What is the difference between the theory of evolution and the hypothesis of abiogenesis?
1 Answer
abiogenesis is a theory of how life came from non life by natural causes and Darwinian evolution is how complex life came from simple life by natural causes.
Explanation:
Darwinian evolution is an attempt to explain how living things change and become more complex over time by slow uniform changes that happen solely by natural causes.
Abiogenesis is a logical extension of the theory of Darwinian evolution. Charles Darwin himself speculated that life had come from non living matter in a " small warm pond". If everything happens by natural cause then life must have come from non life by natural causes.
Darwinian evolution is based on observations of changes within species. The theory says that infinite variations within a population allow for infinite changes from the simple to the complex. Natural selection chooses between the infinite choices those best suited to survive. These observable changes within species are then extrapolated to non observable changes from one type of species to another type of species. Abiogenesis is not based on any observations but purely on extrapolation from Darwinian evolution based on the assumption that everything must happen by natural cause.
