Primordial Soup Hypothesis

There is loads we know about living things on our planet, about us walking-talking humans or the weird and wonderful creatures that swim in the seas and soar through the air but we still don’t know for sure…where it all came from! The story begins over 3,500 million years ago and ends today, with you reading this! How did life begin? It is the job of those who study life to try and figure this one out, and after many years of trying there are some brilliant ideas.

Iron-Sulfur world Hypothesis: Gunter Wachtershauser introduced a theory in 1988 about how the first organism was created by biomolecules made by a high pressure lava flow. A similar event has happened and can happen in the right environment.

Stanley Miller started the idea that life could have started when carbon and other ingredients combined. He assembled a contraption made out of flasks and tombs in the lab. He fill one flask with gases to represent Earth's primitive atmosphere and connected that to another flask with water to represent the ocean. He put an electric charge through that.simulated lightning going through early atmosphere. After a couple of day, all this brown goo all over the reaction vessel. He said, now he had amino acids in the vessel. Amino acids are compounds that are form when carbon and other elements linked together. They are building block of protiens and cell, which were vital ingredients of all living things. His experiment showed that life can be formed in the harsh condition of early earth.

The study of science is defined as that which deals with the workings of the physical world we are able to observe and measure. The origin of life, however, is a topic that science has long grappled with, despite the impossibility of observing or proving any origins theory in a strictly scientific manner. Today, the widely accepted theory of life’s beginning is the theory of Evolution by mutation and natural selection, or Neo-Darwinism. Most people in our modern society accept this theory at face value because it is popular with the majority of scientists, but it must always be taken into account that our origins cannot be proven scientifically and that, in fact, the theory of Evolution is not the only or even the most logical theory

    Secondly, I present to you the “Law” of Biogenesis, which is actually not a law at all. This “Law” states that matter can arise spontaneously from other matter. Some would say that Biogenesis is an existing fact, because of the Miller Urey Experiment. This Experiment, though trying to prove that Biogenesis exists, actually proves exactly the opposite. Miller tries to convey life as a spontaneous event, which formed as the effect of an accidental chemical reaction in the Earth’s atmosphere(Answers). The scientists who conducted this experiment did not use any oxygen to support their replicated atmosphere. Instead they used methane ammonia, even though our earth is supported by oxygen. Although the Miller Urey did

Chemical evolution is the main exploratory clarification for the birthplace of life. Like every scientific theory, the hypothesis of chemical evolution has an example part that makes a case about the common world and a procedure segment that clarifies that patter. The example part is that notwithstanding little atoms, complex carbon-containing substances exist and are needed forever. The procedure part is that in Earths early history, straightforward concoction mixes consolidated to frame more mind boggling carbon-containing substances before the advancement of life. The hypothesis keeps up that inputs of vitality prompted the development of progressively complex carbon-containing substances, coming full circle in an intensify that could recreate

The topics I read about in the first couple of chapters was about the understandings of evolution and DNA. The author pointed out many times the reasons he created his book throughout chapter 1 but other then that it explains some characteristics in a gene which is selfishness and altruism. As the story progresses into chapter 2 the author begins to talk about primordial soup and where life began. The theory of primordial soup is when all of life began in the ocean or some sort of liquid form. I find this theory to be very fascinating as I have always wondered, like many others, how life came to be on earth and this theory demonstrates a very likely and understandable possibility. He starts to teach us of why sexual reproduction is preferable

We find that Anaximander of Miletus (611 B.C.-546 B.C.) advanced the traditional evolutionary idea, already quite common in his day, that life first evolved from a type of pre-biotic soup, helped along a bit by the rays of the sun. He believed that the first animals developed from sea slime which had been evaporated by the suns rays. He also

The experiment that Stanley Miller and Harold Urey conducted opened up many more theories for how life on Earth may have started, showing that there was a way that organic compounds could be turned into amino acids and then the amino acids could have been created and linked together to form the first living organisms (“The Origin of Life and The Suppression of Truth”). The conditions in the lab were what many scientists, maybe even most of the scientists that had speculated on the topic, at the time had believed the conditions of the atmosphere and environment on early Earth to have been like at the time of the creation of the set-up to the start of life

Although both abiotic synthesis and the deep-sea vent hypotheses argue the environment of a primordial-Earth was required for the origin of life, the two hypotheses have their differences. In general, the abiotic synthesis hypothesis describes the process of how organic compounds can be created from inorganic compounds, while the deep-sea vent hypothesis argues a possible scenario where life may have originated from inorganic compounds. While the term “primordial soup” has been used to describe abiotic synthesis, the same term has been used to describe the extreme environment surrounding hydrothermal vents. In Stanley Miller’s experiment, Bada and Lazcano (2008, p.745) argue, Miller showed abiotic synthesis took place by introducing an electric current to a circulating mixture of pressurized “CH4, NH3, H20, and H2.” However, samples of both types of hydrothermal vents show different mixtures than that of Miller’s experiment. Although the LCHF lacks CO2, according to William Martin, John Baross, Deborah Kelley, and Michael J. Russell (2008, p.806) the compound was not used in Miller’s experiment, but the vent did release ample amounts of H2 and CH4, which were used in Miller’s experiment. Black smokers, on the other hand, give off H2, but also release CO2 and H2S (Martin et al., 2008, p.806). The two hypotheses agree that life on Earth originated around roughly 3.8 billion years ago. Another similarity between the two hypotheses is both argue the precursors of life are

With Hazen’s blend of storytelling and science he really showed me the origins of Earth and the origins of life on Earth. He starts at 4.5 billion years ago when our solar system came together from cosmic debris. He describes the Big Bang (Big Thwack) from a wandering asteroid that knocked off a piece of Earth, which at the time was molten to make our Moon. The creation of the oceans and continents, which he describes, are fed by Earth’s “inner heat”. He then moves to the photosynthetic organisms and their impact on our atmosphere, and the rapid growth of algae in the shallow coastal waters. He then talked about how the first primitive life evolved around 545 million years ago indicated in the fossil records and it endured the threats of disasters,

Thought the history and as Science has developed exponentially, we the human beings have found answers through the scientific perspective to most of our reality. Although there are still, many things to be discovered and proved. One of this and most important the explanation here in this letter, is the conception of life in our planet. We can go back to any time in

alexander oparin started the hypothesis in 1924. Believes that life was started over 3.8 billion to 3.55 billion years ago in a pond or ocean as a result of chemicals combing from the atmosphere. 2 scientist sealed a mixture of water, ammonia, methane and hydrogen in a flask they heated it and simulated lightning, after a week the scientist found blocks of protein in the flask. Protein is a biomolecule that is essential for life.

The Primordial Soup Hypothesis: The primordial soup hypotheses states that all life began in ponds or oceans,which came from a combination of chemicals that make amino acids, which would then evolve into the species we know today. The scientists who came up with the hypotheses is A.I Oparin and J.B.S Haldane. The hypotheses was presented in 1924. The claim that these scientists made in the primordial soup theory was that Earth had a chemically reducing atmosphere, which was exposed to different kinds of energy and produced organic compounds.These compound were gathered in big bodies of water.From these waters came complex polymers and then life itself. They tested this by putting together all the gasses that were thought to be present at that time(methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen). They then electrified the gasses to signify lightning. The end

One of the most revered investigations of Abiogenesis (life arising from non-living matter) is the Miller-Urey experiment conducted in 1952. This experiment (as depicted) involved the simulation of primordial conditions on Earth and testing whether “natural stimulation” such as lighting and heat could have resulted in the synthesis of simple organic compounds. Several compounds thought to have been abundant in the atmosphere 3.8