How life starts on earth

Earth evolution

 Life Approximately three and a half years ago, microscopic single-celled organisms made of complex organic molecules appeared deep in these new oceans, when the land was still a hostile place dominated by volcanoes. These organisms were the most advanced life-forms on the planet for another three billion years until suddenly (relatively speaking that is), within the period of a few million years, bacteria in the sea began processing carbon dioxide, water and sunlight to produce oxygen. This helped the single-celled microbes in the sea begin to stick to each other and create multi-cellular organisms that grew into animals.

Pre life on earth was bacteria



These animals began to reproduce, to evolve and eventually, when there was enough oxygen in the atmosphere to protect against the sun's radiation, to crawl onto land. Amphibians, insects, reptiles, mammals and birds all arrived on land, more or less in that order, over the next few hundred million years. At least that is the generally accepted version of events, but creationists ridicule this theory, arguing that it is not possible for a frog to become a human, regardless of the time frame.

Once life started it took a number of different forms, most of which we will never know as geologists recognise at least five episodes in the history of our planet when life was destroyed. suddenly and extensively, in mass extinctions. We have no idea what caused such extinctions; suggesstions have Eastefrom meteor impacts to solar flares and volcanic upheavals. all of which may have caused sudden global warming, global cooling, changing sea levels, or epidemics.

The two largest extinctions to have occurred were the Permian Mass Extinction and the K-T Extinction. The Permian Mass Extinction of 250 million years ago wiped out up to 96 percent of species existing at the time due to drastically declining oxygen levels. The K-T Extinction of 65 million years ago destroyed the dinosaurs that had already roamed our planet for close to 150 million years.

This puts the six or seven thousand years since the appearance of the first proper human civilisations into perspective. Given the length of time in which we have existed in relation to the beginning of our planet, it is not unimaginable to think that human life will also become extinct - and perhaps a lot sooner than we think - for any one of the above or other reasons.


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