Some questions on evolution

[paulpablo]

Hi , I have only a layman's knowledge of evolution and have a few questions that nobody has ever been able to answer, hoping some knowledgable folks here might help me out.

1. I know that the exact mechanism of how life started is not yet known. What seems certain though is that it started surprisingly soon after the earth got created, life was just busting out all over. My question is this: obviously conditions must still be OK for life, otherwise we would be a dead planet. So why is new life not busting out spontaneously all over so we can see it happening?

Do you live in a barren wasteland? Otherwise, I don't understand the question...I don't think you could find a spoonful of dirt or a mouthful of air anywhere you're likely to be that -isn't- bursting forth with new life on a constant basis.

2. It seems to me that there is a sort of drive towards more complexity. Why is this so? Or am I wrong? I mean, Viruses and Bacteria and Archea are successful ubiquitous organisms. What made them develop into more complex forms of more and more complexity, inventing sex and self awareness, intelligence along the way and all, until eventually we get to Mila Kunis?

Mutation. Death. Time. All three of which are gaurantees.

I think when he said new life he meant new as in like the original ancestor everything evolved from.

I don't really know the answer properly but I think it's something to do with the new life form would be microscopic so you wouldn't know it was there anyway, plus it would also not be able to survive on a planet full to the brim of life that's more highly evolved than it.