• Question: how did we come to existance

    Asked by 223urak29 to anuantony, Duncan, Jayne, Katherine, Sajid on 3 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Jayne Ede

      Jayne Ede answered on 3 Nov 2017:

      We know how we evolved from previous ancestors and organisms, but as for how the universe came to be? Nobody knows!

      Unless someone can correct me!

    • Photo: Duncan McNicholl

      Duncan McNicholl answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      Depends on what you mean by we. If you mean you and I, then we were born. If you mean humans that you’d recognise as humans, we evolved from stupider, hairier, human-y things. If you mean animals, we evolved from single-celled organisms in a way that seems pretty unlikely if you stop and think about it for long enough. If you mean life, we started as a set of complicated chemical reactions in the sea, possibly in rock pools. If you mean the world, we smooshed together out of a big cloud of basically gravel because of gravity. If you mean the solar system, we smooshed together out of a big cloud of basically hydrogen gas, also because of gravity. If you mean the universe, we sort of just exploded out of nothingness into a sea of light and energy.

      I think the best kind of we isn’t any of those, though. If you mean we as in people, real people who act like a community, we came into existence when we started telling each other stories about ourselves.

    • Photo: Sajid Javed

      Sajid Javed answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      easiest answer is by evolution. here is a link (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-origin-of-our-species.html) that explains it quite well.

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