What exactly is "abiogenesis"?

Question

Sorry if this seems like an ignorant question, but...well, I honestly don't understand the notion that some inanimate matter came to life...sounds too much like something from the Friday Night Late Late Late Late Late Show.........

Answer 1

This is a historical idea. People would see flies coming out of dead animals or pieces of meat and thought that they were spontaneously coming out of the meat. Abiogenesis was the idea that life could come from that dead matter. Somebody finally got the idea to test it and they realized it was eggs from flies.

Answer 2

Abiogenesis (Greek a-bio-genesis, "non biological origins") is, in its most general sense, the generation of life from non-living matter. Today the term is primarily used to refer to hypotheses about the chemical origin of life, such as from a primordial sea or in the vicinity of hydrothermal vents, and most probably through a number of intermediate steps, such as non-living but self-replicating molecules (biopoiesis). Abiogenesis remains a hypothesis, meaning it is the working assumption for scientists researching how life began. If it were proven false, then another line of thought would be used to modify or replace abiogenesis as a hypothesis. If test results provide sufficient support for acceptance, then that is the point at which it would become a theory

God Bless You

Answer 3

a = non
bio = biological
genesis = origins

Life from non-biological origins

From wikepedida:

Abiogenesis is, in its most general sense, the generation of life from non-living matter. Today the term is primarily used to refer to hypotheses about the chemical origin of life, such as from a primordial sea or in the vicinity of hydrothermal vents, and most probably through a number of intermediate steps, such as non-living but self-replicating molecules (biopoiesis).

Answer 4

Whether you believe that some deity created our universe, or you believe in abiogenesis, you both believe that at some point there was nothing, and at some later point there was something.
Your answer is that "god" did it, and you don't care how.
A biologist's answer is that he's not interested in who did it...only how it became so.

Answer 5

Sounds like you get the idea, you just don't accept it. That's understandable, but don't act like you don't know what something is, because you don't want to believe in it.

Answer 6

Your body is made from six elements oxygen,carbon,hydrogen,nitrogen,
calcium, phosphorous
You are made out of naturally ocurring chemicals that are found on the earth

Answer 7

Just read up on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

Answer 8

Basically, life from non-life.

a = not
bio = life
genesis = origins

Answer 9

When you break down a cell, all it is is a bunch of molecules working together. That's all anything is.

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis