2012-03-28, 11:46 PM
Link Wrote:Sure, the likely hood of life being sprung is incredibly low, but look how many galaxies there are out there.
I don't think life just suddenly "sprang" up. I believe the prevalent theory goes that life came about as a result of basic lipid bilayers encasing molecules that were fundamental to living. Eventually, due to random chance, the right combination of molecules within a lipid bilayer allowed the primitive "cell" to perform the basic functions of life: growing and reproducing. Molecules necessary for that would probably include things that store large amounts of energy such as ATP, information-storing molecules such as RNA, and proteins that would duplicate the information-storing molecules.

