Chance … the Creator of Life?
For many biologists, the appearance oflife and its development on Earth result from an intrinsic property of matter its natural tendency towards selfassociation. Combinations of atoms form molecules, which associate in aggregates. In this way, as a result of chance encounters over the immeasurable period of time which has passed since the formation of the Earth, a fortuitous arrangement of molecules at one point on the Earth is supposed to have been sufficient to set life into motion. Life would then have developed according to a mechanism proposed by Darwin, the essentials of which can be summarized as follows: