Current Beliefs about

the Origin of Life

Divine Creation
Spontaneous Origin
Panspermia
Divine Creation

 Everything in the Universe were

created through a supernatural
power rather than naturalistic
means.
 Allthe different for of life was
created by GOD.
 Everything was made by god in
six day period.
Spontaneous Origin
 Life evolved from inanimate matter. Simple
molecules combined to form a complex ones.

(process)
Simple Lighting or Multicellular
Molecules Geothermal form (life)
energy
 The famous Miller-Urey Experiment suggested that
lightning may have help trigger the creation of key
building blocks of life on Earth during the earliest time
period.
 Electrical sparks can produce amino acids and sugar from
an atmosphere loaded with preexisting materials like
water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen.
Panspermia
 Proposed by Richter in 1865 and was popularized by the
Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius.
 Life arose outside Earth. Life that forms were transported
from other planet to seed life on Earth.
 Despite
the influx information, the question
about how life began on Earth remained
unanswered because there is not account
about what happened 4.5 billion years ago.
The End