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Theories of creation of life - Coggle Diagram
Theories of creation of life
Creatioism
Author
It has no author
Description
This theory believes that everything that hwas created and that we know was created by supreme beings (gods)
Examples
Religious and Cultural Creationism
Islamic Creationism
Jewish Creationism
Greek mythology
Spontaneous Generation
Description
This theory states that living organisms could arise directly from non living substances.
Aristotle believed that worms were created when meat or different organic foods were left wide open
Authors
Aristotle
History of animals, under certain conditions,worms can arise from rotting flesh or damp mud
Van Helmon
Made “Scientific Recipes” to generate life.
Example
It was believed worms/larvae were generated from rotting flesh or damp mud
Panspermia
Description
This theory says that life didnt originate in our planet, but rather arrived from outer space which is called "seeded life"
This description is supported due to ancient times the earth was missing the ozone layer which protects the planet and life from outer space
Authors
vante arrhenius
francis crick
The authors came out with the idea in 197
Examples
An example could be different atoms or life could have been delivered by outer life
an asteroid with different life forms could have landed/crashed in earth
Chemosynthetic
Examples
A chemical compound being separrated from water with an oil layer leading this compound to survive
Description
Alexander Oparing proposed that life on Earth originated in a primary atmosphere and oxygen was later produced by the photosynthetic activity.
This being called "Chemical Evolution" which was a process of from inorganic matter evolving to organic compounds. This happened in the seas of the primitive Earth which held multiple elements in it
Author
Alexander Oparing (1923)