The mysterious origins of life on Earth - Luka Seamus Wright

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  • Where on Earth did life begin? Explore the hydrothermal vents in Earth’s crust as simple compounds gave way to complex life.
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    Billions of years ago, simple organic compounds assembled into more complex coalitions that could grow and reproduce. At the time, Earth had widespread volcanic activity and a hostile atmosphere that made it almost devoid of a suitable environment for living things. So where did life begin? Luka Wright searches for the cradle of life that gave rise to the billions of species that inhabit our planet.
    Lesson by Luka Seamus Wright, directed by Nick Hilditch.
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  • @cindica1106
    @cindica1106 Před 4 lety +1404

    Luca and the Lost City sounds like a novel I'd like to read.

    • @Phyto.
      @Phyto. Před 4 lety +63

      Soo an evolutionary biology textbook?

    • @friendsfurrever3221
      @friendsfurrever3221 Před 4 lety +7

      Read blood for blood series lmao you'll find LUCA

    • @Gamingguy-my4wn
      @Gamingguy-my4wn Před 4 lety +2

      Phyto Alchemist nah

    • @leekenyon8705
      @leekenyon8705 Před 3 lety +7

      The first life is still a big ? to scientist all the theories having to many weaknesses and flaws and now to work on the math of creating life from randomly throwing inorganic materials together.

    • @ioanpopa9473
      @ioanpopa9473 Před rokem

      /watch?v=W1_KEVaCyaA

  • @matheusmagno3121
    @matheusmagno3121 Před 4 lety +805

    "can we go on land yet?"
    - NO! THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER
    "oh, ok".
    - not anymore, there's a blanket!

    • @classified150
      @classified150 Před 4 lety +29

      Le whale : "ok that enough let's go back to the water"

    • @lumbermcray5097
      @lumbermcray5097 Před 4 lety +2

      Grest reference

    • @Rujenz7
      @Rujenz7 Před 4 lety +9

      perfect reference!

    • @coat68
      @coat68 Před 4 lety +31

      China’s whole again
      Then it broke again
      🎶

    • @InaanaPandey
      @InaanaPandey Před 4 lety +18

      now the animals can go on land.
      come on, animals, let's go on land!
      nope, can't walk yet.
      and there's no food yet, so i don't care.

  • @OjashGiri
    @OjashGiri Před 4 lety +2104

    Who is here procrastinating?

    • @lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385
      @lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 Před 4 lety +6

      @@randomdude9135 no1😂

    • @hycron1234
      @hycron1234 Před 4 lety +28

      story of my life.

    • @Phyto.
      @Phyto. Před 4 lety +43

      Supposed to be studying for a genetics exam..

    • @Fred213jt
      @Fred213jt Před 4 lety +13

      In my defense im having dinner before i get to my tasks lmao eating salad watching this stretching dinner to an hour

    • @carolm7946
      @carolm7946 Před 4 lety +6

      Phyto Alchemist I’m supposed to be doing my Homework

  • @poweroffriendship2.0
    @poweroffriendship2.0 Před 4 lety +1970

    _In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and widely regarded as a bad move._
    *~ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

  • @TheScienceofnature
    @TheScienceofnature Před 2 lety +83

    LUCA, a simple organism without consciousness, struggling into existence, could never know how intelligent beings created from its humble existence, would be so fascinated by it that they set out on a great journey in search of it, and wondered in owe of its impact on this great planet, and possibly on the universe. Imagine how our super intelligent descendants would look in themselves for us, and wonder in owe of our role in their creation.

  • @zolanihogana
    @zolanihogana Před 3 lety +33

    My assignment is due in 5 days and I’m here trying to decide if it matters that I do it, whether life matters.

    • @draygoes
      @draygoes Před 2 měsíci

      The short answer to that question is likely yes.
      Here's what I think might be a good way to look at it. Life matters because it is and wouldn't if it wasn't. The main question we often ask is "what's the meaning of life" and I say that has a few answers. The most obvious answer comes from observing life and finding out the one thing it has in common, reproduction. So to that end, your goal is to have kids. Outside of that, how much life matters can be correlated directly if you know the exact impact on every being you have ever had on any living being your life has touched, no matter how lightly. I'd say your life matters more to the species the more net positive impact you've had. With that said, the only remaining metric is how much it matters to you.

  • @SuperSanic..
    @SuperSanic.. Před 4 lety +178

    Place a magma block under water to make that hydrothermal vents.

