A step along the road to proving how life got here:

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-life-inevitable-paper-pieces-metabolism.html

Life from rocks, helped by carbon compounds, energy inputs, hot thermal underwater vents and boing, life pops out, a fully formed mouse appears out of nowhere🙂

And this, a different way of looking at life: information flow.

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-dawn-life.html

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-life-inevitable-paper-pieces-metabolism.html

Life from rocks, helped by carbon compounds, energy inputs, hot thermal underwater vents and boing, life pops out, a fully formed mouse appears out of nowhere🙂