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Scientists have been continuously presented with questions regarding the mystery that is life. What is life, and how did it get started? Their responses to these questions has varied over the years as advances in technology have led to new evidence being brought in from a ranging variety of fields.

In the summer of 1993, J. William Schopf, a paleobiologist reportedly found fossilized imprints of microbial communities between layers of rock that were 3.5 billion years old. This, along with other evidence indicated that life was well established only a billion years after earth's formation, which is a faster evolution than previously thought (Time, 1993, p.40). This belief that life evolved ever so quickly, induced scientists to attempt to create real life in the lab. The goal was to simulate the earliest organism in existence.

Theories for the origin of life has been around since the beginning of civilization. However, It was Charles Darwin who first introduced a biologically......

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