Theories on the origin of life

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  • Special Creation Theory
    Many people believed that everything in this world was created by a Supreme Being
  • Spontaneous Generation Theory
    states that living organisms can originate from inanimate
  • Biogenetic Theory
    states that life produced life, that each animal and plant produced its own kind
  • Abiogenetic Synthesis Theory
    Most biologists theory that life began in the primordial seas.
  • beneath the ice
    3 billion years ago, Earth's oceans were covered with ice.
  • Panspermia (Cosmozoic Theory)

    This is the proposal that life on Earth began from rocks and other debris from impacts.
  • Electricity
    This leads to the theory that lightning may have been responsible for the origins of life, primarily by striking through rich volcanic clouds
  • Hydrothermal Vents
    or deep sea vents, contains vast and diverse. ecosystems. Studies suggest that life may have originated from within these venta theory that cannot be ignored
  • Charles Darwin
    Talked about evolution and produced life