If all life on Earth was wiped out would life start over again?
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Tom say: Likely it would...…….
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geezer say: 'Life', of some kind or other, might .. but I don't think that our Sun will be around long enough for it to evolve to the degree that it has evolved to today, all over again.
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elj2017c say: (Ecclesiastes 1:4) "A generation is going, and a generation is coming, But the earth remains forever."
At Psalm 104:5 we are told: “He has founded the earth upon its established places; it will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever"
Psalms 37:10,11 - "Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more; You will look at where they were, And they will not be there. 11 But the meek will possess the earth, And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace."
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vic say: No because God will destroy this earth and make a new one
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kurisutarusqueaker say: life always finds a way
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Const. King say: Yes, the Apes will be in charge.
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Elizabeth say: Almost certainly not, which might surprise you as an answer!
Every living organism on our planet is, as far as we can tell, descended from the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) living about 3.6 billion years ago. In other words, Life 1.0 got started on our planet and has been evolving ever since.
What we haven't seen yet, despite all the gene sequencing we have done so far, is Life 2.0 - we haven't seen lifeforms that emerged from some chemical soup 1 million years ago, or 1 billion years ago. We only see Life 1.0.
What that suggests is that life got started 3.6ish billion years ago and evolved, but never got started again despite 3.6ish billion years to do so! The conditions to start life seemed to occur a very long time ago, with the planet now having conditions only to sustain life. But scientists are still looking for Life 2.0 ...
In any case, we know bacteria live in the Earth's mantle and in air. So killing off all life on the planet would be unlikely.
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Acetek say: there is not enough time to get intelligent life. The Sun is getting hotter so in less than a billion years the Earth will be cooked an no surface water will exist
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ANDY say: The age of the Earth is 4,5 billion years. It took about 1 billion years for life to start its existence (3,5 billion years ago). It all started with microorganisms in the water. So hypothesizing that life would start all over again, it would take 1 billion years for first organisms. But to wait for another 3 billion years for humanity to exist (imagining that the same processes would repeat themselves), the sun would be too hot to sustain life on Earth. It would by then be a red giant, and Earth would probably also be engulfed by its star.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: Hmmm... I think it depends on *how* it was wiped out... If the atmosphere and oceans were stripped away in some cataclysmic event - we'd be a warmer Mars for awhile, until volcanoes began replacing the atmosphere where sulfur and CO2... In that event, there may not be time for life to begin again before the sun begins to die.
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Adullah M say: Earth is being created by GOD for mankind to be its vicegerent . So after the ending of the earth then the new earth would be created but different from this earth. At the same time GOD creates Paradise and Hell for mankind to live in eternally in their next life , for rewarding as well as punishment.
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Tom S say: Yes, if the conditions were right for it.
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Brandman say: It would be like mars is right now. Mars is the example of our destruction.
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Zeccheus say: Most likely. The only way all life could be wiped out is if our planet was completely obliterated/ destroyed. A nuclear bomb or similar catastrophe wouldn't do the trick.
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say: It is said that humans are 200,000 years old species. And that there is no way they will last more than 8 million years at most.
While 8 million years seems like a mighty long time, Earth is 4.5 billion years old and so is the sun.
Long before man, ... life existed (dinosaurs) and long after man (and everything else) is extinct... Life would be there.
So I feel the answer is yes. But if Earth gets destroyed, then it's all over
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Luke say: Yes but it wouldn't have enough time to evolve into anything good.
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Barney Google say: Yes, in the fullness of time.
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pikachu say: Probably
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Petter say: Yes, for sure. Unless the environment somehow was "ruined" forever.
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