https://youtu.be/pk213XSSktQ
Viruses?

I think figuring out our first common ancestor, FUCA, would be more intriguing. Not to mention, hard to pin down.

elderolddog Wrote:
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> I think figuring out our first common ancestor,
> FUCA, would be more intriguing. Not to mention,
> hard to pin down.
It seems so obvious to me that its viruses, given the fact that
A. they are non-living, if you define "life" as a species capable of reproducing by itself. They are not even species, much less, life.
B. They carry RNA, DNA and protien, they have all the instructions and material required to create life.
C. 10% of our DNA came from billions of years of fighting off viruses and bacteria.
D. They are, by far, the most ubiquitous and successful creatures.
E. There are 10x's more microorganisms in you than human cells.
F. Isnt it possible we have been looking the wrong direction in our search for a creator all this time and we needed look no further than right under our noses. In our noses. The common cold virus is our First Universal Common Ancestor and maybe creator.
And there ate more of them in us than all tge other cells on Earth.
G. If tgey are not alive, they vould live in steam vents in Earth, only to be unlocked by volcanoes in tge sea.
Or on an inner stelkar commet, lands in tge sea and RNA, DNA and protien makes life, to host it.
H. Self replicating.
I. Inner planetary.

I thnk it is only good that way.

My name is LUCA.

I live on the second floor.

Snort!

:-)

I live upstairs from you

That and the Last Common Ancestor of Viruses and Bacteria was a species that lived 3.4 Billion years ago.

We all came from that species.
Bacteria and viruses lived before us, even though, some say viruses are not even alive.

John Mattick, molecular biologist and director of Sydney’s Garvan Institute, agrees. “People say viruses aren’t free-living. But that’s a philosophical question – are we free-living?” he asks. “We can’t live without plants. Life is an interconnected system.”


https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/what-came-first-cells-or-viruses

It seems like we have more evidence for bacteria creating us than we do for God.

"Today, it’s tempting to think of viruses as mere pests. But “they are not agents of destruction,” Caetano-Anolles says. Life on Earth would look very different without our viral co-inhabitants. “We wouldn’t be here without them,” says James Shapiro, a University of Chicago microbiologist. For example, researchers speculate that more than 100 million years ago a viral infection in a primitive mammal uploaded a gene that helped the placenta evolve. Syncytin is a protein viruses use to fuse cells together in order to hop from one host cell to the next. In mammals it fuses placenta cells with the uterus, allowing the foetus to draw nutrients from its mother."