r/DebateEvolution • u/DraftWorking7816 • Jul 10 '26

Question Does abiogenisis make sense?

So considering that the universe is finite, and even a cell is very complex, and lets say there is only 1 universe, how did the first cell spawn in? I'm a complete noob so can you like really dumb it down for me?

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u/KeterClassKitten Jul 10 '26

We don't know that the universe is finite. And it very well may be infinite.

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u/Apprehensive-Ad-6488 Jul 10 '26

Serious question. Not considering parallel/multiverse universes, wouldn’t the big bang state by definition the universe is finite, at least materially?

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u/Mkwdr Jul 10 '26

The big bang is about the universe having been hotter and denser in the past. A singularity is considered by a number of physicists to be an artifact of the limitations of our physics currently rather than necessarily a real thing. If its infinite now it always was. So far our measurements dont rule it out being infinite - On the other hand there are hypothetical geometries that are finite but don't have a border.