  • @mustachecrab9669
    @mustachecrab9669 Před 2 lety +366

    The thing that kinda screws with me is the fact that a reaction between materials somehow became so complicated that it developed wants and needs. How does an element grow to be that complicated, how would a reaction between water and other elements end up in conciousness. It's like if you just mixed sulphur and iron and it somehow started to make energy and duplicate. It happened once, but i just don't fully get how that could work.
    Edit: Dayum, i sparked a conversation, awesome, but i wasn't theorizing about god, i feel like, and i don't mean to offend, but i feel that a god is a cheap answer to a complicated and interesting question, how did a group of inanimate materials grow to become something as complex as biological life.
    We have evidence for evolution, through records of various animals that evolution is a thing, and it's pretty logical when you think about it.
    Most of this data comes from animals that survive disasters.
    What we see then, is that the groups that survived were those, that through random mutation, chance, or just existing genetics, were better suited than other members of their species to handle natural disasters, their descendants then carried those traits with them. The part of the species that didn't have the needed traits died off, while the ones that did have those traits, survived, and had their genes carried forth, and the species evolved, now better suited for their enviroment.
    You can look it up, it's about a group of lizards on a tropical island, it's an interesting watch, for both those that believe it and those who don't. Watching stuff like that, understanding it, and making your own opinions about that is the only way to learn.

    • @mustachecrab9669
      @mustachecrab9669 Před 2 lety +69

      And, if we ever find out how, we could literally create new life. Makes you think, just maybe, that has happened before.

    • @arlandolittle7625
      @arlandolittle7625 Před 2 lety +22

      @@mustachecrab9669 where did the planet itself come from out of nowhere !

    • @gabekrystyniak1000
      @gabekrystyniak1000 Před 2 lety +1

      I just have a humble opinion but, if certain people believe that aliens do not exist, or we are the only life, then that means a god, personally i believe my god, had to have created us because something cannot come from nothing. Now if you believe in aliens, it could have been possible that they started us off with some life when they were failing or what not, but i think these stories of random organisms forming from water and rock just makes no logical sense.

    • @maaz1010
      @maaz1010 Před 2 lety +18

      @@gabekrystyniak1000 then who created god?(as something can’t come off nothing) its thus ques that fs with me

    • @sevenlineitapinfo2944
      @sevenlineitapinfo2944 Před 2 lety +16

      Romans 1:19-20 Because what may be known about God is clearly evident among them, for God made it clear to them. 20 For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable.

  • @carloscavada6114
    @carloscavada6114 Před 4 lety +475

    What happens when You start a new Minecraft world:

    • @riesenflugzeug
      @riesenflugzeug Před 3 lety +5

      it just takes 5-18 seconds and then the real world takes several kdjfnncbxillion years!!1!!!1!!1!

    • @blockedinchina6015
      @blockedinchina6015 Před 2 lety

      What happen if you start a dwarf fortes worlf:

  • @alexandermestre5208
    @alexandermestre5208 Před 4 lety +374

    Hydrothermal vent: *exist*
    LUCA: it's free real estate

  • @DiRECs
    @DiRECs Před 4 lety +137

    4:00 Careful please. Through the wording used, someone might mistakenly understand that life originated in these particular mid-Atlantic ridge vents. You should have said that these vents are today used to study the origin of life. Life existed well before the Atlantic or its vents ever existed.

    • @solar0wind
      @solar0wind Před 2 lety +13

      Yes, Lost City is simply the closest thing we have to what the conditions for LUCA probably have been.

    • @TheMickeymental
      @TheMickeymental Před 2 lety +3

      The origin of life using this method is inmpossible.

    • @drbobinski1
      @drbobinski1 Před 2 lety +5

      Thanks Di, I scrolled down to make sure nobody else had already noticed this. Well done

    • @valevisa8429
      @valevisa8429 Před 2 lety

      You have a sharp mind Di,very good.

    • @maxius7119
      @maxius7119 Před 2 lety +3

      I started to believe so, thank you for the info

  • @raphaelkap
    @raphaelkap Před 4 lety +132

    All I know is that the sun was a deadly laser but now it's ok there's a blanket

  • @amorosogombe9650
    @amorosogombe9650 Před 2 lety +156

    If life only emerged on earth, in this whole vast universe then imagine how special a natural phenomenon it is. I don't think it's possible though. I think it's a convergent emergent phenomenon because the laws of physics must be consistent across the universe meaning the same process must happen under similar conditions in other parts of the universe. There must be life elsewhere in the universe.

    • @namitarya1285
      @namitarya1285 Před 2 lety +11

      True but that depends on what are the odds of this "similar conditions". I'd say way way less than 1 in a quadrillion.

    • @willsonjo679
      @willsonjo679 Před 2 lety +54

      @@namitarya1285 but universe is so vast that one in a quadrillion odds is nothing

    • @michaelearthling
      @michaelearthling Před 2 lety +44

      i'm from a very similar planet on the other side of the universe, only difference is the traffic lights, we use blue, brown and purple.

    • @arlandolittle7625
      @arlandolittle7625 Před 2 lety +17

      @@michaelearthling hey we’re from the same planet and you reared ended me on )$dlb street !

    • @michaelearthling
      @michaelearthling Před 2 lety +10

      @@arlandolittle7625 that wasn't my saucer, i borrowed it from Zorg, and if i know Zorg, that saucer isn't insured.

