The Origin of Life

How can something inorganic create living breathing life? Did life arise spontaneously? From a steaming bowl of primordial soup? We plumb the depths of one of science's biggest questions. **Update May 20, 2014:

[areamusicale]

You deserve more than compliments .... an handshake ... or an hug.

[ravenlord]

Do you still make these videos? They are informative and entertaining. I'd like to see more.

[TomHendricksMusea]

What may be most important in this, is that life was the most stable chemical reaction to a day night sun cycle. So stable that it progressed to points where it could both keep what kept it stable *(conserve), and adjust what was not keeping it stable (change)

[rockpixels]

I like Mr. Garrison's take on how life began.

[XmarkedSpot]

"I anyone cites an idea to me, it is always completely wrong."

Aristotle

[wwickeddogg]

Where is the spark from the earlier rocketboom videos?

[fliteshare]

How complex does a self-replicating molecule need to be ?

[FMFvideos]

Dudes I spent the last 3 days thinking about this girl but I didn't remember where I saw her. I watched a movie and the actress looked a little like her and it triggered my memories and all I could remember was the eyes, the smiles and the shape of her cheeks/chin. I didn't know if this girl was an actress, or even if she was real. I thought she could be a game character or just a dream or my imagination. But now I'm here and she is here. Yes cool story, I had to share it.

[Rhino-n-Chips]

Remember, when someone cites an idea to Aristotle, it is always completely wrong.

[barttool]

The best thing I learned from this video is that Cthulhu is pronounced KATHULU 

[zzzz]

What's the background soundtrack that starts at about 1:27?

[kmagnum]

2:34 had to re-watch from this point, the music drew me in and made me unable to listen to words

[spacehabitats]

Intelligent design. "How?" "Where?" and "Who?" may be debatable, but intelligent design seems self-evident.

[webkilla]

Life originated when the flying spaghetti monster spilled some of his noodle soup onto reality... we are the stain of his noodly appendage

[ShoutSilence]

i heard the music/theme of tribal council from survivor

[AnotherExperience]

Well Keagan definitely originated from space. Such beauty is non-earthly. <3

[uxeokbt]

The single cell has a rudimentary intelligence which consists of the data stored in its nucleus along with other cellular mechanisms. It sifts through its environment and decides what to keep and what to throw away. The question of how life began may boil down to how the cell acquired these skills. How did life learn to do what it does to ensure its continued existence?

[vmp]

Viruses use information. Doesn't make them alive or does it? Anyway this was one of your best scripts so far. Seamless

[Beer_Dad]

How is it self evident? The fossil record and genetic divergence clearly demonstrate that we, and every other form of life on this planet evolved from a previous form in response to its environment. To me that does not constitute design in any way or form.

[javawocky]

Darwinists tend to pull magic out of the hat, they call it millions of years - your are intellectually honest enough to admit that you don't have all the answers instead of waving a magic wand.