Let's continue our exploration into the obstacles the first living cell faced, according to the Theory of Evolution. We already know that there's not really much of a place to get the right chemicals to react in the first place. But let's give the Theory of Evolution's origin-of-life story the benefit of the doubt for now. What are the next steps?

In the last essay we learned about organic compounds called proteins and DNA. Now we are going to try and piece together a method of getting a simple life form, a hypothetical bacteria-like cell kind of like the first living thing as part of the Theory of Evolution.

The piecing together begins with choosing a location. The first living cell came about on land, presumably in a puddle some where, or in the water somewhere in the ocean.

According to most scientists today, before you answer a question about the past, you need to start with an assumption. That assumption is naturalism.

Naturalism – a philosophy that believes that everything in the universe is determined by natural processes we can observe with the scientific method. Physical matter and energy is all that there is, and all that controls the universe.