  • @SatisfyingWhirlpools
    @SatisfyingWhirlpools Před 2 lety +19

    Ok, but I was more wondering how entire sequences of dna just happens to be perfectly constructed, and wrapped inside a cell wall, along with all the perfectly functioning proteins necessary to interact with the dna in order to allow the cell to reproduce.

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 Před 2 lety +8

      Yes, it is difficult for us to comprehend how chemistry can be so complex when it comes life processes. There is nothing perfect about it as it is atoms/molecules doing what they do in specific conditions. How does oxygen and hydrogen form water?

    • @TheHieroglyph
      @TheHieroglyph Před 8 měsíci

      @SatisfyingWhirlpools I'm working on a theory to answer that. The video should up be up on my channel to answer that with a new theory - the seeded germ theory.

    • @basedcheese1
      @basedcheese1 Před 5 měsíci

      What? It used the far more simpler RNA and proteins that function normally not exactly 'perfectly' and it also uses lipid membranes as the 'cell wall'. Probably. I might be wrong.

    • @skyfeelan
      @skyfeelan Před 5 měsíci +1

      a freaking long time is the answer, also it's not just the earth where this happen, but billions of other planet in their own solar system, we're just lucky that this happened in our planet

    • @SatisfyingWhirlpools
      @SatisfyingWhirlpools Před 5 měsíci

      1000s of the top scientists in the world can't even make a cell from scratch while trying, how did some random floating chemicals make one? This isn't just a moderately difficult probability like a bunch of rocks forming a legible sentence, it is utterly insane as millions of base pairs of dna would need to be perfectly constructed in order.@@skyfeelan

  • @kishanpatel2902
    @kishanpatel2902 Před 4 lety +71

    The animation is as always top notch in quality. Thank you so much Ted-Ed for bringing high quality content as always.

    • @ronlacker326
      @ronlacker326 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Nah its pretty lame and underdeveloped for a channel that has almost 20 million subscribers and is well funded.

  • @JustJohn505
    @JustJohn505 Před 4 lety +180

    Life cannot be contained, life finds a way..

    • @seanbaugh3239
      @seanbaugh3239 Před 4 lety +20

      *A fart can not be contained, farts find a way !!!*
      *"NUFF SAID"*

    • @JustJohn505
      @JustJohn505 Před 4 lety +6

      @@seanbaugh3239 so true tho

    • @user-fh5ov4tu2j
      @user-fh5ov4tu2j Před 4 lety +4

      Life, uh, finds a way

    • @tt-qe8ec
      @tt-qe8ec Před 4 lety +5

      'Someone' or 'something' finds life a way

    • @karmasutra4774
      @karmasutra4774 Před 2 lety

      @@seanbaugh3239 they can in a Dutch oven

  • @Sara-kf8sz
    @Sara-kf8sz Před 3 lety +3

    Thank you so much TED, literally you're the best!

  • @nileshkulkarni6196
    @nileshkulkarni6196 Před 4 lety +12

    teded is so interesting !!! I can never have enough of it .

  • @nuvsh
    @nuvsh Před 4 lety +48

    Anyone else who finds the visual graphics here AMAZING AND INTUITIVE

  • @naveenraj2008eee
    @naveenraj2008eee Před 4 lety +19

    Hi ted-ed
    Interesting video...
    Thanks for educating us....🙏👍😊

  • @sreejasrivaram8250
    @sreejasrivaram8250 Před 4 lety +23

    what a perfect timing! Just today learnt about various theories of origin of life in my bio class

  • @donnierussellii4659
    @donnierussellii4659 Před 4 lety +12

    A book I really enjoyed is Nick Lane's The Vital Question. It links biology and geology in interesting ways.

  • @Zippyscooto
    @Zippyscooto Před 4 lety +9

    This was a fantastic video. Love to see accessible evolution topics!!

  • @pranavjoshi5719
    @pranavjoshi5719 Před 4 lety +6

    Amazing information!
    Thank you Ted-ed

  • @umashree_
    @umashree_ Před 4 lety +40

    Amazing animation ...
    It's easy to understand that how life is originate on the earth.
    Keep inspiring with new ideas.

    • @GeovanniCastro666
      @GeovanniCastro666 Před 2 lety +6

      I don't but this story 😬 spontaneous generation is impossible

  • @baumulrich
    @baumulrich Před 4 lety +120

    but the mid atlantic ridge didnt exist billions of years ago. it only came into existence when Pangaea broke up 140 million years or so.

    • @lukaseamuswright1477
      @lukaseamuswright1477 Před 4 lety +92

      Just to clear this up: life did not arise at Lost City. It arose at a hydrothermal vent system like Lost City.

    • @Dialysisforever
      @Dialysisforever Před 4 lety +13

      I just posted that same comment. They cannot find the origins using the current maps. Hydrothermal vents may have been where life began but I doubt it was there.

