To account for the origin of life on our earth requires solving several problems: How the organic molecules that define life, e.g. amino acids, nucleotides, were created. How these were assembled int...To account for the origin of life on our earth requires solving several problems: How the organic molecules that define life, e.g. amino acids, nucleotides, were created. How these were assembled into macromolecules, e.g. proteins and nucleic acids, - a process requiring catalysts. How these were able to reproduce themselves. How these were assembled into a system delimited from its surroundings (i.e., a cell). A number of theories address each of these problems.
To account for the origin of life on our earth requires solving several problems: How the organic molecules that define life, e.g. amino acids, nucleotides, were created. How these were assembled int...To account for the origin of life on our earth requires solving several problems: How the organic molecules that define life, e.g. amino acids, nucleotides, were created. How these were assembled into macromolecules, e.g. proteins and nucleic acids, - a process requiring catalysts. How these were able to reproduce themselves. How these were assembled into a system delimited from its surroundings (i.e., a cell). A number of theories address each of these problems.
