Abiogenesis and life on Earth - thoughts and pet theories?

I was simply pointing out that since the universe is not eternal, a cause for it has to exist which is. That's the only way to escape an infinite regress - otherwise you're just stuck with asking "Well, who made that?", forever.

 

Or, we continue to learn and eventually figure out how things work.

 

We don’t know that it isn’t.
Cosmic inflation model, what is commonly refered to as the Big Bang, doesn’t describe the moments before the known universe rapidly inflated.
How much before there is, we haven’t got the slightest clue yet and we may never.

A „who“ presupposition is a very blatant human bias.
What caused this? Oh, it must be something just like me! No thanks.

 

This is where I struggle with religion.

 

Endosymbiosis is not abiogenesis by any means, but it is possibly of interest to those posting here -

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1075

 

Turtles all the way down, as one story goes.

I have been enjoying a series by an astrophysicist about their process on observing the universe. Quite fascinating.

 

What's your point?

The better formulation is "Why is that?" anyway. "Who" is an unnecessary assumption.

 

Yeah, all eukaryotes (including us) appear to be a product of symbiogenesis, which allowed our archaea ancestors to survive and to exploit the increasing levels of oxygen produced by cyanobacteria. Chloroplasts in plants are another example. Of course, in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, there are the midi-chlorians, which George Lucas acknowledged are based on mitochondria.

 

Which one?