Atechnogenesis

Scientists think they know everything.

Atechnogenesis<ref>Term first appeared in Dreamwave's 2004 Generation 1 Transformers: More than Meets the Eye guidebook, p483</ref> is the secular scientific explanation that life on Cybertron sprang up through the naturally-occurring interaction of gears, levers, and pulleys.<ref>This phrase dates from 1984's Marvel Transformers US #1, the first Transformers story ever published.</ref>

The strict scientific rationalism of atechnogenesis rejects traditional religious claims that Primus is the source of all life on Cybertron, and much of the ancient doctrine surrounding the Matrix.

Notes

• The Quintessons are an example of a species that came about through the evolution of mechanical life.<ref>"Mechanical life has long since evolved in segments of the cosmos--existing alongside organic life." "This [a Quintesson ship] is a spacecraft of one such mechanical race--" The Big Broadcast of 2006 (US)</ref>
• Japan actually developed a much more detailed atechnogenesis origin for Cybertronic life in "A Birth of Planet Saybertron", one of Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers's pre-movie magazine supplements. It's probably the most serious rendering of the concept ever.
• In the 2005 IDW continuity, believers in atechnogenesis are referred to as "Evolutionary Engineerists".
• Atechnogenesis is likely named after [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}abiogenesis|{{#if:||abiogenesis}}]], the process by which life evolved from non-living matter.

See also

• Transformer

References

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External links

• Atechnogenesis defined and mocked (not official)
• Natural gears in real life!