    • @hauntologicalwittgensteini2542
      @hauntologicalwittgensteini2542 Před 4 lety

      But mind there were other mid ocean ridges bedfore and besides the mid atlantic ridge

    • @user-yn9mp4bt3q
      @user-yn9mp4bt3q Před 4 lety +3

      @@lukaseamuswright1477 life may have started...we do not know yet.
      Where
      When
      Why
      How
      How do we go from random chemicals to first life?
      The most improbable event since the big bang.

    • @catchingrabbits1939
      @catchingrabbits1939 Před 4 lety +3

      Math doesn't agree with this theory.
      Any problem that exceeds.5 to the power. Is impossible.
      This mathematical equation is 3.8 to the power. 7x passed impossible.

  • @rayquaza396
    @rayquaza396 Před 4 lety +2

    I learned a lot from you guys. Thank you. Keep up those interesting videos coz i always watch them before going to bed.

  • @goswami7275
    @goswami7275 Před 4 lety +2

    Great video! I had no idea about the hydrothermal vents.Thanks TED-Ed!

  • @TheMickeymental
    @TheMickeymental Před 2 lety +4

    The origin of life using this method is inmpossible.

  • @Luca5
    @Luca5 Před 4 lety +47

    Ayyyyyy i'm a modern day Luca

  • @giosantos836
    @giosantos836 Před 4 lety +1

    Again, thanks for the great animation. Never stop educating people. Lov u guys

  • @strange_and_magnificent
    @strange_and_magnificent Před 3 lety +1

    We gotta make a movie about Luca, it's just so fascinating!

  • @AnitaSingh-nu7by
    @AnitaSingh-nu7by Před 4 lety +16

    1:30 : Me 0.001 Seconds after I promise myself to lose weight.

  • @jojoabellar2536
    @jojoabellar2536 Před 4 lety +13

    Just when I'm about to do a report about the origin of the life on earth - comes this amazingly well-narrated video from TedEd. Thank you so much guys 😍

    • @ashleerickard5801
      @ashleerickard5801 Před 2 lety +1

      I'm doing a report on that too and I'm seriously struggling because i left it until the last minute T^T

    • @Invader-lm5ek
      @Invader-lm5ek Před 2 měsíci

      same

  • @sboxy_778
    @sboxy_778 Před 9 měsíci +1

    thank you so much, i have a school presentation on this topic tomorrow and this has helped me so much... keep it up!!!

  • @heyo_itsaj
    @heyo_itsaj Před 4 lety +15

    Life will not be contained
    Life breaks free

  • @srirang4605
    @srirang4605 Před 3 lety +4

    Luka talks about LUCA

  • @mbagaro6861
    @mbagaro6861 Před 4 lety +23

    One of the best TED-ed videos to date! Flawless animation and an interesting, though not distracting, background music. Plus great narration as always. Thank you so much for making these videos!

  • @comicalcatastrophe1865
    @comicalcatastrophe1865 Před 4 lety +5

    Honestly, I want that thumbnail without the words, and just have it in my gallery forever.

    • @danielr.
      @danielr. Před 4 lety +1

      Whitesiberianhusky .d Take a Screenshot at 0:40 :)

  • @mihirvasudev
    @mihirvasudev Před 4 lety +2

    Impressive video and animation as always!

  • @InaanaPandey
    @InaanaPandey Před 4 lety +11

    3:25
    You mean a soup made of gnarly space ingredients?

  • @kp5602
    @kp5602 Před 4 lety +101

    "Life began from nothing"
    Ok thanks ted

    • @MorbiusBlueBalls
      @MorbiusBlueBalls Před 2 lety +6

      it began from organic molecules... we just don't know how...

    • @Benjamin-wg2sf
      @Benjamin-wg2sf Před 2 lety +2

      @Who Cares? whataboutism ? Granted, that theory of the origin of life is grounded on faith. What is proposed in this video, if you know anything about molecular biology takes wishful thinking to new heights. Molecules assembled and became simple cells and cells learnt how to divide and harness energy from hydrothermal vents and then bilions of years later humans happened ? really ?. The creationist rejects evolution at all costs by invoking a creater and grounding himself on faith.. The evolutionist on the other hand thinks himself a rational being and is deeply averse to the idea of a creator so life must have happened by chance no matter how insane and improbable the odds are. In both cases, your starting point determines your outcome. But the evolutionist refuses to admit his theory is equally grounded on faith and thats the funny part. Read Darwins Blackbox.

    • @Legolander72
      @Legolander72 Před rokem

      You are most certainly welcome

    • @bradleysmith9431
      @bradleysmith9431 Před měsícem

      Which is a super natural event as well.

  • @aaaadit5155
    @aaaadit5155 Před 4 lety +1

    The music really added a difference feel to this video

  • @entropiCCycles
    @entropiCCycles Před 4 lety +2

    I was wondering where this was going to go. I'm kind of glad to see that the arguments largely coincide with those from Nick Lane's "The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life". At least as far as LUCA is concerned.

