A Scientific Critique of Abiogenesis and Exploring Alternative from Vedic View

Abstract

Abiogenesis theory established that 4.5 billion years ago planet earth was almost completely submerged in the primordial sea. And first organic life sprung from non-life molecules exclusively through some naturalistic process in the primitive ocean. The first primitive life was tiny single-celled protozoans. Gradually, millions of protozoans populated and from these single-celled organisms, all another complex form of life evolved. In a nutshell, the majority of scientific theories support this hypothesis except some. If matter and energy are neither being created nor destroyed in the universe, according to the first law of thermodynamics, where did the original matter and energy come from? How non-living molecules (matter) organized itself and could create a complex form of life? Ancient Greek Atomists Democratic (442 BC) believed that there are indeed indivisible building blocks based on which everything including life can be explained. He said that ‘matter’ is the primary cause and modified in various ways that all other things were created. By following his idea some scholars and modern scientists tried to test this theory. Even though the challenged in the 17th and 18th centuries by the experiments of Francesco Redi and Lazzaro Spallanzani abiogenesis was not rejected until the work of Louis Pasteur and John Tyndall came into the notice. Later, Russian scientist A.I. Oparin (1924) developed the Primordial Soup theory. Later Haldane (1947), Bernal (1928), Calvin (1951) and Urey (1952) published their research to try to support this model. In 1953 Stanley Miller, a graduate student of Urey at the University of Chicago did some controlled experiment in his laboratory by following the Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis. This paper is an humble attempt to present the inadequacies of modern scientific experiments to prove the theory of abiogenesis (life comes from non-life molecules) and to explore the alternative from the most authentic ancient Vedic Scriptures.