Knowledge Of The Origin Of Life On Earth Continues To Expand

"What do we know about the origins of life? From the formation of the solar system to microbes evolving into bipedal mammals with opposable thumbs, today we will look over the four major theories about how life began."

Click on the link below for a video by Sabine Hossenfelder presenting the current state of our knowledge about the origins of life on Earth. Take that, "God of the Gaps" apologists:

Life might be more common in the universe than we thought

An Adventure In Time

The Universe in One Year (inspired by the late astronomer, Carl Sagan) explains the history of the universe in one year as a “Cosmic Calendar”. 

Human history points on this calendar from National Geographic’s The Genographic Project, beginning in 2005. It highlights how recent human history is compared to the history of our universe, as well as how recently science emerged.

“Big Bang” (January 1, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds)
Origin of Milky Way Galaxy (May 1)
Origin of Solar System (September 9)
Formation of the earth (September 14)

Origin of simple cells (September 25)

Origin of complex cells (November 15)

Origin of simple animals (December 16)

Origin of reptiles (December 23)

Origin of first mammals (December 26)

Origin of first primates (December 29)

Origin of genus Homo (December 31, ~10:30 pm)

Origin of modern humans in Africa (Homo sapiens) ( (December 31, ~11:53 pm)

Origin of Agriculture (December 31, 11:59:20 p.m.)

Origin of first cities (December 31, 11:59:35 p.m.)

Time of claimed Jesus the Christ (December 31, 11:59:56 p.m.)

Emergence of the experimental method in science (December 31, 11:59:59 p.m.)

(note: each second of the year = approx 425-450 years)

Origins And Anthropology

There probably isn't a normal human being who hasn't ask, "Where did we come from?" The following videos do an excellent job of explaining the probable history of how all life and humans began, and the history of human biological and cultural evolution. Oh, if you ask "Why?", that is a philosophical or religious question for which NO answer is justified no matter how intently apologists try to do so.

Where did life come from?

What was the ancestor of everything?

Why are we the only humans left?

Are we all related?

The Two People We're All Related To

From the fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans

The Humans That Lived Before Us

When We First Walked

When humans were prey

When We Tamed Fire

When We Met Other Human Species

When we took over the world

Another Human Relative Found

"Bohlender isn’t the first to suggest that remnants of archaic human relatives may have been preserved in human DNA even though no fossil remains have been found. In 2012, another group of researchers suggested that some people in Africa carry DNA heirlooms from an extinct hominid species (SN: 9/8/12, p. 9)."

DNA data offer evidence of unknown extinct human relative 

Human Origins Is Convoluted

This is an interesting article giving a clearer picture of humanity's evolutionary past.

These ancient Asian primate fossils might be the missing pieces of a major evolutionary puzzle

Here is an interesting series of articles covering human origins and migration,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/7/1848330/-Human-Origins-Leaving-Africa-Why?detail=emaildkre