  • @arcaithe8030
    @arcaithe8030 Před 4 lety +15

    Ken Ham voice: “But were you there?”

    • @eightfootmanchild
      @eightfootmanchild Před 4 lety +5

      Arcaithe Yes, I was there.
      How do you know I wasn’t there? Were YOU there?

    • @s.m.4720
      @s.m.4720 Před 3 lety

      Lol

  • @surabhi_kumari
    @surabhi_kumari Před 4 lety +9

    I wish everything in my books can be converted into animations smh so it will be easy to grasp those thick piles of books .

  • @lakshmimohan6467
    @lakshmimohan6467 Před 4 lety +1

    Ted Ed♥️ i wish all my classes were like ted ed videos. I will be learning forever. 💖

  • @cornerseeker9167
    @cornerseeker9167 Před 4 lety +8

    0:14 science still cannot explain the reason behind this

    • @hmgrraarrpffrzz9763
      @hmgrraarrpffrzz9763 Před 4 lety +2

      Nor can religion. There is no reason.

    • @cornerseeker9167
      @cornerseeker9167 Před 4 lety +5

      Hm Grraarrpffrzz no reason? What a bold assumption, do you have any proof to sustain it, or is it just faith in it? This is not how science works sir, we must always continue to investigate

    • @hmgrraarrpffrzz9763
      @hmgrraarrpffrzz9763 Před 4 lety

      @@cornerseeker9167_"This is not how science works sir"_
      Science formulates a hypothesis with which it explains something that are supposed to work in a certain way.
      So, first, you'd have to explain why there should be a reason.

    • @cornerseeker9167
      @cornerseeker9167 Před 4 lety +8

      Hm Grraarrpffrzz let me cut it short, in our reality things don’t just “happen”, there is a little thing called the universal law of cause and effect; modifications in the status of a system are endogenous and/or exogenous. These changes are regulated, at their root, by the fundamental forces of the universe. So no, I don’t have to demonstrate there’s a reason things happen🤦🏻‍♂️, not only common sense and 2500 years of philosophical/logical thinking exempt me from doing it but the functioning of our universe itself does this. I hope I’ve been clear, i won’t spend anymore time on this; be patient, English is my second language

    • @hmgrraarrpffrzz9763
      @hmgrraarrpffrzz9763 Před 4 lety

      @@cornerseeker9167 ​ Corner Seeker _"in our reality things don’t just “happen”"_
      Ooooh, now I understand what you are trying to say. Ok, as English is not your second language, as you said, let me explain: you are confusing "reason" with "cause".
      A reason requires an intent. A cause does not.
      For example, there is no reason behind the eruption of a volcano, as it's just a natural processes without an intent. However, a volcanic eruption has a cause (pressure building up due to plate tectonics and whatnot).
      So, you have to use "cause" instead of "reason".
      And you are right: currently it's not exactly known how the first life formed. However, that doesn't mean that there is no cause, or that abiogenesis is incorrect. It also doesn't mean that deities and miracles exist. It simply means that we have to do more research.
      _"i won’t spend anymore time on this"_
      That's what all religious people do: they shout out silly nonsense and then run away from a discussion as they can't support any of their claims with rational arguments.

  • @keshawtiwary4667
    @keshawtiwary4667 Před 3 lety +4

    Just thinking that it was to be included in our school syllabus also..🥰🥰
    But learning from Ted ed lessons is also very great honour🥰🥰🤟🤟

    • @Legolander72
      @Legolander72 Před rokem

      Bro needs to learn what a great honour is

  • @darklord711
    @darklord711 Před 2 lety +3

    1 AM gang who can't sleep and constantly search for meaning on CZcams. Anyone?

  • @ignacioalejandroperezlegas8185

    Amazing video, very useful to teach about the origin of life. Greetings to creators.

  • @gilgvirts
    @gilgvirts Před 4 lety +1

    The whole topic of the video was chosen only for that great pun "where on earth...." :) Worth!

  • @abu-bakr9604
    @abu-bakr9604 Před 2 lety +3

    So many unanswered questions. Hard to believe any of this.

    • @wassimfkih5754
      @wassimfkih5754 Před 2 lety

      Ooooh maybe the fairy tale abt the all mighty god that created everything just to satisfy his ego is more plausible

    • @abu-bakr9604
      @abu-bakr9604 Před 2 lety +1

      @@wassimfkih5754 do you believe in god bro?

    • @wassimfkih5754
      @wassimfkih5754 Před 2 lety

      @@abu-bakr9604 of course not and any one with half a braincell wouldn't

    • @abu-bakr9604
      @abu-bakr9604 Před 2 lety +1

      @@wassimfkih5754 I once like you but if we cant be certain about anything why aren’t we keeping an open mind about the possibility that something might be the cause of the universe. No one with a braincell can say that something can come from nothing.

