Your mama?
—rimshot-—
There are some hot dog buns at my local Shell station that have been around since the beginning of time.
Kit Kat bars
The second living cell?
BBQ ribs, of course.
I am getting a headache.
A Twinkie?
This also reminds me of the transporter beam conundrum. Thing is, if you slice someone up at the molecular level, you have, by definition, killed them. What you get at the other end is another “copy” of the person. But here is the important part: They would be dead as well, since nobody “breathed life” into them. Not a single cell would be alive. Not a single muscle would be alive, though it would be “fresh meat” as you see in the grocery store.
It would be organic, but it would not be alive. Not one single cell would be alive. Every cell would be dead.
The solution to the transporter conundrum is that they are inserted into another dimension and pop out of that dimension wherever you choose. That way they remain whole and alive.
I’m working on one of those. So far, I can transport them in, but nothing’s come back yet...
The answer to that question is found in another question: “What looks like a bacteria, but isn’t?”
All life on Earth can be subdivided into just three Domains. One of these is bacteria. Another is called Eukaryota, which are all plants and animals. The third Domain is something most people have never heard of.
It is called Archaea. They look like bacteria, but have more in common with plants and animals than they do with bacteria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea
And they eat things that bacteria do not eat, in places so hostile that bacteria cannot live there. They can live in boiling or freezing water, very acidic or basic places, yet one variety is so ordinary that it lives in the human gut, and actually improves our digestion, indirectly.
And the answer to your question, what do they eat?, is many things that nothing else eats. They can eat methane gas, hydrogen gas, sulfur, carbon, and nitrogen.
The Lord certainly fed them in some manner. We have bacteria today that will dine on odd materials such as oil.
There is a lot of theological speculation on what a pre-Fall ecology might have been. We really don’t know it all for 100% certain but can make some plausible guesses. Some statements that are made, like there was no such thing as thermodynamic decay, might be technically wrong — but again there may have existed the capability of thermodynamic regeneration at will. I hate to be dogmatic about this, because the Lord’s wonders quite often turn out to be more wonderful than we might have dreamed.
>scientists who believe that life could have come about through natural causes
Why would anyone believe God is unnatural?
The first living cell would probably occur in a veritable soup of organic matter that it could use to grow off of. However that isn’t strictly a requirement as we know of a number of microorganisms in extreme environments that live off of inorganic matter with sufficient CO2 available to synthesize their own organics. The objection is so simplistic as to be laughable and demonstrates the ignorance of the writer.
Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
Carry out?
My question would be when did the first living cell decide it was more fun to “meet” other cells rather than dividing itself?
First cell? The first cell was caused by incarceration!