How do Abiogenic Origin of Life Proponents Think it Happened?
Four components are essential to the story of the origin of life put forward by proponents of naturalism. 1. An atmosphere full of reduced gas molecules and an energy source to convert these molecules into the biological precursors required for life. 2. An ocean full of the small biological molecules that result. 3. A mechanism to generate from this ocean of molecules the kinds of information-rich polymers necessary for a living cell. 4. A belief that if step 3 can be implemented, it will result almost inevitably in the formation of a living cell. We will examine each of these in turn. Chemical Evolution: The earliest serious studies on origin of life date to the 1920’s when J.B.S. Haldane and A. I. Oparin independently suggested that life had originated spontaneously from non-living matter on the earths surface at some time in the distant past, and provided a scenario for its occurrence. Since, at that time, the view prevailed that life was nothing more than complicated chemistry, the
