Biogenesis

Alexander Oparin and J.B.S. Haldane developed a theory of Biogenesis between the years of 1922 and 1928. With Oparin’s “The Origin of Life” and Haldane’s technical papers they created concrete hypothetical models from their knowledge of physics and biochemistry. Their only obstacle was practical proof to base their discoveries upon. Oparin speculated that Earth, in its early stages, had several different reactions occurring caused by nature. Organic compounds formed out of inorganic material that could have developed into the first organic cells and then into living organisms. Many different chemical reactions occurred during the formation of the Earth’s crust with the cooling temperatures of the atmosphere. These organic compounds irrigated down from the “hot pools” of water through the flooding rains and continuous blasts of lightning that were plaguing the Earth. Within these “hot pools” of water, Oparin believed that carbon bonds, along with fatty acids, su...