The Origin Of Life On Earth

“After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget: ‘The ancient teachers of this science,’ said he, ‘promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem

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

1. What type of macroscopic evidence for chemical change did you observe during this experiment? Give at least three different examples.

This is another controversial topic that many people have different ideas about. Spontaneous generation was believed to be the origin of life, but Louis Pasteur proved that theory to be wrong with his experiments of microbes. During this time Darwin proposed his theory of evolution. Many people were convinced by this theory and since spontaneous generation was disproved the only choice that was left was that God created life which then evolved. Wright goes on to discuss the properties, from astronomer Hugh Ross, that had to be just perfect for life to be attainable on Earth. There are too many stipulations for life that would just randomly form. One big theory for how life came about is chemical evolution. There is not sufficient data to prove this

    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

In our everyday life, we witness many chemical reactions. Some fun reactions you may know about are mentos and pop or vinegar and baking soda. Those two reactions are visible to the naked eye. You aren't able to see photosynthesis completely but you know that it take place because a plant grows. Now what about the chemical reactions that you aren't able to see? How do you know when they are complete? Well let me explain this bright and interesting new discovery.

Biobottle Write-up In the biobottle experiment, the purpose was to create a closed ecosystem, containing biotic and abiotic factors, which aimed to sustain life without contact with the outside world throughout a period of six weeks. For the procedure, the ecosystem was to be observed over this time. The experiment began when a one-quart mason jar with its contents was sealed on October 7, 2015. In the beginning of the experiment, the known contents of the jar and initial rationales behind them (italicized) included: ● Water from the middle pond filled to the 600 mL mark of the jar (about 550 mL): the environment for the aquatic ecosystem with enough room for gases at the surface ● Pond mud filled approximately halfway between the bottom and 100 mL mark of the jar: source of nitrogen and miscellaneous organisms ● 2 small sandstones: phosphorus used for phosphorus cycle ● 1 stick: for animals to use for movement ● 1 leaf: nitrogen;

The Primordial Soup Hypothesis states that a combination of chemicals in the atmosphere and a form of energy combined together in a pond or an ocean. The combination made amino acids which would evolve into the first species on Earth. Alexander Oparin and J.B.S. Haldane compsed this theory in 1920. It was later tested by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey in the Miller-Urey experiment. They used a mixture of gases, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen, and formed basic organic monomers. This experiment gave support for the second point of the hypothesis, that when the atmosphere is exposed to evergy in many forms it can produce simple organic compounds.

Since time immemorial man has always questioned the origins of life and himself . The answer to that question as there are three alternatives , namely the creation , transformation , or evolutionary biology .

Should we as humans expect to find intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe? There are many reasons for and against this concept, but first we should trace just how our terrestrial life started.

Life has continually perplexed and fascinated individuals since the dawn of mankind. The subject’s complexity is so great even over the course of human existence only a minute fraction of its mysteries have been unraveled. A phenomenon which has always intrigued scientists is the origin of life on Earth, and in recent years significant advancements have been made in the understanding of this enigma. This essay will briefly outline two theories regarding life’s origin on Earth to further comprehend why an explanation for this phenomenon has been so difficult to reach.

According to astronomical research and geological evidence, scientist indicate the universe is approximately thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty billion years old. The first link to humanity started with a primate group called Ardipithecus. While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about two hundred thousand years ago. The age of the Earth is estimated about four point fifty four billion years because that is the age of the oldest rocks with fossil evidence of life on earth. The oldest rocks on Earth found to date are the Acasta Gneisses in northwestern Canada near the Great Slave Lake, which are four point three billion years old. The study of the origin of life on Earth, more specifically abiogenesis, is the natural process of life arising from non-living matter. Life on Earth is believed to have began from organic compounds about three point eight to four billion years ago. Despite several competing theories for how life arose on Earth scientist only know when life first appeared on Earth and are still far from answering how it appeared. Since it is hard to prove or disprove them, no fully accepted theories of the origin of life exists.

Although organic reactions have been conducted by man since the discovery of fire, the science of Organic chemistry did not develop until the turn of the eighteenth century, mainly in France at first, then in Germany, later on in England. By far the largest variety of materials that bombard us are made up of organic elements. The beginning of the Ninetieth century was also the dawn of chemistry, all organic substances were understood

. The Miller-Urey experiment (or Urey-Miller experiment) was an experiment that simulated hypothetical conditions present on the early Earth and tested for the occurrence of chemical evolution (the Oparin and Haldane hypothesis stated