It is really a sad and frustrating reality that the most meaningful questions that we have today don’t seem to have any definite answers. The answers that we are looking for to these questions, have always evaded us every time we went looking.

As humans, we are hard wired to ask and the need to know is inherent in us. Therefore it is all the more infuriating that we have barely even begun to understand some of the deepest and the most interesting truths.

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For the time being, all we have, are theories. For better or for worst, these give us somethings to think about and gives us the hope that one of these might be the answers that we have always looked for.

In this article, I am going to be discussing about life itself. Nobody can tell for sure when, why or how life came to life (pun intended). Some researchers suggest that it was by accident and some suggest that it was a result of some intelligent design. Lets look at both possibilities and explore just how life might have originated in both the scenarios.

By Accident

1. A Chance Recipe

We all know that Amino acids are the building blocks of life which are themselves made of Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon. Life may have started here on Earth by a total co-incidence where these elements came together to form the perfect compound that would go on to become the building block of life.

The first organisms to appear on Earth are believed to be Archaea, which are single-celled life forms. They are quite similar to bacteria but lack a nuclei. These are believed to have developed around 4 billion years ago. Over time, these evolved to be more complex single-celled organisms able to move and procreate which were basically self sustaining organisms.

One has to wonder though, that how can non-living elements like Carbon and Oxygen, come together and form even a basic life form, let alone complex ones. I mean, how does a combination of Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen “know” what to do next. Where does the intelligence or even the awareness come from? 

We may have the answer to the conditions in which life formed but how exactly that happened is still a mystery. The main question is, what animates these non-living particles to become “alive” and evolve over time to become more complex and intelligent.

2. From an Asteroid

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Many scientists suggest that life may not have originated from Earth at all. It might have come from an outside source. Earth has always been bombarded by asteroids and many believe that one of them might have brought the building block of life in it.

Then life took the natural course of evolution and went on to become more complex and form intelligent life forms overtime. If this is true we might all be aliens in a sense. Outsiders, who hitched a ride on an asteroid in search of a new home.

While this theory may answer the question of where life came on Earth, it doesn’t answer the bigger question of the origination of life itself. Where did the organisms in the asteroid come from and how did they come into existence. These are questions that no one can answer and remain a mystery.

An Intelligent Design

1. Divine Intervention

All the religions of the world tell us that a divine being called God created all life forms that we see today. The all powerful being made the first man and the first woman. 

God is said to be this omnipotent and the ultimate intelligence, so, the creation of a complex, intelligent life form could be well within his abilities. And not only that, the billions of species we have on earth can also be explained quite easily if we believe that god created everything. 

Just like a writer creates an entire world in his imagination, god may have created the entire existence just by thinking about it. This could also explain any other life forms we may discover in a distant future in the outer space.

2. Creations of an Alien Civilisation

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Now this is not a scientific theory but many people, including the scientists and researches, think that life was engineered into existence. Just like we make design and manufacture machines, an extremely advanced alien civilisation might have designed and manufactured life on Earth.

The purposes of such doing can be anything that you can imagine. But it certainly is plausible that the earth might be nothing but a testing environment for an alien race to see how their ‘experiments’ work out.

A layman has no idea just how intricate and fine tuned even a single living cell is. Something that we can’t even see, has a multi-dimensional complexity. Ask a scientist about how fascinating the design of life is, and you might gain an understanding.

Such designs can only be expected of a very intelligent species who must be at least millions of years ahead of us to be able to do this. Maybe it really was aliens who created us and we know them by the name of “God”. We might have the right idea that someone created us but the wrong one of exactly who it was.

Personal Comment: I have tried to examine the topic as objectively as possible. I hope you read this article with an open mind. I am not biased towards any particular theory as I do not know the answer and won’t claim to have one either! It’s all possibilities.

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