Which of the Following Best Describes the Predominant Scientific View

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the predominant scientific view of the origin of life on Earth?

• A) We may never know precisely how life arose, but current evidence suggests that life probably can arise naturally under the conditions that prevailed on the early Earth.
• B) Life probably migrated to Earth from some other world.
• C) Life arose through a series of extremely unlikely chemical coincidences, making it seem almost miraculous that life ever came to exist at all.
• D) We can describe with great certainty the precise steps by which life arose on Earth.

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