For many centuries, humanity has been unsuccessfully trying to answer the question of how the origin of life on Earth happened. This topic has been of interest to today and is of interest to many people, and not only scientists and researchers. It would seem that science is moving forward, scientists are constantly surprising us with new discoveries, and the origin of life on Earth, its mechanism remains incomprehensible to humanity. And this is natural, since we still cannot look into the past, and all theories we know today are based not on facts, but only on inferences.
We know that the history of life on Earth has more than one millennium. There are many theories of its origin. Some of them seem absurd, others just unlikely. In the Middle Ages, the main debates about the origin of the Universe and the origin of life on Earth were fought between materialists and idealists. Of course, humanity does not stand still in its development, and theories that explain the origin of life on earth are becoming more and more overgrown with theses. The most realistic hypotheses look like the theory of evolution, the panspermia hypothesis, and creationism.
In 1865, the German scientist Hermann Eberhard Richter put forward the hypothesis of panspermia, according to which life was brought to the planet Earth from outer space. She explains the appearance of life on Earth by the fact that meteorites carry the embryos of life from one celestial body to another. Moreover, this hypothesis does not explain the emergence of life at all, considering that life exists by itself.
From school, we know about natural selection, which formed the basis of the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin. Naturally, the theory was not preserved in the form in which its scientist proposed, but, despite this, its main principle can be expressed in simple words: evolution from simple to complex.
For religious people and believers, there are no other hypotheses for the appearance of life on Earth other than creationism. This theory owes its appearance to Christian scholars. According to the concept of creationism, all life on earth was created by God or the Creator. The concept has two sources: firstly, it is Christian texts that describe the creation of the world by the Creator, and secondly, there are many scientific facts that cannot be explained if we consider them from the point of view of the Darwinian theory of evolution.
Whatever it was, until today, no one has been able to clearly determine how the origin of life on Earth happened. Any theory out of the many available is criticized; any thesis put forth can be challenged. Until now, there is not a single fact confirming or disproving a particular theory. And humanity continues to evolve, more and more new theories, hypotheses and concepts appear, every scientist and researcher wants to prove that his theory is true. But the fact remains: so far no one has been able to answer this question. And do we really need to know the answer?