The Origin Of Life

The Origin Of Life:

The Astronomical, Chemical, and Biological Aspects

by
Charlie Lu

Darwin taught us in The Origin of Species that all of life is descended from one common ancestor. Looking at the great diversities of organisms existing today, it is hard to imagine how all living species today evolved from one ancient life form. More difficult to picture yet, is how this very first life itself originated from its non-living surroundings of the early Earth.

Through the human history, many different attempts to explain this enigmatic question of the origin of life have been made by different scientists and philosophers, some (to us) bizarre, some more logical. Today, combining the accumulated knowledge from the past and the continuing discoveries with the aid of modern technology, one applausible hypothesis has been proposed with most of the scientists today subscribing to it. This hypothesis has been widely accepted because it explains not only how, but as well as why, life originated using knowledge from different fields of science including paleontology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, astronomy, etc.

This page has thus been created with an effort to "link" different theories and findings from the aforementioned fields of science to give a complete picture of what, why, when, and how things happened in the very beginning of time that eventually led to the creation of life.