    • @wassimfkih5754
      @wassimfkih5754 Před 2 lety

      @@abu-bakr9604 so according to u all scientists r brain-dead. Besides there is a hundred reasons to make religion up most notably power, giving humans a sense of purpose and instilling certain morals that comply with certain cultures. And even if its not a 100% certain it is agreed on beyond reasonable doubt by all major scientists and academies. So if ur so smart that the opinion of most highly educated ppl doesn't matter to u be my guest and explain ur reasoning if u have any. Oh and do keep in mind that studies have shown that the smarter u r the more likely ull be an atheist.

  • @jamesgreen4212
    @jamesgreen4212 Před 4 lety +34

    "Our whole Universe was in a hot, dense state. Then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started - wait..."

    • @A-VirajGaidhani
      @A-VirajGaidhani Před 3 lety +8

      The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool
      Neanderthals developed tools

    • @vidurachamathka2317
      @vidurachamathka2317 Před 3 lety +2

      @@A-VirajGaidhani damn.... Are you William Shakespeare or somethin !?

    • @j-core2895
      @j-core2895 Před 3 lety +5

      @@vidurachamathka2317 big bang theory reference

    • @A-VirajGaidhani
      @A-VirajGaidhani Před 3 lety +1

      @@vidurachamathka2317 ah cute, you think William Shakespeare was one person

    • @juanjoyaborja.3054
      @juanjoyaborja.3054 Před 2 lety +1

      @@A-VirajGaidhani We built a wall we made the pyramids

  • @haymegutierrez9901
    @haymegutierrez9901 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks for inspiring us With your facts ted ed keep on sharing. Facts for us I love your vids!

  • @anonymousamasawa3153
    @anonymousamasawa3153 Před 4 lety

    Jus when I needed it most, thanks alot Ted Ed 😊

  • @aaronkou5996
    @aaronkou5996 Před 4 lety +33

    I got the notification just now but there are already 1k views

  • @drewrommel
    @drewrommel Před 4 lety +7

    I find it amusing that the video begins with the confident conclusion that life started by a random accident - but then spends the rest of the video admitting we don't really know, have never seen it happen and are only speculating.
    We know the simplist life form is a machine beyond anything humans have ever created (unless you can give me an example of a living machine humans have made that can build a copy of itself).
    We know even simple machines need a designer (unless you can give me an example of a machine that can come about by an accident)
    Why is the idea life might have been the product of some intelligence forbidden?

    • @poppopN
      @poppopN Před 4 lety +1

      Because there is no evidence for it..we know that machines need intelligence to be created because we can verify this proccess since we are the ones making them...we have no clue about how life started and we cant verify that it was formed from an intelligence..as a result we do not know and we are working on finding out

  • @spandansaha5663
    @spandansaha5663 Před 4 lety

    Just amazing
    Thanks for such good content

  • @WorldAquariumSingapore
    @WorldAquariumSingapore Před 4 lety +1

    WoWWWW im waiting for this :D

  • @palileo4893
    @palileo4893 Před 2 lety +5

    sounds very simple....inanimate elements gave rise to simple life forms but there is no explanation on how it occurred.

    • @Jesuisunknown
      @Jesuisunknown Před 2 lety

      A 4:56 length video do you know it can explain all about primordial soup it only have summary about it

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 2 lety

      The idea that atomic chemistry varies so greatly from organic is a fallacy

  • @Bodowin
    @Bodowin Před 4 lety +26

    Quick Question: the tectonic plates have shifted quite some in earth's history, how can we tell, that "Lost City" is by any means the place where it was then and couldn't it have been somewhere that is now gone through the movement of tectonic plates? Thanks!

    • @Napoleonic_S
      @Napoleonic_S Před 4 lety +3

      I was about to ask the same question!

    • @thomasbriggs4718
      @thomasbriggs4718 Před 2 lety +4

      These vents appear along the zones where the continental plates are spreading. They are hypothesized to last for tens of thousands of years. Then new ones form.

  • @lucaesposito6896
    @lucaesposito6896 Před 4 lety +1

    2:58 hey I'm here! Thriving and kickin' 😁

  • @mhmmdquliyev9810
    @mhmmdquliyev9810 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you for video

  • @ryanvandermerwe5587
    @ryanvandermerwe5587 Před 3 lety +8

    Makes it seem as if it was a simple process... Like... Bunch of atoms in the ocean... Behold, DNA.. Piece of cake!

    • @essakhan1575
      @essakhan1575 Před 3 lety +1

      ikr

    • @basedcheese1
      @basedcheese1 Před 5 měsíci

      Atoms? Molecules.
      And, they don't explain it because it would be hard to do so. Even laymen videos can sound complex.

  • @ajaykumar-xy6pw
    @ajaykumar-xy6pw Před 4 lety +40

    Love your videos, keep doing the good work for curious people like us.

