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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19899368 |
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- <p>The article examines the state of the problem of the origin of life as of the time of writing (2018). By the beginning of the 21st century, official science had established the concept according to which the first living organisms arose as a result of the competition of chemical reactions in Earth's primordial ocean. During this process, from non-living initial substances under the influence of unusual physical conditions, increasingly complex molecules formed, ultimately leading to the appearance of the first elements of living matter.</p> <p> </p> <p>However, academic biologists point to fundamental obstacles to reducing all phenomena of cell biology to physics and chemistry. The concepts of "control," "transcription," and "information" have no analogues in non-living nature. This calls into question the possibility of a purely physico-chemical explanation of the origin of life.</p> <p> </p> <p>The article considers three possible responses to these objections.</p> <p> </p> <p>The first is to expand the boundaries of physics and chemistry through the discovery of new laws that would make it possible to explain the phenomena of life within the framework of a unified theoretical knowledge.</p> <p> </p> <p>The second is the hypothesis that the simplest organisms known to us (RNA organisms) themselves arose as a result of the activity of even smaller organisms. This idea returns to the vitalistic principle that "life can only arise from life."</p> <p> </p> <p>The third is panspermia, or the extraterrestrial origin of life. This hypothesis does not answer the question of the primordial origin of life but rather shifts the location of the event beyond the Earth.</p> <p> </p> <p>As a key methodological source, the article cites the work of F.B. Shkundina, "History and Methodology of Biology," which substantiates the irreducibility of the living to physico-chemical laws.</p> <p> </p> <p>---</p> <p> </p> <p>Keywords: origin of life, abiogenesis, cell biology, control, transcription, information, panspermia, vitalism, methodology of biology, Shkundina.</p> <p> </p>