Rhetorical critique of the article “Can life exist on other planets?” Danny Faulkner, the author of the article “Can life exist in other planets?”, attempts to answer this controversial question by arguing that the answer can only be derived from the ultimate validation of one of the two major theories of origin, creationist and evolutionist. He being his essay by making a distinction between the evolution of life and the origin of life, which he argues are completely different. The evolution of life refers to the gradual development of various organisms to adapt and better adjust to their current environment, originating from a common ancestor, while the origin of life is a more complex question. The author the initiates to explain the evolutionary perspective on the subject, which is mostly unbiased and informative.…
There are many theories for how life started on earth. After reading many theories, I found the Lighting and Panspermia theory the most interesting. These two theories made the most sense to me even though they don’t have much in common. The Lighting theory is the idea of chemicals from earth’s early atmosphere working together with chemicals and lighting from erupting volcanoes in order to create the first life on earth. The second theory is the Panspermia theory, the idea that earth’s first life dame from outer space.…
The Book of Life Worksheet Please submit your assignment as a .pdf file. This ensures that it is readable on every computer. Please also put your last name in your save file (i.e. ChewBookofLife.pdf) 1. What organisms are believed to be the oldest organisms on Earth? Archaea (oldest!) and Bacteria.…
From the amount of oxygen present to the earth’s temperature, all of creation plays a significant role when it comes to life on earth. To begin, Dr. Newman elaborates on the chemistry of the earth and how it all has to do with a perfect creation. For example, life would be nonexistent without the presence of carbon. Carbon is formed inside of stars,…
evolution.berkeley.edu. When the cellular membrane first developed around the RNA codes it was a substantially more advantageous development than anything that occurred to the RNA so far, allowing it to be protected close together, and the internal environment of the protocell could now be potentially different than the external environment allowing a controlled environment to be enabled. These protocells were so more advanced than the non membraned RNA that the membraned RNA quickly out produced any others that didn’t have that protection making them the most prominent form of protocell. “These new modifications would give rise to a organism very similar to the likes of a modern bacterium”- How did life…
and Miller, S.L. The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: prebiotic chemistry, the pre-RNA world, and time. Cell 85, 793-798 (1996). Levy, M. and Miller, S.L.…
The idea of evolution was once taboo for its new ideas at the time, it was seen as wrong because it challenged ideas already established about the world, especially how life came to be. Evolution is a relatively new idea discovered by Charles Darwin. This discovery came to be when Darwin was traveling along the Galapagos islands where he studied finches and discovered that these finches had all originated from one species of finch and eventually became differentiated leading the species to split, based on their environment. However evolution doesn’t just occur, it takes centuries or even millennia to take place and it isn’t the species that adapt to the environment, the environment selects those who survive. This means that only species with favored characteristics for that environment would be allowed to survive and produce offspring while those who do not have these favored characteristics would become extinct, dividing these species into more groups.…
This research paper is about six different hypothesis about how life started. It states the claim, the evidence and the scientist. It also says the year it was presented. In this paper it explains the six hypotheses that is the origin of biomolecules. The primordial soup hypothesis is that living things were made from a ocean from the combination from the chemicals in the air without oxygen and some type of energy to make amino acids which would then turn into living things.…
In fact, this was the main reason this article was written: to answer the challenges posed by Bowman and his colleagues in their article. Cellular evolution shows the development of complex cells and organisms from simple cells. It shows the origin of life from simple cellular components, prokaryotes to more complex cells eukaryotes. However, in relation to this research concerning the RNA world hypothesis, the origin of life follows the same route, simple ribonucleic acid molecules to more complex form of life.…
Evolution refers to change that occurs in a population over time. These changes are produced at the genetic level as organisms’ genes mutate in different ways during reproduction. Evolution is a change in the gene pool of a population over time. Populations simply adapt to their surroundings. Lots of things change over time.…
The hypothesis of biotic origin assumes that chiral purity is necessary for biological function and the asymmetry is the result of struggle for existence or some other biological selection mechanism. Chiral life chemistry may be a relic of pre biotic conditions or an artifact of the life process. One theory holds that when life appeared in the primordial soup, the first cell formed containing all L- amino acids. This would have been extremely improbable, however, if the soup were composed of an equal mixture of left and right enantiomers. Another possibility is that the first cell randomly formed with a slight excess of L-amino acids, and evolutionary selection favored life based on just one enantiomer.…
In the essay, “Evolution as Fact and Theory,” Stephen Gould defenses Charles Darwin’s theory of Evolution over the beliefs of creationist on God creating all organisms in the world. To further his support, he states his three arguments which are observational evidence, the imperfection of nature, and transitions found in fossil records to demonstrate that even though evolution is just a theory, there are plentiful evidence of facts that supports it. The essay was not just about justifying the theory of evolution to the creationist but also to reject the ideas of blindfolded views on scientific creationism. Throughout the essay, Gould acknowledges many of the major perspectives of the scientific world to support the theory of evolution that…
Perhaps the most intriguing question mankind has faced is the creation of the world. This is an impossible question that mankind has attempted to answer since the beginning of our very existence. Stories and myths about our creation have been around for thousands of years, but two stories particularly stand out. The Bible’s Genesis, written by Moses around 1500 B.C., and Ovid’s Metamorphosis, written around 8 A.D., are the most famous accounts attempting to explain the creation of existence. Genesis and Metamorphosis share many similarities as well as many differences, making each story unique in its own way.…
Erwin Schrödinger was a physicist pioneer who gave a series of lectures in 1944. They were published under the title What is Life? (Harold, 2001). Though philosophical in nature, many have wondered if life can be reduced to biology or even further down to chemistry. This sent many scientists looking for the answer and spawned the guiding question, could human life be artificially created at the cellular level?…
Creation versus evolution is a world renowned topic that has been argued upon for an extended period of time, by a wide collection of people. There are many people with very different facts on each, but in the end it is still an ongoing debate. Scholars for Creationism have their arguments, but scientists also have their arguments. There are things that have resemblance for both, but they can’t seem to come up with a compromise of where the first atom came from.…