  • @BrutalistJr
    @BrutalistJr Před 4 lety +1

    the greatest story ever told

  • @lawrenceethangreen5545

    Why are there videos so satisfying?!!?

  • @titankiller5287
    @titankiller5287 Před 4 lety +52

    “Life uh, uhhhhh finds ig, uh, find a way” ~the real Dr. Ian Malcolm

    • @oracle372
      @oracle372 Před 4 lety

      It’s “Life, Uh, Find a way” not “Life uh, uhhhhh finds ig, uh, find a way”

  • @revysingh
    @revysingh Před 4 lety +18

    The "lost city" in the Atlantic Ocean as the location for the source of life seems rather unrealistic, considering the Atlantic ocean didn't exist back then. Last I recall learning, dinosaurs were roaming the earth when Pangea was around, and the Atlantic Ocean formed when those volcanic rifts began splitting the super continent apart.

  • @dr.chaitalichaudhuri385

    The animation is very beautiful.

  • @ab-15188
    @ab-15188 Před 4 lety

    Man this is soothing..

  • @B525shot
    @B525shot Před 4 lety +28

    After putting in so much work, it really pisses me off that people credit an imaginary ghost on a cloud for their lives instead of me...

  • @jordyr2262
    @jordyr2262 Před 4 lety +7

    Great video... However it does only give possible location at which life begin. What scientists are still trying to figure out, is how does raw inorganic materials suddenly create the organic life. There have be theories about a life being from as the result of a inorganic/organic combination, which the research is still on going.

    • @nicholaslewis8594
      @nicholaslewis8594 Před 4 lety +1

      Inorganic molecules can already form organic molecules.

    • @jordyr2262
      @jordyr2262 Před 4 lety +4

      @@nicholaslewis8594 Yes but how does this happen? Purely... heat and pressure?

  • @Miscellaneous406
    @Miscellaneous406 Před 4 lety

    really marvelous information.

  • @atulkamble7493
    @atulkamble7493 Před 4 lety

    Your videos are helpful...nice one

  • @BeatriceAlexandra7
    @BeatriceAlexandra7 Před 10 měsíci +2

    I have learned much more things from ted-ed more that i did at school 😂

  • @stevebadachmusic
    @stevebadachmusic Před 2 lety +6

    You know it's pure fantasy when they start with a quote from a fictional character 🤣🤣

    • @ANDROLOMA
      @ANDROLOMA Před 2 lety

      Ian Malcolm, as fictional as YHWH.

    • @stevebadachmusic
      @stevebadachmusic Před 2 lety +1

      @@ANDROLOMA I agree 100%! Both evolution and the notion of God are compete nonsense.

    • @SpongeBobImagination
      @SpongeBobImagination Před 2 lety +2

      ​@@stevebadachmusic __ Interesting. If you reject wholly naturalistic "abiogenesis" *_and_* God, then what possibilities remain? _Nothing._ So, are you one of those bass-playing n.u.t.c.4.5e.3.s who tells everyone he got abducted by spooky green aliens?

    • @stevebadachmusic
      @stevebadachmusic Před 2 lety +1

      @@SpongeBobImagination What is cannot be spoken. and I was not abducted. I went willingly.

    • @ANDROLOMA
      @ANDROLOMA Před 2 lety

      @@stevebadachmusic I'm not about to defy evolutionary biology, when there are evolutionary biologists who make far more money than I ever will.

  • @HelgaCavoli
    @HelgaCavoli Před 4 lety

    Great quote/source in the beginning. 😂😍😁

  • @mjstory1976
    @mjstory1976 Před 4 lety

    Awesome and informative video

  • @rodburley
    @rodburley Před 2 lety +6

    Life had an origin long ago, before this world existed, before life as you know it existed in this world, before you took form and became an individual in this world.
    Life existed with no alternative to life, complete, whole, engaged, all of Creation, magnificent, beyond words and expression, life in the purest form in myriad expressions, creative but harmonious, life that still exists within you at this moment, deep beneath the surface of your mind.
    But there was a Separation, and the Separation created the manifest universe that your senses report to you. As there could be no alternative to Creation, God created the manifest universe for all sentient beings who would choose Separation-a place to live, to learn and to taste the small pleasures and the great difficulty of living apart from Creation.
    ~ Marshal Vian Summer, The Origin

  • @annabelho7607
    @annabelho7607 Před 4 lety +3

    Journey to the Center of the Earth: the Search for LUCA

  • @ChipotleKanetsu
    @ChipotleKanetsu Před 4 lety

    This voice is relaxing...

  • @nileshkulkarni6196
    @nileshkulkarni6196 Před 4 lety

    Good luck for 10M subscribers !!!

