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sophisticated survival adaptations, eventually evolving into a bacterial-like cell, which, resultantly, would be the precursor to all life on earth. This bacterial-like cell first life theory, coincidently, is remarkable similar to the view of the typical modern-day college student. In 2006, for example, when polled with the query: ‘When did life begin and what did it look like?, approximately 20% percent of people polled, aged 18-30, will give a theological-biased answer and 80% will give scientific-based answers.39 The most common scientifically-reasoned answer is that life formed about 1-5 billion years ago in the form of a tiny cell, a single-celled microorganism, a bacteria, a small organism incased in a gel-cap, a single strand of DNA inside, or something similar to a small ameba, etc. Other more exotic answers given were that life began directly after the sun began to shine, that life began during the big universal explosion, that life began when the first water formed in the universe, or that life began 13-14 billion years ago in the form of raw energy or a combination of light and energy. One interesting answer was that life began ad infinitum; meaning that one cannot create something from nothing, in other words there’s always been life. From this discussion, generally, we should see that there is a perceptual blur in the dividing line between life and non-life.40 In any event, using the current standard misconceived origin of life viewpoint, we should be able to find and label a very specific and particular organism and define it as the first life. Moreover, as we have established herein, all organisms are one of different varieties of chemical species, i.e. structures comprised of two or more atoms. Hence, in the history of the evolution of life there should have been one day in which there existed one particular little microorganism or chemical species, i.e. something visually similar to an aggregate E. coli bacteria, as shown below, having the properties of life:
Bacteria Molecule CE11HE11OE11NE10PE9SE9CaE9KE7ClE7NaE7MgE7FeE6SiE5MnE3CoE3 This image is a low-temperature electron micrograph of a symbiotic cluster of about thirty E. coli bacteria, magnified 10,000 times.41 Each individual bacterium in the cluster is oblong shaped. In a sense then, the above picture, according to current