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    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. 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

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    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

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    Abiogenesis is the way life evolves from non-living matter, such as amino acids forming together to make some early forms of RNA. When it comes to abiogenesis, there has to be an overlap of conditions to occur. Firstly, there is the AHZ, or the abiogenesis habitability zone that rests in the habitable conditions of a planet. In the left diagram of Figure 3, the AHZ is shown to

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    called “abiogenesis,” (the direct meaning is “not genesis”) this theory states their belief that life once came from non-life. “With all our learning and technology, we cannot even come close to bringing life together in the lab" (The Creator and the Cosmos, Ross, 1993, p. 148). Their ideology has completely no evidence to back it up, because there are no examples or proof of life being made from non-life it is acceptable to say that the first part of the Law of Biogenesis is true and Abiogenesis is false

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