Essay about The Origin of Life

The Miller-Urey mixture has first been created by scientists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey. They created this mixture in support of the great Alexandr Oparin’s theory on how life can arise from non-living molecules under the right conditions, which sparked the rise of the study of abiogenesis. Since the Earth’s atmosphere was believed, by Urey, to be greatly reducing and contains a lot of methane during prehistoric times, Miller recreated the conditions by having a mixture of methane, hydrogen, ammonia and water in an enclosed set-up. With repeated shocking and constant heating

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.

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

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

I accommodate both Christian beliefs, and the scientific theory. I think that, there is something like a “trigger” inside the DNA of all living beings, which drives certain individuals to differentiate from the others, and it makes them to survive. I believe that God, a divine force, conduct this “trigger” to make sure that the survival happens. About the theory of the origin of life, I also believe that is was not spontaneous. I think the divine force guided somehow the biological interactions between the abiotic factors to generate the appropriate conditions for life on Earth, and to create the first living

Theistic Evolution accepts all scientific discoveries, or theories, such as the Big Bang, Evolution, and that the world began millions of years ago. The controversy with Theistic Evolution, is that it is considered to contradict itself, choosing to interpret only some portions of the Bible literally. The problem is that Christians with this belief are accepting Humanistic world views, which contradict and are inconsistent with the Bible and Christian religion. While the book of Genesis states that God created the Earth before the Sun and the Moon, people of the Evolutionist belief say the opposite, claiming that the Sun and the Moon came before the Earth (Mortenson).

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

hold different views of how humanity as we know it was created and these people believe

The beings who first created the first life forms were Gaia or Earth and Uranus or Sky. Gaia emerged from chaos and gave birth to Uranus or Sky. Gaia then married Uranus or Sky and had many children together

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,

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

Oparin. He stated that Earth’s ancient atmosphere contained the gases nitrogen, methane, and ammonia but no free oxygen. Energy from the sun and other natural storms/disaster caused chemical reactions among these gases, which somehow combined into small organic molecules such as amino acids. Several people have tried to “prove” this theory correct but the most famous scientists are Harold Urey and Stanley Miller. Even though this experiment lends support to to the idea of primordial soup, many people believed that this experiments were tampered with. As one British astrophysicist, Fred Hoyle, said the likelihood of life appearing on Earth by chemical reactions "Is equivalent to the possibility that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein”(1). The idea of humans and other life coming from a mixture of gas is a pretty ridiculous idea if you truly step back and look at it. I personally believe this is not what

The conclusion of the experiments came to be that the primitive Earth’s conditions were present for supporting early life on Earth. RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY - The reliability of this experiment involves it to be conducted for a week, allowing it to produce any type of results. For validity, when the experiment was conducted, it resulted in a confirmation that some complex organic molecules can be created from inorganic molecules. However, studies have shown that there are questions as to how it was conducted, including no production of any RNA or DNA and

When thinking about the origin of life, there are two main points one can come to, Intelligent Design or Natural Process (Ken Ham, 2008). “According to the former view, supernatural intervention was essential for the creation of life; according to the latter, living organisms could form spontaneously—for example, from the mud of the Nile” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006). Creation can be defined as the original bringing into existence of the universe by God (“Creation”, n.d.). Intelligent design can be defined as “certain features” (Ken Ham, 2008). Intelligent Design can also be explained by finding features of the earth and explaining them by an intelligent cause ("Intelligent Design", n.d.). Creationism usually starts with religious