I.

THEORY OF SPECIAL CREATION

II. THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
III.THEORY OF PANSPERMIA
IV.THEORY OF BIOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION
V. DEEP SEA HYDROTHERMAL VENT THEORY
VI.CONCLUSION
• All the different forms ofSlide 2
life- created by God
:-
Lord Brahma- created the living
world in one stroke

:- God
create this universe, plants, animals
and human beings in about six days
• 3 main postulates:
- All different kinds of animals &
plants were created at once
- All organisms were created in the
same form in which they exist today
- Their bodies and organ have
been designed to fully meet the needs
of the environment.
- It has no scientific basis
• Living things originated
spontaneously from inanimate
objects
• It is also called abiogenesis or
biopoesisSlide 2
• Supporters :- Aristotle
- Epicurus
- Von Helmont
• They believed
- Insects arise from Redi’s experiment
dew
- Fish & frog from
mud
- Fly maggots from
meat
• Opposers
- Fransisco Redi
- Spallanzani
- Louis Pasteur
• The opposers disproved this
theory Pasteur’s experiment
• Proposed by Richter in 1865 and supported by
ArrheniusSlide 9
• Life had come to earth from other planets of the
universe, in the form and resistant spores.
• British astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra
Wickramasinghe proposed:
• Interstellar dust and comets contain organic
compounds
• Comets, which are largely made of water-ice, carry
bacterial
life across galaxies and protect it from
radiation damage along the way.
• The 2005 Deep Impact Mission to Comet Tempel I
discovered a mixture of organic and clay particles
inside the comet.
• Also known as Materialistic Theory or Physico-chemical Theory
• Proposed independently by a Russian scientist. A.I.Oparin. In 1923
and an English scientist. J.B.S Haldane. In 1928

According to this theory.

• Life first arose from a collection of chemical substance
by a progressive series of reactions.
• Early Earth’s surface and atmosphere –
radically different from today’s condition.
• The primitive earth’s atmosphere –reducing type.
• Solar radiation and lightning must have been the chief energy
source for these chemical reactions
• The organic compounds gradually accumulated in oceans and
formed a “hot primordial soup” or “hot dilute soap”.
• Also known as “Darwin’s warm little pond”
• Oparin proposed that the proteinoids, nucleo
proteins and other organic and inorganic
molecules aggregated and precipited in sea
forming organized colloid aggregates called
coacervates.
• The coacervates were able to absorb and
assimilate organic compounds from the
environment in a way reminiscent of Coacervates
metabolism.
• They divided by budding.
• Oparin considered that the coacervates gave
rise to primitive cells or Eubionts.
• Sydney fox obtained protenoid microspheres
by heating a mixture of dry amino acids b/w
120 to 180 degrees Celsius and later cooling
them in water.
• It was similar to coccoid bacteria. Microspheres
• By examining rocks “dated” to be 3.7 billion years old.
geologists determined that earth had an oxygenic
atmosphere.
• Oxygen is an “oxidizing” agent and would inhibit
chemical
evolution.
• Experiment produced a mixture of right-handed & left
handed
amino acids, but in nature left handed ones predominate.
• Now it is thought that the atmosphere of the early earth
was
not rich in methane and ammonia --- essential
ingredients in Miller’s experiments.