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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
we will never come close to understanding it until we no longer follow time.. 
we all know everything has a start and a finish and there cant be something from nothing,
but we also know we exist therefore we must be wrong about the first 3 things we know .. = loop |
That's not exactly true - it's our own perception of existance which makes comprehending it difficult. Understanding it however is simpler.
Life was created through the biological soup, where biochemical reactions were happening a thousand to the dozen. A biochemical reaction being a chemical reaction involving biological molecules, those that make up our cells - in their simplest form, acids and bases and water. In that soup came sugar and amino acids. From the sugar (ribose) came nucleic acid (ribonucleic acid) and then DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
That's all you need to create life.
Look at prokaryoters (bacteria, specifically the ancient archaebacteria) - they will never die. Neither will the eukaryotic cells, (eg yeast). They will only ever die if starved of nutrition.
As evolution progresses, multicellular organisms are made and with that comes the life-problem of supplying those cells with nutrients, hence a vascular system. ie we need a heart. The heart is a self-perpetuating pump. The first initial shock to make it beat will sustain it for ever. Well, not quite.
Multicellular organisms face one major problem - all cells must live in harmony. DNA mutation occurs thousands of times a day in our body, yet our cells have the machines to repair that. Evolution occurs from the cell missing that mutation. In our body, comprised of millions of cells, a single cell mutation is not evolution, it is a cancer. In a single-celled organism, it is evolution.
For life - beginning and end, take a car. A car works because of a simple spark. (ignoring corrosion) that spark will always exist so long as energy is supplied. Yet so long as energy is supplied, the car will not live forever, because its existance is the sum of thousands of little things, and if one of those things decides to change to do something else, the entity will fail.
Fucking hell, this is prolly my longest post ever. Thanks for reading if you ever got this far!!
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didn't actually turn out to be that long, but my mind was racing, so it seemed so :lol: