| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Pooeypants,)
</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (white rice,)
If we can create a living cell from derivative organic compounds, then that would be a truly astonishing accomplishment. But the theories of spontaneous generation of life during primordial earth is very speculative.
We can assume that Macroevolution is happening by refering to geological records, genetic and anatomical comparisons with different groups but we don't really know how it is happening or how long it takes.
Maybe future generations will be more fortunate, but for now, no one really knows the answers to the essential questions to the origin of life.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Considering that life formed other millions of years and inorder to reproduce those conditions in the lab we'd need an area which is equal to surface area of the earth. I'd say the chances of recreating an actual cell is rather slim. Not impossible, as it has happened, but improbable.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Even if we could make a supercomputer that simulated with total accuracy of earths prehistoric conditions, I don't think the chances for life being made and constantly evolve in that model are high. The stuff that goes on in living things is pretty wild the further you study it. I believe there is life on other planets, but it requires significant leaps of faith or assumptions to know how it really started.
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