  • @Diabetic_Chicken69
    @Diabetic_Chicken69 Před 4 lety +11

    Earth:
    Asteroids: "Its free real estate"

  • @basicbot7349
    @basicbot7349 Před 4 lety +34

    Why don’t you make a video on how life originated through the eyes of various mythological tales like Greek Norse Hindu etc...btw great video❤️

    • @Thirdleg4sale
      @Thirdleg4sale Před 4 lety +4

      Because that would not be science but mythology!!

    • @jacobandrews2663
      @jacobandrews2663 Před 4 lety +16

      @@Thirdleg4sale Ted also covers mythology

    • @Thirdleg4sale
      @Thirdleg4sale Před 4 lety +2

      @@jacobandrews2663 had no clue. I have never seen a vid about mythology pop up!

  • @almakiahajra5011
    @almakiahajra5011 Před 3 lety +1

    Amazing

  • @Nithyanandan.S
    @Nithyanandan.S Před 4 lety

    As always the video is best in kind and easily understandable.....

  • @gabrielfrance91
    @gabrielfrance91 Před 4 lety +7

    If life on Earth first formed near hydrothermal vents, I think we can be fairly sure there is life on Europa !

    • @fyrhead1978
      @fyrhead1978 Před 4 lety

      Wouldn't Europa be ice cold

    • @gabrielfrance91
      @gabrielfrance91 Před 4 lety +3

      @@fyrhead1978 It is, but there is a water ocean under the surface, many kilometers deep.
      This ocean is kept warm enough to be liquid by the tidal forces created by Jupiter, so there may be some hydrothermal vents on the bottom. If life on Earth appears near tidal vents, then there is no reason it couldn't appear on Europa ! :)

    • @Mapspalo
      @Mapspalo Před 2 lety +2

      @@gabrielfrance91 But how do we know what type of life is there and in what form and level of sentience and intelligence? We barely know how life was formed here on earth and the variety of forms it could have taken. Europa could have humanoid creatures similar in intelligence and nature to us, or they could be completely different to the point where we'll need a new Classification system beyond even Kingdom in order to identify that life.
      It's amazing when we think of the possibilities. Can't wait till we are able to travel there and explore.
      Or maybe life on Europa is very simple(which will still be beyond interesting for scientists). Or maybe life simply didn't form there and it was a rare event that only happened on earth and not Europa!!!

  • @raisaapriliani2717
    @raisaapriliani2717 Před 4 lety +3

    So where on EARTH could life begin?
    You got me there 🤣

  • @Absul98181
    @Absul98181 Před 4 lety

    Always like this series

  • @varshanavale8245
    @varshanavale8245 Před 3 lety +2

    Nice information about .......,........

  • @blacksky8603
    @blacksky8603 Před 4 lety +29

    The process of evolution is something amazing to discover and wonder about. It turns down all myths created by peoples imagination to give an easy explanation to the reality, but the more we try to find out about it the more complex and paradoxal it actually looks. I hope you could make a video related to this topic... paradox related to reality and infinity.

    • @AR-be6fv
      @AR-be6fv Před 3 měsíci

      there's nothing amazing about something that doesn't actually happen. That is why its paradoxical.

  • @tylerjarjoura3270
    @tylerjarjoura3270 Před 2 lety +3

    They present the information in this video as if it were a fact when it is 100% theoretical.

  • @KingKing-yw4xe
    @KingKing-yw4xe Před 2 lety +2

    I love to see the story of Dr. Wudi. He observed timelapse of all Universes. He holds a very different view. He has an unusual Theory of Everything.
    He has been observing in silence since 2017. If you make a video about him, I think it would be a truly fascinating story.

    • @tylermartin7245
      @tylermartin7245 Před 11 měsíci +1

      I've been observing in silence for 25 years. Why won't anyone listen to me?

  • @samah6659
    @samah6659 Před 4 lety +1

    0:45 good one TedEd xD

  • @yungfruitsalad1401
    @yungfruitsalad1401 Před 4 lety +21

    No you got it all wrong a sky man spat on the ground made some clay and molded it into a human smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

  • @ClydeCraft
    @ClydeCraft Před 4 lety +8

    Living cells just don't "assemble" into existence...

    • @vali69
      @vali69 Před 4 lety +8

      "I dont understand this therefore god" is that how u think?

    • @ayushsharma9270
      @ayushsharma9270 Před 4 lety +3

      Abiogenesis isn't about cells, its about replicators, molecules like RNA and such.

    • @ClydeCraft
      @ClydeCraft Před 4 lety +6

      @@vali69 Did I ever say that...?

    • @Sheen023
      @Sheen023 Před 4 lety +3

      @@ayushsharma9270 talk about genetic information & you know that information comes only from intelligence!

    • @heath6969
      @heath6969 Před 3 lety

      sky daddy is the only answer!!!

  • @siren_gaming8565
    @siren_gaming8565 Před 3 lety

    I’m so glad we all made it here

  • @syedaga4711
    @syedaga4711 Před 4 lety

    Amazing video 🤩👍