• Question: How are we here?

    Asked by to Aimee, Chris, Dave, Greig, Laurence on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Aimee Hopper

      Aimee Hopper answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      that’s a very deep question, and one philosophers have been debating for many many years.

      It depends on your stand point – I believe that we were created out of the primordial soup that came to be all the way back in the early days of the solar system. The creatures from this soup then evolved, and eventually became what we are today 🙂

      If you have 10 minutes, watch this by Carl Sagan
      :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl89HIJ6HDo

    • Photo: Dave Jones

      Dave Jones answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Great answer, Aimee! Carl Sagan is definitely one of my science heroes!

      What happened in the very beginning, we don’t really know. Where the first spark of life came from is still a total mystery, but what happened afterwards? Well (just like the Pearl Jam song) “It’s evolution, baby!”

    • Photo: Greig Cowan

      Greig Cowan answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      This is a good question. We basically all started from some basic amino acids and proteins that, by chance, managed to combine together to make more complex molecules that could reproduce each other. That led the way to single-cell organisms that eventually got together into multi-cell organisms. It all took many millions of years of evolution.

    • Photo: Laurence Perreault Levasseur

      Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      I LOVE the video Aimee! It really says it all! From stardust to evolution 🙂

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