The Origin of Life on Earth

The major accepted scientific explanation for the origin of life on earth is that it just sort of spontaneously started here. But if we do go back to the moon and we find that any of that bacteria is still alive, it makes it seem like some of these creation myths maybe had it right. The great univers this episode was reported and produced by brian resnick and noam hassenfeld. Edits from shan ramisteram and irene ncuche. Mixing from efim shibur and me christian ale fact checking from will read,. music from milham and the mysterious brig master cylinder. And liz kelly nelson is the v p of vox