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The primordial soup was never the whole recipe. It was the brand. Part 1 of Soup to Us starts before anything was alive. First, seven answers people give to where life came from, from special creation and intelligent design to panspermia, simulations, and unguided chemistry, each labeled as testable science, philosophy, or speculation. Then what the chemistry shows, and what it doesn't: Miller's flask, meteorites, surface pools and deep-sea vents, the RNA world and its rivals, and why nobody agrees on what "alive" means. Then the last universal common ancestor, genes that move sideways between bacteria, one cell moving in permanently inside another, and many cells, more than once. Full script and sources: https://boringhistorypodcast.com/episodes/soup-to-us/