The Origin of Life

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Was Life just evolved from nonlife-matter or was it rather created by intelligence?

As a reference to the best answer, it is necessary to discuss the difficulties of the research field.
At first i like to give here a quote by Karl Popper on the issue of the origin of life.

 

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What makes the origin of life and of the genetic code a disturbing riddle is this: the genetic code is without any biological function unless it is translated; that is, unless it leads to the synthesis of the proteins whose structure is laid down by the code. But, as Monod points out, the machinery by which the cell (at least the non-primitive cell, which is the only one we know) translates the code "consists of at least fifty macromolecular components which are themselves coded in the DNA". (Monod, 1970;^[64] 1971, 143^[65])

Thus the code can not be translated except by using certain products of its translation. This constitutes a really baffling circle; a vicious circle, it seems, for any attempt to form a model, or theory, of the genesis of the genetic code.

Thus we may be faced with the possibility that the origin of life (like the origin of the universe) becomes an impenetrable barrier to science, and a residue to all attempts to reduce biology to chemistry and physics.

Ayala, Francisco; Ayala, Francisco José; Ayala, Francisco Jose; Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1974). Studies in the Philosophy of Biology: Reduction and Related Problems. ISBN 9780520026490. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

 

That's one of the tricky problems with the attempt to give a natural explanation of the origin of life.