by Charlie
& Paul
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.
Now, please select one of the trips listed below, or hop on the time
machine and cruise around to see what happened in the very beginning...
Read
this page in pre-arranged sequence..
15 billion years ago...the
creation of the universe
4.6 billion years ago...
the birth of Earth
3.9 billion years ago...the
evolution of life on Earth
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