

 

“Science is the only religion for Humanity.”

—Sir Arthur C Clarke, Scientist and Engineer

 

“O! god. We’re in the hands of engineers.”

— Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park

— The Unknown Atheist

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