The Origin and Early forms of

Life
SUBIYYAH M. MONTUD
The Origin of Life
Theories inferred by different
scientists on the origin of life

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 Theory of special creation is at the core of most major religions that life was created by supernatural divine forces. This theory
accounts that God created life as written in the bible.
Theory of panspermia or the extraterrestrial. Another possibility proposes that cosmic dust may have carried significant
amounts of complex organic molecules to Earth.
Theory of spontaneous generation says that life may have evolved from inanimate matter associated with molecules and became
complex.
The complexity of the molecules culminated in the evolution of cells. Since forth, the time of Charles Darwin came, and the theory
of evolution has been subjected to more scrutiny for investigation just like the other scientific claim.
The theory of biogenesis says that living things come from other living things. This theory was developed by Rudolf Virchow in
1858 as a counterhypothesis to spontaneous generation. Whereas, the deep-sea hydrothermal vent theory proposed by
Alexander Oparin and John Haldane mentioned the primordial soup theory. Life started in a primordial soup of organic molecules.
Some form of energy from lightning combined with the chemicals in the atmosphere to make the amino acids (the building block of
proteins. Finally, the theory of biochemical evolution proposed that at the molecular level in organisms had changed over a
period. These changes caused deletions, additions, or substitutions of single nucleotides thus the genomes were duplicated.

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Evolution is defined as any process of formation, growth, or development. Charles Darwin published
a book on evolution in 1859 titled “On the Origin of Species”. He also presented a lot of facts that
evolution occurs. The following are the main pieces of evidence supporting evolution:

Species share similarities as a sign of their common ancestry, such as diverse insects have six (6)
legs.There are progressions of species changing over time such as wild mustard is associated with
other vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower.
The traits which are shown by the species with remnants of the past generation such as manatees
(Trichechus manatus) are closely related to elephants as shown by the fingernails on the flippers and
hair on the body.

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