If all cells come from other cells, where did the first cell come from?

Question

If you can't explain this to me scientifically, don't answer. (not trying to sound mean, I just don't believe in the idea of creationism)

Answer 1

The current ideology is that the first cell was actually a collection of very simple organisms (not even cells). These organisms then evolved together and specialized to eventually form the different organelles found in a cell.

For instance, mitochondria would have been one organism. Vacuoles another. Etc.

Answer 2

3.9 billion years ago first primitive prokaryotic cells appear.

Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital showed that the presence of clay aids naturally occurring reactions that result in the formation of fatty sacks called vesicles, similar to what scientists expect the first living cells to have looked like.

Further, the clay helps RNA form. The RNA can stick to the clay and move with it into the vesicles. This provides a method for RNA's critical genetic information to move inside a primitive cell.

See link for full article - http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003...